Lord, we know that a person can come
into the service and pray and not hear
anything.
But we ask you, Lord, that you would
open the eyes of the blind and stop
the ears of the deaf, so that you
can reach into every heart.
Amen.
I want to speak today about the relationship
between a person and Jesus Christ.
How sweet a thing it is.
There are many Christians in this world who
have never met with Jesus.
They go to a service, it is preached
about Jesus, but they know him only through
their head knowledge.
And on the day of judgment, the Lord
Jesus will say, I did not know you.
Some will say we work miracles and cast
out evil spirits and that, but Jesus will
reply, I never knew you.
They went to services, they prayed, they sang
in choirs, not knowing Jesus.
They will be exposed on that day.
But if you have faith in the Lord
Jesus and walk with him, what a marvelous
thing it is.
But what things were gained to me, these
I have counted loss for Christ.
But indeed, I
also count all things loss for the excellence
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and count them as rubbish, that
I may gain Christ.
Then we read from the Song of Psalms
137,
verse 5.
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her skill.
If I do not remember you, let my
tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my
chief joy.
Here we read a very deep matter.
You heard the choir sing in German.
One thing I crave for and that is
to remain in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life.
The servant of the Lord was at that
time in a far off country in exile,
in Babylon.
And he said, if I forget you, O
Jerusalem, let my hand
forget itself, or forget its skill.
Actually it is forget itself.
If I forget there where God is, let
my right hand forget itself.
It is not that I should forget about
it, but the hand itself forgets itself.
If our right hand forgets itself, it becomes
completely useless.
It is already corrupt and absolutely dead.
And my tongue,
let
it cling to the roof of my mouth,
indicating the rottenness in the mouth.
If you, O Jerusalem, are not my chief
joy, let my hand forget itself, or forget
its skill.
Indicating the deep relationship between a person and
Jesus Christ.
Paul tells us in our text how he
lost everything for Jesus.
He casted aside and considered even his Jewishness,
all that was gained to him, to be
rubbish.
That which was precious to him and of
great value, he considered it to be but
dirt.
I wonder what Jesus Christ means
to you.
Can you use the same language of Jesus?
What is it that you've lost, or has
gone lost for Jesus' sake?
What are the desires and cravings that you
say, if only I could get this and
get that?
But if you meet with Jesus, you consider
all that to be rubbish, worthless, to lose,
to cast aside.
Do you know what it is?
There has been a series of meetings down
in Cape Town with an organization and invited
some of our young people and I said,
It would be good if you go and
you can use my Kombi.
On the way they passed by our Smithfield
mission station.
But when they went this morning to look
for the car, it was gone.
It had been stolen.
It's lost.
I've lost it.
It's gone.
Thieves came and stole it.
We just left it in the Lord's hands.
We don't curse those who have stolen from
us.
We said, Lord, work also in their lives.
But the truth is, is that Africa is
already cursed because of theft, because of stealing
from Cape to Cairo.
He counted as lost.
Now, as we have lost this, but he
counted all things as lost, all those things
that were precious to him.
He said they are as they are lost.
They are rubbish.
Now, some even Christians will give up Jesus
for the thing that they make to be
their treasure for some other thing.
I want to use now an example from
this professor who was at the Cairo University,
a very famous university.
And among Muslims, this is the ultimate educational
institution.
How he met with Jesus and what happened
when he met with the Lord.
He's changed his name.
He got converted in 94.
So it's 10 years ago that he got
converted.
He's in America now.
He can't stay in his homeland.
Because their scriptures, the Quran indicates that a
person who converts out of Islam to Christianity
can be killed, must be murdered.
That is what Islam is all about.
In the end, it comes out of hell.
When he got saved, he
changed his name, not wanting to keep the
old Islamic name.
So he's been called Mark, his first name.
And he does love that name Mark.
It is the author of the second book
in the New Testament.
He loved that name because Mark was the
author of that book.
And history has it that Mark was the
first to bring the gospel to Egypt, to
Alexandria.
So he was the first apostle to bring
the gospel there.
And it is said when the 70 were
commissioned and sent out to preach, Mark was
the first to go to Egypt.
So this man wanted to name himself Mark
for that reason.
His surname or second name is now Gabriel.
For that is the angel, the one that
was sent to announce the coming of the
Messiah.
