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Prayer Guide 30 DAYS of PRAYER May 6-June 4 2019 Muslim World Prayer Guide 30 DAYS OF PRAYER May 6-June 4 2019 Christians Learning about and Praying for the Muslim world Join Christians around the world in prayer for our Muslim neighbors Photo © Amber Hallam OUR SPONSORS Ministries and organizations whose advertising significantly contributes toward the North Welcome to the 2019 edition of American edition of this prayer guide are featured throughout the booklet. We encourage you to 30 Days Muslim World Prayer Guide! peruse their adverts. They provide opportunities to pursue further learning about and involvement ver the last few years, as participation in 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World has with what God is doing in the Muslim world. Ogrown to include dozens of new language groups and believers all over the world, we have made efforts to see that our content reflects our global identity. ABOUT US This year, we were excited to receive submissions from all over the continent of This (28th) annual worldwide call to prayer began Africa, from remote areas of China, from small towns in North America and from islands in 1993. International coordination during that near the Equator. The Muslim world is diverse, and we aim to show you that diversity in period has migrated between Australia, France, this guide, so that your prayers are far-reaching and informed, and also so that you are Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA. connected to the work God is doing in different ways, among different people. Other editions of this material are distributed by Our editing team is always impressed by the different ways our contributors find to coordinators in different language and geographic share what is important to the people groups they are living among. We hope that their regions (see: https://www.pray30days.org/ stories, and the beautiful images they share, will inspire you to pray with insight and directory. We welcome your feedback, so please sincerity for Muslims everywhere. contact: [email protected], or use address on back cover). Thank you for praying! Published in North America since 1993 by 30 Days Editors ADDITIONAL BOOKLETS PhotoRose © Kenzi Including a kids and Spanish version. See center pages and Order Form on page 55. Please join us not only in prayer for our world's Muslim neighbors, but also through your financial giving. Your donations enable us to support ministry opportunities and to produce additional Prayer Guides (now also Hindu and Buddhist ones). DONATE SECURELY ONLINE: www.worldchristianconcern. org/donate, or by check: payable to WorldChristian Concern (address on back cover). 1 68 million+ people displaced overwhelming needs a wealth of opportunity How could God use you? Statistic from UNHCR. Image is representative. © 2019 Christar learn more at christar.org/refugees Hospitality in the Muslim world ospitality is an important—almost a central—part of Islamic Hculture. Offering kindness and generosity to guests is considered a duty that one owes to God. Therefore, many Muslims believe that to honor and welcome a guest is to honor and welcome God. Hospitality is expressed in different ways in different cultures, but throughout the Islamic world it is characterized by generosity and self-sacrifice. No matter how little one might have, it is a point of honor to share it with guests. We asked our contributors to tell us about what hospitality looks like in the Muslim people groups they live among. Food, of course, “Remember this: whoever sows plays a significant part, and we advise our readers that some of these articles may make you very hungry! Even during the month of sparingly will also reap sparingly, Ramadan, when fasting is the focus, the feasting that happens after and whoever sows generously sunset each day is sumptuous and shared freely. Hospitality brings people together. It invites us to talk with one will also reap generously.” another and grow in spiritual understanding both as an individual and as a group. We hope that you will enjoy these descriptions of hospitality 2 Corinthians 9:6 in different Muslim cultures and be inspired to pray in a way that reflects that spirit of generous welcome. PhotoRose © Kenzi 3 Pray for Muslims, yes. But what if God wants to use YOU as the answer to that prayer? At BEYOND, We can equip you to be the one sent! Learn more at: beyond.org/muslim beyond.org /BeyondUPG /BeyondUPG /BeyondUPG Frequently asked questions about 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World How