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Preaching at Mosque...Please pray!

sermonindex Sep 28, 2007

Dear Saints,

Greetings in Jesus Name! I'm writing today to ask for your prayers. Myself and Josef Urban will be leaving for London, England on Oct 3rd to preach to Gospel outside of many of the Mosque in the city. Right now Muslims all over the world are observing Ramadan and so we will be preaching during the last ten days of Ramada at various Mosques. Because many Muslims observe this holiday and attend the mosque....Lord willing MANY will hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ! We will be open air preaching, witnessing one-on-one, passing out tracts ect.

One of the Mosque we will be preaching at is the London Central Mosque which was recently feature on worldnetdaily.com . Here is the link to the story:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56503

We are asking, if you would, to commit to pray for us from now until we return. We pray as the Apostle Paul, regarding the Gospel, that "we may make it clear in the way we ought to speak" (Col 4:4) and that the Gospel would come in "power, in the Holy Spirit, and with much conviction" (1 Thes 1:5) And that those who are bound by this false religion would find salvation through Jesus Christ. So we ask for your prayers (1 Pet 3:12) and intercession that through us Christ would be Glorified and Magnified and that men would turn to Him for Salvation.

Here is a link to Josef's newsletter about the trip:

[url=http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=EB007DBB&GroupID=ET00W0JP&label=&paging=all]Josef's Newsletter[/url]

Thank you for praying!

May the Lord Jesus Christ be Glorified!

In Him,

Sean

sermonindex Sep 28, 2007

May God be with you both and give you a gentle Christ-like spirit when preaching to these angry hateful people.

J
jarona Sep 28, 2007

Many muslims live a life of fear and heart ache. Terror that they might go to hell and that they are not pleasing the god they think to be true. I hope that you are able to show them that they can pray to Jesus and that Christ is the way to salvation. Perhaps you may want to emphasize praying to Jesus. As muslims pray to different prophets or imams; you should greatly encourage them to pray to Jesus, so that they may be able to see the results and thereby seek to know more about Jesus and there by find Christ as the Messiah. And also to share that Christ loves them very much. That may be much better than beating them over the head and telling them they are going to hell if they don't believe Jesus is God, many muslims already have heaps of shame or guilt. That may not avail to any good if you try to heap shame and guilt upon them by talking about there sins over and over again. But I have read testimonies about muslims who began to pray to Jesus and then they ended up becoming a christian. Some of the things I have stated may be a good thing to prayerfully consider. Many could go back to there country, or english muslims whom you talk to, and seek to want to pray more to Jesus and want to learn more about the bible. Then God may work in them more and more until they see Jesus is the only way, instead of cursing there religion after they have been fasting so many days or condemning them. I'll be praying.

sermonindex Sep 29, 2007

Is the preaching being conducted in the Mosque or nearby?

sermonindex Oct 1, 2007

Thank you everybody so much for your prayers, we cannot express how dearly important they are to us on this mission.

Jarona, thanks for the advice. You are right -these Muslims don't need to be heaped up with boulders of condemnation and guilt, they have enough of that already, they need the love and grace of Jesus in a living power encounter with His Spirit. It is a fine balance between Law and Grace, between preaching the thunderings of Mt. Sinai and the mercies of Mr. Zion. Only the Spirit of God knows every individual heart, and only as we stay submitted to Him and preach with His unction will we abide in His perfect will and see souls impacted for eternity. Please pray for us that we will abide in Him and say the things we ought.

AND, we will not be preaching inside the mosques (at least that's not planned), but outside and in the surrounding areas.

D
deltadom Oct 1, 2007

did you find somewhere to stay?

sermonindex Oct 1, 2007

did you find somewhere to stay?

Yes brother we did. Thank you all for praying. As Josef said we will be preaching outside of these mosque unless God grants us favor to go inside. Last year during Ramadan I went to the local mosque by my house. God gave me such favor. I was able to sit down at the evening meal with all the leaders and men of the mosque and explain why Salvation is only found in Jesus Christ. With God..all things are possible!

Thank you all for praying and please continue to do so. By the grace of God his sheep fold will grow and we'll have new brothers raised from the dead and alive in Christ!

P
psalm1 Oct 1, 2007

sscott,
You remind me of elija! Haleluja!!!! Go for it bro,
And may Jesus be revealed for who he is and may alah be revealed for who he is
That principality is no match for Jesus.
May the same annointing that came upon Jesus come upon you!!!
Now Lord Jesus put a special hedge of protection around this team. Keep them safe and may many muslems be saved. Yes Lord.
......God bless you..David

H
heartablaze Oct 4, 2007

The article you provided grieved my heart. Yes, I will be praying for you and Josef on your mission to London.
Lord, protect them and use them mightily to advance your kingdom amongst the Muslims and others who may hear them. May their hearts be white for the harvest. Lord, I pray that these two men would not be discouraged or confused any, but that you wiould give them clarity of mind. Lord, use them for your purposes!

