Once Nadalla left Islam to follow Christ, he knew it would be risky to share the gospel. Yet he did it anyway. Through fiery persecution, Nadalla led hundreds of Muslims to Jesus in the Middle East. His powerful story amplifies what it means to be a Christ-follower. If you believe what the Bible declares—that God is calling a great multitude of people to be His own—this episode will awaken you to the wonderful, breathtaking privilege of being an Ambassador for Christ.
Once Nadalla left Islam to follow Christ in the Middle East, he knew it would be risky to share the gospel. Yet he did it anyway. Through fiery persecution, Nadalla led hundreds of Muslims to Jesus. His powerful story amplifies what it means to be a Christ-follower. If you believe what the Bible declares—that God is calling a great multitude of people to be His own—this episode will awaken you to the wonderful, breathtaking privilege of being an Ambassador for Christ.
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Renod:
Have you ever held back from sharing your faith, especially with people of other faiths and cultures? Welcome to the iHOPE Empowers Podcast. I'm your host Renod Bejjani and here's a fresh dose of inspiration and road-tested principles that will embolden you to share Jesus with Muslims and other non-believers.
Hello and welcome back. You're going to love today's guests. Two weeks ago you heard Nadalla's amazing testimony of how God saved him. This time you'll hear the remarkable ways God is using him to save so many others. His story will inspire you to be more fruitful for God and therefore glorify God.
But first, let's begin with five important passages of scriptures about why this is so important for you and me. Here's the first one. Jesus says in John 15:8, "By this, my Father is glorified. That you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples." Friend, how much fruit would you say you're bearing? Also, did you know that this is interconnected to the creation and the wonderful word God assigned to us before sin?
Let's check out the second set of scriptures together in Genesis 1:27-28 It says, "So God created man in His own image. In the image of God, He created him, male and female He created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."
Did you catch that? God's first command and assignment to us was to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth with image-bearers. That's God's primary purpose for you and me on earth.
When Jesus came, with Him came the new covenant in the New Testament. And there now we are to be fruitful and multiply spiritually. We see throughout the New Testament with Jesus, the disciples, the apostles, the early church, and throughout history, that being fruitful and multiplying spiritually is difficult work. Challenging, filled with trials and tribulations, but oh so worth it as you'll see today.
And as we'll see through the next three passages of scriptures, what scripture promises you and me in 1 Corinthians 9:25 and 1 Peter Chapter 1 verse four. In summary, these verses promise you a reward for your faithful obedience and inheritance and a crown that will last forever with never-ending glory and honor all kept for you in heaven.
Our guest today Nadalla is twenty-five years old. He has been glorifying the Father since he was a teenager by bearing much fruit and proving to be a follower of Jesus. For Nadalla, It began with him hearing about a one-sentence gospel from a Christian who he has never met.
Now imagine the surprise of this unknown Christian man, when God reveals to him that his sharing the Gospel that one time to one Muslim has led to tens of thousands of Muslims hearing the Gospel through Nadalla and hundreds of them believing in and becoming followers of Jesus through Nadalla. And that's only so far. Only God knows how fruitful all of this will end up being. Imagine the eternal joy that man will know as he discovers how fruitful he truly was and how much he glorified the father with his one faithful act of obedience. Nadalla before you became a follower of Jesus, you describe your life as darkness, depression, hopelessness, and sinfulness. How has your life transformed after accepting Jesus?
Nadalla:
Well, this is a big challenge for me and all those when I remember that I said, Lord, thank you for your mercy and your grace is changing me before I became a Christian. That was my life in darkness. A lot of depression because I didn't have joy. I didn't have hope, but after I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what I like to speak. I don't like to speak about the darkness. I want to speak for the after I accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Even from the first day, I feel that nature is different. The building is different. The people are different. Usually, I wake up every day with a cigarette, with strong Arabic coffee, but from the first day I wake up, I feel I'm light, I'm a different person, even my cousin and other people, they thought I'm sick because I don't do the bad things before, like going with girls, having a cigarette or other thing to smoke, going to drink alcohol or all these things. And they say man are sick? Why you don't do this thing with us?
