A PRAYER FOR CHRISTIANS WHO ARE SUFFERING VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION
Lord we pray for all our brothers and sisters who, like Avidan and his children, have become displaced from their home due to violence and oppression in so many places around the world.
Father, we ask that you continue to walk with them and sustain them as they seek to care for themselves in new places, often without regular work and income or schooling for their children.
Lord we also pray for our brothers and sisters who work tirelessly to help them, but who also need our help to do Your work where they live.
Dear Lord, grant them your peace that passes understanding as they struggle to survive and keep faith with you.
Help us, Father, to help them with our prayers; and with gifts of money which can be used to support them both spiritually and physically.
Thank you for their faith in You; bless them and help them survive and to break out of this crushing cycle of violence and oppression they have to live with.
In Your precious name we pray.
Amen