Nabeel Qureshi's Funeral Service

my name is Greg Mott and I'm the senior pastor here at Houston's First Baptist Church and it's my joy to welcome you on behalf of the family and also to welcome you on behalf of our church and thank you for your presence here today it means a lot to the family and it means a lot to the Friends of Nabeel as well as we all joined together as family and friends I had the joy of being a friend of nabeel's and also being nabeel's pastor he was an amazing amazing man he would always sit Michelle and be able to sit over here to my right and I would always know that Michelle and Nabil were here because they were the tallest people in that section right there and then the music would begin and Nabil would raise his hands to begin worshiping and it would be ten feet in the air for me and my size I would have had to have jumped to high-five him just him standing there like that but it was great to be able to see him I always knew when he Michelle were in church and they were there every moment that they could be and his hands were raised and worship and saying lord I praise you and when I think about that that was his heart he was always reaching for truth he was always reaching for heaven and reaching out for that his heart his arm extended it's almost as if the Lord just recently just grabbed that out ret and out reached hand and just pulled him on up to heaven and took him home he was always seeking always reaching and now he's face to face with Jesus today we grieve we grieve because nabeel's days were far too few in our eyes but also we celebrate knowing that God is sovereign and we celebrate a tremendous life of impact of significance of love most of us will be mourned by hundreds of people and that will be wonderful to be able to be mourned by tens of thousands of people because of his impact being so great maybe even hundreds of thousands of people whenever we would talk as friends he would always have two phrases that he would say and I'm sure he would say it to you as well he would always say brother he would always call me brother so I'd call and say hey man how are you doing how's things going hey brother that was always his response hey brother and then he would always say praise God praise God as we come into this time to just be able to declare announced a Nabil saying my brother you have praised God and you have taught us with your life and you have taught us with your death so we come to this time to grieve and to celebrate to be able to celebrate a life well-lived too short but we trust God with that and as saying as he reached out for heaven he's there now at this moment let's pray together father we thank you for this time that we can gather together as friends and family we thank you that you are strong in this moment we come to you for comfort we come to you for guidance we come to you as a strong tower as a refuge we give you thanks for Nabil we thank you that we were able to know him and to be a part of his life and we pray in this time that you would speak to our hearts and that you would move in our lives that this would be a time of hope and a time of healing we love you in Jesus name [Music] great is thy faithfulness O God my father and there is no shine turning with but now chicken just not that Compassion's they fail and as thou has made now for will be sing with us and Grady yes great faithfulness [Music] new mercies I see [Music] [Applause] [Music] in time for sea he's sad Oh [Music] to God [Music] ride boat for two [Music] turn down [Music] in great is faithfulness and Noreen ooh [Music] [Applause] and [Music] oh great [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to [Music] in Christ alone my boob is phone he is my left my straight my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] this is me trying to find Jesus commands my [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] please be seated my name is Jim tor I met Nabil in 2012 when he was a student at Rice University he used to come over to my home to eat and he enjoyed my wife's cooking and I remember the first time I I sat with him at the kitchen table because he was always there longer than everybody else and we got to talking and I remembered when he he got the offer from ours eim it was the same time he had gotten an offer to do his PhD at Rice and very few offers are made for PhDs at Rice in in the religion department and he says I'm really torn on what I ought to do and I said Nabil I can help you he says what's that I said you had been idiot not to take the arsy I am offer be at Barnabas and travel with Paul and learn this we kept track of each other and he would send me texts and and called me on occasion and then he called me with the diagnosis that he had gotten and when he came back to Houston he asked me to mentor him and I said you know I just just pushed him away no you don't want me to mentor you he came back the next week he said I really want you to mentor me I said you don't know what you're getting into I said you know I've not Oxford trained you've got your degree from Oxford he says I want you to do this so finally I agreed I said I'm gonna speak to you some tough things and he says I'm ready for it you do it so we would just meet or once every week once every two weeks just over dinner in my home just he and I and and and I'm gonna give you today the first lesson that I ever gave him which I think was the most impactful lesson then I'm going to give you also the last lesson that I gave him which was given to him in the hospital just recently and the first lesson was this I asked him I said what have you been reading in the scripture lately and he showed me and I said so what have you been getting out of it and he said well I've been you know critiquing this and studying whether the relevancy of this portion and and and the authenticity of that portion and I said and what's God been saying to you he says well really not a lot