Week 8 — Monday: The Patience Of Prayer
Luke 18:1-8
The Muslim world is a difficult place to share the good news of Jesus Christ. For centuries missionaries have gone to these difficult, even dangerous, places and had little to show for their sacrifice. For centuries Christians have prayed persistently, patiently, for Muslim nations.
It may seem unbelievable, but recent research shows that more Muslims have come to Christ in the last few decades than in the prior 14 centuries! There are thousands of documented stories of visions and dreams of Jesus calling Muslims to Himself. There is always a next step—they need to talk with a Christian, find a church, get a Bible, and encounter Christian media. But the spark that moves them is the supernatural revelation of the Lord directly to Muslims.
Luke 18:1 tells us clearly that the point of Jesus’ parable of the unjust judge in Luke 18 is not to say God is stingy in answering prayer but to encourage us to be like the widow asking for justice: “that (his disciples) should always pray and not give up.” One of history’s greatest examples of this is this story of God working among Muslims in our day!
As His disciples today, let us pray and not give up. Why did God wait to bring in a great harvest of people from the Muslim world until the late 20th century? I don’t know; He is God. Our role is to pray, to persist in prayer, to be patient in prayer.
Christians since the 7th century have asked God for this. Let’s join in prayer for the Muslim world and for people around us who we have a hard time believing will ever come to faith. Pray for them today, tomorrow, all this year, and every year. The Lord will answer. He asks us to be patiently persistent in bringing these requests to Him.
—CONTRIBUTED BY TODD HUNNICUTT, BVG GLOBAL REACH PARTNER —
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Christine Pence
October 24, 2023 at 9:01 pmAs Christians we are to be persistent and prayer but also doers of the word it’s important to lead by example I’ve had people tell me in my personal life Christine be the example to be honest I’m not always the greatest example I am only human and I make a lot of mistakes and I’m anger a lot of people I always ask God to help me and to forgive me and I repent I pray over my home even when demons come at me but it is true that we are to pray for others even our enemies I pray for people that I know or I’m aware of I’m not friends with them but they’re non-christians like last night a non-Christian man his name is Chris stop by and he’s not a friend of mine he’s actually a caregiver that works here at my apartment complex for a elderly Jewish man the Jewish man is not saved either but I stood up for Jesus last night because he was calling God a curse word and I corrected him as gentle as I could even though it did offend me that he was using a very foul language to describe Jesus Christ and I said God is not that Jesus is not that he’s the son of God he’s holy and I was explaining to him in a very short words you don’t use curse words at God I understand this person is lost I did pray a prayer for him to be saved and how the subject came about of him saying that was because we were talking about children and I told him that Jesus loves the children and this person has a Three sons so the next thing I know when I start telling him about Jesus he just came at me with Jesus blank blank and I’m like Jesus is not that don’t ever call him that he’s holy so it’s not easy to always lead by example when it comes to confronting the Lost when you try to gently approach them I remember when I was on tick tock for over a year and a half and God put me on there for a reason when I first got on there sister in Christ recommended I go and I did my channel on tiktok was called it is finished Jesus said and I had well over a thousand subscribers on tick tock most of them were non-christians and they came there just to bash me I’ll never forget when I was trying to do a live stream about the gospel and Jesus and all the devil worshipers were coming at me the witches the warlocks they were trying to curse me with demons and say crazy things like Satan was blessing the live chat when that is so far from the truth that is false but I remember God help me keep my composure in that moment until this day I am 100% convinced it was the holy Spirit because I kept my composure because normally when I pinned on against the wall I bite back because I have a temper but God helps me control that temper my mother had a horrible temper my sister has a horrible temper my brother had the worst temper but I’m actually more mellow today than I was in my twenties God has actually calmed me down a lot but when I talk loud people think I’m being aggressive and mean and hateful like I want to lash out it’s like no no I’m just a loud talker some of them might remember me and my twenties I’m not that person anymore God changed me and those days are gone forever but God has been good and allowing me to witness to people even islamist people I remember one time I don’t know what happened to me but I call it a supernatural experience
Christine Pence
