Tim Chester writes:

‘I remember hearing the story of a Christian couple in Iran. They were making a long journey, so they committed to share the gospel with someone each day. Towards the end of one day they went to buy petrol, and at the petrol station there was a man with a full beard and a gun, a sign that he was a radical Muslim. The wife said, ‘I think you should tell that man the gospel.’ But the husband said, ‘Are you joking? Do you want me to get killed?’ And he drove off. But his wife kept on at him. ‘We said we would share the gospel with someone every day … I think God was leading us to that man … ’ In the end, the husband slammed on the brakes and turned the car round. ‘OK,’ he said, ‘if you’re determined to be a widow, I’ll talk to him.’ So he went up to the man and said, ‘Do you want to know God?’ At this, the man started crying. Three days before he had had a dream that told him to wait in that spot at that time and someone would tell him how he could know God.’

‘Why doesn’t this sort of thing happen to me? Perhaps because I don’t expect it and because I don’t pray for it.’

Chester, Tim. Mission Matters (Keswick Foundations) . IVP. Kindle Edition.