PRAYER FOCUS: Please be in prayer this week for our brothers and sisters throughout the world who are living under persecution because of their union with Christ. Keep in mind Christ’s Word from Matthew 10:16-25 as you lift these believers before God in prayer asking Him to give the Spirit to them that they be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, enduring the temporary hardships they are facing with the hope of eternal salvation in Jesus. Pray particularly for our brother, Andrew Brunson, as his October 12 trial in Turkey approaches.