Live Dead Joy: 30 Days of Living and Dying with Jesusគំរូ

“Submission”

Hagar bore Ishmael (meaning “God hears”) who is considered the father of Arab Muslims. The term Islam means “submission” or “subjugation,” and Hagar was told to submit to Sarah. Hagar

responded by identifying the Angel of the Lord as the God she had seen, the One who saw and heard her anguish. How sweet the double comfort that God has heard the anguish of the 1.6 billion children of Ishmael and that He calls them to the freedom of submitting to His Christ. We tend to laugh at the impossible promises of God, rather than glory in what is possible. May we, too, submit ourselves with joy to the promised destiny of millions of Muslims.

More than 4,000 minarets rise above the city of Cairo. With five prayer calls a day, this amounts to over 20,000 public, daily mournful petitions rending the sky. Will not “the God who hears and sees” look down in pity on these who are sorely deceived? Can we but lift our voice to God, who hears our voice and will receive our prayers (Ps. 6:9)? How unfortunate are these sons of Abraham whose twisted truth is a double bind. Light that is in us as darkness is a great evil (Matt. 6:23).

Doctrine matters. Truth and clarity about the deity of Christ are crucial. Because twisted light is such a tactic of the Fallen Angel, we cannot subscribe to postmodern thinking when it elevates the journey (the process) regardless of the starting point. We must have men and women who continually dedicate themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word (Acts 6:4). We must have men and women who unceasingly speak the truth about Jesus in the power of the Spirit (Acts 6:13). We must have men and women who realize that to do so will bring stones down on their heads and joy into their hearts. We must submit ourselves to the divine Jesus and shamelessly insist that others do so as well.

Pray for the Unreached:

Char Aimaq Muslims of Afghanistan

299,000

0.0% Evangelical

Pray the God would pour out his Spirit on the Char Aimaq people. Pray that they would see dreams and visions of Jesus and would be powerfully saved and empowered to be his witnesses (Joel 2:28-32).