October 24, 2023 at 9:11 pmThis is message number two where in this experience that I believe was supernatural it was a few years ago I was walking with the Lord free proudly and happy in my faith with God and being obedient to the Lord and I was very blessed in doing so I felt such joy in doing such things and I love evangelizing I never did a bunch of evangelizing cuz God did not put me in that position to have waves of people come my way most of any form of witnessing was on camera off camera there was a few but I remember this one time and I’m not sure what really went down with this group of people there was a family Muslim family it was during the time of the cartels that were coming to America and I remember they were holding a sign in front of a CVS pharmacy down the street from me and I remember seeing them and I think the sign was saying they were hungry for food or something and I’m thought that’s interesting I’ve never seen a Muslim family hungry for food I don’t know why I don’t know what for I believe it was the spirit of God I just felt like he hit me with this helped him give them food and I was like oh my gosh but they’re Muslims but I really felt like God wanted me to do this you can chill right now as I tell the story and I remember I felt God’s presence and I remember I just felt the urge and I’m like well I want to go home and make them a little bag couple bags of stuff of food toiletries whatever and I started speaking in tongues I started bursting out in tongues I don’t even know why and it just it’s like God was on me that whole time the whole time he was just on me and I can’t speak I was speaking in tongues I could not stop speaking in tongues it just kept coming out rolling off my tongue and I felt God so strong for some reason he wanted me to give that bag of food to that Muslim family holding the sign claiming they were hungry so I did and the whole time I was speaking in tongues I don’t know why God wanted me to do that a disabled woman and a power wheelchair riding up to them and handing them a bag of food and saying Jesus did this for you and blessing them in the name of Jesus while the muscle woman had her face on the ground down to the ground and we all know who they choose to worship when it comes to their God Allah so I kept blessing them in the name of Jesus and I kept telling them this was Jesus I don’t know if they knew English I don’t know if they understood anything I said but something very strong inside of me just told me to do that and give them a bag of food and toiletries and so I did it was a couple bags I think I never saw that Muslim family again and in my soul as the days progressed I felt like God is going to use that day one day in their lives to let them know that a Christian woman who’s this who was and it still is disabled who once had a working power chair was told by the spirit of God to give them a bag of food and toiletries from her house in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I feel like there’s going to come a day where it’s going to glorify God again I’m getting the chills right now so that is my biggest encounter with Muslims that I’ve ever had I’ve encountered them before even online and they all like to say that Jesus is not God but a prophet as Christians we know what the holy Bible says we know what the gospel say we know which way is the right way the spirit of God let us know and oh by the way when I finish doing everything that time of years ago when I did this it was like the spirit of God left me when I finished my job I quit speaking in tongues after I finished my mission till this day I don’t know why God had me do that but I felt his Spirit on me so strong I could not stop speaking in tongues I have no clue what I was saying but I know in my heart and soul that it was the spirit of God the holy spirit with me because I have spoken in real tongues before and I’ve heard people and I’ve had a friend that used to be an interpreter that person is not in my life anymore and they were pretty good at what they did and I’ve heard people say that an interpreter is rare but the person wasn’t expecting to be an interpreter but I believe God picked him during that time to be an interpreter it’s been quite a while since I’ve spoken in tongues but when I speak in tongues I can feel God’s spirit wholeheartedly stronger than when I speak in English but I guess the moral of the story and the lesson is you know doing God’s will you know it’s like loving your enemies these people may have not been Christians but Muslims maybe they were in need of help while the pharmacy was saying that they were scamming people I think I might have even gave them a few dollars I don’t know why God had me do that till this day I don’t know this probably happened four to seven years ago all I know is that God told me to do it and I obeyed and I was blessed abundantly after that by the spirit of God he blessed me in such a way that I know that was God till this day that had me do that that is the closest and biggest encounter I felt like I should share as a testimony for the power of God in the life of one single overweight woman who’s disabled that once had a working power chair and used it to go evangelize when people called me crazy I just laughed and chuckled because it doesn’t bother me when people call me crazy I’ve been called crazy since I was 4 years old it doesn’t faze me they could call me crazy all they want I’ll just keep going I’ve had a very hard life I’ve been treated very badly I haven’t abused very badly in life but yet I still have a heart for God that speaks volumes I hope whoever sees this is inspired by this testimony and that sorry that I haven’t been able to catch up on these till a day later I’ve been very very busy I am exhausted I had a very long day been dealing with a lot of medical stuff and just trying to get by but God is good and he still answers my prayers and he still blesses me and he still speaks to me and he’s still good to me regardless of what level he might see me at in his eyes he still loves me and I do love him too I hope this inspires someone today on their Christian walk or even someone who’s lukewarm or a non-believer to make them be like you know what I want God to use me like they use this woman named Christine may God bless you all and have a good night Jesus bless take care and bye-bye good night