{"id":16460,"date":"2021-09-14T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/?post_type=prayerline&#038;p=16460"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:01:22","slug":"waiting-for-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"prayerline","link":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/waiting-for-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block block-core-html\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waiting for your friends\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=j8nyb-10cf0b3-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=3267a3\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is hard watching your friends reject the gospel repeatedly. But in\u00a0his\u00a0timing, God can open their eyes.\u00a0Jos\u00e9, a student at the University of Barcelona,\u00a0recounts a surprising\u00a0phone call he received from his classmate\u00a0in the middle of\u00a0the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring my college years I&nbsp;often&nbsp;prayed&nbsp;for my friends and classmates. But many&nbsp;times,&nbsp;my prayers seemed to bear no fruit. Or at least the fruit did not come in the way that I expected. I was so frustrated by my friends\u2019 refusals to attend&nbsp;evangelical events or activities with&nbsp;me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So,&nbsp;I was surprised&nbsp;when this year&nbsp;I got&nbsp;a&nbsp;call from&nbsp;my&nbsp;classmate&nbsp;Andr\u00e9s. He&nbsp;had&nbsp;never&nbsp;shown&nbsp;any&nbsp;interest in Christianity, but suddenly he wanted to talk about&nbsp;faith.&nbsp;I discovered that&nbsp;he&nbsp;was not entirely&nbsp;opposed&nbsp;to God or the&nbsp;Bible but&nbsp;had turned away for various reasons.&nbsp;He&nbsp;had realized that&nbsp;it was time&nbsp;to get close to God again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So,&nbsp;I suggested that we start an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scriptureengagement.ifesworld.org\/2014\/10\/uncover-introducing-your-friends-to-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uncover<\/a>&nbsp;Bible study. At the beginning, I was a bit nervous.&nbsp;<em>Would&nbsp;his&nbsp;questions be too simple or&nbsp;too philosophical?&nbsp;<\/em>But the Lord surprised me again.&nbsp;My classmate was very happy with the study. Andr\u00e9s told me that the Uncover&nbsp;design and structure were particularly appealing to him, very different from what is usually associated with the &#8220;traditional&#8221; idea of&nbsp;Bible study.&nbsp;While the questions seemed simple at first, they led&nbsp;to much more complex discussions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By reading the&nbsp;gospel we discovered together the person of Jesus: who&nbsp;he&nbsp;is,&nbsp;his mission,&nbsp;and what&nbsp;he&nbsp;wants to&nbsp;tell us today.&nbsp;Thanks to the studies and their questions we were able to discuss how these passages challenge us and our lives. We also&nbsp;talked&nbsp;about current issues and&nbsp;our role as Christians in the modern world. We discussed&nbsp;topics like&nbsp;the meaning of life, our pursuit of happiness,&nbsp;and the constant preoccupation with pleasing and seeking fame.&nbsp;I thank God for granting me this opportunity to share&nbsp;his Word in such a practical way!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, pray for&nbsp;the&nbsp;students&nbsp;who are&nbsp;still&nbsp;waiting for their friends to become receptive to the gospel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-list\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pray&nbsp;for the non-believing students whose world has been turned upside down during the pandemic. Pray that they would reach out to their Christian friends for answers.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Pray for the Christian students who continue to walk with their nonbelieving friends, even when they reject the gospel.&nbsp;Pray that they would remain faithful in their witness and not lose hope for their friends.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-list\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pray for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scriptureengagement.ifesworld.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scripture Engagement<\/a>&nbsp;ministry&nbsp;of IFES. It equips students like&nbsp;Jos\u00e9&nbsp;to share Scripture with their friends&nbsp;in a way that is relevant, natural, and powerful. 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