Source: Frontiers USA, April 4, 2016
I hustled our children into the back seat of the taxi as Kevin climbed in the front seat. “Where are you from?” the driver asked.
“America,” Kevin said. “How about you?”
“I’m from Syria,” the driver responded.
“Oh. I prayed for your country this morning!” Kevin blurted out.
I cringed a little in the back seat at Kevin’s response. What was that emotion in me? Embarrassment? Shame? What did it matter if this taxi driver knew Kevin prayed? Why did I feel like hiding?
It was true after all. Kevin had spent a couple hours that morning, as he often did, in our team’s prayer room. And he had prayed for Syria.
Although I felt sheepish and not very brave about sharing our spiritual lives with this taxi driver, I look back and see that all it took was Kevin’s casual comment, and Tarek, the taxi driver, was hooked. We didn’t know it at the time, but that was the day Tarek’s pursuit of Jesus shifted into high gear…
» Full story is worth reading. Here’s my favorite line: “That first night with his new Bible, Tarek devoured a hundred pages of the Gospels.”
» See also another story about a taxi driver, Listener in Mongolia Becomes Volunteer Broadcaster (FEBC). And don’t forget to pray for the work of God in the Muslim world during Ramadan this year. It begins May 15. Check out resources from Frontiers, Prayercast, and of course 30 Days of Prayer.