So his name today is Mark Gabriel.
So he was a professor there at an
Egyptian university.
He was also a teacher of Islam.
That was his subject, about the history of
Islam.
He was also simultaneously an Imam.
An Imam is like a priest in a
church.
He was the priest or the Imam of
a mosque.
He taught the Quran at the university.
When he was 12 he could recite the
Quran by heart.
From the beginning right to the end.
It was a book that he knew very
well.
When he taught Islam, he was troubled.
Because of the many contradictions he found in
the Quran.
In the beginning of the Quran it speaks
about the importance of forgiveness and being compassionate,
patient.
But then there is another part of it.
Where it speaks in a completely different tone.
Kill those who are not Muslims, those who
are infidels.
For Allah doesn't want any infidel, non-believer
in Muhammad to live in this world.
That troubled him to find this mistake in
the Quran.
But the Muslims are courageous.
He was courageous.
Before he began to speak out about what
was obvious to him.
Where he spoke also to his students that
here the Quran is going astray.
Some of his students were furious.
He said, you are a teacher
of
Islam and yet you criticise it and say
that it's not completely whole in its teaching.
And that it's contradictory.
They were infuriated and they said that he
was a betrayer of Islam.
These students then went and informed on him
to the Islamic police that this man is
a betrayer and deserves to be killed.
And speaking blasphemous things.
Let him be killed.
He got a fright.
As people entered one night.
About 15 to 20 men heavily armed.
They marched into his father's house.
His father was a wealthy man with a
very nice double story home.
A triple story home.
The police came in and were in and
out of every room.
He could do nothing.
He was caught and he was found in
his bedroom.
He was then arrested and taken.
They said, what have you converted and become
a Christian?
Now he didn't know anything about Christianity.
He didn't know Jesus.
He was just busy with Islam.
And so they took him to jail.
In his defense he said, no I've not
converted to Christianity.
I'm not a Christian.
But allow me to speak my mind.
I'm an academic.
At least allow me the space to teach
that which I must educate the students about.
And my mind about it, they beat him.
He was sitting at a table.
His interrogator was on the one side, he
on the other.
There were people standing behind him, gods.
The interrogator said, take his hands and put
them, hold them on the table.
And when he didn't reply in the way
that they wanted, they were very angry with
him.
The interrogator was smoking a cigarette.
When they held down his hands on the
table, one of them, the interrogator then burned
with his cigarette, burned into his hand, pressed
it in and he bears the scars till
today.
They said, admit that you've deserted the faith
and that you've become a Christian.
He said, no I do not admit that
because I've not become a Christian.
I've not deserted our faith.
The interrogator lit another cigarette.
And he burned his lips with it.
And the scars there till today also.
They interrogated him in many different ways and
they accused him of deceiving them.
He said, no I'm not deceiving you.
They then brought an iron stoker, that which
you use to shovel your fireplace with.
He wondered what they would do with it.
He then saw that they had walked in
with it being red hot at the end
and they burned him in his side.
Muslims are similar to communists.
We could say that they are worse but
in some ways they are the same thing.
He said, if you want to cast me
out of Islam then you try to do
it but it's not that I am deserting
the faith.
Some people suffer greatly for the faith, especially
those in Islamic countries.
So they took him to another place.
Which had a water tank.
They put him into this water tank.
The water was ice cold.
When he tried not to have to go
in because it was so cold, they beat
him with a whip.
He tried to get out.
They beat him again.
Now he suffered from a low blood sugar
and because of this extreme cold he fainted.
He woke up in a bed
and
he found that his feet were bound to
the bars of the bed.
He had socks on.
These were very thick socks like you find
sometimes ladies who cook with these pots over
fire, they wear special protective gloves.
Now his feet were bound to the posts
of his bed and they came then with
a rod and then beat him under his
feet.
The reason why they put these thick socks
on was that if you are beaten on
the soles of your feet with thick socks
they don't leave marks.
They beat him harshly till he cried.
One came with a pillow to hold it
over his mouth.
He cried again, cried out.
Another came with a second pillow so that
he wouldn't be heard.
He was beaten till he fainted.
When he woke up they were still beating
him.
Some wives say, I can't be a Christian
because I have this husband who is so
difficult and so harsh.
No, you're just playing around if you say
that.
