I'm so honored to be here and to be invited to visit this wonderful Church well known all over the world you don't know how much uh the fame of this church being uh well appreciated well honored uh by the blood by the the body of Christ worldwide I come from Egypt from the Middle East where uh we consider ourselves for uh at least the last few centuries the source of many problems uh around the globe but in the same time um Egypt for me not only a home country but I'm so honored uh to be Egyptian for so many reasons one of them that Egypt is a holy land do you know that Egypt is a holy land why Egypt is a holy land because of the people that came and stayed for at least a short time in this country starting by Abraham the father of all the Believers am I right Abraham is our father and ending by Jesus himself and the Holy Family take refuges in Egypt for several uh years in the middle Moses and Israel and so many in between Ibraham and Jesus but more than that Egypt in the second and third Century became the minate of Chris Christianity the nyine Creed written by an Egyptian uh guy uh the athanasius that if you know this name and at that time Egypt offered number of mar that died for the sake of Christ more than the combed number of marter in the whole world at that time so I'm so honored uh to be Egyptians and to have this uh Heritage in the history it's not the situation uh right now but at least we have this promise in Isaiah 19 that blessed my people Egypt not my people in Egypt but my people Egypt and we pray that one day we'll see this again happening that his people Egypt being blessed by the blood of the lamp I'm carrying a very simple message with this uh months of mission what God is doing in many parts of the world The Impossible is not impossible to God is very possible to God and in difficult situation you can see the mighty work of the hand of God more than anywhere else in the world and I'm coming from such a district where it is difficult it's not easy to live as dedicated a believer in the Name of Christ my message uh with this title overcoming the challenge overcoming the challenge in everywhere there is um a challenge there is um um we are fighting against against what here in this passage Paul is mentioning three main things we are struggling to demolish strongholds arguments and every pretention that sets itself against the knowledge of the Lord to do what why we are using the weapons the mighty weapons of God to demolish these barriers preventing people from coming to the knowledge of the Lord to do what to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ to win people to Christ to deliver people from Darkness into light from the kingdom of the evil one to the kingdom of the beloved Son of of God so we have in every nation to discern to recognize the strongholds that built by Satan himself to keep people from the knowledge of of God what kind of anti Antichrist spirit that we are fighting against what kind of anti- God Spirit like atheism that holding people to come to the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ what kind of arguments what kind of false ideology false knowledge false teaching even false science yes false science not true science that being implemented in the mindset of the people in the children that they're being grazed in this generation against the knowledge of the Lord what kind of every pretension the prideful of the heart of man to prevent him from being dependent on God I'm self I'm I'm I'm I'm self-sufficient I don't need God anymore I have the knowledge I have the money I have the the the the wealth and health that I don't need God it's not true this is not true the prince of this world is blinding people through strongholds through arguments through the prideful heart of the mankind to hold them to Blind them to come to the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ how come we demolish the strongholds the arguments and every pretention that sets itself against the knowledge of God the mighty weapon the weapon that given to us as the kingdom of God to do that what are these Mighty weapons given to us to demolish and to take captive every thought love prayer and the truth they are not Rockets they are not nuclear weapons they are not demolishing human beings because the struggles that you are fighting with not against flesh and blood Ephesians 6 we are struggling against the dark Forces against the evil power of Satan and his kingdom in this world and now God has given us these three Mighty Divine weapons to achieve what we have called to do love prayer and the truth let me take it one by one number one and for me the most important the driving force even to pray and even to spread the good news the the love of Christ Christ is the Power of Love Beginning by his love God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son John 3:16 because the power of love you are here because you have been encountered with the love of God in the face of Christ on the cross you open your heart you have been act captivated by the love of God to be born again into Christianity into the true Christ Christianity to be a disciple of Christ The Power of Love of the father brought you to life God so loved the he is the source of such a wonderful love he loved the Sinners and I'm one of them I'm the greatest of all but God loved me and he gave his only son for my sake to save me not only that but this is his greatest commandment love your Lord with all your heart with with all your mind with all your soul with all your power and love your neighbor as yourself it's all about God it's all about love God has loved me and his commandment love love your God and love your neighbor who is my neighbor who is your neighbor my wife of course my children of course but much more than that your neighbor the one