30 Ways for Muslims to Encounter Christ
In Islam God has 99 names–such as All-Merciful, The Beneficent, The Source of Peace, but also The Humiliator, The Reducer, and The Withholder. None of those names is Love. Father God, who reveals yourself as the God of Love throughout the Bible, please reveal yourself to Muslims in BiH with your true nature.
Praying Scripture
To sustain movement, groups and leaders must cultivate bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood. We must practice the New Testament’s ‘one another’ passages. Without this grace, a disciple making movement simply will not happen. Pray for our brothers and sisters in BiH to more fully experience the ‘one anothers‘ in this passage from Romans 12.
“Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them…Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other…When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality…Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with each other.”
Praying for the Church
Many Christians in BiH struggle financially. Pray that as new bodies of believers form, they will come together and generously help one another with needs. Pray for wisdom among missionaries and other ministry workers to know best how to be generous, without creating cycles of dependency.
Liberty to the Captives
Each of us who comes to Christ must repent of and renounce every pact, promise, or identity we held before faith in Christ. Join us in praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ from a Muslim background as they repent of their former identity as Muslims. This prayer is inspired by chapter 7 and 8 of Liberty to the Captives by Mark Durie
God’s love overcomes rejection. “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him” (1 John 4:16).
Pray for Christians from a Muslim background in BiH to overcome the rejection they have experienced through the love God showed us on the cross of Christ.
Bosnian Insights
Many people are surprised to learn that Bosnia has a Christian history. Paul writes in Romans 15:17-19, “Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.”
Parts of Bosnia were in ancient Illyricum, meaning that this region of the world had first-hand knowledge of the Gospel from Paul himself! Following this, there are records of church activities throughout the centuries, and in the Middle Ages, there is even the emergence of a Bosnian Church! Pray for Bosniaks to rediscover their ancient faith heritage and to see the Bosnian church grow once again!