Monday, November 21, 2005

BB Missionary News from the "Restricted field"

Walking in the street a Muslim man who we will call FM stopped HK and began talking with him about a Christian satellite channel that is broadcasted in the country. As he was walking by HK he thought he looked familiar but wasn’t sure. He asked HK if he was on one of the shows and described the one he was thinking of. It was HK that he had seen, HK talked to him for a little while and encouraged him to see more of these shows in the Christian Satellite. HK left him on his way praying God would use these stations more and more.

Half an hour later the gate keeper of our building asked HK about this man and told him that he is asking for someone to pray for him. As HK spent a little time with him he explained he was having lots of trouble with his business, health, engagement, and social life. He started to have lots of unexplainable dreams since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, which kept him awake the whole night for many days. He has seen many doctors for many health issues many which cannot happen in a thirty year old man. He has also sought the advice of experts in witch craft trying many ways to find comfort in his situation but never finding it.

HK talked to him about the medical background of his health issues and promised he would try to help him. While talking about the psychological and spiritual side of his troubles he invited the man to say a few words of prayer asking the almighty God to intervene for him. As soon as HK began to pray with the man he fell down, moaning and his body convulsing. Realizing that this man could be demon possessed HK continued to pray for him and asked the gate keeper to go and bring TJ to pray with him. HK and TJ were sitting on each side of the man when they both began to pray for him he again fell back moaning and making many sporadic movements. While praying for this young man his body responded to the prayers. At first he was moving in a strong and violent way, his eyes were tightly shut and he was gripping his chest and clinching his teeth. HK and TJ began praying the truth of God’s word and the man began to relax. Finally laying on his back, the man began to cry, then he relaxed his grip and opened his arms and pointed upward using both index fingers. He then began to move his hands in a peculiar way; he started to wipe his eyes, his face, and his chest, and then his whole entire body and then he opened his eyes.

Afterward he shared what was happening. He said that he was aware of everything, he said he knew what was happening but was helpless to do anything. He said he could feel his body moving and he could hear HK and TJ talking. He said finally he saw a vision; he saw a heavenly creature with light all around him, and two soldiers were standing with weapons on each side of him. In the vision, he saw himself falling into a deep pit. The two soldiers then dropped a rope to help him out. He caught the rope, and the two soldiers began to pull him up. At this moment in the vision, he said he felt a huge amount of fluid dropping on him, as he looked around he discovered it was blood. He said he then started to use the blood to wipe his eyes, his heart, and his whole entire body. After this he opened his eyes and sat up. Isn’t that amazing! Praise Him for our God reigns.

The time this young man started to see the dreams was the beginning of Ramadan which was the same time many of you received the Prayer Calendar asking you to pray for Muslims that God will show Himself to them in dreams and visions. This story of FM is one of the answers to our prayers. Prayer will never be in vain. We have been receiving many reports from all over the Middle East saying the same exact thing; Jesus is not retreating and He is still working among Muslims. We ask you to pray for this man, FM, that God will continue working on his heart. Pray for HK and TJ to have wisdom discipling him and boldly delivering the truth of the Gospel to him. Continue to also pray for others who God will reveal himself to.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

John Brown University


Breaking Borders Reps will be at John Brown University this next week ( Nov 15-16) talking with students about summer opportunites to serve in restricted access nations. If you are a John Brown student or live in Siloam, Arkansas we would love to meet you and talk about all the Lord is doing. Just look for the booth with the coffin!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Voice of the Martyrs

Just had the chance to talk at the Voice of the Martyr's Chapel service. We were encouraged by their passion and desire to serve our persecuted brothers and sisters. If you do not know who Voice of hte Martyrs is, I would like to encourage you to check out their web site at www.persecution.com They have incredible resources on how to be involved in serving our persecuted brothers and sisters.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

FUSION +Dallas Conference

We just returned from an incredible conference in Dallas, Texas where Breaking Border Reps had the oppotunity to share and talk with 20-30 somthings. We just want to encourage everyone we talked with to Keep your eyes on the prize. Don't be distracted by the affairs of this life, but pursue your passion to reach every nation in our generation!

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Update # 7: October Mission to restricted Acess Nation

The last week has been intense! But to God be the glory--we are now safe and sound back home, but we would like to update you on what has taken place the last week in the South. It was incredible! Time was short but the labor was intense. From sun up to sun down our small team joined with nationals tackled each day with lots of prayer and God given faith. The atmosphere was thick because of Ramadan and the acceptance of Americans was not common. But when we greeted our brothers and sisters there with compassionate hearts and medical clinics we began to see entire villages come for medical care. It was amazing! We can only estimate how many people we were able to see through the clinics, but to the best of our estimations it was around 400+ peoples. We would go till 2-3am in the morning and then start back up in another village only after hours of sleep. Patients ranged from simple illnesses to malaria, typhoid, and rare African known diseases. But God was so good in allowing us to see both Christian and Muslim patients. We depended mostly on the local church we were working with to share in the local language the gospel message of Christ, but with our actions we deeply tried to show the true love and grace of Christ. We prayed over many patients and asked the King of all Kings to move beyond what our feeble clinic could offer, He was faithful!
Our words of encouragement this week came from the pastor we were working along side. Pastor A is an MBB (Muslims Background Believer) and was kicked out of his village & family after accepting Christ as Lord. All week He told us, " When God says "Yes!" no man can say,"No", and when God says, "No!" no man can say, "Yes"! It is true! God always has the final word, and we know what it is---To God be the glory!
Thank you for your prayers. if you would like to hear more please give us a call at 1.877.212.0562 or e-mail
peggy@breakingborders.com