Day 31

Today is the last day of the Ramadan Prayer Challenge. Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast. As you prepare to worship with your family in Christ today, pray for Muslims around the MedRim who are preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan with a feast. It will be a spectacular meal, with all the stops pulled out! In fact, there are often so many sweet treats that the day is referred to as ‘Sweet Eid’.  

In all likelihood, Muslims will gather throughout the MedRim with family and friends, enjoying a variety of sweet dishes as well as meats. Most likely, lamb will be somewhere on the table. All of this is in celebration of the end of fasting, of the promise of good food to come.  

Family, friends, sweetness, a lamb that gives its life for the family, and the promise of more to come. 

Sound familiar? 

As you gather today with your family and friends, worshipping the Giver of All Good Things, allow your mind to be drawn to prayer for Muslims around the MedRim. Pray that they would one day soon taste and see that the Lord truly is good (better even than homemade baklava!). As you take of the Lamb’s body and blood, remember those within the house of Islam who do not yet know that the Lamb gave His body and blood once and for all – for them! Pray that even as Muslim families gather to celebrate a meal together, they would somehow discover that Jesus loves them and that He has prepared such a feast for them that all earthly feasts pale in comparison!

 If you’d like to deepen your engagement with MRN in reaching the Muslim friends you have been praying for this past month, would you consider giving a gift here (https://www.mrnet.org/?form=donate) so that they may join the real Feast of the Lamb described in Revelation 19? 

Thank you for praying! 

Andy