To lose a father, it's very hard.
My father died when I was eight.
He died young, he was 34.
All the others, they had fathers
and I didn't have.
I tried to convince myself that he is coming back soon.
My name is Haroon Ibrahim
and they call me 'Abu Ali'.
To live in an Arab village like Abu Ghosh,
it's surrounded by Jewish communities.
We start to speak Hebrew, to learn Hebrew
and to read and write, already from the 3rd grade.
Islam was not really an issue in Abu Ghosh,
I mean, when I was a kid, I really had struggles with God.
I prayed maybe one week and fasted less than that.
I had so many questions, who created God?
Why God created us?
According to Islam, you have to pray, you have to fast,
you have to do this and that.
If I were to live 100 years doing only good deeds,
I would not be able to cover the bad deeds
I did in my life, I know myself.
I met somebody, on the street.
He just came and told me: "would you like to speak about God?"
And then he said to me: "without Jesus in your heart,
"you will not go to Heaven" and I said to him,
"listen, my wife is Christian, I'm a Muslim,
"I studied in a Jewish school, so I'm covered, thank you."
I started to think about Him more.
One evening, I was in a bus, I was alone.
So I said, "God, it is no way that these three religions
"could be the way to you, only one religion is right."
God said to me clearly,
that they way to him
is not a religion but it is Him, it is through Him.
Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus Christ.
The Bible is saying about our God, "our Father
that is in Heaven", God is Father to the orphans
and a good shepard to the widows.
God is our Father, for me it was just like 'ah-ha' experience,
I was just like, my eyes were just open.
Finally, I can have a Father, a loving Father,
a Heavenly Father.
I became a follower of Christ.
my motivation became very clear
it's to reach the world with this good news.
God of the Old Testament, God of the New Testament,
never changed, and so the Fatherhood
in the Old Testament, together with the Fatherhood
in the New Testament that we have, it is the perfect
example of how the Lord walks with his people,
from day one, until the day that He comes.
There are prophecies, in Isaiah, in Psalms
and the book of Daniel, they are expecting,
they are waiting for Yeshua Hamashiach to come
and save the people of Israel.
I'm praying for the people of Israel because it is
sad to see
that rejection that comes towards Yeshua.
But I could see as well, in some areas,
in some places in the new generation,
the hope that they will understand that the loving God
have brought them back here to their land
so that he can come and save this nation,
and they can tell him "Blessed is He who Comes in The Name of The LORD".
One day, these hearts that almost become as stone
can become flesh again and open, and accept
the loving God through Yeshua Hamashiach in their lives.
To be light, for all the world.
I am one for Israel.