The IMAM'S DAUGHTER PRAYER REQUEST FOR PRAYER GROUP

Intercessory Prayer Request

for her and women like her in the same situation

excerpt: from Women of Islam [also from news article]

Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life.

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We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to appear under an assumed name.

The book is called The Imam’s Daughter because "Hannah Shah" is just that: the daughter of an imam in one of the tight-knit Deobandi Muslim Pakistani communities in the north of England. Her father emigrated to this country from rural Pakistan some time in the 1960s and is, apparently, a highly respected local figure.

He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15, ostensibly as part of her punishment for being "disobedient". At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to "honour" in her family’s eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian – an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang – in the middle of a British city – to find and kill her.

Hannah Shah says her story is not unique – that there are many other girls in British Muslim families who are oppressed and married off against their will, or who have secretly become Christians but are too afraid to speak out. She wants their voices to be heard and for Britain, the land of her birth, to realise the hidden misery of these women. READ MORE HERE...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5907458.ece.

PRAY:

For her protection, For God to send His angels to protect her, to blind those seeking her, to put obstacles in their way, to make them forget, to be lured in another direction

For her father's IMMEDIATE handling by God, and that God reveals His power and His glory in Christ Jesus. For her family's hearts, that they may be softened, that the lies and entrenched influence of the enemy, be bound on earth as it is in heaven.

For more to read her story and for more prayer warriors to be raised up on their behalf as well as other women/girls/children. [boys included]

I need to pray on this and will come back to this,

also, I am requesting prayer request for the blogger, of Women Of Islam,

pray for their protection, blessing, discernment, and that God moves through her/them.

ALSO--PRAY TOO FOR THE HUNDREDS OF CHRISTIAN GIRLS WHO ARE RAPED IN THEIR HOMES, BY SO CALLED 'GODLY MEN',

WHO ARE NOTHING BUT,

AND PRAY, THAT CHRISTIANS, TRUE BELIEVERS, DEMAND THE CHURCH TO STOP PANDERING, HIDING, IGNORING, OR JUST CHALKING THESE HORRORS UP TO JUST

THE SUFFERING AND SUBMISSION TO GOD,

WE NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE,

WE CANNOT, DEMAND THE END OF ABUSE IN ISLAM, IF WE TOLERATE IT IN THE CHURCH.

AND GOD, IN NO WAY,

TOLERATES THESE ABUSES/SINS IN HIS NAME, NOR WILL HE IGNORE THEM...THEY WILL BE COMING INTO THE LIGHT, TO BE EXPOSED,

GOD IS NOT MOCKED,

WHAT IS SOWED IS REAPED.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE,

FOR THE ABUSE AND MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN, NONE, WHATSOEVER. JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN.

We aren't just appendages of men, or some 'other' fixture, hanging on to the side of men and hoping to maybe, get in Heaven,

no, we are DAUGHTERS, of God, in Christ Jesus,

not bitches
not whores
not sluts
not demons
not Jezebels
not temptation
not evil
not weak
not sensual

no

we are Daughters

"And a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years and had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed by anyone, Came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment, and immediately her flow of blood ceased. And Jesus said, Who is it who touched Me? When all were denying it, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the multitudes surround You and press You on every side! But Jesus said, Someone did touch Me; for I perceived that [healing] power has gone forth from Me. And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came up trembling, and, falling down before Him, she declared in the presence of all the people for what reason she had touched Him and how she had been instantly cured. And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well! Go in peace " Luke 8:43-48

Most who refer to this scripture focus on the healing aspect,

but there is more to this,

than simply, the healing [not that the healing isn't important].

For one, in that day, women who had illnesses, especially anything with menstrual were deemed unclean, evil, in fact, women were deemed evil anyway, in Religion, in that day the pagans weren't any better, women were nothing but bodies to be pimped out in temples, or goddess images, were propped up, not to empower women [as some feminists like to claim--that's one of the counterfeits of Satan to also destroy women] but to make goods, to sell, for male wealth [read Acts, about Ephesus, ACTS in the Bible that is, temple prostitution was huge commerce then as it is today].

they were deemed less than, not even human, simply just baby makers, fields to be tilthed, [as in Islam today still], and for a woman to enter into the presence of ANY in public, without disease was to know a woman would be persecuted simply because she was She,

but to do so, with blood, was to risk death.

These women were rejected, not just by society, but by the religious, and they internalized that,

why she came trembling, in fear.

We internalize those beliefs too, why we may come to Christ, God in prayer but always with this cloud of doubt, IF we have any faith, its usually based on how good of women we are, according to the rules of patriarchy, church conditions, etc. [misconstruing of scripture for MEN'S sexual benefit, usually],

anyway, we see our oppression and subjugation as the Will of God, AND our dejection, rejection, self-hate, as pleasing to God,

nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they are Satan's lies, how much work in the Body of Christ has been limited or simply non-existent due to the internalization of Satan's lies that women are hated by God, or

if not hated, simply just

tolerated as evil necessities to give birth.

IF you read the Word of God and do not pray before, asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you all things, its very easy, to see misogyny in the Bible, to see God as a misogynist, very much like that Imam,

it takes a lot of prayer and searching, because you see sons, sons, sons, men, male terms, women usually in references to evil symbolism AND if that is all you see [and Satan will be sure to point those out to you],

you will think, like I would safely guess, 95% of women in the Body of Christ [church] do believe, that this is just how it is,

or that, if God accepts us, its only based on our womb's ability to bear children and if we just bear children and keep our mouth shut and take the abuse, we'll be saved.