I've heard of a husband also saying, I
can't be a Christian because of this mad
wife of mine.
He should rather put on a skirt.
So they beat him and they continuously beat
him.
He passed out and woke up again.
And then they untied him and removed the
socks and they said, stand up on your
feet.
He said, I can't get up, I can't
stand.
And they beat him with a rod.
They beat him continuously till he attempted to
stand up.
His feet felt dead.
And then there was a long passage and
they said, run down it.
He asked them, how can I?
They beat him with a rod again.
He began to run.
When he got to the other end they
said he had to run back again.
And then when he arrived he had to
run again.
He didn't know what their purpose was in
making him run.
But it is said that if a person
is tortured by being beaten on the soles
of his feet, if he's made to run,
it stops the swelling of his feet.
After that, they
then took him to another building.
To another place where there was a tank
of water.
They had to climb up with stairs, a
step ladder.
It was a water tank and there were
no windows or anything.
It was only the hole right on the
top.
They escorted him right to the top of
the step ladder, then they said, climb in.
When he put his feet in, he felt
it was water.
He said to himself, well they're definitely going
to kill me now, I'm going to be
drowned.
So they said, go in.
And they beat him again.
Till he got in.
When he stood in the tank and the
water got right up to his face, he
felt his feet on the ground of the
tank.
He had thought that he would just drown.
It was dark at night.
And when he looked at the water, it
seemed like something was in the water.
On top of the water.
They were big rats.
You do get mice and you do get
these smaller rats, but then you get these
huge rats.
And as he was standing there, these rats
had been put in so that they would
eat his head.
You say you're so brainy, let these rats
eat your head.
So they did so, they got in the
tank, and he was standing there.
And one of the rats couldn't see this,
because it was so dark.
And he couldn't see what was inside the
tank.
Then he came out of the tank, went
inside, went back inside, And he said, there's
more, there's more.
And they killed him.
And he writes that one of these rats
nibbled at his ear, another stood on his
shoulder with its paws up on his head.
He knew he was going to be eaten
by these rats.
To whom should he pray?
Because he was so depressed and so disappointed
by the Quran full of lies and contradictions.
So he went to South Africa to study
the Quran.
And he found that the Quran was full
of lies.
About Christ and Solomon.
So he went to vote in the ANC.
And he found that the Quran was full
of lies.
So he went to study.
And he realized
also
that in this country, this government supports the
idea that in classrooms, in public schools it
must be taught that all religions, including Christianity,
they're just exactly the same as other religions.
You vote for the ANC, which is the
government.
You will stand responsible before God for this
which seeks to destroy Christianity.
On the Day of Judgment, we'll hear what
is said.
Whether the Quran is just like the Bible.
And children are taught in schools these lies.
So to whom should he pray?
For he had seen that Allah was just
nonsense.
He thought, am I to pray to the
God of Israel?
The God of the Jews?
Or the God of the Christians?
Or to a cow like Hindus?
He said, He
said, oh
my creator, I don't know who you are.
I don't know you.
but please help me.
He said a miracle happened.
That whole night none of the rats bit
him.
He said the rats came to him and
they nibbled at him.
They were like pleasant kisses.
They scuttled over his head and nibbled at
his ear, but not one of them bit
him.
It was pitch dark in that tank.
The next morning, he heard them opening the
covering.
When they opened it, he saw light and
said, well, it's daylight.
I haven't died.
So my creator, the creator of heaven and
earth has kept me, protected me.
And the jailers were also astounded that he
had survived.
They pulled him out.
They said a special friend of yours wants
to see you.
You don't know him, but he says that
he knows you.
He thought, well, maybe it's my mother or
somebody, one
of
my said your friend is here and they
opened the door.
He was escorted on either side by guards.
When he looked, it was a huge dog
and they locked him up with this terrifying
dog.
He was shocked.
He thought, well, now I'm going to be
torn to pieces by a dog.
He didn't know Jesus.
He didn't know the father of our Lord.
He said, Oh God, I don't know you.
I don't know who you are, but please
work.
He went into, he went straight to the
back of the room, into the center of
the room, sat down with his legs crossed.
And the dog came and sat in front
of him and just stared at him.
He looked at it, stared at it.
