Prayer Request: Alexandria, and
Menbal, Egypt, Coptic Christians.
Please pray for Christians as two
different cities in Egypt.
- Please pray for Christians in the village of Alexandria. St. Mary's Church of the Dakhela district, west of Alexandria was attacked by Muslims. They threw everything from Molotov cocktails to bricks, burning and breaking everything they could. One Copt Christian was killed, a 36 year old father of three children, while many others were injured. According to a Muslim security report, the father died of fright, yet his body in the morgue, was full of bruises and shot blasts.
A 19 year old had been
beaten severely, and was in the hospital, had a severe brain injury
and was unconscious, yet
chained to his bed, so that he, Muslim officials said, could not
escape. Sources said that 1,000
Copts were attacked by over 20,000 Muslims. Shot blasts
and bricks were used against the
Coptic Christians.
- Please pray for Christians in the village of Menbal, which is in the district of f Matay, north of Minya province. A Crowd of Muslims attacked the village of Church of Prince Tadros-el-Mashreki.Stones were thrown breaking everything in the church. That not being enough, the mob went down the street, destroying and looting everything they thought belonged to Copts. Businesses, pharmacies and their cars were all torched. Copts that were in the streets were beaten.As some young girls came out of a Coptic Church, Muslim boys hurled plastic bags of urine at them.Latter that same day, Muslims gathered and attacked the church and the Copts living in the village (of Menbal).Was was this brutality? It was because they were Christian people!
Please remember to pray for these
fellow Christians. Will God's books, record you as having prayed?
Daniel 7:10 KJV
A fiery stream issued and came forth
from before Him: thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set,
and the books were opened.
Revelation 20:12 KJV
And I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was
opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of
those things which were written in the books, according to their
works.
Suffering Believers:
Psalms 9:13 KJV
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider
my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me
up from the gates of death:
Psalms 119:86 KJV
All thy commandments are faithful:
they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
Jeremiah 20:11 KJV
But The Lord is with me as a mighty
terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall
not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not
prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Matthew 5:12 KJV
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for
great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you.
John 15:18,20 KJV
18 If the world hate you, ye know
that it hated Me before it hated you.
20 Remember the word that I said
unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My
saying, they will keep yours also.
Romans 8:35-39
KJV
35 Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we
are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I Corinthians 4:11-13 KJV
11 Even unto this present hour we
both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no
certain dwelling place;
12 And labor, working with our own
hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are
made as the filth of the world, and are the off scouring of all
things unto this day.
II Corinthians 12:9,10 KJV
9 And He said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
I Thessalonians 3:4 KJV
For verily, when we were with you,
we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came
to pass, and ye know.
II Timothy 3:12 KJV
Yea, and all that will live godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
I Peter 4:12-14 KJV
12 Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some
strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are
partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when His glory shall be
revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name
of Christ, happy are ye; for The Spirit Of Glory and of God resteth
upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is
glorified.
I Peter 4:16 KJV
Yet if any man suffer as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this
behalf.
