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I went looking and God let me find

Today, I was missing the Middle East and wanted to go and meet people from the Arab World. Many Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula visit where we live during the summer, and I went to a well-known mall today to see if any of them had started to arrive. It ended up being a bit too early and I literally did not see any Arabs (and listening carefully heard no Arabic being spoken). I thought I had "struck out" but then had one last coffee shop in mind that I would pass by on my way home. And God let me find there what I was looking for! Standing behind me was a man that I knew was Middle Eastern. When I asked where he was from, he was from the country I had been living in for the last 13 years before we moved back to America. It was like I had run into an old friend. I sat with he and his wife for more than 30 minutes as we talked about many things. I got to pray for my new friend as he had some back pain. We exchanged numbers and will meet again soon. Before I left I went back t...

Miracles in the Middle East as the Kingdom of God Came in Power

We just got back from nearly one month in the Middle East. I wouldn't know where to begin in terms of trying to document the miraculous things that happened. Many were prayed for, and of those, many testified to pain leaving their bodies. Often the prayer was preceded by a word of knowledge indicating what the precise problem was. I am thinking of a Saudi Arabian Muslim man we met in his country. My buddy got a word of knowledge for him about a problem he had in his right hand/thumb. He had the problem. We prayed for him in Arabic and he was healed. This led to a longer conversation with him by another Arab believer (on my phone) who prayed for him and shared with him the Gospel.  We saw a couple of people give their lives to Christ - one of them we baptized shortly thereafter with her husband who also only recently gave his life to Christ. Both of them were Muslims who are now following Christ.  We got pray for people who needed to be set free from demonic oppression. And we ...