By Michael Gryboski, Editor
The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board has launched a venture to pray for the non secular properly-being of Muslims all over Ramadan.
Identified as “Pray for Ramadan,” the advertising campaign encourages Christians to pray for Muslims at heaps of times all over their spiritual observance, which begins on Feb. 28 and concludes on March 29.
April Bunn, director of the IMB’s Prayer Place of job, told The Christian Post thru electronic mail that “we stare to recordsdata intercessors to exhaust time in prayer with each lament for lostness and pleasure within the hope of the Gospel.”
“Throughout the month of Ramadan, Muslims around the area pray and snappy, hoping to earn prefer with Allah, however each person is aware of that it is miles finest by faith in Jesus that someone is at possibility of be made suitable with God,” outlined Bunn. “We additionally know that God’s Note teaches that He works in and thru the prayers of His other folks.”
Bunn described the advertising campaign as a “guided expertise,” whereby volunteers join times all over Ramadan to pray for the salvation of Muslims, receiving “reminders to pray.”
“On the times they register to pray, they’ll search out out about Ramadan/the Muslim world, discover a few other folks team, earn a Scripture to pray over Muslims, and earn prayer prompts,” she talked about.
“This expertise is provocative in that it enables intercessors to gaze the numbers of other folks which are joining them in praying for the the same things daily. This expertise enables intercessors to be a portion of a unified world effort to lift these requests sooner than God.”
Bunn told CP that she hopes “God will plan Muslims to Himself as Christians around the area intercede and quiz God to do correct that.”
“We imagine God is ready to try this work, and we are mad to partner with Him thru intercessory prayer,” Bunn added. “Our hope is to in some unspecified time in the future meet brothers and sisters, collectively with those from a Muslim background, sooner than the throne worshiping the One Real God.”
Belief to be one in every of the holiest months on the Islamic calendar, Ramadan is most identified for being a time when Muslims snappy from sunup to sundown daily as a form of non secular self-discipline.
The dates for Ramadan vary each yr attributable to the Islamic calendar being lunar-essentially based thoroughly. Young other folks are generally exempted from fasting, as are pregnant ladies folk and those battling severe illness.
“The final aim of fasting is gaining bigger God-consciousness, identified in Arabic as taqwa, signifying a bid of constant awareness of God,” in preserving with the Islamic Networks Neighborhood. “From this awareness, a person might perchance well merely restful score self-discipline, self-restraint, and a bigger incentive to do suitable and withhold away from crude.”
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