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Day 2: Creation of Humans

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.

Pray for your people and place according to what God shows you for today’s scripture:

Genesis 1:26-27

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:15-25

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

What this passage teaches us about God

A relational, purposeful Creator, God intentionally fashioned humanity through a deliberately ordered process, surrounding us with heavenly community and provision so we are never left alone.

• God made us in His image. Pray for the people of this land not only to recognize that they bear His image, but that it would also transform the way they view others.
• As they ponder the reality that their friends, family, neighbors, and enemies are all created in God’s image, may they more rightly esteem them.

What this passage teaches us about humanity

Made as image bearers from the dust of the earth and breathed upon, humanity is fundamentally communal. God created complementary male and female for companionship, multiplication, and stewardship of creation.

• Pray for those among this people who feel alone, misunderstood, and isolated. May the truth that he created us for relationship with him and others bring hope and stir a desire to understand more about how a personal relationship is possible with the God who created the heavens and earth.

Insight into how this passage connects to Muslims

This story shows God’s original design for marriage and community–truths that can transform Muslim families.

Ahmed complained about his wife. She didn’t clean the house the way she should. She didn’t take care of her appearance the way she should. His teenage children stressed him out. He has had a girlfriend on the side for years who he traveled to spend the weekend with. Ultimately, because he didn’t value God’s design for marriage and whole life commitment, he divorced his wife and married the other woman.

• Pray for Muslims in this land who are in disappointing marriages. Pray for opportunities to read the story of Adam and Eve and understand God’s original design for marriage.
• Pray that transformation would happen in their families as they trust God’s word, and that he would bring beauty into these broken marriages for his glory.

Insight into how to pray this passage for Christians reaching Muslims in this location

This story emphasizes that a believer’s place of belonging is in God’s eternal family — not cut off, separated, and in isolation.

• Pray for Christians working in this culture to clearly communicate this concept to all who are cut off from their earthly families because of their decision to follow Jesus.
• Pray that the truth that God puts the lonely in families would comfort them and remind them that they are not alone.

Related scriptures to pray for this people

The story in Genesis 2:24 continues in Ephesians 5. Father, we pray for marriages among this people group to be transformed by the teachings of Jesus. We pray that men would love their wives the way that Christ loves the church, and we pray for wives to trust their husbands and follow them the way that the church should submit to Christ.

Ephesians 5:31-32 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.”

Father, we bless this people group that they would experience oneness with Christ, and that this beautiful picture of marriage would point to the ultimate union: this people group united with Christ as one for your glory.