Sh Br #31: His Amazing Ways

Shiite Muslims – a people God is pursuing to be Jesus’ Bride

shbride@rightbox.com

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)

A South Asian believer living in the Middle East recently asked God to put him in prison so he could share Jesus with Arab Muslim guys living there. God answered his prayer and put him in prison, even though all his residency papers with that Middle Eastern country's government were in order and he had done nothing wrong! For two months, he shared the gospel message with 81 other prisoners, and many responded, wanting to follow Jesus!

I stand amazed at this kind of faith. This kind of burning heart to share Jesus' message of Hope - even if it means going to prison to share the Good News. Don't you want to be more like that?!

Guess what? That South Asian believer is out of prison now. Shiite Muslim families are inviting him and other believers into their homes to pray for the sick, and people are getting healed - every week!

When Shiites are getting healed, they are saying to these South Asian followers of Jesus, "We don't understand what you are praying, but we know you are praying to Jesus, and we know this is the right way. Please bring us something in our language so we can know more about him."

That is just what these South Asian believers from a thriving church in the Middle East are doing: giving God's Word in Arabic on audio tape and in printed form to Shiite families who are hungry to know more about Jesus...this wonderful Savior, in whose name the lame walk and cancer-ridden bodies are healed. Shiites are being healed, and many Shiites are being saved.

Friend of His Shiite Bride, praise God today that many Shiites are being healed and asking to know more about Jesus. Thank God that Shiite families are hearing God's Word, and reading God's Word, many for the very first time.

Pray that Shiite families will HEAR God's Word, SHARE God's Word, GROW in God's Word, and GROUP around God's Word in the Middle East where these South Asian believers are faithfully proclaiming His Truth, and in other lands around the world where Shiite families call home.

SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from Shiite Bride by emailing: shbride@rightbox.com