A believer working to plant churches in each of Turkey’s 81 provinces reports that three years of work is bearing fruit. A third church began services recently in one of Turkey’s major cities, and the first church planted there has grown from 10 members to nearly 100 in less than three years.
The Christian worker also helped plant a church with a group of 20 people recently in a city of 500,000. “I’m really proud of them,” he said. “They are strong in their faith. They are ready to share and they are studying their Bible.”
As this frontline worker reaches out to the Turkish people, he meets many young people who have become disillusioned with Islam and are turning to deism, making them more open to the Gospel.
Source: The Voice of the Martyrs USA
- Thank the Lord for the steady growth. Pray that many more will hear the Gospel and turn to the living God.
- Pray that new believers will remain grounded in faith as they face pressure from Turkey’s Muslim society.
- Pray the Lord will direct this Christian worker in Turkey and all those involved in frontline evangelism, throughout the nation.
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The Lord reached out to many Muslims in dreams and visions converting them. I am a New Zealander and not an arab or a Muslim. I have been a Christian for many years. One day the Lord appeared to me in a vision. He said,”Worship me on the Sabbath.” This I have endeavored to do despite ignorant opposition of people round me. When the Lord speaks to you, you know it is him and no one else. People say are you sure but they neither know God’s word or his demands for his law.
‘Our great obstacle is the dominion which Satan has obtained over the hearts of men. Yet through the support and power of God, I think I am willing to continue throwing the net at the Lord’s command through all the long night of life, though the end may be that I have caught nothing.’(Henry Martyn in India 1806) Our Father we pray for the Gospel to influence and be spread in Turkey even as it was through the agency of Henry Martyn during the 1800s when the Shah? of the Ottoman Empire commanded distribution of the NT. Father, we praise you for the advances being made at this time and ask for the peoples and Leaders of Turkey that you might lift the veil of unbelief from their eyes and restrict the work of Satan, the ruler of this age so that many might know and name the name of Jesus as Lord.