I've just been critiquing it and I said that is your problem Nabil every word in this book is true every word in the book is true God has watched over his word to perform it and I am so glad that you got all this education but remember every word in this book is true you read the the the testimony of Billy Graham it was not until he fell on his knees and said Lord I take every word in this book is truth it was only then that his ministry burst forth and I said you have some repenting to do so we got down on our knees right there in the kitchen and he repented for not taking God's word as every word being true he texted me that night and he said he said it is just like when I got saved the Lord is speaking to me so richly through the Scriptures that changed it I encourage you with that to challenge you to do the same thing the last lesson we had was this it's what I called with him the New Testament challenge I said Nabeel a man a woman cannot read the New Testament from Matthew to Revelation cannot read the New Testament twice without becoming a Christian he said has that been your experience I said absolutely I've done prison ministry I speak with professors all the time I've spoken with big politicians it works every time happened with my own mother that way if you do not become a Christian sometime going through the first time and what you do is you open up the New Testament you start in Matthew chapter one verse one and you say Lord speak to me through the scriptures this this is real if this is what God has given us speak to me you read through that you'll get to Revelation chapter 22 if you've not become a Christian you start reading it again and boom it's gonna hit you you will say there is no man like Jesus Christ the Son of God that is the bookends of the lessons that I had with Nabil there is some chatter on the internet that that Nabil somehow denied the faith in the end that is not true at all I was with him almost every day for the last couple of months and he continued to stand fast I never heard him complain with in all his pain I never heard him he never even told me about his pain it was only when the nurses would come in then they'd say what number pain are you up to and he tell me to go Wow he never would tell me he never complained he never asked why me why is this happening to me he never asked this such an unusual young man and then just a few days before he passed he was very weak and on the bed and I leaned over his face and I said Nabil I love you and he opened his eyes he said I love you too and then I took a chant that I taught him that I learned from the Pakistani and Indian suffering church I learned this as a teenager because I was discipled by Pakistani and Indians when I first got saved as a teenager and I used to see them go on their processions and they had this chant where one man would shout at the top of his lungs and here's the direct translation shout Jesus is the name of and then the congregation would shot victory the word victory is John John and it goes like this and this is exactly what happened is I as I leaned over and I said Nabil bolo yes to Kaname key he lifted up his head and he said Jack I need my Indian brethren and I Pakistani brethren here to help me out three times like you do on precession this is the last word that Nabil said to me victory Jesus is the name of victory follow yes you cannot be Jack below yes you can aapki Jack below yes you cannot eat [Music] [Applause] [Music] we would invite you to stand again as we sing as we worship we declare together our faith in our hope in one name in Jesus bless the Lord and bless the Lord O my soul O my soul worship his holy name sing like never before and I were severe [Music] it's time to sing you song again [Music] maybe singing in the let's [Music] [Music] Singh Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and day when my strength is failing the end draws near and my time has come still my soul will sing your praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] Lord we never should be your home leaning [Music] I come from India nabil was from Pakistan we're not exactly famously in love with each other and yet here it is Nabil having one of Hebrews stock one of Indian stock bidding him the fondest of farewell that tells you more about Nabil than anything else good he was an amazing man who built bridges wherever he went before I begin I just want to say a word to the families Qureshi Saab apni ho ho where is there you are or memsaab I'm up Koki I'll get sucked in Silvia hang up Kelly okay family Kelly up Kurdish the dark alley Amaro's the Walker and gay but mayor Bonnie thank you for being here god bless you and I've said to them sir and Madam what can I say to you there's only one thing I can say to you that I will be praying for you and your family and your relatives daily you are truly a very gracious family and you have blessed my life in the short time I have known you and last night that dinner with you will go down in my memory and your family thank you and may the God of all comfort bring you the comfort in the loss of your beloved son you can be assured you have friends here will be thinking of you into the garland family you've lost a beloved son-in-law and have a daughter and a granddaughter with a future that in which they'll be leaning heavily upon you both families may God comfort you guide you and bless you this is not the journey any one of you and dissipated in life but we know so little about the future and to you also I say you will be in our prayers and may the God of all comfort be with you Michelle you've walked a lonely road for the last year you're a woman of very few words but you're an amazing woman was stayed strong and your daughter will probably never have the privilege of truly remembering a dad except through videos and through the memory of his powerful messages all over may she follow in his footsteps in the faith and understanding