PRAYER REQUESTS for March 21, 2008:
1. Praise the Lord for this recent report from one of our JF teams, who in spite of initial resistance, are now seeing signs of hope. Pray that the seeds of the Gospel will take root in this difficult area. JF Worker: “We felt led to focus our efforts on the city of C. This is a very resistant area. We had a commitment to show the film in a particular house in this area, but as we were showing the film, one of the neighbors objected and forced us to quit showing. Not wanting to lose this opportunity, as we left, we left a DVD of the film with the family. A few days later they contacted us, to tell us that they had watched the film and now wanted to study more about Isa.”
2. The Joshua project’s top ten unreached people list includes the Comorian, Ndzwani of Comoros who are 99.99% Ms. This Sub-Saharan people group, numbering 355,000 in population, mostly inhabit the Comoros Islands of the Indian Ocean / Mozambique Channel. Prayer Points for the Comorjan people:
*Ask the Lord to call people who are willing to go to the Comoros Islands and share the Gospel with the Comorian.
*Ask the Lord to grant wisdom and favor to missions agencies targeting the Comorian.
*Pray that God will reveal Himself to the Comorian through dreams and visions.
*Pray that God will give the small number of Comorian believers boldness to share Christ with their own people.
*Take authority over the spiritual principalities that are keeping the Comorian bound.
*Ask the Lord to send Christian teachers and medical teams to work among the Comorian.
*Ask God to raise up an army of intercessors for the Comorian.
3. Every Friday and Saturday a team of bible college students, lead by a graduate student named “Mary”, continues to visit and minister to the community in Yogyakarta that was devastated by an earthquake in 2006. Pray that their loving, joyful service will open doors for the Gospel to transform the families of this community.
4. Pray for ongoing discussion between our broadcast team in Manila and FEBC about airing a program to reach one of the unreached people groups of Mindanao.
5. Pray for “Dori” as she gives up her job abroad and returns to her family in Indonesia to take care of her crippled father. In the same tragedy that crippled her father, Dori lost her sister and brother-in-law, and now without Dori’s income the family will be in severe financial crisis. Pray for follow up workers to make contact with her and share the love of Christ with her family in their time of need.
6. ADAPTED from this week’s Jumaa Prayer Fellowship requests. Please pray….
…for Christian domestic workers across the Arabian Gulf. Often, they will be the only witness of Jesus Christ that many
of their employers ever will hear in an entire lifetime.
…for the neighbors of Tanzania. The government is presently deciding whether to establish a shariacourt as part of the
Tanzanian legal system.
…for neighbors in the country of Georgia.They number almost 500,000 and have had very little witness of the gospel since
the fall of communism.
