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Divine Appointments Part 2

Hello everyone!

I wanted to give an update on my friend from Jordan. The person I wrote about in Part 1. Before reading this, please take another look at part 1 for some more context of this AMAZING opportunity God gave me to share the name of Jesus! HUGE praise to the Lord! We ended up meeting for coffee again back when I was in Jordan.

It’s crazy! I ended up going about the start of my day. John (the guy I met with) texted me a couple hours before we met! He said: “Looking forward to meeting with you. Do not forget the bible.” I mean you can’t make this stuff up! It’s all the Lord! We ended up meeting and John brings his brother to come talk with us. I had no idea his brother was coming! 

His brother ends up asking me a bunch of questions. He is Muslim, but he shared how he wants to know the absolute truth. One thing I find is that many people believe that Christian’s see Jesus as a prophet and God. Which is not possible. I was sharing the gospel with him and that was the biggest thing that seemed to be tripping him up. I clarified that we DO NOT see Jesus as a prophet. We see Jesus as divine. He IS GOD himself. Of course, there is more to this conversation. His response when I told him we see him as God and NOT a prophet… “Oh.” An “Oh” where his face was in complete shock. God touched his heart in that moment. I shared how I don’t want someone to believe something just because I am sharing it. Not because I believe and know it. But because they must KNOW it for themselves! John’s brother without a doubt left with his eyes opened to so many questions. Those questions I know God will continue to work on with him. Fun fact as well: He was visiting from the other side of the Middle East that day. He was going back to his home country the next day! The timing in all of it… IMPECCABLE! 

Now, also super exciting! I gave John the bible and he and I started reading it together. He was reading it in Arabic (his native language). He is reading it out loud to me! He is fascinated by the teachings of Jesus! He kept getting this excitement as he started to read the Gospel of John and Matthew. God is going to continue to work in their hearts! I am so thankful and encouraged by moments like these because you see the transformation and curiosity within someone’s heart. Where the Holy Spirit absolutely touches them!

12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12, ESV). 

An example of how just speaking the word of God out loud can literally do things so crazy like this! All the glory goes to God! It’s this crazy unexplainable divine thing that happens when you speak the LIVING AND ACTIVE word of God! The Holy Spirit guides those conversations. It’s not me! It’s all God! All the glory goes to God! 

I wanted to share an update from this story! It was so beautiful! PRAISE THE LORD!

 

WE ARE NOW IN TURKEY!

 

PRAYER REQUESTS: 

1.) Please continue to Pray for John and his brother! That they would know Jesus! Pray for God to continue to put more people in their lives to point them to Jesus.

2.) Pray for the country of Jordan. Pray for Turkey. These are definitely spiritually dark places. Pray for an outpouring of God’s spirit in these places!

3.) Pray that God will give us so many opportunities to share the name of Jesus with others. That others would know Him and see Jesus in us! That they would see it by how we live our lives! By how we love them!

4.) Pray for other missionaries in these places. For God’s continued strength to get them through times that are hard and seem discouraging. 

5.) Pray for me and my team! Pray that God would help us love each other as He loves us! That we would forgive each other as Jesus has forgiven us! I desire to love them so deeply and to be a light to them! Pray for God’s continue strength for all of us!

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

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  1. This is so encouraging, Lee. Thanks for sharing this. Another verse that I am reminded of is “the word of the Lord never returns void.” I truly appreciate your obedience in speaking with John and his brother.

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