Ramadan Muslim annual prayer focus
(for the week of January 4 -10, 1998)
FROM THE NATIONAL PRAYER EMBASSY, HERE IS
TODAY'S PRAYER ALERT: IN RECENT YEARS A
COALITION OF CHRISTIAN GROUPS HAS
ORGANIZED SPECIAL PRAYER FOR MUSLIMS
WORLDWIDE, TO COINCIDE WITH THE MUSLIMS'
ANNUAL WORLDWIDE MONTH OF FASTING CALLED,
"RAMADAN." ONE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF
CHRISTIANS, CALLED THE "30 DAY MUSLIM PRAYER
FOCUS," IS CALLING CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE
TO LEARN ABOUT ISLAM, AND TO PRAY FOR MUSLIMS,
SO THAT THEY MAY COME TO KNOW GOD'S GRACE
REVEALED IN JESUS CHRIST. AT ONE BILLION PEOPLE
WORLDWIDE, MUSLIMS ARE THE LARGEST BLOC OF
PEOPLE UNREACHED OR RESISTANT TO THE GOSPEL
OF JESUS CHRIST. THEY INCLUDE A DIVERSE GROUP
OF PEOPLE, RANGING FROM AMERICA AND EUROPE,
TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, TO THE
FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS OF CENTRAL ASIA, TO
PAKISTAN, INDIA AND THE ISLAND NATIONS OF THE
FAR EAST, SUCH AS INDONESIA, MALAYSIA AND THE
PHILIPPINES. LET'S PRAY ABOUT THIS TODAY:
"FATHER GOD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE AGREE
NOW WITH EVERY PRAYER OF FAITH BASED ON
YOUR WORD THAT YOUR SPIRIT IS LEADING YOUR
PEOPLE TO PRAY AT THIS TIME FOR THE MUSLIMS
OF THE WORLD. WE THANK YOU LORD FOR
SENDING FORTH YOUR GOSPEL LABORERS TO
REACH THE MUSLIMS, AND WE PLEAD THE BLOOD
OF JESUS OVER THEM NOW TO GIVE THEM PEACE
AND TRUTH, IN JESUS; NAME, AMEN!" FOR
FUTURE ALERTS CALL 1-800-828-PRAY OR
WWW.NATLPRAYEMB.ORG
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