of the passion with which he lived for the his Lord and loved her dearly you know very well his greatest concern was for aya and wondering how she would fare without the arms of her dad and that picture of the back of the program is a magnificent picture you will be an opera as Michelle and let I know we will be praying for her to you know funerals are amazing things we remember them very well don't we a little over a week ago i was in paris to officiate at the wedding of a friend just to be on september 1 and august 31 I happened to walk into the lobby of the ritz-carlton where they were staying to just have an evening with them and my daughter whose ear was with me and said 20 years ago this very day Princess Diana was in this lobby along with Dodi Fayed and we all remember what happened on that ill-fated night funerals are times where it's very sobering no matter what your belief is you realize something of a very serious nature has taken place there's a loss you may replace a workforce you never replace a person God builds people very uniquely I was only nine years old when I attended my first funeral in Delhi I grew up in Delhi India till I was 20 years old and I was 9 while we were going for my grandmother's funeral I remember almost nothing of what the preacher said apart from the fact that a lot of Tears around that graveside and then they burst into song abide with me fast Falls the Eventide the darkness deepens Lord with me abide when other helpers fade and comforts flee oh thou the helper of all abide with me swift to its close about life's little day Earth's Joy's grow dim its glories pass away change and decay in all around I see o thou who changes not abide with me although thy cross before my closing eyes shine through the gloom and point me to the sky's hems morning breaks and Earth's vain shadows flee in life in death o Lord abide with me aged 9 I didn't understand a lot of it but the help of the helpless that phrase stuck with me that we were helpless as a family but God of all help was offering comfort and as I flew back just arrived yesterday it took me over a day to get back I was in the Philippines and through Bangkok and Seoul Korea arrived last evening all along as I was sitting in the plane with my Bible open and my blank sheet of paper in front of me preparing finally the flight attendants stopped and said to me are you a minister I said yes and I'm going to speak at a funeral her countenance fell when I told and told her that he was a young man not even reaching his mid-30s and a dear friend to me service through the whole flight was one of warmth and affection if I needed anything it's sobering but I kept reading this passage of Scripture and I wanted to present it to you from the Apostle Paul 1 Corinthians 15 for what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures and that he appeared to Peter and then to the twelve and then appeared to more than 500 of the brothers at the same time most of whom are still living though some have fallen asleep then he appeared to James then to all the apostles and last of all he appeared to me also as to one abnormally born I heard Nabeel quote this many times in answer to the question of the resurrection how Jesus appeared to so many in living proof and often times when he would end with that and help here to me also as to one abnormally born talking about Saul of Tarsus to Paul I would often think you're just like that Nabil you're a very abnormal person there's something very transcending ly different about you he wasn't ordinary as I wrote in The Washington Post article from the first time I met him his leg never stopped moving Allah this the whole time and his aunt told me today from the time he was a child I remembered that leg was always on the move I have a feeling it was just responding to what was going on inside here he was raring to go he was like a racehorse you couldn't stop him even in the thickness of his illness he saw uncle I want to travel with you one more time you see we travel for one year together he tired me out because the meeting was not enough he wanted to eat after the meeting and we'd sit down through this long meal while we finished and would watch him eat and he wanted to talk and talk and talk he was a man of incredible undying energy and it was my privilege to cover the globe with Nabeel Qureshi and watch him in front of audiences disarmed them and touched with a tenderness so that they would listen to what he had to say abnormally born the Apostle Paul says of himself I want to talk about Nabil in for abnormal terms the first that he was abnormally born in the sense that he was a rare human being who started out to challenge the claims of Jesus Christ ended up being convinced that Christ was who he claimed to be but the courage he had was unwilling to go where the truth led him that was it I have met many a person who can do that investigatory stuff and do all of this research and still say but I can't I met people like that nabeel's courage wasn't not just pursuing truth he wanted to know the truth because he knew that in following the truth was his true freedom but what was it about that truth that I want to that I think was so beautiful in the life of Nabil and I will unfold it through this message and I know there are thousands listening all over the world it is this he understood sin in a way that is also unique when I think of sin I think of the way I've stumbled I've fallen I've blown it I don't know how to pick myself up again I think of all of the horrible things that we do to Nabil sin was just symptomatic in those terms he understood John chapter 9 profoundly that sin in its deepest reality was a blindness it was a veiled look at what reality was all about remember the man was healed by Jesus and what did the disciples and others say he was born blind did he sin or his parents and you see they're thinking of the symptoms and Jesus said neither he nor his