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The opening entry in this month’s diary illustrates both the joys and sorrows that accompany the work of AIM. On the one hand, it demonstrates the very real cost faced by some converts when they respond to the Good News of Jesus; and on the other, it speaks of true joy to be found in him: ‘life in all its fullness’, as the Lord himself promised.

As Christians, we are not immune to the pain and suffering which are the inevitable consequences of living in a fallen world. This is borne out even more graphically by the experience of hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Sudan, as they suffer at the hands an oppressive regime. The Khartoum government wants to drive them out of their homes and, for the majority, the only land in which they have lived, simply because it has decided that they ‘belong’ in the newly-born South Sudan. This fledgling nation, yet to celebrate its first birthday as a nation, does not have the infrastructure to cope with issuing the necessary documentation for so many people in such a short time, so these people are effectively state-less. Living by the roadsides on the outskirts of Khartoum, they are powerless and unable to help themselves.

But they are not hopeless, for we have a gospel of hope and the majority of these internal refugees are believers. Please uphold them and all those who are struggling ‘against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.’ We are all engaged in a spiritual battle, so we need to fight using spiritual weapons and God has given to us this precious and powerful weapon of prayer.

May I encourage you once again, to ‘go to war’ using this month’s prayer diary, in the confidence that the Lord is building his church and ’the gates of Hades (hell) will not overcome it.’

Thank you.