I could not keep my eyes off his name tag. The check-out clerk did not look Middle Eastern, but his name tag read, “Ramadan.” I knew Muslims fast during daylight hours for thirty days during the month of Ramadan.

“I have never seen anyone with that name,” I observed. “Is that your faith?”

“Yes,” Ramadan replied. “I was born during Ramadan.”

Since I knew Muslims have a great respect for Isa (Jesus), I offered him the Who is He mini-CD. Also, because I wondered whether Ramadan would be interested in printed material, I felt confident he would check out this small powerhouse tool. The minis-CD has an entire Bible, apologetics, the Gospel in 27 languages and more!)

You can also have a part in reaching Muslims for Christ through praying for them. TODAY begins the month-long observance of Ramadan. Since 1992, various groups have encouraged Christians to pray each day for the lost Muslims of the world during Ramadan. You can receive daily prayer requests through e-mail from this site or, if you prefer, go to this other site and click on a calendar for the prayer requests of that day.

Muslims are open and hungry for the Gospel and many are coming to Christ. According to Joel Rosenberg, more Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus today than in any other time in history. He also reported on a radio broadcast with Focus on the Family that the believers coming from Muslim backgrounds numbered 500 in Iran in 1979, the year the Ayatollah Khomeini took over. Because of his radicalism, many Muslims were disillusioned so that today, more than 1 million Iranians from a Shiite background have come to faith!

When the doors seemed to close to missionaries, the doors never closed for God!

According to 30-days.net, “80% of new Christians in South Asia come to Christ as a direct result of supernatural encounters. More than half of new believers in Iran have had a dream or vision of Jesus and at least 35% of all recent Turkish conversions were in response to a dream and/or vision.”

God promised people would see visions as we draw close to the Day of the Lord. (See Joel 2: 28 – 29. I just read today about an entire village that had a vision of Christ in the clouds which prepared their hearts for a “Jesus” film showing.)

Your love and prayers can change our world!

“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. . . For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have?” ~ Matthew 4:44, 46a