Greetings Brothers and Sisters in the Lord,

First I would like to thank so much those who supported me and prayed for me as I undertook this trip. I never at anytime felt like I was in danger.

Everyone has been asking about my trip to Lebanon and how it went. It took me a bit to process all that happened in that fast 5 days. The highlights are that God is still on the throne and He will NOT share it with anyone. There is PEACE in the Middle East and it can and will ONLY come through Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace.

We met with some EX al-Qaeda, and EX Hezbollah members. As we were in the audience of these men who at one time were seeking to kill ALL that was NOT Muslim and adhere to there Ideology, I was amazed at how God and ONLY God could change a heart so radically. From deep hatred for Americans, Israelis, and Christians or anything NOT Muslim to PURE Love and respect for all humans which Jesus Christ had sacrifice His life for.

There is one Palestinian young man in particular I would like to tell you about, I will call him Seth. We had lunch with this man and he began to share with us how he was raised in a strict Muslim culture that cultivated hatred for all that was NOT Muslim and the way of his father who is still a part of the al-Qaeda network of hatred. He shared how his father would go for days on end to propagate this hatred for Israel and America . Seth felt that God had called him to be an Imam, (equivalent to priest in Christian religion). He shared how when in training at al-Qaeda camps he slept with 500 other young men in small rooms where they packed them in like sardines. If one moved they all felt it.

During his daily prayers Seth began to question if this ideology was from God at all. He asked himself the question "Why are we killing people for God?" During that time of searching for the truth he told us he had a vision from Jesus. From that incident he received Jesus into his heart. Seth was baptized in the Holy Spirit and his life was changed. The cold stone of a heart for ALL that was NOT Muslim changed to a soft warm heart of PURE Love for ALL Mankind.

Seth then fled to Lebanon to escape persecution from his family, friends and ex al-Qaeda members for his change of beliefs and was in Cyprus when he met some Messianic Jews. He told them his story and they all gathered around him and washed his feet. Here is the PEACE in the Middle East .

Be Blessed!

Michael

P.S. Keep praying for the young Muslim men, every where we went there are many who are seeing visions and having dreams and coming to Christ.

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