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Have You Prayed For a Muslim Today?

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The people of Ninevah are described as wicked. We aren’t told what the Ninevites did to deserve that description. The conditions must have been worse than Sodom and Gomorrah because there’s no indication there was even one righteous person.

But God loved these folks enough to send the prophet Jonah with a proclamation of destruction due to the wickedness. Short story even shorter, the people of Ninevah, led by their leader, repented. God relented on the destruction. (Read the story of Jonah and Ninevah.)

Most of the time the retelling of this story surrounds Jonah’s disobedience to God, and the resulting consequences. Is that all there is to learn in this small, three-chapter book? I think not. I think God is telling us he loves everyone–everyone.Muslim man prayingI don’t want to talk about the obnoxious neighbor, the homeless drug addict, or even the atheist. Although God does love each of them. I want to talk about Muslims-even the radical Islamic jihadist terrorist. Yes, God loves them also.

Have we become Jonahs? Warren Wiersbe points out in his Bible Exposition Commentary (Vol.3) that in addition to all of Jonah’s other problems, he had a bad attitude toward the Gentiles living in Ninevah. Wiersbe says that Jonah didn’t just hate their sins, “he hated the sinners who committed the sins.”

Have we become Jonahs? I confess there are times that I forget that God loves everyone: even the young man who has strapped on a bomb and blown himself to doom. God loves each Muslim as much as he loves me. Jesus died for them as surely as he died for me. God waits as patiently for the Muslim to come to repentance as he does our non-believing neighbor, or for me and you.

Have we become Jonahs? Recent events, the proposed mosque in Lower Manhattan and the announced Koran burning, indicate that we have. Instead of throwing rocks at buildings or torching books, shouldn’t we be praying? Praying for millions of people who are lost, who don’t know the true peace of God through Jesus.

Let us together decide to not continue to be stubborn Jonahs. Instead, let’s begin a change–a change that might save the souls of our enemies. Here are some starting places:

  • Pray. Pray for a Muslim you know, for a terrorist whose name is in the news, or for the Muslim people in general. The Center for Ministry to Muslims has a prayer ministry.
  • Support a Christian ministry to the Muslims. Arabic Bible has a partial list of missions.
  • Volunteer to serve. Organizations such as Ministry to Muslims have many opportunities at home and aboard.

I’m starting with daily prayer for an individual who has been in the news. Next, I’m writing to a ministry to ask how to get Bibles in Muslim countries. I’ll let you know what I find out.

Will you join me?

October 19, 2018 · 7 Comments

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  1. Karen Koch says

    October 16, 2010 at 6:27 am

    This was a particularly good one for me to read. I’ll share with my kids. A recent article in Answers in Genesis about praying for atheists (about Penn and Teller in particular) was eye-opening to me. Blessings.

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  2. practica says

    October 16, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Thank you, Karen. Don’t we too often get stuck on the negative and forget that God has a plan for everyone?

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  3. Cindy says

    October 20, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Beautiful post- yes I will pray.

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  4. Muani says

    November 19, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    Yes I will pray for their repentance and salvation.

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  5. practica says

    November 19, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    Thank you, Cindy and Muani. God’s will is that not one person be lost, that all will come to know him.

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