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PRAYER REQUESTS FOR
August 30, 2024
Please pray for...
…youth outreaches in Iraqi Kurdistan. Pastor Rami reports, “Muslim Kurdish youth are finding biblical truth via social media. Our young people are embracing Jesus as Lord.”
…protection for Roya, an Iranian convert from Islam whose ministry is Bible distribution on the bus system of Iran. She describes an encounter with the Islamic police: “They took my Bibles. I knew who they were. Their eyes give them away that they belong to the army of darkness.”
…an awakening among churches in Germany to reach the Muslims of their country. Muslims, who make up 6% of Germany’s population of 83 million, are fervently propagating Islam.
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations,
and then the end will come.
(Mt 24:14)
Pray for Turkmenistan
World Watch List #29/50*
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is home to some 5.7 million people, of which 5 million are the indigenous Turkmen. Arab conquerors brought Islam to this region in the 9th century. Under the USSR’s rule (1925-1991), Islam was greatly restricted. Today Turkmenistan’s constitution provides for freedom of religion, but those outside the Muslim (93%) and Russian Orthodox (6.4%) camps face severe restrictions and harassment. The few Evangelical and Pentecostal groups are closely monitored, and sharing their faith is prohibited. Family clans and communities persecute members who leave Islam to follow Christ, often disowning them, boycotting their business, even subjecting them to house arrest and beatings. Many believers draw encouragement and grow in their faith through media and personal testimonies they can access, and many prefer to meet in secret. The Bible is available in Turkmen but is banned, as is the printing, importing, and distributing of Christian literature.
Let’s pray
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for more church leaders and for opportunities for them to receive solid biblical training.
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for a leader who is under scrutiny for his witness; “Officials have been showing up…with photos of family members, their cars and their license plates in an effort to scare him into ending his ministry.”
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that government leaders would soften their hearts to allow true freedom of worship, recognize the good that true believers bring to society, and lift restrictions on God’s Word and His workers.
Additional Prayer
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PRAY FOR MALI
Please continue to pray for churches of many denomination and their members in a certain part of central Mali. Recently jihadists claimed their territory for Islam, giving the believers the choice of turning to Islam, leaving the area, paying a tax, or taking up arms to fight them. To keep their witness in the villages, the churches unanimously chose to pay the tax, which is imposed each year on every male between 18 and 80. Pray for courage and provision for these faithful. Pray that the Lord would thwart other attempts to use this tactic. One pastor notes, “This is just the beginning. If God doesn't intervene miraculously, they'll expand their presence and repeat the same scenario.”
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EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
though it’s a long way from their homeland, Somali entrepreneurs have come to dominate the petrol station business sector in much of eastern DR Congo. But they have another agenda beyond providing needed fuel: doing da’wah, that is, calling others to Islam. They provide many young people with jobs, hiring them to distribute jugs of petrol to roadside stands, and begin to teach them Islamic values and beliefs.
Please pray
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that the Lord would protect young people in this Christian-majority nation who are being introduced in this way to Islam, that they may instead choose to follow Jesus;
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for these Somali businessmen—now living in a nation where the gospel is freely and frequently preached—that Jesus would reveal himself to them and lead them to believers who can explain the Way;
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that God would raise up believers to intercede for and reach out to the Somalis living in communities throughout the northeastern provinces. Pray for opportunities to share Jesus with this resistant, closed group.
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"The 'dwellers in the dark' have found the Light.
The glad Good News has banished heathen night.
The message of the Cross, so long delayed,
Has brought them life at last,
Because you prayed."
Charles B. Bowser