Dreams and Visions

I attended a workshop way back in 1975 where an Episcopal Pastor held up a Bible with holes cut on almost every page. Why would he do that? What was his goal?

The answer is coming later.

I am reproducing a story that comes in a newsletter called Joel News from Holland. It is ma monthly message that reports what God is doing around the world. Take a look at it.

Dear reader,

In Tehran, the capital of Iran, thousands of Muslims have become Jesus followers over the last months. They gather illegally in house churches. This is reported by Iranian pastor Mahim Mousapour, living in exile in Germany. Iranian friends have told her that Jesus appeared to people in dreams, and in a number of cases sick people were surprisingly healed.

The new believers in Iran take courage and speak about their faith more publicly. Mousapour estimates that in Tehran alone there are now more than 100,000 Christians. At the same time, the oppression is increasing. Muslims who confess Jesus are arrested and tortured without any reason. Some of them are missing without a trace.

Over the past months many readers ordered the DVD 'More Than Dreams' with real stories of Muslims who met Jesus in dreams and visions. One of these is Khosrow, an Iranian teenager, who described his experience vividly as "waves of electricity flowed through my body over and over again. I wept for the first time since I was a child and joy filled my heart."

We still have a number of DVDs left and your donation will help us support the work in the Middle East. More information:

http://www.joelnews.org/presents.htm

Be blessed and be a blessing!

Marc van der Woude
joelnews.org

This is an exciting story that shows some of what God is up to in the Muslim world. It is very encouraging and tells me that God is inviting Himself into the societies controlled by Islam.

Now, back to my story about the Pastor who held up a Bible riddled with holes. He was showing what the Bible would be like if we deleted every passage that mentioned the supernatural in healing, dreams, visions, prophesies, etc. It would shrink by least 1/3.

The move in America and Western Europe is to aggressively attack and oppressively hold down the Supernatural aspects of Christianity. When we Christians lay down and go along with the secularists we are agreeing with a greatly reduced Biblical message.