They stared at each other until the dog
stood up and circled him, went
around him as he followed it with its
eyes and it was looking at him as
it went around and around.
After a long time, the dog came
and sat next to him.
By then he was exhausted.
He became drowsy and slept.
He slept for a long time and then
as he woke up, he noticed the dog
sitting in the opposite corner.
When he awoke, the dog jumped up and
came to him as if they're greeting him
good morning.
Then he heard people approaching and they opened
the door.
And I saw him whole and complete, the
dog not having eaten, bitten him.
One of the guards said, there is some
amazing power protecting you.
Whatever it is, it is a special force.
Another one said, no, it's just the devil.
He's a Satan.
And so they took him out and then
they transported him to another jail where there
were two terrorists who were in that jail
for
murder.
Because terrorism is part and parcel of Islam.
The Quran also says that you don't worry
if you kill an infidel, it's not you
who have killed him but Allah.
Some cars have bumper stickers saying Islam for
peace.
That is absolute nonsense.
The religion of Islam is not about peace
but about killing.
It is a religion of the sword.
And so they put him into the cell
with these murderers and one of them asked
him, what brings you here?
He said, well, I really don't know.
They questioned him and they continued asking him
questions.
And the guards had hoped that these murderers
would kill him because anybody that kills a
person called a betrayer of the faith or
one who converts out of Islam can be
killed.
When they asked the jailers why this man
was there, they were told he has betrayed
the Islamic faith.
They were very angry and wanted to kill
him and he thought, well, now I'm going
to be murdered.
But God protected him.
God looked after him.
The Bible says in Isaiah 49, can a
mother forget its nursing child?
Even if it does, I will not forget
you.
Look, he wasn't even yet
a believer but God's protecting hand was already
upon him for the Bible says that God
chose us even before the foundation of the
world was created.
Now to make a long matter short, they
took him and transported him to another jail
south of Cairo.
And he was to be put there to
remain in jail for the rest of his
life.
But his prison warden was one who wasn't
very enthusiastic about Islam.
He wasn't a fanatic.
And he saw the hand of Jesus even
though he didn't know him yet.
He thought, I'm going to die in this
prison.
But after it had only been two weeks
in jail, when his mother and his relatives
not knowing where he was, whether he was
dead or alive, one
of the members of parliament of Egypt returned
from an overseas visit.
He was the brother of this man's mother.
When he returned to Egypt, he immediately got
a phone call from the distraught mother who
said, I don't know where my son is.
For two weeks he's gone.
And she wept and wept and wept.
And she spoke to her brother.
Now this brother was an important parliamentarian.
He said, sister, leave the matter to me.
Two days later he got a knock on
his door and he was told, here is
your uncle, your mother's brother, and he has
your release papers.
And so he got out of jail and
he was rescued.
He said, oh my God, I don't know
you, but I thank you that I've seen
your hand.
I thank you that I've
seen
your hand.
A few days later then, his father was
informed that the police have investigated the son
who has been accused of betraying the Islamic
faith by people at the university and it's
been found that the accusation was untrue.
And the father was so delighted.
He said, well, I thought so.
I've only one son who is like this,
who is even teaching Islam and is a
professor thereof.
All the other children and brothers hadn't studied
like him.
And then his father said, you just forget
about those at university and those who accused
you.
They're just doing it because they're jealous of
you.
He said, son, you can work for me
in my factory because he had a leather
jacket factory and different clothing articles for men
and women.
He said, my boy, you can work for
me.
He worked for his father for a year.
But he was very depressed because as he
writes, we Muslims cannot live without our God,
without Allah.
And you see what a challenge that is
for us Christians.
He says, we Muslims can't live one day
without Allah.
But we Christians, we can go and backslide
for months and years.
But
Muslim cannot.
I noticed that in Mshali where some Muslims
had hired a flat, an apartment just below
us.
The women completely covered themselves with their Islamic
garments.
And the men with their white gowns and
that.
They hired the flat that was closest to
the sea.
And the men with their white gowns and
that.
They hired the flat that was closest to
the sea.
And
these
Muslim men and the boys, they then knelt
facing the direction, quite openly and publicly, in
the direction of Mecca and prayed, bowing themselves
many times down.
The women, of course, were to one side
and as they discriminate in Islam, they were
inside.
And they put Christians to shame who are
embarrassed about their Jesus in public.
