Dream
THE DREAM
Not too long after my conversion to Jesus Christ I was praying in my room about God’s will and plan for my life. This was probably about 6 months or so after being born again. Obviously there is God’s revealed will for all His Saints in His Word but I was praying specifically and believing God would answer me. So after praying I went to sleep and God gave me a dream. Like I said, I’m not one that God speaks to often in dreams but it happened that night. In the dream I was coming out of a forest and began to cross a river. It was a deep river and I had to swim across it. While I was swimming there was someone I was carrying on my back but I wasn’t sure who it was. About half way through the river a snake swam up from the deep and bit my leg. I just shook it off and kept going. I reached the other side of the river but when I was on the land the person I was carrying was no longer there. So I began to walk up this winding road up a hill. When I reached the top of the hill there was a hut with a man inside. He was an old man, had a beard and looked Middle Eastern. He came out to meet me and was weeping in sorrow. He showed something like a toy mosque. You could hold it in your hands. (I’ve actually seen these before in some Muslims houses in Dallas. You turn them on and they play the chants/prayers that Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day). He was weeping because he said he had made these and led people astray. He then began to say “who will go tell them this is wrong”. I said that I would and then look off to top of the hill. As I looked at the landscape in a panoramic fashion I could see monuments from many different countries in the world. I saw the statue of Liberty, the Eiffel tower, the pyramids..ect. But directly in the middle of all these was a Mosque. It was a white mosque sitting right in the middle of all the country monuments. I looked at it and knew that was where God was sending me.
I woke up and knew it was a dream from the Lord. God had answered my prayer and shown me a glimpse of what was to come. Before this time I had no real interaction with Muslims nor did I know what they believed.
CONFIRMATION
In 1998 I went on a short term trip with the church we were attending at that time. We were going to London to work with believers who were from Iran. Most of these were believers who had come to faith in Iran who were getting bible training in London with the goal of going back to Iran and preach the Gospel. Many of them had been persecuted in Iran or lost family members in Iran who were followers of Jesus. On the way over there, on the plane, I pulled out one of the magazines in the seat pockets and started thumbing through it. I opened up to one page and there spread across the two pages was the exact image I had seen in my dream with all the monuments from the different countries with the Mosque in the middle. I was shocked to see the exact picture as in my dream. I knew that God was confirming what He had previously shown me.
Since that time God has given me desire to see His Son preached among those who have been deceived into believing this demonic faith. This desire does not come from myself… God has put it in me. It comes from Him. God could just have easily given me a burden for any other group of people but He didn’t. I never had this desire before the dream God gave me so I know it has not come from myself. It truly is God’s work in me.
I’ve had many opportunities to preach to Muslim. Both in the cities I’ve lived in as well as overseas. Below are accounts of two different times God has enabled me to preaching at different Mosque during the month of Ramadan. It truly the grace of God that enabled me to do both.
PREACHING AT CARROLLTON MOSQUE -updating soon
PREACHING AT LONDON CENTRAL MOSQUE
