“There’s light!” cried out the drunk man at the beach who’d been harassing my friend Fatima. “There’s light in your face!” He looked into her eyes and suddenly turned and ran.

Fatima was rattled by the encounter. But she immediately recognized what had happened. She had just been baptized with eight other people from her Muslim community. And now she was filled with the Holy Spirit and beaming His light.

For several months, these nine new believers have been gathering with us to study the Bible.

Some of these friends are personal contacts we’d been sharing the Gospel with for years. Others are people who contacted us through an evangelistic social media outreach. Still others are contacts from a short-term team that came to our city last summer.

“Today I made the best decision I will ever make in my whole life,” said one of the nine who was baptized alongside Fatima.

Two days later at our next Bible study, each of the new believers shared that they’d had extreme peace, inexpressible joy, and sound sleep since being baptized. Several had been told by other people that their faces shone with light.

Already we have another group of Muslim-background men and women who are ready to be baptized!

On hard days we wonder if it’s worth it to live so far away from family in America. We question whether it’s worth putting up with fickle water heaters and the lack of air conditioning—to press on in spite of the exhaustion that comes with living in a spiritually dark place.

But when we see men and women in Muslim communities transformed by Christ, we have no doubt: It’s all worth it.

Praise God for His miraculous work, and pray that many more Muslims will turn to Jesus.

• Pray for new Muslim-background believers to grow in the Word and in love for Christ. Ask God to strengthen their faith amid persecution.
• Pray for entire Muslim communities to be transformed as men and women discover the hope of Jesus Christ.
• The harvest is plentiful! Pray for more laborers to go and reach Muslims with the Gospel.

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

Original article: https://frontiersusa.org/blog/light-of-baptism