Stand in the Gap

“I looked for a man (or woman) among them

who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land

so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30)

Intercede today for the 1.4 billion neighbors around the world & right next door!

PRAYER REQUESTS for April 3, 2008:

1. According to one Field Strategy Coordinator: “God is doing a great work amongst neighbors through one of our least educated pastors. Though he doesn’t look like a dynamic leader or gifted pastor on the outside, he is humbly allowing God to use him in a variety of ways, to reach neighbor children and their families. His passion for the lost is contagious amongst his people and they are ministering to 100’s of neighbor children each week, providing food, and other needs. They are effectively using the Jesus Film, the Camel method and many other tools to reach neighbors. Praise the Lord for this pastor and his people and pray for continued outpouring of God’s Spirit upon them.”

2. The Beja, Bedawi of Eritrea are listed on Joshua Project’s top ten list of unreached people. Though numbering only 196,000 in Eritrea, there are over 2.8 million Beja people worldwide, mostly in Africa.

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray against the deceitful spirits of false religion mingled with witchcraft that is keeping the Beja bound.

• Ask God to raise up prayer teams that will break up the ground through worship and intercession.

• Pray for God to speed the completion of the Jesus film and other evangelistic materials into the Bedawiye language.
• Pray that God will raise up qualified linguists to translate the Bible into Bedawiye.
• Ask the Holy Spirit to soften the hearts of the Beja toward followers of Isa so that they will be receptive to the Gospel.
• Pray that God will begin revealing Himself to these precious Neighbors through dreams and visions.
• Ask the Lord to raise up strong local churches among the Beja.

3. Pray for Mary as she leads a team of bible college students every Friday and Saturday to minister to a neighbor community that was devastated by an earthquake in 2006. May their loving, joyful service open doors for the Gospel to transform the families of this community.

4. May the Lord open the door for our broadcast team in Manila to partner with FEBC to air a radio program to reach one of the unreached people groups of Mindanao.

5. Pray for “Dori” as she transitions back into life in Jakarta after working abroad for several years. She has returned home to care for her ailing father. Friends there have already been able to contact her by cell phone. May someone near her be able to connect with Dori 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 the plight of the Sudanese in Darfur. There are now 2.1 million refugees from the conflict.
• for followers of Isa in Southern Sudan. Despite incredible hardship and persecution, a vibrant church has emerged.
• for the 30 million Neighbors of Northern Sudan. Ask God to raise up more Christian workers to provide a Christlike witness to this multitude. (Currently there are fewer than 200 known believers working amongst them.)

Prayer Requests for 21 March, 2008

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.