SUDAN: "What Worse Could Happen To Us?"
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 15 December 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
If you're already in prison for your faith, and facing a possible death penalty, Petr Jasek says you can be even more bold about sharing Jesus. After all…how much worse could your situation get, from an earthly perspective?
Jasek and Pastor Hassan Abduraheem Taour were cell mates in a Sudanese prison, on trial together for alleged espionage against the nation of Sudan, and this week they are together on VOM Radio in a special episode recorded at a VOM Advance Conference.
Listen to how they found JOY even as they were physically suffering and were separated from families and loved ones. Listen as Petr shares how he could physically feel the prayers of people around the world while he was in prison. Both men will share how God had specifically prepared them to face persecution and imprisonment.
Petr will also talk about how God brought back to his mind the words of songs he had learned as a child, and about the invisible "prayer map" on the walls of his prison cell. Both Petr and Hassan will share what it meant to them for Sudanese Christians to gather outside the courtroom and boldly sing hymns of praise to God as the men were taken to and from their court hearings.
Finally, you'll be equipped to pray specifically for Christians in prison right now for their faith in Christ, as well as for their family members waiting, hoping and praying for their incarcerated loved ones.
You can hear the VOM Radio interview with Petr Jasek, recorded just eight days after he was released from prison in Sudan, here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Our interview with Pastor Hassan is here: Part 1 and Part 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Peter Yossick was encouraging believers in Christ in Sudan. |
| 0:04.7 | Then he was arrested for his faith and placed in prison. |
| 0:09.0 | But instead of making him timid, he looked at this imprisonment as an amazing opportunity. |
| 0:16.6 | He started sharing the gospel in the prison without fear. |
| 0:20.5 | We knew we all were facing death penalty, right? |
| 0:24.0 | First. Secondly, we were already in prison, right? |
| 0:27.0 | So what worse could happen to us? |
| 0:29.0 | Nothing. |
| 0:30.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:35.0 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:38.0 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:41.0 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles and |
| 0:44.3 | they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 0:48.4 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the voice of the |
| 0:54.8 | Martyr's radio network. Imagine being imprisoned for your faith by a government |
| 1:00.1 | opposed to the gospel, but on top of that, imagine that you're inside the prison |
| 1:05.8 | with a group of ISIS fighters. You'd be at risk both from the guards and from your fellow prisoners. That's what our two |
| 1:16.0 | guests today did experience. Peter Yassick and Brother Hassan have both been on Voice of the Martyrs radio |
| 1:24.4 | telling their stories individually but today we're going to hear from both of |
| 1:28.7 | them together. I talked with them at a Voice of the martyr's advance conference this fall and I began by asking them about joy. |
| 1:38.0 | In the middle of that prison in Sudan, how were they able to experience the joy of the Lord? |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, this was in the first prison that we went to, and this prison you were not allowed to be visited from your family or friends or |
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