CUBA: "My Fear Shrinks"
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🗓️ 30 January 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
"Brother Joshua" is a church leader in Cuba. He says for Christians on the island, persecution is expected. Police regularly call Joshua in for interrogation, and he says every time they call he feels intimidation and fear about what might happen. But he says as the questioning begins he can feel God's presence and God's provision of an answer for each question. And as he senses God's power taking over, he says his fear shrinks and disappears.
Joshua will give an update on the persecution of the church in Cuba, including one church which recently had its building demolished by the government. Have things changed for the church since the death of Fidel Castro? How difficult is it for Christians to get Bibles? How do pastors deal with the knowledge that every time they preach, government spies are present to watch, listen and cause problems?
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus said, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. |
| 0:06.0 | Brother Joshua is laboring for the gospel in Cuba, |
| 0:10.0 | and he affirms that the harvest there truly is plentiful. |
| 0:15.0 | The Christianity in Cuba is strong and it is aggressive. |
| 0:18.0 | And church is growing, amounts that you can't imagine. |
| 0:21.0 | There is not one service that there is not people giving their lives. People are converting. |
| 0:27.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:32.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate |
| 0:35.0 | them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in the life |
| 0:40.3 | of the Apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of |
| 0:43.9 | his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their |
| 0:47.7 | inspiring stories and learn how we can help. Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs |
| 0:52.0 | radio network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs radio. My name is Todd |
| 0:56.2 | Nettleton and we are in our studio today with brother Joshua. He is one of our |
| 1:00.6 | guests. We're not going to talk a lot about his background but suffice |
| 1:05.2 | it to say that he is a church leader from Cuba. It is our blessing and honor to have |
| 1:10.2 | him here. Brother Joshua, welcome to Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:14.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.5 | I want to start out kind of specifically because I know last October there was a church that was demolished |
| 1:21.6 | in Cuba and I want to kind of give our listeners a sense of what the |
| 1:26.4 | church in Cuba is facing and I think this is a good example. |
| 1:29.9 | So can you talk a little bit about that church demolition and what happened, why that particular |
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