Prodigal:  What a beautiful view from up here!

 

Me:  Yes, it is!  God’s work is amazing at what he created!

 

Prodigal:  I agree.  Is God still working?

 

Me:  Yes, he is and I can share a story about how he is working.

Dr. David Jeremiah in his book What In the World Is Going On? shares an amazing story about one young man.

 

God is at work in the Islamic world.  We have reports that many Muslims are being confronted with the gospel in their dreams.  Here is the testimony of one Saudi Arabian who was born close to Mecca and grew up going to the mosque five times a day.  For many nights he had a terrifying nightmare in which he was being taken down into hell.  This dream, always vivid and horrifying, destroyed the man’s peace night after night.  Suddenly one evening, Jesus appeared in his dream and said, “Son, I am the way, the truth, and the life.  And if you would give your life to Me, I would save you from the hell that you have seen.”

This young man knew something of Jesus from the distorted teachings of the Qu’ran, but he didn’t know the Jesus of the New Testament.  So he began searching for a Christian who could help him.  Since Christianity is banned in Saudi Arabia, and a Christian caught witnessing to a Muslim could be beheaded, the young man’s search took time.  But the Lord eventually led him to an Egyptian Christian who gave him a Bible.  He began reading, and when he got into the New Testament, he was moved to give his life totally to Jesus Christ.

Soon afterward, an opponent of the young man discovered his conversion and accused him of being a Christian.  The authorities arrested and imprisoned him.  In jail, he was tortured and eventually sentenced to death by beheading.  But on the morning of his scheduled execution, no one showed up to escort him from the cell.  Two days later the authorities threw open his cell door and screamed at him:  “You demon!  Get out of this place!”

The man learned later that his execution had not taken place because on the very day he was to be beheaded, the son of his accuser had mysteriously died.  The new Christian is now quietly working to bring other Muslims to faith in Christ.

 

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”

2 Corinthians 2:14

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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