Renod:
So God transformed your life. It is dangerous and risky to share Jesus with Muslims in Africa and Asia, including the Middle East where you were. So did you start sharing Jesus with Muslims? And if you did, why did you do that? Why did you risk your life to share Jesus with Muslims there?
Nadalla:
I have this gift, the Church notes that they said, Nadalla, we noticed you have this gift to share the love of God with the people. And I said, honestly, I don't know. They said we noticed that everyone, every new person they come into the church, you go the first one, sharing what God's doing in your life and how God changed your life. And you're sharing the love of God. You're sharing the mercy of God in the Bible, the peace of God in your heart. And they said, we see you when you go to a restaurant when you go to lunch your praying with a loud voice, and you want the people to notice that you are a follower of Jesus Christ. It is a super risk in the Middle East, in Lebanon, not like that. In other Middle East countries like in Lebanon, it has cost you to lose your family, to lose your friends, to lose money, but not losing your life, but it's still costing. But in Syria, that cost you to lose your family, your life, and everything. They tried to kill me like 22 times just because I said, I'm a Christian. I left Islam.
Renod:
What motivated you to risk so much to share Jesus with others?
Nadalla:
First, the gift from God to share the love of God with other people. Second, the first Muslim accepts the Lord through me it is my older brother, but now he's home with the Lord. The third, it is the Bible. All of the Bible speak about the authority of the Lord, Jesus Christ in earth and heaven for that every day I said, Lord, I know you have all the authority for that I want to share your life because I came from the darkness to your light. I need everyone to explain that you are the only real God.
Renod:
God saved us. He created us originally and said, Be fruitful and multiply. That was His first command. And then spiritually He saves us and He still tells us, well, go be fruitful and multiply spiritually. In other words, God saves us and wants to save others through us. And you know, I always am amazed at that. God doesn't need us to do anything. He could have created billions and trillions of people in a second, by speaking them into existence. Instead, He started with two and said, go be fruitful and multiply. The same thing spiritually. God can just reveal Himself and instantly everybody will have to make a decision. But instead, God gives you and me that pleasure, that opportunity to be participants in His work of creation spiritually, it says be fruitful and multiply. All right so now Nadalla before you would go out seeking Muslims to share Jesus with them, what did you do to prepare.
Nadalla:
Every day I'm praying. I said, Lord, I'm praying for new people to share your love with them. And every day I said, Lord, I need someone new to share with him what you've done in my life. And after that I said, Lord, I know you have all the authority in earth and heaven. I know I'm gonna do something. Maybe, someone hit me, someone tried to smash my head like a few times happened bad, but every day I said, Lord, give me someone to share with him, your mercy and your grace.
Renod:
And that's so important for me to understand, and that is that you prayed for divine appointments. You realized what God had asked you to do. Just like he's asking me and the listener and you prayed for divine appointments. That is so key. And then you shared your testimony, but besides sharing your testimony, what God did for you, what else did you do as you shared with Muslims?
Nadalla:
Sometimes I starting with my testimony. Like multiple times I would start with that. But sometimes I'm praying with the people in the name of Jesus Christ. And they noticed something when I'm praying. They noticed something different than most of them, they say, okay, we want to know more about the prayer about God. I heard that from many people, they said the first time we feel God is around us when we praying. It is our first time in our life. Sometimes I'm sharing with them, the gospel of John, because I will show them the personality of Jesus Christ as God. Not just Jesus Christ, not just as the Messiah because they don't know Jesus Messiah.
Renod:
Very important lessons for all of us. You did the fundamentals. You loved God enough to do what Jesus says. If you love Me, you'll obey My commandments. You loved God enough to do the two greatest commandments. Not just love God but love others. So you risk things because of that love in order to share your faith. So you shared the Gospel, you prayed with them in Jesus' Name. You love them by doing so. You prayed with them. You shared the Bible with them. These are what I call the Five Essentials the fundamentals that Jesus did. The disciples did and throughout history, that's what helps us be fruitful and multiply.
