Last week, as part of the first Missions Monday, we introduced “30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World.” This week we’re simply reminding you to continue loving Muslims through prayer as Ramadan is rolling right along into Day 8!

Click here for today’s focus on Ghana, a small country in West Africa made up of nearly 20% Muslims. Once you get there, be sure to spend some time browsing. For each day not only provides a unique video (from a documentary-type of some sweet spirited children who partook in the Ghana Youth Photo Project to an inside look at one Saudi woman’s life), but you will also find convicting testimonies, related articles and a handful of starter prayer requests for each country all in a precise and non-overwhelming format. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know much about Ghana. So, if you’re interested in learning more, click here. Making use of the 30 Days website has been an easy way to see other parts of the world and immediately remember how they live without the gospel.

For example, Day 2 focused on Saudi Arabia and it listed many clans by name to pray for that the gospel would go forth powerfully among them. I was personally reminded of the great need for the specific peoples/clans to be prayed for by name, since the daily post mentioned that we may be some of the first ever to pray for those particular people groups!! The reality that there are hundreds even thousands of people groups in the world who have no gospel workers, let alone people who are consistently in prayer on their behalf should grieve us!

Did you know? [Click here for more stats.]

1 in every 5 people alive today are Muslims.

9 out of 10 Muslims don’t know any Christians.

Because Ramadan is a special and very spiritual time of year for Muslims, please make an effort to lift them up in prayer. Even if you print off the brief stories and requests for each day and then read over them before going to bed, that’s a huge step! Other ideas, and ones involving your family, include incorporating this somehow into your family’s worship time or being prepared to talk about it over a meal and then spending some time praying after wards! Simple, right? We just have to be intentional and make the decision to do so today!

I hope and pray you have been able to keep up with this. I am learning so much and at the same time being reminded again and again of how Jennifer-focused I can get! Reading about other cultures and remembering how they have little or no access to the precious message of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been a great help to me this week against those selfish moments where temptation tries to keep me from thinking of others rather than myself. I ask myself, “Why don’t I do this more often?!?!” In light of this, may we take the words of Paul in Colossians 4:3 as our initiative, praying that “God would open to workers in these places a door for the Word, to declare the mystery of Christ that people might embrace the Holy King of glory and be freed from their enslavement to Islam!

~Jennifer Miersma for the Missions Team