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Acts chapter 22 verse 4.

Paul is giving a defense of his life and his conversion before group of people and he says in

verse four I persecuted this way talking about Christians I persecuted this way

to the death binding and delivering to

prison both men and women as the high priest and the whole council of the

elders can bear me as witness.

So basically here's Paul talking about how he had persecuted Christians

all the way to the death, how he had bound them

and delivered them to prison, men and women.

I read these verses and then you go on and you see Paul begin to share how Christ met him and changed his life and saved him and

obviously has now used him to proclaim the gospel in a way that now he's being

threatened with imprisonment and worse in his life. I just think today about the number of people who are persecuting Christians in the world.

I think about even those who are leading out in the persecution of Christians in different countries and different parts of the world.

And Acts 22, verse 4, just provokes me to pray for Paul-like conversion in some of those persecutors and some of those

lead persecutors and so in light of Acts 22 4, I want us just to pray specifically that God might do a

Paul-like work in some persecutors hearts today.

God, we pray, we pray right now.

We know that there are people who are persecuting

our brothers and sisters in Christ right now who are leading out in

their persecution who are persecuting them all the way to the death. We know

there are government leaders who are binding and

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