So for the listener, I would say we have these resources available for you to see these things right on our website. ihopeministries.org, and you will see free resources on these basic fundamentals. So for the listener, your testimony will look different than Nadalla's. So I want to just share with you my testimony and your testimony looks different than mine, but I want to equip you with a testimony. So it might not be the same as Nadalla's, but here's mine, for example. Oh, I used to hate Muslims because I was persecuted by Muslims. But after I believed and I had surrendered my life to Jesus Christ, God removed all that anger and hate from my heart and replaced it for love for Muslims.
For a lot of our iHOPE audience, their testimony might look like this. It might be this way for you listener. I was afraid of Muslims or I didn't care about Muslims, but now God has put His love for Muslims in my heart. And that's why I'm talking with you, my friend. So your testimony can be as little as 10-15 seconds like that to make it specific for the listener. So don't be intimidated by these epic testimonies like Nadalla's. But you have a testimony and it can be used along with the five fundamentals. All right. So Nadalla you shared your faith with Muslims, you practice these fundamentals just by instinct. Now, how receptive were Muslims? What percentage would you guess were open to this good news?
Nadalla:
Sometimes from the hundred people I spoke in a week, I see like 15 people or 15 person's and they responded. They like to know more because they know something different. Some of them they noticed that. All of them, they not there are different or there's a power in the prayer on the name of Jesus Christ. But most of them, they said, okay, good luck thank you. Some of them said, okay, we need to know more information. And this is the 15% from the 100 they came, they said, we need more information how we can come to the Church, how we can know more about Jesus. Sometimes I'm bringing them to my Church or send them to a Church, close to their house or their own.
Renod:
So the other 85% didn't seem to be open, but you planted seeds. And it could have been just that unknown Christian that planted a seed with your cousin. You just don't know where God will use it. So those 85 are not necessarily lost. You just don't know how the Lord will use it, but you were faithful. But the Lord blessed you with 10, 15% that responded, that responded. That is wonderful. Praise God for that. Now from that 15%, did any of them in the Middle East except Christ?
Nadalla:
Yes. When they noticed something and they see something different than when we teach them about the personality of Jesus Christ as God, especially from the gospel of John, when they reading the gospel and they go on to read Matthew and Luke and Mark, and they see the teaching of the Lord, Jesus Christ. They say we cannot just say Jesus Christ is Messiah. They said Jesus is our Lord. After they reading the Bible and they understand the teaching of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Renod:
So they say we can't help it, but to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, praise God! About how many would you say during your years there as a teenager into your early twenties, about how many Muslims would you say surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ?
Nadalla:
In Lebanon, more than 775 people. I was counting 2018 March. After that, I didn't count because I see there's much grace. I said, Lord, this is not mine, because I'm not smart. This is your mercy, your grace saves these people.
Renod:
I know as I met you in 2015 and the Lord gave us the opportunity to serve together for a little bit at a Gospel Center, which served as a Church what we would normally know here as a Church, but over there for a variety of legal purposes within the country, it was considered a center, but it served like a Church. So in these centers, what happened in these centers? How many centers did you end up planting and being part of?
Nadalla:
I thank the Lord to use me to plant in Lebanon, three Gospel Centers and I love in-house churches. But I love to share about one of the centers in a city called Tripoli in North Lebanon. They call it the council of the Muslim people because there is no Christian ministry from 1973 in this city. Until the Lord use me in 2015 to start the center. And I thank the Lord 85 families they came and accepted the Lord as a Lord and Savior. And after that, the Muslim people, they noticed there is a challenge. The many people come into the center, they worshiping the Lord. They convinced Jesus Christ is our Lord and our Savior. And they love to share God's love with others. And they said, okay, we will kill this man. And they trying to kill me about the three times I went to the hospital. The first time they smashed my head, they take a rock to smash my head, but I thank the Lord I still alive. In the second two times inside the center, two men came with a wooden stick and they tried to hit me. And I went to the hospital. I think one of the times I called you from Lebanon to say, I'm in the hospital this is what happened to me. And a little bit, uh, not angry, not discouraged, but a little bit. Why God I'm serving you? why this has happened. But the third time I called you, I said, I was still sharing the gospel with these people. But two months after that, the government of Lebanon decided to close the Gospel Center because they say there are many problems in this city, we don't need these problems, but I love what happened from the people. They respond, okay, we don't have a center or a Church to meet in, but our house is open. Please come to our house. Every three or four families in one house we meet during the week every day like three preaching or three meetings in three different houses there are three or four families in the house. And this is one of the centers in Lebanon.
