Day 18 - Universities

“We were watching you.” Marcos was excited and humbled as Farid began the tale of how he eventually came to Marcos to study the Word. Marcos had been working at the university for over a year. It allowed him to have contact and influence with current and future leaders from many Pashtun areas. Yet the months spent teaching lessons, drinking tea, and building relationships seemed to be only preparing the way for a harvest that was still many years away. Then one day between classes a young man pulled Marcos aside in the hall. He was nervous and speaking incoherently about something evidently of great importance to him. Marcos pulled him into the bathroom where he confided in a hurried whisper, “We want your way. There are two of us. This is hidden.” Now, as Marcos goes to the university and elsewhere, drinking tea and teaching lessons, he is prayerfully aware that others might also be watching, wanting, hidden.  

Some of the most open-minded as well as the most radical fundamentalists are on university campuses. The radical elements always appear to dominate and keep everyone else cowed.

 

Pray that: 

• Many educated and influential Pashtuns will come to Christ.
• Workers will go to every university campus in the Pashtun areas, who will lead people to respect and obey the Lord.  This is the beginning of knowledge. 
• Pray for wisdom, courage, and protection for faculty and students who wish to challenge powerful religious myths.

 

I Corinthians 16:9  For a wide door for effective service has been opened to me, and there are many adversaries.