PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN

PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN

James 1:2-4 “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

Our brother from Pakistan reports:
One of the brothers from Peshawar was kidnapped with his two physical brothers and 15 friends when they were having a thanks giving prayer meeting at one of their friend’s house by the Taliban on the 21st of June, 08.

When they were kidnapped, most of them had a lot of fear in their hearts because they were all taken to the caves in the tribal area and were told not to talk to each other and even not to come out of the cave without their orders. While they were inside the cave, they heard the Taliban activists who were there as guards were talking about slaughtering them all. These talks really filled every one with fear and they all started thinking about their families and children. They were afraid that they may never see their families.

But this brother said that he kept praying with faith that God can do a miracle and can release them from there. And early in the morning he had a dream that these people who kidnapped them coming and telling that they are releasing them and also dropped them in the city. Exactly after two hours, the Taliban activists came and told them that they are releasing them and all of them should go and sit in the car so that they can drop them in the city and release them.

Last week when the national leader of our Church visited Peshawar church and met this brother and asked him about the incident, it was very encouraging to see that the faith of this brother and his family is grown so much more ever since he went through all these incidents.