DAY 3

Let’s Learn

Muslims around the world observe Ramadan in the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar.

When Muslims fast, they believe their self-restraint shows their submission to Allah and their longing for him to accept them. For Christians, fasting is different. It shows our longing for Jesus, who already secured our acceptance when “he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8).

Zenaga of Mauritania

The Zenaga people live in Mauritania, a desert land along the western coast of North Africa. They are part of the larger Berber people, but they prefer to be known as the Amazigh, meaning “free men,” a term they prefer over Berber. These people long for freedom. It’s very important to them. There are few, if any, believers among the Zenaga to preach that true freedom is in Christ.

From the Word

Acts 13:38-39

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Let’s Pray

• Praise the Lord for Christ’s finished work on the cross that made a way for you, by faith, to stand before the Father, completely accepted.
• Pray that Muslims who long for acceptance from Allah will hear the good news of Jesus and submit to Him in faith.
• Pray for the Zenaga people in Mauritania to hear and trust that freedom from sin and death is only found in Jesus.

Lord, I praise You for freeing me from everything that I couldn’t be freed from on my own. You are mighty to save. Please draw many Muslims, who desperately want to be accepted, to Yourself. Please send out believers from other Muslim-majority countries to engage the Zenaga of Mauritania with the gospel. Prepare their hearts to hear the good news so that they might receive it with joy.