And even those who do become free from those internalization's or at least, mentally, the social conditioning AND the years, is just like the Jews in Egypt after God set them free, they Still had the mind of the 'enslaved',

women even more so. We are the slaves to slaves,

the wretched of the wretched, all over this planet. Including in the church [thanks to the misogynist and false teachers who turned Christianity, those wolves Paul warned of, into another Pharasectical legalism].

But this one scripture, was the one that God used, to open my eyes and set me free, from the lies that had enslaved my soul for years,

this woman, internalized with all the misogyny of her age and prior to her age, internalized religious misogyny, took it upon herself,

to defy the odds, to take the risk, what else did she have to lose, she had already spent all she had,

and to step out on faith but if you notice, she didn't just like, step out in this full blown I know who I am and I'm o.k. faith, no, she still had that low self worth as a woman,

why she crawled and touched, barely touched, the hem of Jesus garment, thinking, if I just grab the hem, maybe He'll have mercy on me,

not like the men who simply just walk right up to Jesus face, oh no,

she touched the bottom hem of His garment, coming to Him, in the very same low self worth as women, that internalized misogyny--that is reinforced by even current church teachings,

as not one worthy but maybe, just maybe, God will be merciful,

and what did Jesus say?

Who touched me,

and did she immediately come forth? NO, I would bet she was terrified that He would rebuke her, that they would gather her up and stone her to death,

but what happened, she poured out her heart, still in that internalized misogynist God I am woman and I know I am not worthy NOT just because I am sinner but because I am a WOMAN, that Daughter of Eve, that horrible demon creature, that is the blame for all men's sins,

you know, that mentality we are conditioned to believe and embrace, its so embedded its in our skin, we breathe it,

and What did Jesus say?

DAUGHTER

DAUGHTER

DAUGHTER

Wow, really think on that, really pray on that, and let God reveal to you, just how Powerful and Healing and Loving that one statement is, truly is,

DAUGHTER

your Faith has Made you Whole, Go in Peace.

Wow, Jesus, in revealing the true Character of God, how God really sees women, how God truly Loves women,

is the most beautiful thing...truly will set you free, if you give it to Jesus,

[I'm sharing from an intimate experience I had, this was the scripture Jesus revealed Himself to me, after a long horrid spiritual warfare I had with those very forces that I was convinced, that we as women, were less than...in God's eyes, long story but, well, God is So Good, why yes, I can boldly say, He is all I need, my goddess, [identifying with Him and in Him or finding my identity in Him as a woman/female], my friend, my lover [not physical but intimate/friend], my savior, my heavenly father/mother, everything....if we just seek Him and Trust Him,

but we can't Trust, if we believe, have the enslaved mind, that we are nothing but hated subjects....

and we can't Pray and have any faith for other women if we do not realize this nor can we, share God's love and will to deliver those women, in those regions who are brutally oppressed,

if we are still in that mindset ourselves.

We so forget, that yes, God is Holy, God is Just,

but He is not just a ruler who sits up way in the skies judging us,

who does not relate to our suffering,

oh no,

we forget,

God stepped down from heaven, Jesus stepped off His throne, and came down to us, became like us, with no sin, and suffered, just like us,

man beat him, spit on him, tortured him, sexually humiliated him [casting lots for his clothes], mocked him,

Jesus went through all of this, NOT my will but YOUR will He cried to the Father and the Father said,

my will....

He suffered like us, in skin like ours, with a heart beat like ours,

but He was without sin, totally and completely innocent,

to save us,

but to also, show us,

I am not just a God up in the Heavens who can't understand your pain, or simply have pity from afar, oh no,

I am a God, who took the human form and suffered too,

if you really think about that, just how powerful that is, the ONE TRUE HOLY GOD,

DID THAT, FOR ALL OF US,

BECAUSE HE LOVES US,

SONS

AND

DAUGHTERS

HE LOVES US.

He really, really loves us....

that means, He really, really loves women, He is no respecter of persons.

**note: one more thing, sons, in Bible, actually, means both genders [a word for humans], if its son, its male, if its sons, its both male and female, also refer to the scripture, there is neither greek nor jew, male or female, all are one in Christ Jesus...not that we lose our femaleness, no, but that, God does not discriminate based on gender, and I believe, based on what God has revealed to me, reading in His Word, that the Spirit of God has both, male and female qualities,

He is both Father, and Mother, and its in the Life giving power, God showed this to me, I won't get into detail on this right now because it would take posting a LOT of scripture, basically the entire Bible,

but I see it, like I've never seen before. I wished all women could see it, because its just too awesome for words,

but also too, I read, God also, uses the Bride, symbolic for the church [believers, body of Christ, not the physical building], and males are included in that....

well, here, read here, I love this one blog btw: http://godswordtowomen.wordpress.com/

I can't find/locate the exact post on the sons - meaning plural, I know I have bookmarked it too from another translation sight, a commenter from Spain said it was common usage there too, but I thought I'd mention it,

there are several terms in the Bible, if you read them literally in today's context, the texts can be easily misconstrued,

unless you read the Entire Bible a lot and can see the whole text, but even then, if you are not aware of the Hebrew and Aramaic languages, its easy to misunderstand--or texts be taken and abused,

by those who want to use scripture to abuse or to prop themselves up as little 'gods'.


peace,

jane doe