Are Muslims more difficult to reach than other people groups?
Isn't God's power to reach the peoples of the earth infinate and is Islam no challenge for Him?
Why does it sometimes feel like there's a wall around Muslims keeping them from seeing the truth and accepting it as the truth?
"Allah hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and on their eyes is a veil"
(The Holy Qur'an) (Sura II v.7)
Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
(2 Corinthians 4:4 NLT)
He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
(2 Peter 3:9)
Therefore, it's not always that Muslims don't WANT to see the light, they are UNABLE to see it.
This is something that the Lord has been pressing on my heart since our training period in Jeffreysbay already. I also felt that the Lord has called Explore Africa specifically for extreme and earnest prayer in Morocco against the spirit of deafness and blindness that are prohibiting most Muslims from accepting the truth. I also had a brief chat with Kamil about this and he gave so many confirmations on this specific topic and our journey's role in that.
Just as Paul was commissioned and given authority to "open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God"(Acts 26:18) We have the same authority as Paul and God in us is much stronger that any amount of Islam in any coutry and we are powerful enough to overpower any strong man protecting Morocco...
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armour in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.
(Luke 11:21-22)
We as Explore Africa made a decision to stand and walk in that authority and power and spent most of our time in Morocco in prayer. We prayer walked a lot in the cities we went to and even prayer walked around the whole town of Dakhla! In Marrakech we experienced a lot of witchcraft and occult practices on our prayer walk. We trust God for GREAT things in Morocco! We believe that we did a lot of harm, in the spirit, to the strong man that rules over the cities of Morocco and we trust that there is more space now for the Holy Spirit to work in the lives of the people there. We want to continue our prayers for Morocco and it's people and for the removal of their spiritual earplugs and eye pathches so that they might recieve more dreams and visions of Christ.
God is able to bring change in any country no matter what the circumstances are. May He raise up thousands of new missionaries to go to the peoples of Morocco and the Muslim world, and may the church send them out!
"For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes."(Romans 10:2-4)
Joins us as we pray for:
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The salvation of Moroccan Muslims.
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The removal of spiritual earplugs and eye patches.
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Dreams, visions and revelations of Christ.
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The protection of Christians and workers in Morocco.
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The multiplication of the church in Morocco.
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More workers to be sent to the BIG Moroccan harvest (Matthew 9:38)
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Change in the government, police and the salvation of King Mohammad VI.
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Freedom of religious choice.
(for more on prayer requests for Morocco, visit this website: www.ariseshinemorocco.org)