Laying Your Life On the Line for Christ (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Virginia Prodan is an author, international human rights attorney, and public speaker. She shares her powerful story of courageously sharing God's love with a gun-wielding assassin in Communist Romania sent to execute her in her law office. For defending Christians behind the Iron Curtain, Virginia was kidnapped, beaten, and had her life threatened on several occasions. She shares about leading her would-be assassin to Christ and inspires listeners to fearlessly stand for the truth, no matter the cost. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.5 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:30.0 | Jesus Christ said to me, Virginia, I am the truth. You have been looking in |
| 0:39.2 | the wrong places and Christ came alive to me. I realized he's the truth. I accepted him that day as my |
| 0:48.4 | Lord and Savior. Virginia Prodand was a human rights attorney behind the iron curtain in Romania when she discovered the truth she'd been searching for Jesus Christ. |
| 0:58.5 | You're going to hear her incredible inspiring story on today's episode of Focus on the Family with |
| 1:04.0 | Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:06.0 | John I had a very enjoyable conversation with Virginia. |
| 1:10.0 | She is fearless when it comes to sharing her faith, which is one of the reasons I wanted to talk with her. |
| 1:15.5 | She's such a wonderful example of how to be bold. |
| 1:20.0 | She was kidnapped, interrogated, and beaten when she was in in in interrogated and beaten |
| 1:24.0 | when she was in Romania under Chichezkyu, the dictator at the time |
| 1:30.0 | and I know every one of us is going to be inspired and encouraged by her amazing story. |
| 1:35.6 | I can't wait to get to it. |
| 1:36.7 | And you're going to want to read the entire story of Virginia's life and her incredible account. |
| 1:42.1 | The book is called Saving My Assassin and we have details |
| 1:45.0 | about that in the program notes or give us a call. And Virginia is now in the |
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