An international year of prayer for
Morocco
| Week 49 |
BreakthroughAround 1994 three new Christians gathered in a foreigner's home. That day their host said, "You are now a church." This was a revolutionary idea! They were not "a meeting" or "a Bible study". They were a church! From the scriptures they learned a lot about "the church." Soon believers in other places who had been meeting regularly began to think of themselves as a church.In 1998 a new Christian we’ll call Sayid was alone in his city. He asked if someone from a city an hour away could come to disciple him. Abid responded and began to visit him once a week to read scripture and pray. Later they started walking the streets of Sayid's city and praying. As they did, Abid sensed that God wanted to raise up a church there. A few months later someone gave them the addresses of several people in the city who were studying Bible correspondence courses. Sayid and Abid visited them and some received the Savior. Soon a handful more were added as the brothers and sisters of Christians in Abid's city came to trust in Jesus. But where could they meet together? An African Christian offered his home. So the church in Sayid's city was born full of joy and with a confidence that there would soon be another church in their city. Meanwhile God began to lay another city on Abid's heart. He's been visiting it once a week, walking its streets, and interceding for it. In faith, there will soon be a church there. And Abid already knows where next, and next, and then next he will go to plant churches. The planting of new churches by local believers is one of the most exciting and important of recent developments within the kingdom of God in Morocco. "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Matthew 18:20
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