PTAP - Blessed is the one who Reads ...
"My child, you sins are forgiven!" - Jesus
... As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying "We have never seen anything like this!"
(Mark 2:5b, 12b).
TESTIMONY:
There two women in our very modern city that a young tentmaker mom has been visiting for several months. The ladies live many kilometers apart and it is difficult to get together. Both are expatriate Muslim Arabs and they don’t drive. Both are feeling trapped in their lives. Fatima, the first woman – a 28 year old mother of 6 children, showed an interest in the Gospel kindled by a friendship she had with another tentmaker several years back. The other gal, Maryam, was very negative about anything religious and would stifle any conversation about Christianity when the 3 of them were together. The tentmaker prayed for wisdom in this situation. The Lord gave her the idea to meet with the women separately. This was a difficult thing due to her home responsibilities trying to care for her 2 small children, drive across town in terrible traffic and spend time with both ladies separately. But she trusted that God would provide.
God’s plan has borne fruit in that Fatima recently proclaimed that ‘she loves Jesus & wants to know more about Him!’ After her daily reading, she returns her Bible to its hiding place while her Jesus video is in another place – away from her husband’s suspicious eyes. She is hungry for the Word and is growing spiritually. Meanwhile, Maryam didn’t know that Fatima was meeting one-on-one with the tentmaker. Maryam was glad for her "alone-time" with the tentmaker. She has just recently begun to ask questions and wants to study the Bible with her friend. PTL for God melting her coolness and drawing her to Himself! Join us in prayer that Maryam will come to faith in Jesus. Pray for wisdom for the tentmaker mom as she juggles her schedule and responsibilities to meet with these dear women.
PRAISE:
Recently a Christian worker brought her "Muslim" friend to a Ladies' Fellowship to receive prayer. The young friend had a progressive disease leading to blindness, to paralysis, and death. She received prayer from the believers & the next day went for her routine check-in with her doctor. The doctor could find no trace of the disease, pronounced her "healed" & cancelled all her future appointments! Pray this will impact the Muslim community all around.
PETITION:
Pray for the tentmakers studying Arabic so they can speak the heart language of tens of millions of lost Arabs in the heartland of Islam. Some are learning storytelling, folk stories, and debate to better connect with locals – particularly the large number of illiterate women in Yemen & rural Saudi Arabia.
Please pray for a key couple in the region who are having an impact on the Muslim population & also the Christian community. They have been under persistent attack from the enemy & need protection, power & grace from the Lord.
Two Muslim Background Believers, Baraka and Hamad got together last week for the first time to study John’s Gospel together. It was awesome to see Hamad taking the lead in answering Baraka’s questions! Pray that the studies would continue and that both men would become pillars of God’s church in our country.
Pray for the work of God in the Farsi speaking community in our city. There are many that have come to faith in Iran and are now living or working in our city. Many come from homes that are loving on the outside, but manipulating and self-centered to the core. Pray for the wisdom as there are leadership issues and struggles in the small fledgling church.
Praise God for a new believer, we will call “Ben”. He just came to faith in the past few weeks. This dear believer is illiterate, but trying to learn to read so that he can read God's Word. Pray that God would bless him in his attempts to learn to read. Pray that God would continue to help him grow in wisdom and knowledge of the Lord.
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Praying Thru the Arabian Peninsula
www.pray-ap.info
USA #: 800-376-5876 (Eastern Time)
Encouraging & equipping believers & churches everywhere to pray through the heart of the Muslim world so that church planting movements will spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula and beyond for the Lord's glory.
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To learn how you can support this & other work in the Middle East, visit:
http://www.srginc.org
Or write:
ptap@srginc.org
Or:
PTAP
c/o Strategic Resource Group
P.O. Box 1809
Easton, MD 21601
USA
... As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying "We have never seen anything like this!"
(Mark 2:5b, 12b).
TESTIMONY:
There two women in our very modern city that a young tentmaker mom has been visiting for several months. The ladies live many kilometers apart and it is difficult to get together. Both are expatriate Muslim Arabs and they don’t drive. Both are feeling trapped in their lives. Fatima, the first woman – a 28 year old mother of 6 children, showed an interest in the Gospel kindled by a friendship she had with another tentmaker several years back. The other gal, Maryam, was very negative about anything religious and would stifle any conversation about Christianity when the 3 of them were together. The tentmaker prayed for wisdom in this situation. The Lord gave her the idea to meet with the women separately. This was a difficult thing due to her home responsibilities trying to care for her 2 small children, drive across town in terrible traffic and spend time with both ladies separately. But she trusted that God would provide.
God’s plan has borne fruit in that Fatima recently proclaimed that ‘she loves Jesus & wants to know more about Him!’ After her daily reading, she returns her Bible to its hiding place while her Jesus video is in another place – away from her husband’s suspicious eyes. She is hungry for the Word and is growing spiritually. Meanwhile, Maryam didn’t know that Fatima was meeting one-on-one with the tentmaker. Maryam was glad for her "alone-time" with the tentmaker. She has just recently begun to ask questions and wants to study the Bible with her friend. PTL for God melting her coolness and drawing her to Himself! Join us in prayer that Maryam will come to faith in Jesus. Pray for wisdom for the tentmaker mom as she juggles her schedule and responsibilities to meet with these dear women.
PRAISE:
Recently a Christian worker brought her "Muslim" friend to a Ladies' Fellowship to receive prayer. The young friend had a progressive disease leading to blindness, to paralysis, and death. She received prayer from the believers & the next day went for her routine check-in with her doctor. The doctor could find no trace of the disease, pronounced her "healed" & cancelled all her future appointments! Pray this will impact the Muslim community all around.
PETITION:
Pray for the tentmakers studying Arabic so they can speak the heart language of tens of millions of lost Arabs in the heartland of Islam. Some are learning storytelling, folk stories, and debate to better connect with locals – particularly the large number of illiterate women in Yemen & rural Saudi Arabia.
Please pray for a key couple in the region who are having an impact on the Muslim population & also the Christian community. They have been under persistent attack from the enemy & need protection, power & grace from the Lord.
Two Muslim Background Believers, Baraka and Hamad got together last week for the first time to study John’s Gospel together. It was awesome to see Hamad taking the lead in answering Baraka’s questions! Pray that the studies would continue and that both men would become pillars of God’s church in our country.
Pray for the work of God in the Farsi speaking community in our city. There are many that have come to faith in Iran and are now living or working in our city. Many come from homes that are loving on the outside, but manipulating and self-centered to the core. Pray for the wisdom as there are leadership issues and struggles in the small fledgling church.
Praise God for a new believer, we will call “Ben”. He just came to faith in the past few weeks. This dear believer is illiterate, but trying to learn to read so that he can read God's Word. Pray that God would bless him in his attempts to learn to read. Pray that God would continue to help him grow in wisdom and knowledge of the Lord.
<>< <>< <>< <>< <><
Praying Thru the Arabian Peninsula
www.pray-ap.info
USA #: 800-376-5876 (Eastern Time)
Encouraging & equipping believers & churches everywhere to pray through the heart of the Muslim world so that church planting movements will spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula and beyond for the Lord's glory.
====
To learn how you can support this & other work in the Middle East, visit:
http://www.srginc.org
Or write:
ptap@srginc.org
Or:
PTAP
c/o Strategic Resource Group
P.O. Box 1809
Easton, MD 21601
USA
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