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A few weeks ago I was walking to my friend Michael’s house. I passed an idol shop, full of statues, and pictures of animal gods and even people that Hindus worship. Among the idols and pictures of Mohammed and Buddha was a picture of Jesus. My heart broke because most don’t understand that He is THE one and only God, to the Hindu people he is just another man, another idol to burn their incense to. I see the devotion of the Hindu people each day, their different rituals and customs played to perfection. Each night I hear the children of neighboring villages chant their mantras and sing their songs. In the city they parade with music and dancing, words are spoken, but in hopes of what? I’ve seen men with their hands clasped together in front of their hideous idol in the temple, crying, shouting, hoping that this clay image will hear their request. Lost, these people are lost and their only hope is stuffed in a shop window with thousands of other so called deities.
Each night I pray for the church to rise up, I pray for the believers in each village to be full of boldness and wisdom in proclaiming their faith. I pray that Muslims and Hindus in India would lose hope in their gods, that their hunger would increase for truth and they would realize that their man made idols and beliefs are useless, only giving false hope. I pray for desperation in the hearts of all for the living God, and that all around this country people would cry out to the one called Faithful and True, and that He would answer their call in miraculous ways. I pray that God would continue to use me in equipping the ones I am around daily, and to continue to open doors to witness on the trains and cities. Not by wit or knowledge do we overcome evil in this world but "by the blood of the lamb, and the word of our testimony" (Revelation 12:11) Please pray for the believers as well as for the unbelievers in India and in our world. People depart this earth each day uncertain or in false hope of their eternity. Pray that His will be played out to perfection in each carrier of His Holy Spirit, to reach a lost and dying world.
May kingdom come, but may the Lord grant us more time to proclaim salvation.
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Manuel, Jesus is showing you His heart for the lost right where you are. He has placed you there to be a bright Light opening up the blind eyes to SEE Him. He wants them to see Himself reflecting out of you to them causing them to seek to know what it is that you have that they so desperately are hungering and thirsting for. He is in the process of drawing the unsaved around you to Him through who you are in Him. As you pray, believe that God is using YOU to show Him as the answer to their heart cries. You are a carrier of the Flame that illuminates who Jesus is. May He strengthen and guide you daily.
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