All Days
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One of the primary ways God is drawing Muslims to Himself is through simple Bible studies that highlight passages of scripture from Creation through the Resurrection. The Waha app (https://waha.app/) contains many story sets that have been translated into dozens of languages. Throughout the 30 days we will pray through these story sets that reveal Jesus, the Word made flesh.
As you read these familiar passages, prayerfully imagine what it would be like to read them for the first time – to see the wisdom, power, beauty, and authority of God and to be drawn to trust in Christ and yield your allegiance to Him.
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
This passage teaches us that all of the bad news that humanity faces is firmly and finally replaced with good news through Christ.
Riadh was in his early twenties when he became curious about Christianity. Despite being young, he was financially independent and affluent. He was running a business and making a lot of money. The Christian who was sharing the Gospel with him was excited about Riadh’s hunger. But then Riadh started to back away. When the Christian asked him why, he said, “I made a pact with good Muslim spirits, but they are the ones who have made me rich. They don’t want me to continue. I think I need a break from pursuing this.”
Riadh had taken the enemy up on his offer to receive authority and glory from him and with it came complete bondage. Pray for people in this land to be set free from every pact and agreement they have made with darkness and to come into the glorious and freeing light of Christ.
Pray for Christians in this place who are seeking to share Good News with Muslims to operate in the power of the Spirit. Pray for their hearts to be meditating on Scripture so that they can respond to Satan’s temptations with God’s Word. Pray for the Church to continue to live out the fulfillment of the Isaiah scroll in their land — to be ministers of justice, mercy, compassion, and liberators.
Jesus fasted for 40 days and the rest of Luke 4 flows out of that time with the Father. Pray for Christians in this place to practice true fasting and for it to be a testimony to Muslims who don’t know that Christians fast nor what true fasting really means:
Pray for the fasting that God calls for (Isaiah 58:6-8): to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke. Pray for people in this land to share their bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into their homes. When they see the naked, give them means to cover them.
Then bless true fasters in this land. That their light would break forth like the dawn, and healing spring up speedily. We ask for their righteousness to go before them, and the glory of the Lord to be their rear guard.
May men and women in this land experience the promise of Isaiah 58:10-11, “If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong. And you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.”
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