Tomorrow, we have an opportunity to pray together… one that comes around only once a year.
And I thought you might want to know about it.
An Annual Event 🗓️
Over the next thirty days, we have the opportunity to ask God to bring peace to precious families whom the Father loves, through Christ.
This event runs about 11 days earlier each year.
In Chad, it begins tomorrow, February 18th, because they saw the new moon at sunset this evening.
It will run for about thirty days, depending on when the new moon in March appears (around March 19th-20th).
I am speaking of the annual Muslim fast of Ramadan.
For over thirty years, the Thirty Days of Prayer for the Muslim World prayer guide has been sent out during Ramadan.
As a result of our prayers as believers, Christ has brought more Muslims to Himself in the past thirty years than in all of history.
During this time, Muslims truly seeking God will stop eating and drinking anything during the day. They will take more time to pray, more time to read their Qur’an, give more gifts to the poor, and so on… in pursuit of being worthy enough for God to forgive their sins.
But of course, none of us can be good enough to earn our own salvation.
As with us, Jesus also died on the cross for Muslims, and rose again. And at Passover, He took their (and our) place. He paid the penalty for their (and our) sins.
Tragically, this kindness does not benefit us, unless we choose to trust in Him alone.
Each of us must receive the gift of His cleansing of our sins through the cross. Only He can restore us to the relationship with God we so desperately crave.
Each day during this Muslim month of Ramadan, here are several ways to know how to pray:
- This website will give you the prayer request of the day.
- If you are on Facebook, the prayer requests of the day can be found here.
- You can sign up to watch videos about each day’s prayer challenge.
- You can order the prayer guide by pdf,
- and you can order printed prayer guides in multiple languages
As we pray through these prayer requests together, you in your place, and I in mine, we will get to know Muslims better. We will have a better sense of what is important to Muslims like us… and how much God loves them.
Let’s pray together for Muslims around the world to discover that Jesus loves them, too.