The daily listings below will give you some insight to how Christians in the past and also the present day and time have suffered great pain and agony to serve our Lord & Saviour.
 

Each clickety-clack of the train wheels
bounced the Vietnamese Christian woman’s
frail body painfully on the hard wooden seat.
But she was on a mission.
She needed spiritual food for the Christians she led in North
Vietnam. Three congregations of people were praying that their
leader would be successful and bring back precious copies of
the Bible.
Her work back home was tiring. She was the only mature
Christian in the area, and she had planted the three churches
from nothing, winning one soul at a time through her personal
witness. She had no car or even a bicycle. She walked or
paddled a small wooden boat to her church meetings.
She had faced police threats and harassment and her
Buddhist parents’ dismay because of her faith. Now she rode
the train across eight hundred miles for three consecutive
days, hoping to find one believer who could help. Finally she
reached Ho Chi Minh City.
There she met visiting western Christians who gave her
Bibles for the Christians in the North. They also gave her a
bicycle to help her minister to the three congregations. Before
leaving, they prayed together, asking God’s blessing on her
travel and her ministry.
“How old are you?” one of them asked, just as she was
about to leave.
The woman smoothed strands of black hair away from her
face and whispered, “I’m twenty-two.”

Child prodigies have special abilities beyond their years.
We may know of someone who finished college at age
fifteen or wrote a symphony before age twelve or who
excelled at a sport by age sixteen. Often our response
is jealousy; we wish we could do something great in our
youth and gain recognition for it too. The Vietnamese
Christian woman did just that, but she probably didn’t
have any special abilities above those of her peers. She
did, however, have a desire to follow Jesus and to bring
him to the people of her country. Christ calls you to be
diligent for him as well. Sharing God’s love is simple
enough that it requires no special abilities—just your
availability.

Forgetfulness. It is the number one enemy of prayerfulness. We are quick to offer our prayers of support. Unfortunately, our good intentions are rarely good enough to help us carry through on our commitments to pray for those in need. What can remind you to pray for those who are persecuted around the world? Perhaps a small sticker on the face of your watch will remind you. Each time you look at your watch throughout the day can be an opportunity for you to remember a people group who live under religious persecution. Whatever method you choose to be more mindful of the missed opportunities for prayer, follow through on it. Reading stories about extreme believers will not change anything. Praying for extreme believers can change everything—maybe even today. 

from VOM-Extreme Devotion