T Y P O L O G Y of T H E IN THIS ISSUE:“ The ... - Moriel Ministries

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Dear Friends,
Greetings in the Name of Jesus. Much has
happened in March and April we would like
to share with you. These include the, Feast of
Purim and the Feast of the Passover. For both
events we were able to celebrate with Jewish
congregations. At the first congregation, Najeeb
spoke about the Book of Esther, it really was a
great joy and blessing.
On the March 21 st , we celebrated Mother’s
day in our congregation. We invited our beloved
sister, Ruth Nessim, and gave her a plaque to
honor her for all her love, care and support as a
mother to the members of the Immanuel Congregation.
We also invited a number of other
women whom very little interest is shown.
Some people even tried to prevent them from
coming on this occasion. Thank God they came,
they were blessed and encouraged by the message
and the humble gift that they received on
this special day.
Passover found us again at the Nahariya
Congregation with Sister Ruth and the members
of the congregation. She reports that we
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livened up the proceedings, and they are always
very joyful when we come. We took some
German guests with us, who also enjoyed the
occasion, seeing Jews, Arabs and strangers together
remembering the Exodus from Egypt,
and more importantly, Messiah’s sacrifice for
us in taking away our sins, and breaking down
the middle wall of partition between us, making
one new man!
This month was filled with visitors from
abroad, including students from the States, two
German families, another three students, and
two more men from Germany. We hosted some
of them in our small apartment, and it was really
a time of blessing. We had a wonderful time
together, full of love, harmony and encouragement
to focus on the Lord and serve Him. The
young people needed lot of help and direction
on how to lead their lives, and thank God we
were able to help them in this too.
Two families came to visit us in the Bookshop,
bringing greetings to us from another
German family. They were accompanied by
their daughter, a medical student who was doing
one month’s intensive course at the Rambam
Hospital, the largest hospital in Haifa.
They loved the bookshop, and were blessed
by our sharing. They accepted our invitation to
visit our home for cup of coffee, and it was very
good time, especially for the other couple who
were in need of lot of encouragement, particularly
the wife, who needed to stand strong in the
Lord. They were both members of the Lutheran
Church for many years, but after their son came
to know the Lord, they began to attend Baptist
Church, where their son is youth Pastor. They
attended there for about 10 years, but she had
not been baptized. Now they were wanting to
visit the Sea of Galilee, We encouraged them
to do so, gave them directions, prayed with
them and they went off happily. They called us
at night, asking if they could visit us straight
away. As they entered and began to share with
us, we saw that the woman was very tearful as
she related her experiences on the Sea of Galilee
tour, and that she had remembered at this
time, what we had told her about God’s love,
and how she should stand strong in the Lord,
and that each of us was called to serve the Lord
also. This had reached deep into her heart, and
she asked if she could get baptized and if Pastor
Najeeb would do this for her. After questioning
her about salvation and her understanding
of the Gospel, all of which she answered from
her heart, we agreed to baptize her and began
to prepare for the trip the next day, which happened
to be Sunday. We called some members
of our congregation to join us, it was a great
day of joy to baptize this woman in the Sea of
Galilee, as she so much wanted to be baptized
in Israel, and she was blessed by the Arabic
prayers and worship. She could not thank us
enough for this wonderful baptism. As Najeeb
and the lady emerged from the water, an Indian
man was standing there, and immediately asked
Pastor Najeeb to baptize him too.
Najeeb asked him:
1. “Do you believe that you are sinner and in
need of salvation?
2. “Do you believe that Jesus Christ died and
rose to give you salvation?
3. “Do you believe that he is Lord and that he is
the Son of God?”
To all these questions he answered “Yes”,
and then when asked why he wanted to be baptized,
he replied, “He is my Saviour and I want
to follow Him!”
After this they went down into the water,
with songs and worship. Heaven was full of joy
that day as two had accepted the Lord and followed
Him in Baptism, taking a gift instead of
buying one!
L. is Russian woman, who came into the
bookshop to buy gift to send to relative in Russia.
As we served her, we looked for way to
bring her the Gospel, and asked if she were of
Christian or Jewish background. She answered
that she was Christian, but she didn’t believe in
anything! Najeeb then told her that he could see
that she was carrying heavy burden on her back,
and had no hope of better life.
“What good life”, she rejoined, “There is
nothing good on this earth”
“You are absolutely wrong”, Najeeb replied,
“God is good, and He gave us salvation
that we might have a better life”.
“OK If God is good, then why does He let
people suffer?”
“God does not make people suffer. There
is verse in the Bible that says, “What so ever a
man sows, that shall he also reap”. Many times
we blame God for our situation and think that
He is the cause of everything, forgetting that we
often bring ourselves into this situation. If you
allow me to, I can pray for you.” She agreed
and Najeeb prayed aloud for her. Suddenly she
began to cry. Then we knew that something
had happened and God had touched her heart.
When Pastor Najeeb finished praying for her,
she began to tell us about her life, and shared
that she is not married and lives with her daughter,
and has no help in supporting her and has to
June 2010 • Moriel Quarterly