that he needs you in spite of he may hate you thear enemy is your neighbor you know the Samaritan uh Parable that Jesus explained my neighbor my neighbor is the one that he needs me in spite of he may despise me or even hate me he is my neighbor love your neighbor as yourself why because love is so soft but has the power to penetray Into the Heart people are building Shields to protect themselves to be touched by the knowledge of God to be convinced to change their lifestyle or their course only love can penetrate through the Shields only love can touch the inner being the inner soul why because God created us out of Flesh we need food and drink and clothes and place to sit in and to live in but on the other side he created a soul inside of us only Survive by love only love only love can feed the soul of mankind only love steak and vegetable and bread and dessert and every kind of good food cannot fill the heart only love can touch the heart this is why the genuine love the agape love the unconditional love can penetrate into the heart of man and open this secret place to hear and to be embraced by the love of God love can penetrate love can soften the most hardened heart ever can exist and this is what we are seeing in our part of the world in the sermon on the mountain in Matthew 5 44 and 46 but I tell you love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you if you love those who love you what reward you will get the tax collectors and the Sinners do the same this is not love love to love those they hate you to love your enemy then you will turn the enemy into a friend then you will take the enemy from Darkness into into light I want to tell you some examples that will show you how we experience such power of love this is our wellknown pictures and if you go into YouTube you may see the actual video of 21 Egyptian Christians Born Again believing in Christ caught by The Fanatic extreme in Libya and they made and they gave them two choices to deny Christ or to be slain and beheaded and all of the same made their choice We Believe In Christ we cannot deny him we are ready to die for his sake and all of them slained and beheaded okay how about their families back home seeing them there being killed because of their faith in Christ they didn't do any crime they were very peaceful good Christians doing nothing wrong but because of faith in Christ they were killed here the mother of one of them and she represent most of the mothers because we know this Village that the 21 came from and their families when they interviewed these fames that lost their children this was their responses what would I say I will pray to the Lord to forgive them for what they have done what benefit would it be if I prayed against them may the Lord Enlighten their path and correct their evil washed minds and then all our scattered countries will be in a better condition the only hope for our land that they will open their eyes the Lord and see Christ and be enlightened are you ready to forgive those they killed your sons and daughter yes are you praying for their salvation yes I do can you imagine the impact of these families after seeing this on the television by millions and millions another story this lady well known in Egypt the mother of Mariam because her story became on the television broadcasted seen by millions of people she was in a in a wedding sitting at the door of the church with her child daughter 12 years old a motorcycle with a machine gun a fanatic extremist Muslim came and opened fire at the door of the church her daughter killed and she was shot and she was introduced on a wheelchair in the television and the host asked her what do you feel now what do you want to say to these criminals these fanatic extremists that killed your daughter and injured you she said that by killing us you are delivering us to the best place she said I believe where is my daughter she is an she was an angel and she is with the with Christ by killing us you are delivering us to the best place I ask all the Egyptians people to unite in prayer for The Killers so that God May forgive them for what they have done and Enlighten their eyes the whole asked her I hope that they are listening to you right now and they will be shocked and maybe had a a heart uh uh case or a cardic arrest she said no no no no no I don't want them to die because if they die now they will go to a horrible place I want them to repent because if they die now they will go to a horrible place I want them to repent and know the Savior when they died to go to heaven with my daughter this is what we call love your enemy forgive them and bless them and pray for them can you imagine the impact before these accidents these two accident there was um um a talk show where the host invited an Imam a fanatic Muslim leader and a priest from a Christian church and they man said that I'm I'm surprised of loving your enemy and blessing those they persecuted this is irrelevant this is nonsense this is ridiculous because one day I will fight against my enemy and I should kill him I have been ordered in my Quran to hate everybody does not believe in my prophet and the priest said I have been commanded by Christ to love everybody and to love you after what happened it became so clear that the Power of Love much stronger than hating my enemy during the second revolution after uh taking the uh the Muslim Brotherhood out of authority The Fanatic extremes started to attack Christian churches hospitals schools offices clinics hundreds of them burned in one week next day all the churches had the same banners we love you we forgive you we pray for you everybody in the media came next day and said wow the love of the Christians to their enemies the power of forgiveness saved Egypt from Civil War what is happening in in in Sudan what's