To know Jesus is to steadfastly maintain faith in Him, even under duress. The coercion unless ones faith is recanted, the persecution, the threat of death--death itself!--cannot cause one who has known Jesus to leave His light and return to darkness.

Pray for the Persecuted Church, for the believers who suffer so much because they name the Name that is above all names (Ephesians 1:21). Pray for the Church--that we will truly be His Bride, "without spot or wrinkle" Ephesians 5:27.