After flying into Beirut, our first full day on the ground, we had the opportunity to travel with our our guide (whose name I will withhold for protection) through the city, down the coast of Lebanon, praying over regions and distributing scripture. One of our stops was at a Roman Ruin in the city of Sidon.
We had a chance to read from 1 Kings 11:1-5 at this location: ”King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 5 He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.”
The location we were standing at, was a temple believed to be build by Solomon, to the goddess Ashtoreth (one of the goddesses that Solomon followed when he was lead astray from God by His many wives). We could see the throne, inner courts area and even an alter were sacrifices would have taken place. (see pictures).
We also had an opportunity to visit a Muslim Mosque in Sidon, more roman ruins in Tyre and pray throughout the country for God to move as His word was being and will be distributed throughout the region in the days ahead. It was during that time, as we traveled and visited many different ministries over the next fews days, that my prayer became that of Matthew 9:35-38:
“Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”












