Please pray for Christians in Iraq. Since the war in Iraq, half of its 1.4 million Christians have had to flee, this according to the United Nations Human Rights Council http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
In 2009, some 5,000 Christians had to flee from Mosul, while 12 have been killed.
Iraq has a population of some 30 million Muslims.
It has been said by religious workers in Iraq, those who haven't fled, are planning to leave, and soon.
Please pray for Christian people who are under persecution.
Hebrews 11:32-40 KJV (Read the whole chapter.)
[32] And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
[33] Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
[34] Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
[35] Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
[36] And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
[37] They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
[38] (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
[39] And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
[40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
John 15:20-25 KJV
[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.
[21] But all these things will they do unto you for My name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.
[22] If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
[23] He that hateth Me hateth My Father also.
[24] If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father.
[25] But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.
Galatians 6:9 KJV
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
II Timothy 3:12 KJV
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
Revelation 2:10 KJV
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Revelation 3:11 KJV
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
