Encouragement during Persecution

Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.

We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.

So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.