Prayer

Father, reveal Your heart to us for the Muslim people of our nation, and the world. Allow us to see them through Your eyes, and give us Your strategy MANDATESMANDATES for prayer, and for outreach. May we be the We believe that God has been maturing the women generation to reach them with the light and truth of and men of Aglow to be able to receive His three the gospel, in Jesus’ name. Amen! specific mandates by faith, and live them out for His Kingdom’s sake.

Our mandates are:

The Islam Mandate, unveiling the system and 1. To promote gender reconciliation between male and female in the Body of Christ as God loving the people, is an end-time calling and designed. mandate on this ministry, as is Male & Female 2. Aglow works to unveil the belief structure of Reconciliation, and Israel. These are all pointing Islam while loving the Muslim people by reaching out with news of a God who loves them to the culmination of the age and the return of the King and the fulfillment of His purposes. 3. To stand in loving support for Israel and the Jewish people, while helping to bring awareness to the Body of Christ concerning God’s plans and purposes for those people He calls the apple of His eye.

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2014 Our International President, Jane Hansen Hoyt wrote in Since God spoke prophetically to us in 1991 Aglow ISLAM MANDATE the book, “Mantled with Authority”, (Wagner women and men have been “pulling the thread” in Publications, 2003): prayer and unveiling the system of Islam through conferences and seminars. Unveiling the system... loving the people! “When I think of the garment of Islam, I think Every day, on most continents, God has given the women and men of Aglow a of the burka, a garment worn by many Aglow members are praying for mandate for one-fifth of the population of the world, Muslim women, covering them from head to Muslims, reaching out to them the Muslim people. As women and men of Aglow, we and seeking God on their behalf. are privileged to be called and commissioned by God foot. It is physically, and in a spiritual sense, to co-labour with Him on behalf of the Muslim people. like a shroud. TIME magazine called it a Each one of us can make a difference, if we are He is entrusting us with people close to His heart, and “body bag for the living.” God began to willing to allow God to give us His heart of love for has placed this mandate into our hands. An awesome the Muslim people. The thread God has given to this ‘unravel’ that shroud by showing the world in call! ministry is so powerful that if we let the Lord open a very powerful way the condition imposed our eyes and respond to the opportunities He gives upon women by a system.” us – this word will come to pass, the garment of Islam will be unravelled and Muslims will be free.

At our 1993 International Conference, one of the speakers, Steve Penny from Australia confirmed the word from 1991: the Spirit of God is confirming, “This In 1991 God spoke powerfully at our Aglow is what I’m doing. This is my plan.” God continued to International Conference “For you have seen the great speak to us through Rick Joyner, an internationally darkness and yea, you have said it is a formidable recognized prophetic voice, at our International enemy and how shall we penetrate that darkness? Conference in 1995: “The Lord will give you Islam if A paraphrase of John 3:16/17 might say: For yea, it cloaks the nations, it cloaks the Muslim you will take it.” nations and you say to Me, ‘O Lord my God, those For God so loved the 1.2 billion Muslims in the religious beliefs are ingrained and woven into the very world that He gave His only begotten Son, that fabric of their being and yet, shall they be free?’ And I whoever believes in Him should not perish but say unto you tonight, yes, they shall be free. For as it takes only one thread to unravel a garment so shall I have everlasting life. For God did not send His unravel the garment of Islam, even as I have Son into the world to condemn the world, but unravelled the garment of communism in this hour. that the world through Him might be saved. Yea, My people, I cry unto you, lay hold of that thread in My power and My might and we shall disrobe the garment of Islam,” says the Lord.

1991 Islam. In 1991 God Sovereignly called Aglow to reach out to the Muslim world and help bring awareness to the body of Christ. Since then, prayer thrusts, seminars, trips into Muslim nations, and an Arabic TV show for women are just some of the ways in which Aglow has responded to the Islam Mandate.