happening in Yemen what's happening this Civil War happening everywhere the love of Christ saved Egypt from a civil war love is more powerful than hatred I saw my own ears I baptized people came to Christ because of that the power of love loving the enemy praying for them the power of forgiveness if your enemy is hungry feed him if he is thirsty give him something to drink don't be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good we don't fight fire with fire we fight fire fire with water we defeat Evil by good we defeat the spirit of hatred and hostility by love and forgiveness and only us can do that because we have been forgiven by the grace of Christ because of we have been loved the love of Agape the unconditional love by God so we can do only the same During the Revolution we had the courage which was really crazy to open the church as a field Hospital the revolution took place in the main Square uh in front of the church one block from the church thousands hundreds of thousands millions were there every day casualties and we said this is the time to open in the church to save lives to exp the love of Christ to everybody one day we had 500 casualty the ambulances started to have their own station in front of the church because those the we couldn't manage to save them had to be transferred by the ambulances to the nearby hospitals many Muslims came to us and said we don't love you we have been ordered to hate you why you love us why you care for for our Lives why how come the answer was very easy because Jesus has loved us and taught us to love our neighbors as ourselves this is the power of love to build Bridges to reconcile people to themselves and to God plus love not only will petate through the heart to reach those are far away to soften the heart but love will cast our fear from us in first John 418 there is no fear and love but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment the one who fears is not made perfect in love when we love our enemies we will not be afraid of them we will be ready to take risk to reach them when we love them you are afraid from those that you don't love them not from those They Don't Love You Do you understand the difference when you love your enemy genuinely because of the love of the Lord you will dare to take the risk you will dare to build Bridge you will g go and serve and offer the food food the drink the medicine to those They Don't Love You The Power of Love will drive you crazy not only to bless but also to pray to pray for them and this is the second Mighty weapon Divine weapon given to us the power of prayer why this last week you have had such a wonderful time of fasting and praying why we have been called to pray uh without ceasing why Christ himself spent hours and hours in the mountain praying why why the first church started by United together and praying and then the Holy Spirit came and then they proclaimed the gospel but Beginning by being united in prayer why because the prayer has the power to mobilize God's hands look to this verse I tell you the truth John 14:12 everyone who has faith in me everyone who has faith in me do we have here people they have faith in Christ raise your hand if you have faith in Christ if you don't have faith in Christ raise your hand okay and anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing and will do even greatest thing anybody he has faith in Christ will do what Jesus was doing and even greater is this the case is this the case no why because here he explained to us how because I I am going to the father look look because I am going to the father and I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the son may bring glory to the father you may ask me for anything in my name I will do it now I understand so it's not me doing what the Jesus was doing and even greater it's him he will be in heaven ready to do what he was doing and even doing greater things through what through the power of prayer the power of prayer so as I'm not me doing he is doing what he was doing and even doing greater things book of Acts book of Acts they were praying look to their threatening Lord stretch your hand by signs and wonders so we can proclaim the gospel and the place has been shaken and filled by the spirit and they had the courage to go and proclaim the gospel because Jesus was doing what he was doing and even greater things the power of prayer okay here is the blank check whatever you ask in my name I will do it I will do whatever you ask in my name Wow Wow Let's try let's try a blank check right anything in the in Jesus name will be given to you okay Lord I need a car I prefer to be Mercedes S model 500 if anything make it two or if you wish make it three anything okay one car and one nice home home in a compound with a swimming pool make it too for my children anything okay a private jet so I can fly everywhere in the world at any time to proclaim the gospel anything I need a wife make it too please but because I'm Christian okay I will be satisfied with only one wife is this the case no you don't understand he said what he was doing he is ready to do it he had no Mercedes no jet not even one wife he was performing Miracles opening the eyes the ears raising the dead casting out demons proclaiming the love of God through the mighty work of his hand in this category whatever you ask in my name to bring glory to the father I will do it how about my needs it's my responsibility build my kingdom I will take care of your needs pray for the spread of the gospel and I will feed you I will take care of your needs whatever you ask in my name for the glory of the Father by the name of Christ I'm ready to do it let me explain this practically in Ministry God is using our hands to serve him so the power by the power of the Holy Spirit using my weak hands to bless