Colossians 3:16it!

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” – Psalm 116:15

Ba zan rasa kome ba, a da nake (I won’t lack anything in the situation I’m in)
Ba zan rasa kome ba, ina hanun (I won’t lack anything I’m in the arms of Jesus)

Here is a record of the first Christian Martyed for Jesus! This is the OG influencer of the world of the glorious otherside of martyrdom (reminds me of the ending of the dark Guillermo Del Toro movie Pan’s Labyrinth).

“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, WHOSE NAME WAS SAUL. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, LORD, LAY NOT THIS SIN TO THEIR CHARGE. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” – Acts 7:54-60

“..and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, SAUL, SAUL, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” – Acts 9:4-6

“And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” – Genesis 50:19-20

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.” – Psalm 116:15

The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed. – Christian writing of the late 2nd century