The blind beggar introduced himself with a wry smile. His name meant light—the very thing that the cataracts on his eyes kept him from seeing.

Earlier in the day, a team of Frontiers workers in South Asia had gathered for prayer.

“How do You want us to pray today?” they asked God. As they waited expectantly, they sensed two things from the Lord: They were to pray for new sight and to pray for new hands.

Then the team members went out in small groups, fanning out across their neighborhood to find people in need of restored vision and healed hands.

This is a regular activity for the team, which lives in an urban poor community. The meet weekly to ask God to lead them to specific people in their neighborhood—people in need of physical healing and spiritual hope.

One group of team members met an electrician with hands so gnarled that they appeared severely arthritic. He explained that he had been injured when a gas cylinder exploded in his hands in the middle of a work project.

“God sent us to you today,” said Jordan, a team member. “God told us to go and find someone in need of new hands. Can we pray for you?”

The man gratefully received their prayers before moving on with the rest of his day.

Another group met Noor, the blind beggar. They had seen this man often. Every day he sat in the same spot, next to the ironing man in a small but heavily trafficked alley.

“God told us to pray for new sight today,” said Yasmin, another team member. “And look, we found you!”

As Yasmin prayed for him, Noor held out his hands in prayer, palm-side up in front of his face.

No dramatic healing happened in that moment. But it did establish the beginning of a relationship.

Through his eyes remain clouded over, Noor recognizes each team member by their footsteps. He greets them by name, chats with them, and eagerly welcomes their ongoing prayers for healing.

“I’ve heard it said that if you pray for one hundred people, you’ll eventually see somebody be healed,” says Jordan. “We don’t lose heart because we know God is doing something—even if it takes praying for someone a hundred times or more.”

• Ask God to bless Noor with new sight, and pray that his spiritual eyes will be open to the light of Christ.
• Pray for the Good News of the Kingdom to spread through urban poor communities across the Muslim world.
• Ask the Lord to raise up more workers who will go and live among the poor to share Christ where His message has not yet been proclaimed.

**This account comes from a long-term worker. Names and places have been changed for security.**

Original article: FrontiersUSA.org/blog/article/a-man-named-light