10/04/2026
A quick testimony and a call for prayer:
During campus outreach the other day, a young woman—the Lord knows her name—responded to my whiteboard question, which said, "Qur'an vs. Bible," with the options: Bible, Quran, Both, and Neither. She chose "neither," so I asked her what she meant.
She had grown up in the church, apparently, and she eventually realized she had no good reason to believe in the first place—only that it was her family's tradition. I agreed with her, that that alone wasn't a sufficient reason to believe something!
But then, I posed this to her: what if you understandably got the impression that there were no good answers to your questions, but there actually are good answers—you simply never ran into someone who could provide them?
I then asked her if she knew why Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" on the cross. She supposed maybe he felt the weight of his impending death. "But," I said, "are you aware that he was quoting something directly?" She was not. I opened to the first line of Psalm 22 and read it. Verbatim, the same words! What if Jesus was pointing us to this passage of scripture as if to say, look at this! And look at what you're witnessing with your own eyes!
I quickly read through the passage with her, and she began to see how directly it matched what happened to Jesus, although it was written 1,000 B.C.! She genuinely had no idea there were prophecies of this magnitude and said with more genuineness than one commonly hears, "...Thank you!" I shared a little more about what we do as a ministry and invited her to join us.
Most important, I think this encounter alone could have been an important moment for her to take a second look at the faith of her childhood. Please pray for her!