parents but he was born that the works of God might be displayed and He healed him and after that watered all the religious authorities do this person cannot be from God because He healed on the Sabbath and then at the end of it they started to attack Jesus and Jesus said to them you know what your problem is your problem is you think physical blindness is the worst kind of malady as far as sight is concerned nothing is as blind as that which disables you from seeing the plain truth of who Jesus is and what he offers for you by way of His grace nabil had the courage to recognize he was blind more than that he recognized the grace of his Savior who is the only one capable of transforming you from blindness to sight you cannot you see the problem with the world is not that we are bad people trying to be good the problem really is that we are dead people who can only be made alive by Jesus Christ he did not come into this world to make bad people good in this world to make good people there let me tell you something I make friends all over the world of those who can do absolutely nothing for me waiters and waitresses bellman taxi drivers rickshaw drivers I was astounded two days ago when I get this little email forwarded to me from a young girl at the hilton and cola lumpur where we were a few weeks ago in the bill she does the she washes the hair before the hairdresser goes to cropping it she's an ordinary employee she wrote to me dr. Ravi I have just found out that mr. Qureshi will never be coming back here again I've got that on my phone an ordinary woman washing people's hair must have had Nabil as a customer he must have spoken to her he must have showed her that he cared for her he we were only there for a couple of nights he made his mark and then she sent me a clip of a message and I started to play it for minus 21 seconds somebody talking about the cross and I said boy I sure wish they put the name of the speaker on he's so clear dawned on me it was Nabil probably from right here wearing a burgundy shirt gray pair of trousers his countenance had so changed cancer had done it's ravaging I said the bill and what was he talking about the cross the cross you see to him the grace of Jesus Christ through the cross of Christ was the most remarkable truth that he wanted to carry to the world and once his blindness was gone he understood that let me give you an illustration of this Douglas Coupland that out the Western Canadian writer and his book life after God talks about five friends from British Columbia who befriended each other in their younger days and then went their separate ways and lost their belief in God and at the end of his book he comes to the conclusion he says now sit down while I tell you this because you may never hear me say this again what am I going to say to you he said I need God I need God but halfway through the book he tells an illustration I don't think he fathom the depths of the illustration himself he talked about walking through a flower garden and a beautiful park and some women were buzzing there with conversation and they heard some well he heard him walking around and they said is there anybody there and he said yes it's me I'm walking around here they said could you please take a photograph of us so he comes around takes the camera and then he dawns it dawns on him they're all blind none of them has their sight but the humor camera to take a picture of them he said I can't figure this out so he takes a photograph a whole group of blind women on a dais visit to a nursery and he gives it back to them he said can figure it out I'll tell you what they knew what they were doing they would take those same pictures take it to somebody who could see and explain to them what each person was wearing and that blindness would be given the insight by those who had the sight to see what it was nabil is now seeing this world through the eyes of God for the first time the picture is being completely explained to him the blindness is gone he was abnormally born but then he was a man of conviction because of that but he was abnormally torn he talked so much about you mister mr. khureshi magia we talked for many many hours his biggest heart ache always was and you know this we've talked about it before his biggest heartache was that the pain the family was going to feel that his commitment to Christ he wept he sobbed he cried across the table from me he talked to me about it so much because I remember when I came to know Christ what a struggle it was but nowhere near what his and my brother-in-law married my sister went through the same struggle and his passion was tearing apart on the inside a love of his Heavenly Father and his commitment to his earthly father and mother and family you know folks I'm an itinerant I traveled over 200 days a year I'm not proud of it and God called me to be an itinerant and I knew the cost it was going to be my daughter is here I have three beautiful children four grandchildren fifth on the way there's many a night on the road where I go to sleep with tears running on the side of my face I try to be home I'd rather be home where I'm accepted for who I am NOT for what I do we all need the family the world is attacking the family the world is shattering the family the world is alienating the family nabil felt the love for his family so deeply he was a man torn and but again he understood as he was in that sermon that was sent to me from here by this gal from Malaysia what was he saying in that message what I am paying is nothing compared to what Jesus paid for me and he went on to describe the pain of the cross it was the most painful gruesome form of death so much so that a Roman citizen could not be consigned to a cross except for treason where the body shifted its weight again and again to bear that weight and the prayer that he prayed incredibly before that why have you forsaken me because even that very trinity was being mangled