Renod:
I remember those days. And in that city, it was definitely dangerous. It had been decades where any gospel outreach people were either killed centers were burnt down churches, anywhere where they were outreach-oriented. And God blessed you with that. And I remember one of those days when you did call me from the hospital, and by the way, just for the listeners, a wooden stick would be the equivalent you were referring to beating you with a wooden stick. Let me just paraphrase that for our American or our English-speaking listener and that is that it's equivalent of a baseball bat. They're trying to basically end your life with a baseball bat and from the hospital, when you called and you were discouraged, I was in my morning devotionals because of the time difference between Lebanon and where I was here in North America. And I was reading in the book of Acts where Paul was being so persecuted for sharing the faith. And then you were discouraged and I was just praying for you. And we prayed as a team for you after that, just realizing how much risk and persecution you were suffering for sharing your faith. But we were feeling convicted here in North America that we don't have to face such things. Yet people are reluctant to share their faith. But anyhow, then another time you called, I was still another morning in my morning devotional. And I was reading in the book of Acts, how they had stoned Paul threw him out of the city thinking he was dead, but then other disciples came around him and within a day they helped him and he went right back into that city. And in the middle of me reading that passage, I see your call coming in on the phone. And I thought, oh no, what happened now? What did they do to my Nadalla. And instead, you called yes, you were hit again. You were in the hospital again, but this time there was this resolve in your voice, there was this strength. It's like you were saying something to the effect. Well, even as they are hitting me and killing me, I'm going to keep sharing the gospel. And if they don't kill me, I'm going to keep sharing it until everybody hears. When I was hearing that, that was the spirit that I was reading the Apostle Paul having in the book of Acts. And it was very inspiring to me Nadalla to hear you say that. And it was very convicting at the same time, but it's interesting that despite these oppositions, it's interesting that the people themselves, they saw what was happening to you. They saw the threats to the center, but they still invited you to their homes. And they opened up what we would call here, underground Churches, house Churches, just because of the threat of persecution. So even though it is not dangerous for a Muslim in Lebanon to lose their life, at least not legally, it's still dangerous. Describe the dangers in a place like Lebanon for a Muslim to accept Christ.
Nadalla:
They said, we are a free country, but the people they said if we are afraid of the government, we are not free from our religion. And you have to lose something because there's commencement in the Koran. If you lift Islam or you are converted from Islam, you will be killed. Because you are a shame to the family and you are a shame to the religion.
Renod:
Wow. So despite this danger, why do you think they still opened up their homes for underground Churches? Why did they still share their faith with others?
Nadalla:
To speak about one man, his age at 65 years old. And he said, I live all my life with darkness, but I thank the Lord when I met you and you share with me the lie and the Gospel and the Lord, He changed me. And the first time I feel I'm like a baby. I sleep like a baby. And I have feeling like a baby. And I love everyone. I didn't have that in all my age, 65 years. But now I do that because the Lord change me. And I need the people, to bring that the living God, He can change him. And I have no problem if I go home because all of them are 65 years old.
