PETR JASEK: “The Greatest Peace”

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🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What verse of Scripture would you grab onto if you were locked in prison for your faith? Petr Jasek, a Czech national and VOM’s Africa regional director, was released last month after 445 days in prison in Sudan. Listen as he shares the verse that became a theme for him during those long months in prison. It was not a verse about setting captives free. Instead, it was a verse about the holiness of God. It became a theme for Petr; he would use it to guide his prayers and recite it over and over each day throughout his imprisonment. Meditating on God’s holiness provided strength for Petr as his radical Muslim cellmates began to pressure, persecute and torture him. Listen also for the story of the opportunity God provided that encouraged Petr as he began to lose hope after four months in prison. Petr’s story challenges each of us to think about how we deal with hardship or opposition, and reminds us to seek God’s plan and His will, even when we’re uncomfortable or suffering. (Listen also to the first part of our conversation with Petr in last week’s episode: Prisoner Set Free.)

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0:00.0	When Peter Yassick was jailed in Sudan for his faith, he asked God, how long do I have to stay here?
0:09.0	But as the time went on, he discovered that God had ordained opportunities for him in prison to share his
0:16.3	faith in Christ and his prayers began to change.
0:20.3	I stopped asking the Lord how long and I rather ask the Lord how do you want me to use
0:27.5	Lord and I started to be more open even with the Muslims who were in the cell.
0:36.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path.
0:39.0	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
0:43.4	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:46.2	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:49.2	and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:53.4	Join host Todd Nettletons, we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
0:58.2	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:01.8	Last week we heard part one of our conversation with Peter Yassick.
1:06.0	He's a voice of the martyr's staff member from the Czech Republic.
1:10.0	In 2015, he was jailed in Sudan after traveling there and offering to pay the medical
1:16.2	expenses of a young man there who'd been injured. The Sudanese government
1:20.6	claimed that that money was to help rebel prison in the southern part of Sudan and the government
1:26.8	put Peter in prison.
1:29.5	Last week he told us how he was placed in a cell with other prisoners, even ISIS fighters who were hostile to his Christian faith.
1:38.0	He was beaten and mocked by those prisoners.
1:42.0	After he'd been in that prison for a few weeks the Lord
1:45.1	brought a scripture verse to Peter's mind and it became a theme for him
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