For those giving their lives...

If you spend your years on behalf of a people hungry for the gospel, if you waste the prime of your life in a place where people are cut off from the good news, then this promise applies to you:

“The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
(Isaiah 58:11)

When we pour out our lives in difficult, dark places, God pours out his love and goodness on us.