Unusual Persecution

UNUSUAL PERSECUTION

During this past week I had the pleasure and privilege of ministering the Word of God to a little company of saints who gather to the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, forming an Assembly in Somerset U.K.

At the close of the meeting, and before we enjoyed a little more fellowship, including refreshments, a sister approached me wearing a perplexed look upon her face. She has been convicted over a period concerning believers' baptism. She was in earnest to obey the Spirits' clear exercise within her soul. But she was experiencing persecution from her husband. He makes a profession of faith in Christ, but whether it is genuine or not I have no knowledge at all. He is adamant that infant baptism suffices as he and his wife have both undergone this erroneous "rite." He also harbours some Judaistic teaching, including circumcision, I believe!

Our dear sister, "A" (I refer to her in this simple way so as to protect her, I am sure you will understand,) feels afraid to ask her local Assembly to arrange a baptismal service, fearful her husband will discover her plans, and thwart her. She knows she has to obey him, but realises "we ought to [literally, "must"] obey God rather than men," even her husband. Acts 5:29.

I would covet your prayers for her as she seeks to make arrangements elsewhere so as to avoid confrontation. Her approach to me encouraged me in the things of the Lord, and my heart goes out to her in her difficult dilemma.  

Apart from the Scripture I quoted earlier, the fact that her exercise is "directly" from the Spirit of God, confirms me in my appeal to you for your prayers on her behalf.