people to serve people my tongue to Proclaim the gospel but in prayer God is using my knees to mobilize his hands to do wonders and miracles and reveal himself this is why the power of prayer much greater than the power of ministry but we believe in Ministry more than prayer we spend more time doing Ministry using our hands than using our needs to bring glory to the father uh I'm I'm going to share few testimonies few stories out of Despair in our land that we have very limited freedom to reach the unreached we started to pray for our brothers and sisters that they don't know Christ especially from a Muslim background that we cannot reach them by any mean we use every opportunity to serve to love to express the love of God but we cannot even go to them they have to come to us so we started to pray this crazy prayer Lord you are ready to be sinned you are ready to go you went and you interrupted the life of Soul of tarus on his way to Damascus and revealed yourself to him wow what a great miracle you converted that the one that used to to persecute the church to be the greatest Apostle to spread the word of God how about you do this but not only with one we want 100,000 to be visited by you but if you are capable of doing that how about 1 million how about several Millions crazy prayer we are asking this For Your Glory not for ourselves you are the god of impossible you can do anything to reveal yourself and we started to see the answers of this crazy prayer the last 20 years maybe 25 years especially after the revolution we have seen God doing amazing things revealing himself in signs and wonders in visions and in dreams let me tell you a recent story a friend of mine he's not Egyptian he's he's a convert himself he was visiting Egypt and during his stay in Egypt he had a phone call a very strange number a very weak voice I have to see you I have to see you who are you and then the line went off he called him back again I need to see you urgently please come and meet me where at the border of Egypt with Libya who are you come and see me come and see me by the end of several Trials of communication he got the message that at that time meet me at the border of Egypt and Libya the man because of his love for people and because he has no fear he went and he stayed there 9 hours waiting for this man that called him come and meet with me he could go away after 2 hours maybe a false call maybe he's a spy maybe anything but he waited 9 hours until the man came in a four-wheel drive car and him come with me and he took him through the desert and he felt I'm already kidnapped I lost my life I'm not going to see anybody anymore because he took him away away in the desert until he stopped with a big tent and he brought him inside the tent with a big family there like a small tribe and this man was the chief of the tribe and he introduced himself to him we are a tribe this is the family the extended family we were sitting like that and all of a sudden Jesus Christ appeared in the middle of the tent and he spent time with us and he looked into our eyes and we got the message that he is the Son of God and He Loves Us and he wanted us to get to know him and by the way we got your number from somebody so please we are ready please tell us about Christ why he appeared to us what he wants from us we are ready to believe and we are ready to be baptized he spend the day with them by the end he baptized all of them and send back [Applause] home never happened in the book of act in Algeria long ago a village one night had the same dream a whole village the same dream seeing Jesus in a dream next day they started to share they found that we have been visited all of them in one day by Christ never happened in the New Testament we have seen Jesus appearing this a man in a white cloth with a glory with a great light visiting people in dreams and visions individual families and big groups wow is it possible yes because nothing is impossible to the power of prayer if we pray for the people if we send Christ before us he will go by one condition if we are ready to be sent by him to serve these people and to embrace them and to take them into the kingdom of God in Isaac 64 verse 1 and 2 this is the prayer that we pray back home and we made it like a song a song that we sing all the time oh God that you would rent the heavens and come down Rend Heaven come down the mountains would trample before you come down to make your name known to your enemies not come down to kill your enemies come down to make your name known to your enemies let your enemies see how wonderful the light the light that shining from your face to represent the glory of God another story you know the the the fight that's happening right now in the holy land between between the Israelites and the Palestinians and Gaza and many were displaced lost their homes and their does and became in camps and many of them became um uh wounded injured and in Egypt we had to open the border for some of these severely wounded to be treated in in Egypt in Sinai so we had a good number of casualties with their families we felt at the church this is the time again to go and feed and drink and give medicine and express the love of God to those did not know him and even they may hate us the team went there we raised some fund we bought some equipments and some food and some some uh materials and send it by the team to go there to be distributed among these refugees standing there in the office a veiled woman a Palestinian woman was standing there looked at the the the the the leader of our team and said to him are you Christian he said yes but uh if you need anything we give it all to the people in in charge the the the authorities here they will distribute the goods not us we are not allowed to give anybody to anything we bring all