DAY 63 - 8/12/14 - 90 days of blessing Meditate on the Word: Read Acts 2. Pray the Blessing: Acts 2:42-47 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Ask for the Nations: Pray for the more than 16 million unreached Sunni Islamic Sudanese Arabs living in 13 countries, most still living in Sudan in East Africa. The Sudanese Arabs originated in the Khartoum region of Sudan many centuries ago. Today, they live primarily in northern and central Sudan and in Egypt. A few groups are also scattered in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Libya, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. The first pure Arabs were called Bedouins. They were tribal nomads from Saudi Arabia, famous for their love of poetry and war. The Sudanese are a tribe who branched off of the Bedouins. They are a heterogeneous people with a mixture of diverse blood and cultures. Since 1983, conflict between the predominately north Arab and southern animist and Christian regions of the Sudan has accounted for more than two million deaths. Also tragic are the recent atrocities to non-Arab African groups on the Western Sudan/Chad border in the region of Darfur. Killings, mass rapes, looting of livestock and burning of villages by the Arab militia, Janjaweed, have devastated the area. It is estimated that over 70,000 have lost their lives due to hunger and disease alone. The world’s newest country is South Sudan, that struggles with these conflicts. The Sudanese Arabs live in a country engulfed by tension, terror, and war. Even more than the physical provisions that are so badly needed in the Sudan, Sudanese Arabs need to hear about the saving love of Jesus. They have some Christian resources available to them. But churches are often closed, destroyed, or not allowed to be built. Converts from the Muslim faith are not well accepted. Pray for many to put their faith in Jesus Christ and for the courage and grace needed to withstand persecution from their Islamic relatives. Declare your faith: I praise you, God, for Your amazing love and forgiveness! I thank you, God, with a glad, sincere heart for all Your goodness to me. Thank you, that You have brought me into Your family! What amazing love, that I am called Your child! (Acts 2:42-49; 1 John 3:1) Pray on foot: I will gather today with at least 1 or 2 other believers to study the Word, break bread, pray and enjoy fellowship. Together, we will believe God and pray for miracles for needs around us. I will share what I have with others who have needs, as my early brothers and sisters did. Gather regularly and praise God for His love and provision. Pray for and invite others to come to know Him as their Lord.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:55:39 +0000
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