My mother often reminds me of the day we got lost. I was just five years old, and we were on a seven-hour drive on a road we had taken often. This time, however we took a wrong turn and ended up in another country that was a dangerous place back then. My mother says that I prayed aloud to Jesus for more than an hour, asking Him to guide us and protect us on our journey. It came so naturally. Jesus has always been a part of my life.

It is not the same for my Muslim friends. They know of Jesus, but they do not know Him. They think of Him as just one of Islam’s 124,000 prophets, a man who lived during the Roman times. They say He was rescued from the cross and taken to heaven, but still He is just a man.
I often wonder how to help my friends make Jesus part of their lives. He has already paid the price for my friends’ salvation even though they do not realize it. He is our high priest in heaven, currently interceding with God for us. So He should be as natural a part of my friends’ lives as He is of mine. We serve an amazing God! May He open our spiritual eyes so that we can see Him at work.

I pray for my friends with the confidence of Mark 11:24: “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” I pray for the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christ-like temper, for wisdom and strength to do His work and for any gift He has promised.

“We need look for no outward evidence of the blessing. The gift is in the promise, and we may go about our work assured that what God has promised, He is able to perform and that the gift, which we already possess, will be realized when we need it most” (Education, p. 257, 258).

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