International Day of Prayer - New Zealand

Just made some updates to the page for this year's IDOP event. Do you like the "Walk in their Shoes" slogan/logo? do you think it will help get the message across about partnering in prayer for persecuted believers? We'd love to know your thoughts! comment below or on our facebook page.

International Day of Prayer - New Zealand

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them... (Hebrews 13:3)

Today over 160 million Christian believers are suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ. They are threatened, arrested, imprisoned ...and some are even killed for their faith.

Most of us reading this have no real idea of the cost to follow Christ in some restricted nations - and yet we are called to remember in prayer our persecuted fellow believers just as if we're in prison beside them. Can you imagine that? To have been arrested for attending church or home group this week? Or even for praying with your family this morning?

If you were in prison right now with church or family members for being Christians, how would you be praying? Very fervently, of course! If we're honest, how many of us pray like that for fellow Christians who are suffering in prison right now?

We can all make a start by taking time to get informed and pray today for persecuted Christians. And on Sunday the 6th of November we can join together to remember the persecuted in prayer during the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP for short). We're all part of the same Body with our suffering brothers and sisters, and we can all "walk in their shoes" in prayer.

Click here to find out more about praying for the persecuted and be a part of IDOP on Sunday 6th November 2011.