Does God Answer our Prayers?
Here are some testimonies how God indeed answers our prayers!
Angel meets Iranian
An Iranian women from Germany was met by an angel in a dream. After that she now wants to know more from the Christian faith and is in contact with a cell group from a church.
Berlin
In Berlin, Germany, a cell group with former Muslims (3-4 converts who came to Christ after the last Ramadan), during this Ramadan experienced members returning after a long absence, with a “new fire” for the Lord.
North Africa
From North Africa the first known person from the Saharawi people has recently converted to Christ.
Christian Radio to Muslims
In a letter just received from HCJB World Radio, in the last 12 months there has been increased response to gospel broadcasts, and reports of clear reception where reception was previously only fair. HCJB goes on to say that they have recently seen miraculous open doors with government permits, finances and missionary staff. In the Middle East there is an increased focus and enthusiasm for providing radio for Muslim countries.
Missionaries to Muslims
According to Frontiers, the numbers of missionaries to Muslims has now doubled. Just in the last few years the number of missionaries has increased from a mere 1,000 to over 2,000 missionaries among the 1.1 billion Muslims.
Moroccan Women finds real joy
In a letter received from Morocco, a Christian women writes; “My joy is so big that I have taken the decision to write to you to share it. I have received the gift that every Christian hopes to receive and that I have prayed for such a long time. It was before dawn on Friday during Ramadan and as I set about my usual Ramadan prayers I began to pray something unusual. I prayed, ‘O God, make of my spirit a reservoir of your ideas. Use my mouth and lips to announce your salvation. Use my feet to go where you want. Amen.’ As I had almost finished these words I felt an unexplainable feeling, a joy that I cannot describe. I gave thanks to God for almost two hours. I now know that I have found God and he has filled me in His Holy Spirit to a wonderful fullness. I now know that only He saves!” (translated from French)
From the Middle East
This was our first time to use 30-days while actually living in a Muslim country. We can view a couple of dozen mosques from our rooftop, and you can imagine the sound during prayer calls! I am often awakend by the predawn call to prayer at the mosque less than a hundred yards from our bedroom, but as I lay listening to the lonely and echoing sound in the early morning darkness, I was encouraged that Christians across the globe were praying to a God who not only hears their prayers, but answers them.
Why do we hear no outrage from Muslims living in America regarding the atrocities being committed by radical Muslims through out the world? It seems to me that especially the Muslim women should be concerned that if America ever became dominated by the religion of Islam they would be regulated to the way women were treated in the 16th century.
I am old enough to remember that when Hitler came to power he did so because the average German did not want to get involved because of fear and/or complacency.
Bob Rose
To Bob Rose: I think you might find that people from within various cultures *are* speaking out against evils fomented in the name of religion (including Islam), but that most likely they are speaking about these things in Arabic, Persian, French, Urdu, Uzbek, Russian (etc. etc.) – and that little or nothing of what is said in these languages ever shows up in the N. American press. I don’t believe the US media have much, if any, interest in investing the time and money into the kinds of translation efforts that people in many non-English speaking countries do, on a regular basis at that.
Still, there are places where you can find out more – you might want to start here, for example:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/cairo/index.html
another way to hear the voices of Muslims entails some risk on your (our) part: stepping out of one’s own comfort zone to get to know Muslim neighbors, business associates, etc.
I think you will find this to be very life-changing, in the best possible sense, if you are willing to do it.
One more thought: many, many Muslims come from countries where Islam might be the predominant religion – but it is not the *only* religion practiced. In the Arabic world alone, there are many Christians and Jews, as well as people of other faiths (Druze, for example). The *cultural* commonalities are more important than which religion X person or Y person belongs to or practices. This is kind of hard to understand from the outside, but makes a lot more sense once you start learning about various cultures – and getting to know people from those cultures. The Muslim world is highly diverse, just as the so-called “Christian” world is diverse.
I hope you find this helpful.
A lot of Christaians make “Allah” look like a saparate God only for Muslims In fact, Allah is nothing but the Arabic word for God. Allah is used universally due to fear of losing the meaning with the translation.The same word (SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PRONOUNCIATION) is used for God in Hebrew and Aramaic ( language of Jesus).Most probably Jesus also called God “Ella”.
The GOD of the Bible is a triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Muslims would never accept this.
Allah, the moon god,hence the crescent moon, is not mentioned by name in the Bible although there are plenty of references to false gods.
Sad to read this phrase like statement and conlusion about the moon God. The symbol of the crescent moon is no indication of a moon god but rather was the time setter for Ramadan during the time of Mohammad. We must be careful not to repeat unfounded statements just in order to show the difference of faiths.
By the way: It is true that Muslims would never accept Father, Son and Holy Spirit as being a triune God. Neither would a devout Jew!
we have the new moon (i.e. crescent moon) used in exactly the same way throughout the old testament. both the ancient hebrew and arabic calendars are lunar as opposed to solar, and the new (crescent) moon is extremely important in both cultures – note the frequent comments in the bible about the celebration of the new moon.
Today Christians missionaries have double amount of money and Dollars pouring in to help their missionary work. By the Grace of ALLAH ALmight Islam is still rising without any money being spent. Because God (ALLAH) is on our side. I hope Christians would find the real God and real Jesus. Ameen.
God answers all the prayers….GOD IS GREAT
muslims have been on target, but we got to understand one thing islam has and shall rule this world.
ALLAH S.W.T, WILL ALWAYS ANSWER ALL PRAYERS.
Jesus is the only way and the truth and life, and whoever will believe in Him will have life forever. Jesus knows everything about you and your life and all your problems that you have, just come to Him and ask Him to forgive you and you will receive joy and peace, no matter how tough your life may seem Jesus is always there and He answered my prayers, and is because He cares about His creation and He wants to know whats on our hearts, He knows everything but He wants to hear us tell Him… Because of His great love towards humanity, He has died on the cross and rose… He took all sins on the cross with Him, because He wanted everybody to believe in Him so that no one would die but be saved forever.
May God bless you,
Believe in Him and you will be saved
You will find the Truth!