Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Today I received an email from our dear friends in Cuba and the congregation with whom we worshipped when we visited Cuba.

These dear people are close to our hearts and with God's help and the help of total strangers we are able to supply them with Bibles and Christian literature. Staying connected with our friends has been difficult until today when we received an unexpected email. Things are slowly changing in Cuba, however this congregation is still worshipping in the open air because they are forbidden to build a church building.

Please pray for them as they often struggle in difficult circumstances. I want to share their email with you that our friends sent to us.

Dear friends, I am happy to hear from you again, we try to communicate in various ways which is very difficult here. Today we have asked the whole church to prayer and we raised a cry to the King of Kings for a complete healing for you, which we believe 100%, because Jesus already paid the price ... Remember that the Lord is with you and all of the church in Cuba is praying for you. Our meeting here was not by chance God has everything planned ... HE IS FAITHFUL. The literature has been a great blessing as it helped us in our preparation to share the Gospel.
We love you, we continue to pray, God bless
E. and J.

That is why I used this Bible text as heading.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Romans 12:12

Peace with God Through Faith

Romans 5
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.