what we have to those that they are ready to distribute she said no no no no I want to talk to you she took him on a corner of this office and said to him listen to me I was a very committed Muslim I was displaced from my home we were camping near by a hospital and the hospital was bombarded and that day two of my sons the twin died and my husband injured and I have only let this little girl that night I looked at God and said I served you I was fasting praying doing everything you asked me to do and by the end because they belied in fatalism so much in Islam and by the end this is the reward to take the two sons of me and my husband to be injured I'm not going to pray anymore I'm angry I don't know I don't want to know you anymore and she said I felt pain Agony anger fire in my heart I went to bed devastated that night a man dressed in white came to me with tears in his eyes he looked at me I asked him why you are in tears why you are crying he said because you are crying I feel your pain I feel your Agony who are you he said I'm Jesus Christ she doesn't know the name in Arabic because the name for them is ISA not Jesus Christ she she didn't recognize who is this man next morning she called the nurse and said do we have a doctor here dressed in white his name is Jesus Christ the nurse said no no no no you are mistaken this is the man of the Christians we don't have anybody here with the name Jesus Christ stop talking about this subject don't tell anybody she looked at the leader and said to him I wanted to tell you your Jesus came to me and the minute he looked at me all the pain all the agony all the fear all the uh the uh the the the bitterness I have been healed the minute he looked at me your Jesus healed [Applause] me I can tell you stories until tomorrow morning I'm a witness nothing is impossible to God if we pray for our enemies if we pray for those they don't know him if we pray that he would rent heaven and come down and reveal himself to those they don't know him nothing is impossible to God another story a woman in Upper Egypt Upper means South because the Nile is going from the upper to the lower land to the Mediterranean so Upper Egypt is the South everybody think that upper means North no upper is means South living there she encountered Christ she became Christian in her heart and 9 years old um uh daughter uh she taught her to Believe In Christ and to pray in the Name of Christ one day this little daughter went to the father and said to him daddy when you die when you die do you know where we are going to be this daddy is a very fanatic extremist Muslim he looked at her and said why you are asking me such crazy question she said because daddy if you don't believe in Christ you be in hell I want you to go to heaven he looked at her who told you that silly news s doctorine my mother he brought the mother do you believe in Christ she said yes are you Christian yes you know according to the Shar I will give you three days whether you repent and deny Christ or you will be killed she said you don't need to give me three days I'm ready to die now I will not deny Christ I will not do that I'm ready he locked her in her bedroom and he called the family to discuss who and how she will be killed listening to them discussing the issue outside the bedroom she recognized that this is her L hours she knelt down in front of her bed and started to surrender her life to Christ Lord I'm ready to go to you thank you for knowing you thank you that I'm ready to leave this earth and to be with you for eternity she opened her eyes listen to me she opened her eyes she found her self physically physically the body transferred 500 km to the north and she found herself in a bedroom with a family a husband and wife kneeling down and praying they opened their eyes they found her beside them she opened her eyes they found herself beside them who are you who are you how you have been transferred it's the power of God what God did with Steven with with Phillip in the past did with this woman to serve her from the hands of her husband nothing is impossible I was sharing this story in um in um in Iraq and the pastor there told me we have the similar thing we have a lady exactly had the same she was locked in her door she was praying she found herself in the street she stopped the car and she went away God transferred her outside the home it's happening it's happening what did in the past what Jesus did in the past he is ready to do it and even doing greater things only by the power of prayer Lord Duren Heaven come down make yourself known go to Google and just put this name I have been awakened by The Dream you will see on YouTube hundreds and thousands of stories of people visited by Christ in a vision or in a dream nothing is impossible our God is true is alive and doing the same thing that he was doing and even greater things if we have faith and we pray last thing the power of the truth love will reach the heart the inner chamber will soften the heart the agape love the unconditional love the genuine love the sacrificial love the prayer will send Christ before us will open the eyes and ears to understand that yes Jesus is the son of God is God incarnated is the P the the the Redemptive uh person for the sins of the whole world but then the mind the Mind should be convinced the Mind should have an answers for the questions Peter is saying this very clearly in Peter 1 Peter 3:15 but in your heart set apart Christ as lord always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have but do this with gentleness and respect not with rightful heart not with arrogance but in gentleness in him humility in humility we answer those they ask us the atheist they have questions about what we believe in the Muslims they have question about what we believe in the Buddhist they have