in that momentary expression of him paying the price for your sin and mine and Nabil understood that his price was fall he was not only a man of conviction he was a man of passion and like the hymn writer said I sometimes think about the cross and shut my eyes and try to see the cruel nails the crown of thorns and Jesus crucified for me but even could I see him die I would but see a little part of that great love which like a fire is always burning in his heart those of you who live here in America may not always understand how difficult it is sometimes when you come from a completely different culture to have to pay the price that you do in order to follow Christ it seems like you've betrayed your culture one of my closest friends wrote to me and said you've betrayed your culture he'll turn your back upon your culture that's the way it is always seen but you know what I was 17 years old on a bed of suicide when I tried to take my own life and a Bible was brought to me and for the first time a Bible was opened before me in my life and when I heard the gospel being given there Jesus said because I live you shall live also for the first time I found out what life was really all about I am NOT the citizen of a particular country I'm a citizen of humanity that has been created by God and my heavenly father Paul's nature that is what God calls you and me too if you are within the range of my voice and you don't understand what the cross means I urge you to take them the words of Jim Torah take the scriptures find out the day you find out that your savior died for you and forgives you and offers you grace to give you strength you will be a truly free person he was abnormally born he was abnormally torn he was abnormally scorned he faced a lot of jeering and a lot of scorn wherever we went and there are those he faced slander you I don't know if you've seen any of them nonsense people right away social media is the occupation of some that are not only occupied but so preoccupied with it they don't have a life of their own except to try how to make somebody else's life miserable it goes on and on and on they slandered him they threatened him they wanted to attack him nabil and my colleague who's here sans by the way who poured so much of his time into Nabil - loved him on one of those flights between : Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu whether we were together for two and a half hours Nabil wanted to talk but he looked in my direction he knew I was worn out speaking and so he got up and went and sat next to sach and for the entire two and a half hours they talked is that right Sanj the whole flight they talk as we're landing I turned around and looked at both of them and I said my goodness my excuses I'm 20 years older than them but he talked and he talked talked and when we had arrived in one of these places I'm nervous about giving you too many details part of it is funny so I can tell it to you my wife and my office phoned me and said a man phoned and said he had a dream that the four people in your team were going to be in such-and-such a country and that a person was going to come and knock you off threatening to kill you very few people knew there were four of us very few people knew where we were we'd purposely guarded it but there were four of us and he named the country correctly and he said four of us so I decided at least full disclosure tell the other three so we sat down and not that it matter I knew now these guys were gonna fear but I said I was told that a person in a white van is gonna come and try to knock us off and that evening you picked up for the meeting and somebody comes in a white van and we look at each other so let's go so we go then I phoned my wife I said you know we picked up in the white van and she said I didn't see a white van I said a man in white was gonna come and try to knock you off said so went to the meeting the next night huge auditorium all of the ushers are dressed in white white jacket white trousers and we looked at each other and said this is either hilarious or this like going to a butler's convention to figure out who did it you know nabil never had an ounce of fear one day I sat him down and I said to him the bill I want to talk to you a little bit about security is right like moving at a pounding pace you know he said for whom I said for you you're going to some of these places I go I'm okay uncle I'm okay he never had an ounce of fear he stood with that strapping chest of his high shoulders chin up like a military man probably got that from Yugi walking like a military man never feared why not because he was a man with a mission he was a man of conviction he was a man of passion and he was a man with a mission he was absolutely fearless he did not care about those who fabricated stories about him he did not care about those who I thought they would ultimately knock him off he was a man abnormally scorned but he knew why they didn't scorn him because of who he was they scorned him for who he represented and he was willing to be an ambassador for Christ right to the end when he stood up and spoken Kota Kinabalu I could tell the body was getting depleted and he was digging deep he was digging very deep for energy because the passion was irrepressible i sat on the platform that they fighting off the tears I said where is this headed Lord where is this headed with this man he was like a son to me and halfway through his talk he said you know it's amazing that I'm here in Kota Kinabalu in Eastern Malaysia because my mother was born here and the audience just broke into applause they had us they asked questions and I thought I'd done a good job of answering the question but he felt something more needed to be said so after I finished he said do you mind if I say something I said not at all and what he had to say was so powerful so powerful the audience just broke into applause we went back to the hotel and we were going