Renod:
And going home, you mean he has no problem being killed or sharing because he gets to go and be with the Lord. And that attitude reflects a lot of Muslims that do not all, but a lot of them that do accept Jesus Christ over there. And they feel compelled to share that love because the love of Christ compels them to share it with others so they can get out of that darkness. Now in the summer of 2018, God miraculously opened the door for you to go to Canada. And right before that, you were still sending me pictures of you going into house churches in Lebanon. And one time you had shared that a group of people was threatening you, that you should stop going to that family that you were ministering to. And you had shared a story with me that you were attacked. Again, this time the guy was beating you with sticks, trying to break your knees. Tell us the story of what happened with that family as you were leaving that night. And what was the response? Tell us the story.
Nadalla:
I used to minister with a Kurdish family. They speak Arabic for sure. And they are not very, uh, religious in Islam. And I go into the man and his wife and a second floor and her brother in the first floor. And one time he came, you cannot go to this family to minister them, to share Jesus Christ with them because we are Muslim. I told them, my friend, I was a Muslim, but the Lord He changed me. I have no problem with the Muslim people, but I'm a Christian. I have a problem with that Islam because they didn't change me. The Islamic religion didn't change me. And I invite you to read the Bible. And we read in the Koran to see the Lord Jesus Christ. And you say, this is the last time I see you here. If next time I see you here, I will show you. It does mean I will do something bad to you. The next two or three days I went there because we have a Bible Study and I forgot what happened because I have a lot of like that. We will kill you. We will do something for you. We will show you. But I forgot because I believe God. He has all the authority I went there. And he takes the wooden stick and he tried to broken my knees. I went in the hospital. I had some medical things, but after that, I went the home again to share the faith. And he asked me one simple question, why you didn't report me to the bullies? I told them because I love you. Because God, He loves you. And one time we talk about the love of Jesus. And he heard that and he came, he says, can I be in the Bible study? And he came to the Bible study after four weeks, he confessed Jesus Christ as my Lord.
Renod:
Praise God, praise God. So the persecutor became a believer. Like a Paul who was persecuting the church. And then he became a believer. But your response to him hitting, you, stood out to him. I remember a funny part of that. I think the family came after him. You were sharing with me. I think the females in the family came in their shoes, trying to beat him on the head to stop him from hitting you. Way to go girls, way to go girls fighting with the weapon they had their shoes to try to defend you Nadalla. That is wonderful. All right, well, God, then miraculously opened the door for you. You went to Canada there you've planted three church groups among Muslims in the last two years you've been there. Tell us about the fruit there. How has been the response of Muslims in Canada to you?
Nadalla:
First I'm in Canada because the Lord He did a miracle. You know, within 23 days, all the documents, papers were done and I've been in Canada. But when I came to Canada as a witness for the Lord, Jesus Christ, I cannot stop talking, stop sharing. And I feel there's like a fire in my heart. I want to share the gospel. I went to the English school because I wanted to speak English. I want to learn English at school. I found many Arabic people right there at the start within the break between the classes, sharing the gospel with some people. This is was in Kingston, Ontario for six months. I thank the Lord there are eight people. They became a follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ. One of them, he brings his wife in sharing the gospel with her, became a Christian. I led these people with that Church because they know English enough. They understand the Bible, the preaching in English. And I moved to Oakville, Ontario.
Renod:
So in Kingston, in that six months period, you led eight Muslims to Christ. And sounds like some of them immediately started reproducing and they were plugged into the local church there. And then you went to another area called Oakville I believe? Tell us about that.
Nadalla:
I went to Oakville, Ontario I started working in the restaurant, but as a witness for the Lord, Jesus Christ, I cannot stop. Even the owner a few times he told me. Nadalla if you speak about Jesus, please go find another place to work. But I cannot tell because the sharing of the gospel that is life starts for me, I started sharing the Gospel with the Arabic customers because we speak the same language and they asked me, please, can you give me something extra? I said, yes, this is my business card. I love to meet on Saturday or Sunday because this is my weekend. And this is my free days from the work. And I have something special. I want to tell you. And we go for a coffee, sharing the Gospel and I thank the Lord, within nine months, there are 45 people. They accepted the Lord as Lord and Savior. Most of them are from a Muslim background.