question about what we believe in am I right do we have answers or not a convincing answers answer that will satisfy the mind give an answer to everyone to every question I have been brought in my Evangelical Church in Egypt that we don't have all the answers for all the questions it's by faith what we believe in is not very convincing to everybody and we have to accept that in Lozan 1974 I went as a student there as an observer and I met a guy with the name Francis schaer he was an atheist he believed in God he became the greatest Christian philosopher he wrote a group of books and he started a library fellow a library a library uh Center in loan to host the atheist and to answer their questions and in Lozan in this conference that held by Billy Graham he had one sermon and in this sermon he said a sentence shocked me and the sentence was we have answers to every question honest question we have answers do we have answers I went down I bought his books I went back home I'm a medical student I have nothing about philosophy I started to read his books very difficult for me to understand very difficult terminology even with the dictionary I found some of this terminology that is created by Him nothing before but I was shocked we have answers we have answers to every question yes this is true yes this is true and this is what Peter is saying be ready to give an answer to everyone from Every background we have answers to convince the mind I remember years ago we had a guy from a Jehovah Witness background and he left witness and became atheist a friend of him brought him to the church he came and he was shocked seeing young people celebrating and singing to Jesus we had a conference a a retreat he came just uh as a spectator as a uh something to see who are these people and how they believe in Christ uh God does not exist and God is if God is there Jesus cannot be the Son of God maybe God is there but Jesus cannot be the son Son of God this is how I was brought in the Jehovah Witness he attended the first worship service and in the worship service he felt the power of the Holy Spirit shaking him after we finished he came down and said to me I believe that God exists here I felt it I'm very intellectual I cannot say that but I felt it in my body I know that God is here but I have so many questions in my my my mind in my mind can you help me please now I feel it but I'm not convinced he brought all the questions I answered all of them do you know why because we have answers we have answers a morak singer came to my office and said I have questions about Christianity I discovered that you as Christians you have a lot lot of questions about our faith and we don't have enough answers to you and I think it's the same we have questions about what you believeing in the Divinity and Trinity this ridiculous thing that the the god became man and he died on the cross God died on the cross it's ridiculous in one hour I answered her by then she said unfortunately we have no answers to your questions unfortunately you have answers to our questions we didn't lose one argument do you know why not because we are clever because we have answers are you ready are you by the power of the truth that you may know the truth and the truth will deliver you yes the people will be delivered from darkness by knowing the truth and we have the truth now it takes 10 minutes for us to prove Trinity scientifically to prove in 10 minutes be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you we have the power of the truth that can convince the mind let me finish with this if you call by the name of the Lord you will be saved Romans 10:13 but how then can they call on the name that they have not believed in and how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard and how can they hear here without someone preaching to them if I call by the name of the Lord I will be saved to call on the name of the Lord I have to believe in him how come I believe in him without knowing him how come I know about him unless someone will tell me about him it's our responsibility love will Bu The Bridge prepare the heart and the the Soul by the power of prayer and then then they will come to you with a lot of questions and we have answers to all their questions we can win every argument we can demolish every argument that sets itself against the knowledge of the Lord if we are ready with the answers would you stand with me please do you do you believe in the love of of The Power of Love do you love your enemy Jesus is in love with Muslims with Buddhist with Jewish with everybody that they doesn't know him that they don't believe in him he is in love with them and he commanded us to to love them and to to extend the love of God to them to serve to feed to embrace to hug to touch and then to pray and to cry and to intercede for the impossible to become possible for signs and wonders to happen for visions and dreams are you ready to use your hand to extend the love to use your knees to believe that Jesus is ready to do whatever we ask in his name for his glory are you equipped by knowing the truth in a very logical biblical way ready to answer everyone and to convince them and prove to them that what we believe in in what we believe in is very logical very scientific very appropriate very practical it works it works raise your hand and pray with me Lord I'm ready this is the mission month I want to be sent I want to be used by you use my hand use my knees use my lips use my hand to serve use my knees to pray lose my tongue to confess and to tell the truth to win every argument for the knowledge of the Lord would you spend time in prayer can I hear you praying out loudly God use me God use me would you say that out loudly God use me God use my hands God use my knees God use my lips the word is waiting for