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Jeremiah chapter 38, verse 6.

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malkiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes.

And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud. And Jeremiah sank in the mud.

This is a picture that's very similar to what we prayed according to in Jeremiah 37, as he was put in prison there for proclaiming God's word.

Here, he's cast into a cistern with no water but only mud.

And we see this picture of him sinking in a muddy cistern for proclaiming

God's word. And when we were praying according to Jeremiah 37, we prayed for persecuted brothers

and sisters around the world. And as I was reading Jeremiah chapter 38 today and came across this verse, I thought again about some of the

specific instances that I referenced more generally in the podcast episode yesterday of

persecuted brothers and sisters that I know, stories that I know of radical workers,

urgent workers who are in persecuted areas, who are right now

in, well, they may not be in literal cisterns sinking in the mud, but they have been thrown

into prison. And the intent of their persecutors is for them to languish there. I think about work that we have

going on in North Korea, where we have brothers and sisters right now who have been put in

prisons, in camps, where they are intended to languish until they die because they are followers of Jesus.

I think of two other circumstances, and you can find out more about how you can be involved

even in serving, supporting, and praying for these brothers and sisters by going to

urgent needs.org, but one in a country in

Central Asia and one in the country in North Africa, where there are two brothers in Christ

specifically, one in each of those places who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.

And the accusations against them are horrible. Like the people

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