Prayer Fuel

Day 3

Our Treasure in Jesus

God, we love you! As your Church, help us do what it takes to let the people of Tunisia grasp the Good News that when Jesus taught us to pray to you He told us to call you our Father! (Matthew 6:6-14)

Pray for a Tunisian Believer

SB is a second-year university law student. He comes from a deeply religious Islamic family. Yet, SB was disillusioned by the Islamic religion and accepted Christ two years ago. He didn’t show much fruit until recently. God is working in SB’s life. SB is sharing the good news at the university in classes and in groups. He shares in his dorm and when he visits his hometown. He has led several to Christ (including Y, who we will pray for tomorrow) and baptized them. Pray for wisdom for SB as he desires to start churches among those who accept the gospel.

Prayer for Boldness

“but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.” (Joshua 23:8 ESV). Strengthen the spiritual hands of believers [in location] that they might cling to the Lord their God. (Joshua 23:8) Grant, the church [in location] an ever-growing list of those who have gone ahead to which they can look for example and encouragement in faithful finishing of the race (2 Timothy 4:7).

Pray for a Segment of Society

Black Tunisians – Khadija smiled down at her son’s sweet face emerging from her colourful sling wrap. “This one’s not for you,” she jested as she stirred the whole chickens in the pots on the small stovetop. She kissed his sweet head, remembering the terror of finding out she was pregnant again… going to the doctor’s office in desperation to abort the baby, because “How could we ever feed another child?” Her Christian friend had sat with her through the ultrasound and convinced her that God would provide for this gift. Things would be even tighter, nothing new there. The barking guard dogs lurched her back into the present and Khadija removed the chickens to cool. She tried not to think about how long it had been since she’d fed her family meat—here they were giving whole, delicious birds to an Arab family’s guard dogs while they were away in France, or whatever other planet they seemed to visit often. No matter. Even if they barely look at us, at least here as caretakers we have a small roof over our heads and the children can walk to school while my husband tries to secure odd jobs. Not everyone looks down on Khadija and the other tens of thousands of black Tunisian families. Most arrived as slaves hundreds of years ago… and though legally they are welcome to be full participants in local society, for a dozen complex reasons, they often aren’t. Pray for Khadija’s family and thousands like hers who have disproportionate struggles to survive and provide for their families. Pray for systemic racism, freedom from the bondage of black magic which combines their often-minimal understand of Islam with their ancestral animism… and mostly for repentant hearts to confess sin and receive Jesus.

Prayer Walk

How does God lead you to pray as you watch this video from Tunisia?

Inspirational Quotes

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.” – Robert C. Shannon

How could this quote inspire you to pray for Tunisians? For yourself?

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Day 26

June 9, 2023

God, we love you! As your Church, help us do what it takes to let the people of Tunisia grasp the Good News that Jesus taught that for God those who have died are alive! (Matthew 22:32)