Sunday, December 9, 2018

Start of something New!!


Hey  family and friends,
  
Prayer walk with the school.
    I’m really excited to tell you that I completed my three months course on November 23rd. For the last month of my course; we didn’t have many classes but focused more on praying for the muslim people all over the world. We had intercession prayers, fasting, prayer walks in different cities of Bangalore and also visited a place called jama masjid. Its like a mosque but not a mosque. It’s a prayer place where women are allowed to enter.  We spoke to a few women there and prayed over that place and the for the people of that city. During one of our prayer walks I got to meet a muslim woman who sits near the mosque everyday with three children. I got to listen to her story and pray for her. We had a few classes where I learned how to communicate with muslims and how to refrain from using certain words while talking to them about Jesus. For example; while sharing about Jesus to a muslim saying that Jesus died for you doesn’t really work for them because they believe that Jesus didn’t die at all. So instead of saying Jesus died we can use the word sacrifice because they believe in sacrifices and it means a lot more to them and they understand a lot more when you say sacrifice. I completed my course on November 23rd and we had a small ceremony for completing the course with a certificate and prayers. I was also given an opportunity to share my testimony.
 visited a Jama Masjid
  
    In my previous blog I mentioned about deciding what to do next after completing my course and how I needed God’s wisdom and grace to make decisions. Now that I’ve completed my course I have decided to do YWAM in Lonavla. The YWAM in Lonavla is offering a separate course just for Muslim ministry. It’s a 6 months course where the first 3 months is the teaching phase and the next three months is outreach phase. The outreach will be fully focused on Muslims and the states that have a large population of muslims. I’m super excited to be attending this course because I will have experience with ministering to Muslims.  This ywam starts in April 2019 and ends in September 2019. I have complete peace about this decision and am sure that this is where God wants me to go. Until April I’ll be working  throughout the week and on Saturdays I’ll be ministering with muslims in different cities. I met a friend named Anna, who has a group of women ministering to muslim women every day of the week. So what we do is walk around the village praying for the place and we meet women and start talking with them. We start casual conversations and then ask them if they would like to be prayed over. We then start talking to them about God and his peace.
  
Receiving my certificate for completing the course.
    We follow the passage in Luke 10 where Jesus sends out his disciples with instructions and some dos and donts.  We pray that God would show us where people of peace are and if the invite us into their homes we go in and pray for them and talk with them. But if they don’t we just pass by. Anna’s teaching me how to discern if people are interested about Jesus. She’s also teaching me how to start conversations with women about Jesus and to see if they are interested in listening and hearing more and if they do we start teaching them about Jesus.  This is the start of something new in my life right now.I am starting to become bold, confident and fearless. I got to share my story to a few college girls during my ministry. I was very nervous at the beginning but got a little bolder as I kept talking. The harvest is full and ready to be reaped!!  The week before I  went out to ministry God’s been teaching me how to be a servant and a good worker through the book of Timothy. He’s been preparing me and encouraging me. This year God has been my greatest Rabbi and teacher, and he still is . I am grateful for that.  Previous years he’s shown himself to be my Father, my lover, my best friend but this year he’s shown himself to be my teacher.
    Some of my prayer requests are:
1. please pray that I would have a spirit and mind of learning more from God and the people he's using in my life.
2. Pray that I would be an instrument and vessel that carries God and uses.
3. As I learn how to be a servant and steward of his gospel, I would not grow weary of doing good. 

Faith as small as a Mustard seed.

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