Pray for Kyrgyzstan--Ramadan 2024

As devout Muslims from many different people groups in Kyrgyzstan finish preparations for sundown, which starts their month of daily fasting from sunrise to sunset, we have the opportunity to prepare our hearts for our own journey of prayer. It may be helpful to have a section in your journal or a dedicated notebook for this prayer journey, where you can make notes of prayers or scriptures God brings to your heart, or acts of obedience he calls you to along the way.

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Take some time now to ask God to remind you or show you why he is inviting you to partner with him in prayer for Kyrgyzstan this month. Why does prayer matter to Him? What is he asking from you?

How do you feel called to be praying this month? Will you pray alone or with others? Is there any other way he is inviting you to consecrate yourself to prayer (or fasting?) this month?

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8, NIV)

Father, as I pray, please help me to know your love for me afresh, and to be compelled by your love to see the peoples of Kyrgyzstan come to know you as their own Father.

But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. (Matthew 9:36, NKJV)

Jesus, as I pray, please move my heart with the compassion you feel for the many unreached peoples of Kyrgyzstan, the many who have never heard the good news of your loving sacrifice for them.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. (Romans 8:26, ESV)

Holy Spirit, in those moments where I don’t know what to pray, please draw me to lean on you in my weakness and find fellowship with you in your intercession for the Muslim peoples of Kyrgyzstan as well as those you have already drawn to yourself.

Confession

It may also be helpful to take time to allow the Holy Spirit to search you and reveal anything in your heart or life that may hinder you from praying.

Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
 See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 131: 23-24)

Praying by Name

Take some time now to ask the Lord to show you three Muslims that He would like you to pray for by name each day this Ramadan. If you don’t personally know any Muslims, you can pick leaders or celebrities to pray for and can also ask God to help you meet some Muslims you can pray for during this month of Ramadan. Write down their names and any initial thoughts you have about praying for them. Pray for God to stir in them hunger for Himself this Ramadan, and that as they cry out to Him to know Him and His ways more, He would answer by giving them an encounter with His Word and His Son.

Worshiping and Waiting

This time can be an opportunity to sit silently or sing or turn on a worship song, asking the Lord if there’s any other way He would like you to prepare your heart to pray for Muslims in Kyrgyzstan. You can write down anything that comes to your mind or heart—a scripture, a picture, an idea.

Closing Prayer

Three-in-one God, your heart and person are the source of all mission. In partnering with you in prayer this month, I long to know you and your heart more. I long to ask with deeper insight for your kingdom to come and your will to be done in Kyrgyzstan as it is in heaven. I long to remember that I am living in a story bigger than my own life and personal concerns. Through prayer, please catch me up in the drama of your unfolding story–please thrill my heart with your character and your acts and bend my concerns toward your own. I offer myself to you in prayer this month, please use me as you will. Amen.