back for our last meeting and Nabil had to leave that night and as he stood by the car and we pulled away I told my colleagues I have an awful feeling looking at him like this goodbye is getting closer and closer to watch him standing there alone and we left and so this abnormally born abnormally torn abnormally scorned man is now abnormally gone gone at such an early age in life gone at such an early age in life and so what I say to you is this he's not the only one who's died young Keith green 28 Robert Murray McShane David Brainerd 29 pascal was in his studies chambers in his 40s you have all these people so much going so soon dying so young and as I say to you even Henry Martin died when he was 31 he was gone and as Nabeel Qureshi has gone and we have said goodbye I just want to close with a thought that for the first time in his life for the first time in his life he is seeing reality the way God wanted him to see it he looked through a keyhole all along now he's seeing the whole panorama and there he is and I think of us him that was so famous years ago that I loved seated one day at the organ I was weary and ill-at-ease and my fingers wondered idly or the noisy keys I know not what I was playing or what I was dreaming then but I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great amen it flooded the crimson Twilight like the clothes of an angel Psalm it lay or my feeble spirit with a touch of infinite calm it quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife it seemed a harmonious echo from our discordant life it linked all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace and trembled away into silence as though it to seize I have sought but I seek it vainly that one lost cord divine which came from the soul of the organ and entered into mine it may be that deaths bright angel will speak in that court again it may be that only in heaven I shall hear that grand amen it may be their only in heaven may be the deaths bright angel will speak in that court again and it may be there only in heaven I will hear that grand amen Nabeel Qureshi has heard that grand amen I look forward to seeing you Nabil I love you I miss you I long to see a Nabil and maybe when I see you in saying uncle you might then really say brother because we have the same Heavenly Father so he was abnormally born torn scorned and gone but we know where he is he is at the place that God prepared [Music] I'm going to read Psalm 103 this was a nabeel's favorite Psalm I read it to him in the hospital just sit beside his bed and read it to him my wife would send him a zaboor the zaboor was is a is a psalm in in punjabi language so all the psalms have been put to music and Punjabi and she would send him as sabor every morning she'd send it to him but he loved the zaboor for 103 the best bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His Holy Name bless the Lord O my soul and forget none of his benefits who pardons all your iniquities who heals all your diseases who redeems your life from the pit who crowns you with loving-kindness and compassion who satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like the Eagle the Lord performs righteous deeds and judgements for all who are oppressed he made known his ways to Moses his acts to the sons of Israel the Lord is compassionate and gracious slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness he will not always strive with us nor will he keep his anger forever he's not dealt with us according to our sins nor rewarded US according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above the earth so great as this loving kindness toward those who fear him as far as the East is from the west so far as he removed our transgressions from us just as a father has compassion on his children so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him for he himself knows our frame he is mindful that we are but dust as for man his days are like grass as a flower of the field so he flourishes when the wind has passed over it it is no more and its place acknowledges it no longer but the loving kindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children's children to those who keep his covenant and remember his precepts to do them the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his sovereignty rules over all bless the Lord you his angels mighty and strength who perform his word obeying the voice of his word bless the Lord all knew his hosts you who serve him doing his will bless the Lord all you works of his in all places of his Dominion bless the Lord O my soul I will close in prayer and then I'll read a directive for you let's pray Abha her father we thank you and we praise you for the life of Nabeel Qureshi how this man at age 34 has accomplished more than 10 men that have a 90 year life Lord how he has preached all over the world passionately fearlessly in the midst of constant threat and constant attack you have filled him to overflowing with the power of the Holy Spirit you had given him wisdom and insight far beyond his years Lord for that we thank you Lord we thank you for the hope of the resurrection for if anyone lives and believes in Me jesus said he shall live even if he dies and if anyone believes in me he shall never die do you believe this jesus said Lord thank you for the resurrection thank you for the hope of the Resurrection that Nabil is not here he is very much alive he is alive Lord we thank you for that truth for that resurrection Lord thank you for our brother he has touched our lives he has touched all of our lives so many people he is touched Lord I pray your grace your grace to fill the family as they endure this pain and loss fill them with the Holy Spirit I pray surround them in the name of Jesus surround them I pray for the glory of Jesus and in his name amen

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Length: 59min 36sec (3576 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2017