Renod:
Praise God, praise God. So that's some of the things I want the listener. I want myself as well to take note of, and that is sharing your faith and practicing these fundamentals is a lifestyle. And regardless, whether you are as a Pastor, as a Church planter, or whether you were working as a dishwasher in a restaurant or a cook at a restaurant or a cashier, it was a lifestyle. And that's something that the listener, myself we can all learn from. Now in North America. It's not likely that a Muslims will lose their life if they accept and follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But what are the common costs for a Muslim to follow Christ Jesus here in North America?
Nadalla:
Okay, let me share a testimony for a sister, her name, Laura from a Muslim background. She accepts the Lord through sharing my testimony with her in Oakville, Ontario. She just got baptized five months ago. She's a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sister Laura, she has three children. Her husband has family here. When she went home, she said, I met with someone who's Syrian, but he's in Canada. He became a Christian and his father is a Muslim Sheikh and he studied the Sharia Attalla. He gives me many notes about the Quran, but he loves to share with me the love of Jesus Christ. And they said, Laura, listen, we are Muslim. We do not accept that. Even if we are in a free country, we still have our religious limits or lives. She said, okay. And after that, she calls me again I want to know more about Jesus Christ. I share with her more from the Bible, not just my testimony or bring with her. And she became a Christian and that forced her to her family. They left her and said go out because we are a Muslim family and this is a Muslim home. Her husband divorced her, and he got his children and he said, you will never see the children, but at the same time she still has peace, she still has the joyful from the Lord. She still has peace from the Lord. And she said I'm a Christian, even if that costs me everything. As a mom, as a wife, I feel like I have this human feeling that is not good, but I find the Lord because His love covering everything.
Renod:
Wow. What an amazing testimony. But it reflects the cost, the cost that it could happen. So with this Muslim woman, her family kicked her out of the house. Her husband divorced her. She didn't have the money or the resources to fight him. She basically lost her children to him. That's a heavy cost. That's very, very difficult. But despite the pain, it sounds like that she was feeling, she ended up at that, Jesus was worth it. Because of the eternal glory that she has with him. But also because she is being a witness to her children just by the act of their father, divorcing her, her family kicking her out of the house, leaving her alone. All of those things are a witness to her kids as they grow up. You wonder why and prayerfully that will lead them to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. So now you are on your third Church plant or church group and another area in Ontario, but you also have Voice Of Faith radio program. Did I get that name right?
Nadalla:
Yes. Right before became planting the third Church and last year 2020 during the pandemic of coronavirus, the Lord called me to do something online. I had just the basic preaching and Facebook, but day by day, I see the people online more. And I started the Voice Of Faith online radio. Now I thank the Lord. Every month we have many people except the Lord. At least the three or four from countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Iraq, or Kuwait. There are more than 100 emails every week we got from the people. Now listener to the live stream there is 80,000 people. They listen to the radio from the worldwide, especially in the Middle East. After that, the Lord opened the door and February 2021 to starting the third church of Lantern and Kitchner Ontario. And now we thank the Lord we have 25 people in the meeting and we have a prayer meeting and we have planning to start next year by God's grace meeting in the church building as a regular Church.
Renod:
Wow. Praise God, praise God. Before I share my last thoughts. Well, I would like for you to share a story. You shared a couple before so just share a story with me of someone who heard you on the radio. And after a while, just contacted you and said, okay, I'm ready. So share with us one story from somebody who accepted Jesus through the Voice Of Faith Radio.
