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Day 30: Jesus in Heaven

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 Tunisia according to what God shows you for today’s scripture:

Revelation 7:9-17

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

“Therefore they are before the throne of God,
    and serve him day and night in his temple;
    and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
    the sun shall not strike them,
    nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
    and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

What this passage teaches us about God

God’s love is so great that it encompasses multitudes from every tribe, tongue, and nation. One day all believers will be in His presence, delighting in Him without condemnation.

• Pray for Muslims in this place to put their faith in Christ and be among them.
• May Christians from a Muslim background take the Good News of Jesus to other Muslims from neighboring people groups.
• This passage also teaches that it is right to ascribe blessings, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might to God for all eternity, literally. Pray for God to raise up more people in this land who would begin living this reality even now.

What this passage teaches us about humanity

Human hearts long for completion. We often look to tangible things like money, success, sex, relationships, food, or drink to meet this need. Our satisfaction in these things does not last.

• Pray that Muslims in this place will realize that they will find full satisfaction only in the presence of our Creator. Pray that they will taste this completion through a relationship with Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit provided for us here and now.
• May the promise of God dwelling with His people, pictured in this passage, provide hope for the fulfillment of this longing.

Insight into how this passage connects to Muslims

Muslims hope that their good deeds will outweigh their bad deeds. They believe they have an angel on each shoulder recording their actions. This passage shows us that God has a superior plan. His plan is not merely to make those who put their faith in Him have more good than bad. His plan is to make us pure, so that we can be in His holy, perfect presence.

• Pray for Muslims in this place to long for true purity and to seek a way for that to be possible.
• Pray that they would thirst for the springs of living water and meet a believer who can lead them to the one who promised if you drink of Him you will never thirst again.

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

Sonia grew up in a very poor family. She often went without her basic needs being met. Even more devastating, her need to be unconditionally loved by her mom was unmet. As a result, she made some painful decisions in relationships with men, leading to more disappointment, shame, and rejection. She came to know Jesus, sharing His love with others, but the wounds from her childhood have not yet been fully healed.

• Pray Sonia and every believer in this place will be healed from emotional trauma. Ask that God would meet them in the midst of their hurt and suffering now and that He would guide them to springs of living water on this side of eternity.
• Pray that He would fill them with assured hope and that He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Tunisian prayer request

As H read the Discovery Bible Stories each week, she fell increasingly in love with Jesus. When she reached the lessons about heaven, she asked, “Will all people go to heaven?” She remembered Jesus’ words: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Pray for H as she considers the “pearl of great price.” Pray that her husband and children will begin reading the Bible with her and discovering God’s truth together.

Related scriptures to pray for Tunisians

May the Lamb receive the reward of His suffering in Tunisia. May this Ramadan mark a turning point where many would take steps towards Christ — whether it be reading the Bible, talking to a Christian, or humbly praying to God and simply asking Him to reveal himself to them. We pray for families and groups of friends to gather around the Bible to hear the stories we’ve prayed through this month.

May the living and active Word of God, sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrate them and make them whole. We pray for those in this land to experience God dwelling with them as described in Revelation 21:3-5. Through Christ may they find hope that He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more. Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor anymore pain, for the former things have passed away. We ask in faith that those we have prayed for this year would say goodbye to the former things and would walk with the One who says, “Behold, I am making all things new.”