The Honor of God: Arabs Grow Bolder in Christ
July 10, 2006
"Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila." - Acts 18:18
PRAISE:
We are rejoicing in our tiny Arabian Peninsula country where two of the National Muslim Background Christian believers are meeting together regularly during the summer to study God’s Word, for prayer and encouragement. This is a huge step to do this together! We are so grateful for God’s work in their lives.
PETITION:
Some tentmakers have speaking engagements in their home countries. Pray for God to use them to call people to pray and intercede for this region. Pray also for God to speak through them and call others to join us here in the work.
Pray that Saudis would begin to think critically and question Islam, and that God would bring the presence of His eternal truth to Saudis.
Please pray for a believer who has slipped back and turned away from the truth. Pray he will be brought back again.
Thanks PTAP for your prayers on behalf of the Muslim Background Believers (MBB) brother in the UAE who needed his passport to be renewed by his country’s embassy. He received his passport late last week. He now needs God’s wisdom to determine which door is being opened to him.
Pray for the two MBB brother that are living undercover in the region. They may be granted an opportunity to visit a Western nation that has a group of fellowships to care for them. Pray that God’s will would be clear in this situation for these two young men.
TESTIMONY:
A young, Arab family from the Levant lives in the Arabian Peninsula. They came to the “Gulf” for a better life than they could have in their home country. They wanted good jobs and to be able to provide for their children and their extended family living in difficult situations back home. They both work in jobs using their hard earned university qualifications in their home countries. They attend the expatriate Arab evangelical fellowship. They are part of a home bible study. They love the Lord and are growing in their Christian walk. They have lived their entire Christian lives in countries dominated by Muslims. This affects their view of relationships outside of the church and how they related to non-Christians.
There are hundreds of families just like them spread across the major cities of the Arabian Peninsula (AP). Last summer, they gave up their regular holiday and went to Europe on a Christian outreach to Muslim Arabs from the Gulf. They were afraid, they felt uncertain, they trusted in the Lord. They found that they had many good conversations with Arab Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula! They found that the Muslims were open to hearing about Jesus. They were excited to see God melt away their fear and bring many people into their lives.
Now, back in their work and neighborhood situations, they look for opportunities to share their lives with their Muslim neighbors – both with Gulf Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims from their home country. God has transformed them to be outreach oriented as they took that initial step of faith last summer. They are challenging other families in their circle of Christian Arabs to take the same step of faith. It is the Arab Christians living in the Arabian Peninsula that will have the greatest impact for the Gospel among the National Arab Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula. Pray that more expatriate Arab Christians living in the AP will take the step of faith to be used by God in calling Muslims of the AP to Himself.
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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 with a heart filled with the "Seed-of-Laughter" for those at the heart who know "God-Hears" so that biblical 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 MertH.:
ptap@srginc.org
Or:
PTAP
c/o Strategic Resource Group
P.O. Box 1809
Easton, MD 21601
USA
"Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila." - Acts 18:18
PRAISE:
We are rejoicing in our tiny Arabian Peninsula country where two of the National Muslim Background Christian believers are meeting together regularly during the summer to study God’s Word, for prayer and encouragement. This is a huge step to do this together! We are so grateful for God’s work in their lives.
PETITION:
Some tentmakers have speaking engagements in their home countries. Pray for God to use them to call people to pray and intercede for this region. Pray also for God to speak through them and call others to join us here in the work.
Pray that Saudis would begin to think critically and question Islam, and that God would bring the presence of His eternal truth to Saudis.
Please pray for a believer who has slipped back and turned away from the truth. Pray he will be brought back again.
Thanks PTAP for your prayers on behalf of the Muslim Background Believers (MBB) brother in the UAE who needed his passport to be renewed by his country’s embassy. He received his passport late last week. He now needs God’s wisdom to determine which door is being opened to him.
Pray for the two MBB brother that are living undercover in the region. They may be granted an opportunity to visit a Western nation that has a group of fellowships to care for them. Pray that God’s will would be clear in this situation for these two young men.
TESTIMONY:
A young, Arab family from the Levant lives in the Arabian Peninsula. They came to the “Gulf” for a better life than they could have in their home country. They wanted good jobs and to be able to provide for their children and their extended family living in difficult situations back home. They both work in jobs using their hard earned university qualifications in their home countries. They attend the expatriate Arab evangelical fellowship. They are part of a home bible study. They love the Lord and are growing in their Christian walk. They have lived their entire Christian lives in countries dominated by Muslims. This affects their view of relationships outside of the church and how they related to non-Christians.
There are hundreds of families just like them spread across the major cities of the Arabian Peninsula (AP). Last summer, they gave up their regular holiday and went to Europe on a Christian outreach to Muslim Arabs from the Gulf. They were afraid, they felt uncertain, they trusted in the Lord. They found that they had many good conversations with Arab Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula! They found that the Muslims were open to hearing about Jesus. They were excited to see God melt away their fear and bring many people into their lives.
Now, back in their work and neighborhood situations, they look for opportunities to share their lives with their Muslim neighbors – both with Gulf Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims from their home country. God has transformed them to be outreach oriented as they took that initial step of faith last summer. They are challenging other families in their circle of Christian Arabs to take the same step of faith. It is the Arab Christians living in the Arabian Peninsula that will have the greatest impact for the Gospel among the National Arab Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula. Pray that more expatriate Arab Christians living in the AP will take the step of faith to be used by God in calling Muslims of the AP to Himself.
<>< <>< <>< <>< <><
Praying Thru the Arabian Peninsula
www.pray-ap.info
USA #: 800-376-5876 (Eastern Time)
Encouraging & equipping believers & churches everywhere to pray with a heart filled with the "Seed-of-Laughter" for those at the heart who know "God-Hears" so that biblical 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 MertH.:
ptap@srginc.org
Or:
PTAP
c/o Strategic Resource Group
P.O. Box 1809
Easton, MD 21601
USA
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