Praying for Islamic Saul

We should be praying for the Islamic Saul to rise among their ranks.

Over the past few years there have been so many terrorist attacks, public bombings and mass shootings. At the center of the majority of these events are groups like ISIS, ISIL and Al Qaeda.  Terrorist groups.  Groups that have one reason for existence ... world domination through fear, power and death.  As we watch the media commentate on such events we hear of many different solutions to the problems of terrorism.  While the church listens to such solutions, the church has its own solution: prayer and sacrifice.  With every organization considered the church is the only one that is tasked with the job of prayer and to be sacrificial.  The church cannot afford to sit idly around waiting for another organization to save the day.  The church must take the issue to our Eternal Father, pray specifically for a solution and be ready to be sacrificial.

In the book of Acts chapters 7-9, we read about the conversion of Saul to Paul through two events: the stoning of Stephen and the Damascus Road meeting with Jesus.  Saul was a very zealous Jewish leader that killed Christians (Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death Acts 8:1). What if God has a Saul planted amongst the ranks of Islamic terror groups? The church should be praying for a movement to occur in their life.  We need to be praying for a Saul to rise up in the ranks of radical Islam to change the system from the inside out.  God is able to do anything, so why don't we ask the Lord to start a movement from within the terror groups?  We should be praying that Islamic Saul has his own Damascus Road experience, turns his life over to Jesus and serves Jesus amongst the ranks of the group that he exists.

We should be praying for the Islamic Saul to rise among their ranks.

My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7: 14).

‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:12-13).

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened" (Luke 11:9-10).

david evans is the Evangelism Team Leader for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.   Feel free to contact david via e-mail devans@tnbaptist.org.  In the meantime, check out “The Reaching App” by searching in your app store or visiting www.TheReachingApp.com.