October 31, 2005

"I leave peace with you: I give you My peace!" - Jesus

PRAISE:
For the good report a key tentmaker in the Arabian Peninsula has had regarding his cancer treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress and response to the chemotherapy.

PETITION:
Pray for the following prominent business and political families in Saudi Arabia: Al Jaffali family, the Al Jamjoom family and the Al Gusaibi family. All of these families have major influences in all sectors of society in their respective regions.

Pray that Arabian Peninsula Muslims would see that Islam does not provide the answers that they need in life, and that they would hunger to find the truth. Pray that they would search for truth and find it.

Pray that God will bring more workers for the harvest - many people with a heart to reach the lost and the faith in Him to come to this harsh region.

Qatar is in the process of adopting a new constitution. Pray for further changes regarding the legal recognition of churches, especially for the size restriction to be removed.

With only a few days left of Ramadan (month of fasting), this is the time of year where people pray with increased intensity and fervor. Please pray that Jesus would show Himself to those who are seeking revelation. Ask that the Lord would arrange divine appointments with tentmakers in their lives.

TESTIMONY:
In the past few months, I have been so amazed at what God is doing. We are seeing an increase in spiritual interest, new believers and other miraculous events. The following is an exciting story from a worker in our city and his Arab friend, Baraka.

They broke the fast at an outdoor cafe. There Baraka told him about encountering the Holy Spirit last Friday, how "God was there in my house". He had sent a text to the tentmaker very distraught over a big fight between his parents. The worker called him, prayed for him over the phone, and they both said we'd keep praying. Come to find out, a local Arab fellowship just happened to be praying for him that night, too!

Anyway, Baraka talked about crying out to God in desperation. He had come to the end of his abilities and strength, and needed God to do something. He really humbled himself before God. He said he talked to God like was really there, "like the Christians do." All of a sudden, he felt a cool tingling in his chest that grew and spread throughout his whole body. It covered him with peace. Then he said it felt as if someone was actually touching him, stroking his head, his back, and his arm…amazing. He grew so peaceful that he crawled into bed and slept about 20 minutes. When he woke up, everyone was still going at it in the front room. He said he realized how blinded they all were by Satan. There was such compassion in his voice as he told this story. He walked out into the middle of it all and said simply, "God is watching us." Suddenly, everything stopped. His mom went to her room to pray and his sister, too. And his brother and dad sat on the couch, dumbfounded!
at what had just happened. This is particularly significant, because the tentmaker had prayed that Jesus would give Baraka the authority to bring peace into his family. Praise God! So Baraka became a firm believer in intimacy with God, and the power that comes from that. "Can God do this all the time?" He wants that, connects it on some level to Jesus, and asked to start reading the New Testament with the tentmaker. Praise the Lord!

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