As if though some Muslims will go to
heaven and Christians like you go to hell.
They were quite unconcerned about passes by and
they just continued with their worship and their
jalabas.
I also saw it.
And saw for himself, saw for ourselves.
Their faith, which is really nothing.
And they worship it and are so zealous
for it.
But we Christians who treat the faith as
if though it's dirt.
Now back to this man, he felt terrible
and after a year he was suffering from
daily migraines.
He said, oh God, creator, I'm living without
you, you creator of heaven and earth.
When he went to the chemist, as he
used to do weekly to go and get
headache pills.
A lady pharmacist said to him, professor, what's
the matter?
You don't seem to be well.
He says, indeed, I'm really unwell.
For I don't have God.
Allah has disappointed me.
He says, for a year I've lived without
Allah.
And he writes in his book, you Christians
don't realize how seriously we take it.
It is ingrained in us, it's in our
blood, our religion.
And he said, I'm troubled more than anybody
else in the world.
I have no God.
This lady said, but haven't you been a
professor at this prestigious university?
He said, yes, but I'm disappointed.
She said, but your father is this respected
businessman and your family is so well to
do.
He said, yes, that is all true, but
I've lost God.
Where is God to be found?
She went into the chemist and came back
with a new testament for him.
She said, Mr. so-and-so, I ask
you, before you take the pill or take
the headache pills, read this book.
Take it and read it.
And when you've read it, then you can
take those pills.
And so he took it.
And opened it.
When he was back at home.
And he opened at the place where it
speaks about the Sermon on the Mount.
And he read from there.
In Matthew 5.
Where it says, he said, you've heard it
said of old, an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth.
But I say to you, do not resist
evil, but if you are struck, do not
repay evil with evil, but rather turn the
other cheek.
He said, for the first time I beheld
Jesus, I trembled all over.
He said, at that place when I heard
these words, where Jesus said, you've heard it
said, a tooth for a tooth, an eye
for an eye, but I say to you,
turn the other cheek when you're struck.
For the first time in his life he
met with Jesus.
He saw Jesus in these words.
He says, there's no verse in the Quran
like this.
Nobody has ever spoken like this.
His whole body trembled, he shook.
He says, I was in the presence of
Jesus.
No man has ever spoken like him.
He felt that he was in the presence
of the Holy of Holies.
The whole night he read the book.
And what does this book mean to us?
What does it mean to you?
You follow a worldly girl.
You live like a heathen.
There is no fire inside.
His son fled for his life hearing bullets
fly by him and he was he just
survived that's how fanatic the Muslims are if
one of the children becomes a Christian the
father will kill them but you may have
a child and that child turns its back
on you on Jesus Christ and you'll side
and compromise and stand next to your child
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when he was fleeing about his sister because
he had a very good relationship with her
she didn't live far away maybe just half
a mile and he ran for his life
to assist it she says what's wrong brother
he says dad wants to kill me what
do you what he but why not you
ask him and then it knocked at the
door but no nose so my daughter my
daughter open the door what you are daughter
guys fooling young I want to kill your
brother you fooling bull alum for in open
the door that I can go in fooling
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weapon saying I want to kill your brother
what he Baba Cola Cola Baba he's a
figure Kaya Sangha Numbini she said dad calm
down let's have a family discussion about this
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car what only visum tolling who was later
go here and then he asked his sister
when the father had gone please go home
go into my bedroom and take out my
visa because I cannot survive here in Egypt
get some more clothing for me and bring
it here which he did
his
mother also added money to it and so
the sister gave him these things and off
he went in a car he prayed and
said where must I go the Lord said
go to South Africa
he
had to cross different countries ended up in
Morocco and then ended up in the Congo
after three months he was in the Congo
amber wasn't young as in touch who might
figure a call what cooler he became ill
there you may learn with malaria buffoon are
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they sought an Egyptian doctor which they found
who diagnosed a very bad form of
malaria predicted that you'd be dead by the
morning said he cannot live you cannot survive
when you in this stage of malaria that
night sorry that evening the next morning he
was hailing hearty he got up exclaiming touched
him
why
a messiah he was able to travel up
and down in the Congo and proclaim Jesus
as the Messiah that no one is like
unto him when he came down to South
