Don't Forget Ishmael
" The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air. Then a voice spoke to him: 'Get up, Peter, kill and eat!' 'No, Lord!' Peter answered, 'I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.' The voice spoke to him a second time: ' Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.' " [Acts 10:9-15, BSB] This morning, as I was praying--not quite like Peter (no trance or anything like that!☺), but just feeling a burden for those being persecuted by extreme terrorists around the globe it was impressed upon my spirit how fervently we need to pray for Mu...