The writer to the Hebrew Christians reminds us to remember and “identify with those who are in prison as though you were there suffering with them, and those who are mistreated as if you could feel their pain.”
(Heb. 13:3 TPT).
The Aramaic version here can be translated “as if you were people who wear their bodies" (vulnerable to their pain). What a powerful concept!
We used to pray in infant school ‘for those in peril on the sea.’ This is a prayer for all who are in peril as a result of being detained for their faith, or who are being pursued by people with violence and vengeance in their hearts for no 'crime’ other than that of loving the Saviour of the world, who gives freedom in this world and the next.
Join Ros and I in this prayer that the power of God may surround and strengthen each one who is suffering for their faith.
The music is played for us by Corinne Frost, for whom I wrote this piece.
The second piece of music is from a concerto for two cellos by Vivaldi, with both parts played again by Corinne.
Robert Weston (Ruach Breath of Life Ministries, 2018)