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Persecuted Pastor: "Jesus Made Me Ready for Battle Again"

Josef Tson was a Romanian pastor and educator who suffered terribly under the Communists before the fall of the Iron Curtain. In a sermon he once preached, he talked about a particularly nasty bout he had with an interrogator. It left him very discouraged until the Lord met with him and helped him understand what was happening.

The next week the interrogation began again, but everything was different. Tson says: "At one point [the interrogator] stopped and said, 'Mr. Tson, who visited you this weekend? I have in front of me a different person than the one who left here. Somebody came and changed you completely. I have to know who came and visited you.'

'Jesus visited me and made me ready for the battle again,' said Tson."

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