D
davidt Oct 4, 2007

That is oon fire!

sermonindex Oct 5, 2007

Bump.

Please keep brothers Sean and Josef in prayer this coming week.

In Christ - Jim

sermonindex Oct 5, 2007

Have been and will continue praying until they're home safe. I don't know these young men, but I don't need to. I just feel the pathos coming from their hearts. At least they have hearts. I've read enough from arm-chair critics.

What's grieving me is, Has the world SEEN The Love of Christ from Christians?

What on earth have "we" done to convince anyone that Jesus is a 'Loving' God? We can't even stay friendly to EACH OTHER.

They see christianity as "angry and hateful" too.

And so do I - with the few exceptions.

There are radicals in every religion - but should the whole be painted with such a wide brush --- actually, some Muslims understand that better than some of us do.
They know that not all Christians are into torture and bombing innocents for something they had no part in.
There are radical Zionists too, who aren't really practicing Jews.
Radical Budhist's that beat people up and so on, with all of the religions.
And Radical christians, screaming "Nuke 'em".

What right have "we" to call anyone else "hateful"?

There's "wars" going on, on every Christian Forum I've viewed out there.

And that's just the Forums. This is heavy stuff.

Someday we'll find out, that a lot of the News we read was a set-up for this next war to bring in the Biblical endtime system and repent of [u]our[/u] "hatred".

I'm glad Josef sees these as Ishmael.

I pray their testimony when they come back, blows the doors off of some people's conceptions of love and hate. We need a Revival of HIS Love and forebearance more than any other kind of "revival". Holiness without His Love is poppy-kock.

They'll know we are Christians by our Love - Jesus/God our Savior Said.


Prayer and Fasting, with much grieving over this. Pray for the witness. Amen Brother and Sister Saints.

S
Servant2U Oct 5, 2007

Bless you brothers. I am praying.
Kevin

M
myfirstLove Oct 5, 2007

Hey All,

Sean just emailed me from London. I like to share with you all. It is truly God glorifying. Praise God His message is going out among the muslims who desperately need to hear the loving TRUTH! The grace of God is very evident! Thank you Lord! May Sean and Joseph continue to glorify YOU!

Saints, thank you so much for your prayers!

From Sean (my hubby)

Yea, it's been really good. We slept in some today to catch up on our rest. Then we spent some time in prayer before going. It was pretty intense tonight. We went to the London Central Mosque and preached right at the front door. I was able to preach for about 20-30 minutes before the heads of the moque came out. There were lots of people going to the mosque for prayer and to eat. After the heads of the mosque came out a small group of guys gathered around us and we were able to start sharing with them one on one. It was really good. Some of the guys really understood their sin against God and they were guilty before Him. We talked with them for about 30 minutes and gave them some Gospels of John and some tracts. There was this muslim charity handing out free bottled water by the door into the mosque. Most of the people enter the mosque would go by them and get free water. So we went over and stood by them and passed out tracts. A lot of people saw my beard and thought I was a muslim and just took the tract. So there were lots of people in the Mosque all with the tract I wrote. Me and Josef were talking about if we should go into the Mosque or not. A soon as we finished talking this guy comes over who knew what we were doing to talk with us. We talked with him for a minute but it was pretty unfruitful. However, he said if we wanted to come in the Mosque just come in and ask for him. (seemed like God was telling us to go inside) So we prayed and went into the Mosque. There were HUNDREDS of people in there. We asked to see the guy we had spoken to but this other guy pulled us asided and wanted to talk. He was pretty hard hearted. But other people began to gather around us as we were speaking. Some of them were really angry. You could just tell the ones who were filled with murderous demons. You could tell that for some it was a reproach to them to even have us inside the mosque. But God blessed it. Different people kept coming and sitting down with us and we got to explain the Gospel to them. We steered clear of most of their distracting questions and spoke to their heart regarding sin, God's Righteousness, judgment, and a need for a Savior. Even the head of the Mosque came over for a bit. He angrily left after Josef told him the quran was inspired by a demon. (this was after much talking and reasoning with them about God's justice and faith in Christ). In fact, it was the mosque leader who asked him where the quran came from. So he told him. Towards the end it started to get more heated so we wrapped it up and left the mosque. It was amazing though...we were able to share with lots of people. Some soft and some rock hard. We're praying that God would disturb them with dreams from Him and that they would think on things we said. We'll probably go to a different mosque during the day tomorrow and go back to that one at night.

C
Compton Oct 5, 2007

Tremendous. Humbling and encouraging. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to share this with people here.

Blessings,

MC

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