Nadalla:
I love to share two stories if I have a time because one of them is surprising me. In my hometown, I lived in from many years ago through the Voice of Faith online radio you one person from my hometown in Syria. He listened for a Voice Of Faith and he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. This has happened three months ago, and I have a contact from someone and they say, we are 15 people in your hometown because you left our hometown and you became a Christian. And because your brother accepting Jesus Christ cost his life. And we have many questions before just we thank you because you have this online broadcast to share with us the love of God. And I believe one day I will be in my hometown in Syria and we have a church there now 15 people. But, I believe in, I see in my spiritual eyes there's 15,000, not just the 15 persons. And this is one from the Voice Of Faith not just in Canada this is worldwide. The second story I love to share for a man from Saudi Arabia, he's studying at Toronto University. Someone he shared with his cousin. We met someone from Syria he was a Muslim he accepts the Lord as Lord and Savior. But his cousin is studying at the University of Toronto. He said, oh, we have an Arabic friend from Saudi Arabia. He going to tell him, listen, I met my cousin and he told me about someone from Syria. He accepts the Lord Jesus Christ and he left Islam. And I don't know why you are living the Islamic life here. And we are in a free country. And this man, he started studying the Quran in the Bible to show me there is no hope in the Bible, but the hope through the prophet Mohammad and Islam. But after three months or four months, he studying the Bible and the Quran he said, I cannot say Jesus is not Lord. Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and he's not just the Lord. He is my Lord. And He is my Savior. And he, because he searched about me and he got my name, he's searching in the online. He saw Voice Of Faith. He listened for many preaching and many Bible Study there. And he connected with me. He said, listen before I hit you. But now we are brothers because the Lord He changed me. Before I see your broadcast in the online. Even I read the Bible and I want to show you. There's no hope in the Bible, but I find the hope in the Bible, not in the Quran.
Renod:
So he hated you before, but now he loves you. I love it. Nadalla I love you too eb-nee
Nadalla:
Thank you I love you too.
Renod:
You call me Baba that means father. I call you eb-nee that means son. Just for the listener to understand what is this language, they are talking. Do you have any final thoughts you would like to share before I close us out today?
Nadalla:
I always encourage everyone as a Christian, as the Lord He changes lives. Share your faith with the other nations Share your faith with the other cultures. Muslim, Hindu, Sikh. Just share your faith because maybe in one word from your conversation with him, the Lord gives back to his life. And he began to ask you about the Lord Jesus Christ. And you win a new soul for the kingdom of God.
Renod:
Thank you for that. Jesus tells us we are to be salt and light. When I hear Nadalla and I see examples like that, it would remind me that I used to be that salt and light, or I try to be that salt and light, but I couldn't get enough of Church. I couldn't get enough of Bible study and Bible study groups. And then I realized I was living in a Christian bubble. I was salt but in the salt shaker the group. I started realizing the Church, the groups, the Bible study groups that is the salt shaker. I'm supposed to be the light, but all of those groups is the basket. And Jesus was saying, you are the salt of the earth. And then I start realizing I can't do any good. If I'm always in the salt shaker. I need to get out of the salt shaker to go into a dying world and be that preservative that Jesus called us to be. I can't be good in the light if I'm always under the basket. The Church and all of these groups and the Christian bubble that I was in is that basket. I need to be in the basket to get recharged, to have the light recharged. But by being in the basket, under the basket, or in the salt shaker, it doesn't serve my ultimate purpose. It can't serve your ultimate intended purpose and that's to be a light in a dark world. So we need to get out of the salt shaker, need to get out of our light out from under the basket and let the light of Christ shining through us to attract lost people to this light and therefore by doing so we will be obeying God's first commandment ever in paradise and that's to be fruitful and multiply. We'll also be doing what Jesus said in John 15:8 and what Nadalla has been modeling for us through his stories. And that's to glorify the Father by being fruitful and multiplying, proving to be the disciples of Jesus. And as we close, I want you to think of what Jesus said in Matthew 6:19-20. And that's we are not to be laying up for ourselves treasures on this earth. But to lay up treasures for ourselves in heaven. And there receive that crown of glory. Thank you, friend. Until next time, Bye-bye. Thanks for listening to this podcast. A donor-supported series from iHOPE Ministries. For more bite-sized things to know and do to share your faith with intention. Follow us on Instagram @ihopeministries then go to ihopeministries.org and sign up for our weekly e-newsletter. If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen. Your review helps the show empower more everyday Christians with the courage, confidence, and know-how to share Jesus in our generation. See you next time.