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Monday, August 22, 2005
Praise:
Rejoice with us in the continued growth of Samuel, a new believer in our country.
Petition:
Pray for the workers returning from leave in their home countries. Pray for renewed vision and energy for the work here, a sense of what new things they should be involved in, a strengthening for the 'year' ahead.
Pray for “S”. Her husband recently left her but then returned. He knows that she has come to faith in Jesus and treats her terribly. The prayers of PTAP have sustained her for these past several months. Lift her up during this very difficult time.
Pray for the names and details of seekers that will be delivered to tentmakers from Christian satellite programming and Christian internet sites visited by Arabian Peninsula Arabs while on holiday this summer.
Pray for the tent making family isolated in the south of our country. They and their small children have little Christian fellowship in their remote town. While they have many significant relationships with their National Muslim neighbors, they miss the sweet fellowship of other believers. Pray that God would sustain them and give them an extra measure of His grace during these hot and humid months.
Pray for the young Arab Christian university graduate who will be starting an outreach to Arab Muslim students on the many international university campuses in our country this autumn. He is keen to establish relationships with other Arabs – both Nationals and expatriates as a platform to present the Good News of Jesus.
Testimony:
Recently, some tentmakers in one of the Gulf countries of the Arabian Peninsula contacted a name they had received from a Christian Internet ministry to Muslims. It was quickly apparent upon meeting "Samuel" that he was keen on following Jesus. "What is my program?" Samuel asked. The question for him had already been settled. God had met Samuel in a powerful and personal way. His mind was made up before the tentmakers ever met up with him. He was following Jesus. He wanted to know what the program for training him was so that he could grow and be strong so that he can tell others about Jesus. "What took you guys so long to contact me?" he asked incredulously at their first meeting!
The next week, the tentmakers and Samuel met and listened to a dramatized tape about the life of Jesus. One of the men gave Samuel a piece of paper and a pen and was shocked to see Samuel take notes with great intensity – amazing for a man of little schooling. "Stop the tape," Samuel would call out, "That was an important point, I need to write it down." He is very keen to grow in his new faith.
Samuel is a man with some incredible burdens. He works in a manual labor, low-skill, low-paying job, 12 hours a day, six days a week. He is massively in debt due to pressure on him by family to take a loan for his engagement party a few months ago. He has also been sick for the past two weeks. Samuel says he wishes he could run away. The tentmakers could raise the funds to get him out of debt but they didn’t want to teach Samuel dependence upon others but to cast his needs and concerns onto his Savior.
The tentmakers did however give Samuel some help at a private hospital where he was diagnosed with acute bronchitis and given some strong antibiotics.
Please pray for Samuel's health, for a better job, for hope in his heart, for courage to tell his fiancé about Jesus and for growth in his own young faith.
Praise:
Rejoice with us in the continued growth of Samuel, a new believer in our country.
Petition:
Pray for the workers returning from leave in their home countries. Pray for renewed vision and energy for the work here, a sense of what new things they should be involved in, a strengthening for the 'year' ahead.
Pray for “S”. Her husband recently left her but then returned. He knows that she has come to faith in Jesus and treats her terribly. The prayers of PTAP have sustained her for these past several months. Lift her up during this very difficult time.
Pray for the names and details of seekers that will be delivered to tentmakers from Christian satellite programming and Christian internet sites visited by Arabian Peninsula Arabs while on holiday this summer.
Pray for the tent making family isolated in the south of our country. They and their small children have little Christian fellowship in their remote town. While they have many significant relationships with their National Muslim neighbors, they miss the sweet fellowship of other believers. Pray that God would sustain them and give them an extra measure of His grace during these hot and humid months.
Pray for the young Arab Christian university graduate who will be starting an outreach to Arab Muslim students on the many international university campuses in our country this autumn. He is keen to establish relationships with other Arabs – both Nationals and expatriates as a platform to present the Good News of Jesus.
Testimony:
Recently, some tentmakers in one of the Gulf countries of the Arabian Peninsula contacted a name they had received from a Christian Internet ministry to Muslims. It was quickly apparent upon meeting "Samuel" that he was keen on following Jesus. "What is my program?" Samuel asked. The question for him had already been settled. God had met Samuel in a powerful and personal way. His mind was made up before the tentmakers ever met up with him. He was following Jesus. He wanted to know what the program for training him was so that he could grow and be strong so that he can tell others about Jesus. "What took you guys so long to contact me?" he asked incredulously at their first meeting!
The next week, the tentmakers and Samuel met and listened to a dramatized tape about the life of Jesus. One of the men gave Samuel a piece of paper and a pen and was shocked to see Samuel take notes with great intensity – amazing for a man of little schooling. "Stop the tape," Samuel would call out, "That was an important point, I need to write it down." He is very keen to grow in his new faith.
Samuel is a man with some incredible burdens. He works in a manual labor, low-skill, low-paying job, 12 hours a day, six days a week. He is massively in debt due to pressure on him by family to take a loan for his engagement party a few months ago. He has also been sick for the past two weeks. Samuel says he wishes he could run away. The tentmakers could raise the funds to get him out of debt but they didn’t want to teach Samuel dependence upon others but to cast his needs and concerns onto his Savior.
The tentmakers did however give Samuel some help at a private hospital where he was diagnosed with acute bronchitis and given some strong antibiotics.
Please pray for Samuel's health, for a better job, for hope in his heart, for courage to tell his fiancé about Jesus and for growth in his own young faith.