Pray4Pashtuns Ramadan2024

Day 31-Pashtun Believers: Boldness

PRAY:

• For Pashtun believers to be filled with boldness and faith by the Holy Spirit to share their faith with others who so desperately need it.
• For Pashtun believers to fear God more than man.
• For more Pashtuns to know Jesus and share his Word.

PROVERBS 29:25 “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.”

Read More: By a Pashtun Sister

Keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel. Ephesians 6:18-19

I had been sharing stories from the Bible with a girl named Khyberi. She would come to my home, and together we would learn the stories. She started sharing the stories with her family, her father told her that these things were not in Islam, and he stopped allowing his daughter to come to my house. One day, expecting Khyberi to show up at my house for our usual Bible story time, I opened the door, and it was her father! He was angry, and he had a gun with him. He accused me of teaching things from Jews and Christians because he had noticed that the stories his daughter told had some differences from what Muslims believe. I turned to God and prayed in my heart. What should I do? As I surrendered myself to God in that moment and asked for wisdom, God gave me words to say. I began to speak in Pashto to him, and when he realized I was a Pashto speaker, he relaxed and became more friendly. Even though I was afraid, God told me to talk with him, and I obeyed.

After reasoning with this father for a long time, he calmed down and was not angry with me anymore. Now he does not have any problem with me, in fact, he allows me to teach the stories to all the women in his family! God is doing a great work in this family. Many of the women have been finding peace through the stories, discovering that God really does love and care for them. Instead of allowing fear to control our hearts, we can trust God to give strength and wisdom to share and live his Word. If we fear man, we will fall into a trap; but we can trust God. He is always with us. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Matthew 10:28-31