the church to rise up Jesus is calling us for such a time like this to be his Witnesses changing the course of history in our Nations and in the whole world while the whole world driving himself crazy to destruction Jesus is the Hope and the church is the body of Christ the hope of the world good day CCI family welcome to Sunday fast track where you ask real life questions and we give you biblical truths I'm Hakim W from CCF Beyond and we're here today with Dr Reverend Samy Morris the senior pastor of kaser el dbara Evangelical Church in Egypt to answer some of your questions hi Pastor Samy hello praise God for what God has been doing in Egypt how are you Pastor uh I'm fine praise God so for question number one yes you mentioned that when Jesus says in John CH 14: 13-14 it says ask anything in my name and it will be done for you this is in relation to us doing what Jesus did what are some practical ways we can develop this kind of prayer life first of all to believe that it's a real promise if we are eager to see God's glory if we believe that he is there to answer our request for his glory I think this will drive us crazy to pray number two such a prayer uh uh needed to be in in groups together we need to encourage one another uh to hold our hands together to strengthen the face of one another and to cry out to the to the Lord number three try to forget about yourself as long as you are focusing on yourself you will pray for yourself you will not develop this spirit that we want Jesus to do what he was doing and even greater things and by not focusing on ourselves and and and praying The Lord's Prayer that our father your name will be hollowed that your kingdom will come that you will will be done when we focus on him and his kingdom I think we will develop such a spirit of right prayers wonderful thank you Pastor Samy for question number two what are some helpful ways we can have healthy discussions with people who don't believe the same things as we do love genuine love the unconditional love will build Bridge having a discussion without the expression of love will make it debate we are not debating we are giving witness if they see the love of God in our eyes if they feel the warmth of our love in our hands by serving them in humility I think this will open the discussion from a different perspective that not we are against one another that we I don't want to defeat you or to defeat me uh I mentioned about the this a that came to defeat me I said I said I cannot defeat you because you're a pastor and you cannot believe in what I believe I said we are not trying to defeat one another we are trying to find the truth together so when we stand on the same ground we can reach the same goal when we stand against one another we will lose him he will be defending he will be um as if it's a war it's not a war it's together we are trying to find the truth thirdly ask him the proper questions to let him think let him think in a logical way because what what we we believe that in The Logical way we reach the truth the truth and being logical it's the same it's the the the two sides of the same coin when we uh think in in our emotions we will not reach anywhere help him to think in a very logical way wonderful thank you Pastor Samy for question number three a CCF we are a church community living in a free country that is allowed to exercise our beliefs without much restriction what can we do even today to help followers of Christ in more restricted countries like your own you can do a lot first of all you can pray with us not for us I I mean this pray with us for Jesus to go before us and open the way pray with us this crazy prayer because he is ready to be sent praying for us that God will protect us will use us it's much more than that it's not our protection or being guided when he stretches his hand great things will happen Beyond being uh a preserved do you understand what I'm saying second and this is very important you as Filipino well known worldwide MH as being humble honest modest serving well can I tell you a story yes okay a Filipino doctor decided to go to Saudi Arabia as a h house manager to serve in a house to manage a house of a highly ranked Cudi Arabia man and family she went there she stayed there one day he decided to rape her to harass her sexually and she stood in front of him by the name of the Lord don't touch me at once he became paralyzed he couldn't move his hands or his legs wow he took in a couch he stayed like that four days he begged her please free me free me no until you Proclaim that this is the name of Christ until you promise that you will not touch me he could see the power of the name of Christ in her at last she said okay in the Name of Christ be free at once he was healed he believed in Christ he was baptized wow look how much you can do you can go into places nobody else can do you are the best nurses everywhere you are you can be the best missionaries you are accepted by everybody you are not intimidating anybody do you understand what I'm saying you have a lot to do use the gift that gave you the freedom that you have here the church with this size can you imagine theur church with this size nothing like this maybe even in the states M to bless the Nations that they need you as a fellow brothers in Christ to come alongside and to reach the unreached wonderful thank you so much Pastor s welcome and for all your answers it's amazing they're all amazing and also for kickstarting CCF missions month thank you so much Pastor welcome brother we'd also like to invite everyone to join us at the CCF Center for the next two Sundays as we continue our series on making disciples of all Nations know more about missions by scanning the QR code below or visiting CCF bond.org and that's it for CCF Sunday FasTrack happy missions month e