Prayer for Receiving the Gospel

Heavenly Father, I thank you for this new day. This day is one more day when Jesus has not yet returned for Judgment Day, which means my friends, the Kurds, have another day to trust in your name. They have another day to hear your Gospel and believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the true King of Heaven!!!

You write a story in Mark 4 that scares me when it comes to my friends receiving the Gospel. In Mark 4: 11-12, you say, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been granted to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables so that,
'they may look and look,
yet not perceive;
they may listen and listen,
yet not understand;
otherwise, they might turn back-
and be forgiven'."

Father, I pray for the Kurds in my city that you will open the doors for them to look and to perceive. I pray that you will help them listen, and when they do that they will understand. God, we both know that it is not enough to look and listen, but to receive the Word planted in our hearts, and my final prayer is that you will help the Kurds to turn from their sins and be forgiven.

You know my heartbeat is for our Kurdish friends to know you, to trust in you, to seek your face, to turn from their wicked ways, to hear from heaven that you might heal them. God, I believe that you can do anything, and even though I feel like the world's worst evangelist, I know that you are the best hope the world has, and you can take the world's worst evangelism and train him to be bold and courageous for you. Give me strength and a courageous heart to share freely with my Kurdish Muslim friends that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and the only hope for true freedom for their people.

I know you want the Kurds to come to know you God. Otherwise, you would not have delivered so many of them from the attempted genocide enacted by Saddam Hussein. Thank you for delivering them out of their homeland to America where they might have a chance to hear your Word. I thank you that you care, that you know what it is going to take to get your Word into the hearts of the Kurds who are so defensive because they have experienced decades and centuries of persecution. Break down the walls, and plant the seed of your Truth from the Gospel of Jesus Christ into their hearts.

I pray these requests knowing you alone have all the power, all the love, all the resources, all the authority, and all the strength to grant my requests. I am not the first person to beg you to save his Kurdish friends, but I add my humble voice to all the prayers offered up believing that prayer is the greatest power you give a humble creation like me. I love you, Lord Jesus, and I love the Kurds. Continue, blessed God of heaven and earth, to allow them opportunities to hear the word, understand what it means, turn from their wicked ways, and receive your forgiveness. I ask in the name above all names, the Lord Jesus of Nazareth, Amen.