{"id":581,"date":"2018-08-17T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple4.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T12:08:26","slug":"praying-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/17\/praying-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying despair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.<\/i> Hebrews 13:3<\/a><\/p>\n

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Russian Christian prisoner, Aleksandr Ogorodnikov, shares, \u201cOne night I was thrown into a cell with a broken window. The KGB was determined to do an experiment and freeze me. Later they would say, \u2018He broke the window in his cell and died of cold.\u2019 I felt despair. I thought to myself, \u2018Has God really left me? Am I really forgotten and neglected? Have my years of suffering been in vain?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in my despair, I began to pray. I usually pray silently, but this time I started to appeal to God out loud. \u2018God, have You left me?\u2019 My cries were bursting from a heart literally in utter despair.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd right then, I suddenly felt palpable, physical warmth. Not the kind that comes from a heater, but like when a mother draws her freezing child to her breast and warms him with her tearful breath of compassion. It was a very living, human warmth. It penetrates you as if piercing you to the heart. And inside your heart, a spring opens up, out of which flows peace\u2014a wonderful, magnificent, soothing peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt a very loving, brotherly touch\u2014someone\u2019s caring hand touching my shoulder. I actually felt<\/i> it. In the morning, it was a shock to my executioners. They couldn\u2019t understand. I wasn\u2019t simply alive, but my temperature was the same as that of a normal person. I heard a doctor explaining to my executioners in the corridor, \u2018This is impossible! We can\u2019t explain it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt so happened that many people began praying for me. And that was exactly when they released me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. Hebrews 13:3   Russian Christian prisoner, Aleksandr Ogorodnikov, shares, \u201cOne night I was thrown into a cell with a broken window. The KGB was determined to do an experiment and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}