Fear Extinguishing in the Muslim World - too many stories this week to remember them all.

This has been an incredible week for us - ministering to many different people, many of them Muslims, some of them Hindus, and others from a Christian background.  Many different nationalities - from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of the encounters were in Arabic, most of them were in English and even one morning there was an encounter in Tamil and another in Hindi as I was with an Indian couple who had those languages.  Even though it has been a great week of reaching out, let us not think a week like this should in any way be unusual. This is what normal Christians should always be doing - praying for people, getting words of knowledge and/or other prophetic words for people, seeing unbelievers getting healed, and hearing the Gospel.

We prayed for back problems, leg and foot pain, a skin condition, headaches, a wrist problem, shoulder, and neck pain. There were other issues/conditions that I can't recall right now. Too many to remember is a good problem!

In addition to praying for healing, we also prayed for salaries to be restored that have been cut/reduced, for protection, for encouragement, and for any other problem and/or situation that people asked us to pray for.  The Gospel was shared. Wrong ideas were corrected. Hope was imparted and fear was extinguished.  Phone numbers were exchanged. Follow up will be happening (and in a couple of cases has already happened!)

We did all of this a Muslim country where COVID restrictions are still very much in force although they are being relaxed more and more. I mention that because many think that these types of things can't be done at this time.  In other words, many Christians are still living in #stayathome mode when the Holy Spirit is doing something else entirely! Almost all of these people we ministered to this week we did not know - one woman knew us from previous visits to her restaurant, but the rest were complete strangers.

We faced no opposition.  No one argued with us.  One Tunisian Muslim woman asked when I shared the Lord's Prayer with her in Arabic and told her it was from the Gospels, "But hasn't the Gospel been corrupted?"  I told her it wasn't and even quoted her own holy book that declares that in the Gospel is "guidance and light for mankind".  She didn't ask any more questions after that!  By the way, she was healed of her back condition when I hadn't even prayed for her! I had given her my wife's number to pray with her over the phone and when my wife went to visit her a few days later, she said she didn't call because she had already been healed!  

So we continue to see an openness, a preparedness that is unprecedented. The lost are hungry! Here this from someone who has spent and is spending a lot of time with them.  Their hunger is genuine.  

And who will go to them? Who will pick up this mandate to go to them and offer to "extinguish fear" in their lives? Who will pray for those who have never received prayer in Jesus' Name? Who will answer the questions that followers of false religions have due to their being misinformed?  I pray that the WHO is YOU!

...for such a time as this!