did 30 Days get started? Photo© Katelyn H A group of mission leaders were praying at a meeting in the Middle East. They were convicted of the need to focus prayer on the Muslim world and be more proactive in demonstrating God’s love for Muslim people. The prayer guide for Muslims during Ramadan was one way they responded. Who writes the articles and produces the guide? The team that produces 30 Days is a diverse group of people from different Christian churches and organizations spread all over the world. Many of them have lived among, Let the Holy Spirit worked with and loved Muslim people for many years. Some contribute articles, while others volunteer each year to translate, design or distribute the guide. challenge you to pray How do you decide who to pray for? in the light of all the We gather submissions from all over the world, so our selection is based on what we are needs of the people sent. We produce a writing guide each year for anyone who is interested in mobilizing prayer for a particular need—contact us if you’d like to write for 30 Days! you read about. How should we pray? Use the prayer ideas as a starting point for your prayers. Some of them have Scriptures that will provide inspiration. Let the Holy Spirit challenge you to pray in the light of all the needs of the people you read about, and based on our calling as the followers of Christ to love them as He does and share His good news with them. 5 Who are we praying for The world waits. PAGE DAY PEOPLE COUNTRY/REGION PAGE DAY PEOPLE COUNTRY/REGION Over 1/4 of the world have no one to 8 1 Fulani Sahel/West Africa 33 16 Kaka’i Iran/Iraq 9 2 Egyptians Egypt 35 17 Morocco ask about Jesus. They have never seen 11 3 Mali 36 18 Saho Eritrea/Ethiopia 12 4 Bosnias Bosnia and Herzegovina 37 19 Somali Somalia his love lived out. 13 5 Rohingya Malaysia 38 20 Uighur China 14 6 Kazakhs Kazakhstan 40 21 Swahili of Zanzibar Tanzania 16 7 Maldives 41 22 Kohistan Pakistan 17 8 UAE 43 23 Bedouin Levant 19 9 Turkey 44 24 USA WORK where 20 10 Afar Djibouti 45 25 Turkmen Turkmenistan 21 11 Hui China 46 26 “Night of Power” Worldwide 22 12 Masalit Sudan 48 27 Jordan missionaries can’t. 24 13 ‘Patoulis’ Central Asia 49 28 Hadhramis Yemen 25 14 Bengali Muslims South Asia 50 29 Europe 32 15 Muslims in Chicago USA 51 30 Worldwide 29 30 6 15 4 25 24 9 Use your professional training for 23 13 11 26 17 16 20 2 27 22 8 14 Christ in authentic, integrated service. 12 10 3 1 28 18 19 5 Ask us how. 7 21 6 USA www.interserveusa.org 30 days 2019 q.indd 4 1/19/19 11:38 PM The world waits. Over 1/4 of the world have no one to ask about Jesus. They have never seen his love lived out. WORK where missionaries can’t. Use your professional training for Christ in authentic, integrated service. Ask us how. USA www.interserveusa.org 30 days 2019 q.indd 4 1/19/19 11:38 PM The Sahel region of DAY 1 May 6 Africa The Fulani of the Sahel IDEAS FOR PRAYER esterday’s dishes lie in a pile by the door to Issata’s mud house. The sun rises and the sand glitters in the ➊ Pray that Fulani women alone Y daylight. The guests, who arrived three months ago, are in their villages would experience still sleeping under the tent in the center of her compound, God’s protection, provision and having gone to sleep refreshed by a chilled hibiscus drink, peace like the widow of Zarephath, millet couscous and fishy leaf stew. Issata gets up, washes who put God first by serving the her face, hands and feet, and bows down to pray. prophet Elisha. Issata is a Fulani woman. The Fulani are the largest (1 Kings 17:7–16) nomadic people group in the world and the largest ➋ Pray that the gospel would unreached people group in Africa. Numbering 35 million, travel with the 35 million Fulani they roam from the east to the west of Africa across who are on the move across the Sahel. Like many Fulani women, Issata lives nine Africa. to ten months of the year without her husband. Fulani ➌ Pray that as Fulani families men travel for work as shepherds or in trade, while the extend hospitality to others, they women stay in small villages waiting for their men to would experience the One who come home. The Fulani are the largest Issata’s life is centered around koddirgal said, “Behold, I stand at the door nomadic people group and knock, and if anyone hears (hospitality)—the highest value in the Fulani my voice, I will come in to him code of conduct! She never asks a guest in the world. and eat with him and he with me.” how long they will stay nor to contribute (Revelation 3:20) to the chores or food bill.
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