Africa was a way to be like South
Africa he spent about three years here in
South Africa I'm sorry but he
preached and invited Muslims to debate with
him openly publicly he was
almost killed by Muslims here in South Africa
they intended to murder him but God kept
him but daily they were off to him
then he
emigrated to America and it's this book that
he's another one after this as well and
he said some Muslims got converted here in
our country isn't it wonderful to meet with
Jesus even
if
you meet with difficulties and with in jail
whatever persecution but if you're with Jesus how
wonderful it is I
didn't
mention the detail that when you read that
New Testament that whole night in the morning
he surrendered himself to Jesus Christ have you
surrendered yourself to Jesus all you who are
here have you given yourself to Jesus or
there's some who haven't given themselves to him
do you want to give yourself to him
what should I say do I need to
invite you to stand up and come here
to indicate showing us publicly we on earth
and to heaven they of your decision if
you haven't yet accepted Jesus do you want
to receive him and he him being in
you
the
Muslims say that the zeal for their religion
is in them and this their religion consumes
them we need to have Jesus in us
the biggest sea creature is the whale some
carve down towards Mexico there they also are
known another type down towards the Cape and
recently one was seen off the north coast
here with its cough remember they are mammals
and so they suckle their young when it's
time to give birth there
are whales which come down from Alaska
down to Mexico to carve after they've carved
they swim all the way back to Alaska
to go to go down there and to
return as 10,000 kilometers and it takes
two months the journey down the whale doesn't
eat in these two months something for the
ladies that are overweight and we meant that
they've got stars on our pouches.
It diets for two months it doesn't eat.
It gives birth in Mexico and so the
cough grows when it gets to
a
certain stage in its growth and a certain
season then all these carves they migrate back
to Alaska there where there's ice.
Who has taught these whales?
Now is the time to go up north.
Now is the time to go south.
So we've got many animals and birds that
go from one side of this world to
the other.
Who tells these birds and these fish now
it's time?
A cough which was ill of a whale
this cough was captured and caged while they
worked on it to try and restore its
health till it was healthy again.
It grew.
It was all alone.
And so it was all by itself in
this cage and when the time came to
migrate north this baby whale this cough began
to go towards the northern gate and bump
against it.
Who had put this instinct within it?
Who taught it?
It was hurting itself.
It wants to go the northern direction.
Who told this baby whale it's time, it's
the direction to go that way now?
How is it possible that Jesus can teach
the whales, the geese, swallows, all different kinds,
butterflies, bats to move?
Now it's time to move.
But He can't teach you to move in
the right direction, to go the right direction.
Now whether you're white or whether you're black
or Indian or colored, doesn't matter whether you're
an American, a European, or an African, when
Jesus is in you, shouldn't He be able
to teach you?
That just amazes me.
This Jesus who puts in these creatures this
instinct to go up north or to migrate
wherever it should go, He who puts this
drive within them, can He not put that
instinct in you to go the right way,
not to go and drink, not to be
sexually immoral, not to be one with the
world?
Children want to go off out of the
parents' home into the world.
You've got little devils.
Don't say they are Christians.
Where's the divine instinct?
We say all the Christians are Christians.
They are not Christians.
They are little or big scallops with the
devil in their heart and you the parent
can't discern.
May the Lord have mercy on Christians and
pity them for they are being destroyed.
They are being destroyed by having the world
in them, having Satan and not Jesus Christ
in them.
Jerusalem, if I forget you, let
my right hand forget itself.
Should I not remember you, let my tongue
cling to my palate, to the roof of
my mouth and in its rottenness.
And Paul says, that which was gained to
me I count but loss.
And now you find Christians depressed, burned, they've
lost something.
Forget about it.
What's getting married?
What's having money?
Get down to business.
Get right with God.
You don't know how much time you've got
to live.
Make use of it.
Spread the gospel.
Bring people to Jesus.
Let us bow our heads.
Lord, work in our midst that we might
be a church which is full of your
zeal, burning for you.
People who understand what they should be about
and who have knowledge of you and who
know you.
Lord, you know if there's someone in our
midst who's not yet surrendered to you, not
yet converted.
Lord, we stand embarrassed of our faith when
we see today a person converting from Islam.
Lord, wouldn't you work?
May your gospel go forth.
That your fire would burn in every heart.
Amen.