About 200 Muslims in Gaza lately got here to Christ after seeing Jesus in visions and desires and realizing they shared the identical expertise, in line with a brand new report from the area.
Taysir Saada, a Muslim-turned-Christian who wrote the ebook As soon as Arafat, recounted the unbelievable story in an interview with CBN, saying he believes God is on the transfer in Gaza amid the warfare with Israel. Saada was as soon as an advisor to Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. Saada was additionally a sniper for the PLO (Palestine Liberation Group).
“About 200 Gazans gave their hearts to Jesus one time as a result of the Lord appeared to them in visions and desires they usually hugged and, you realize, rejoiced and realized that all of them had the identical imaginative and prescient that every of them had,” Saada informed CBN.
Saada is the founding father of Seeds of Hope, a humanitarian group serving Gaza and the Center East.
“Regardless of all of the destruction that’s taking place, I imagine that God has a function to make the Palestinians in Gaza get up and have a look at an alternative choice to what they imagine in,” he informed CBN. “… Many Muslims are in search of an alternative choice to Islam. I imagine we are going to expertise many revivals, many believers will come by. It's already taking place at this time.”
William Devlin, head of the humanitarian group Widows and Orphans, described the state of affairs in Gaza as “harmful”.
“There have been a thousand Christians left in Gaza in a sea of 2.2 million Muslims, and of these thousand Christians now dwell 500 within the Greek Orthodox Church and 500 within the Roman Catholic Church,” he mentioned.
Devlin traveled usually to Gaza earlier than the warfare and hopes to have the ability to enter the area quickly to supply help. He believes that the individuals of Gaza are in search of an alternative choice to Hamas and Islam.
“Within the midst of their struggling, the Lord Jesus seems to Muslims,” Devlin informed CBN. “We pray that God will proceed to disclose Himself by His Son – desires, visions and manifestations – to carry all of Gaza to religion in Jesus Christ. Pray for a lot of Muslims to imagine in Jesus. That's their solely hope.”
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Michael Foust has lined the intersection of religion and information for 20 years. His tales have appeared within the Baptist Press, Christianity At the moment, Christian PoHoly, and Leaf chronicle, and Toronto Star and and Knoxville Information-Sentinel.