Pray4Somalia 2024

We are praying for the Greater Somali Nation, the Somali people. This includes but is not limited to people in the countries of Somalia, Somaliland, Puntland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. There are also many Somalis in Asia, Europe, other parts of Africa, and the Americas. People in these places constitute the Greater Somali Nation, thanks for joining in prayer for these beloved people this Ramadan.

30 Ways for Muslims to encounter Christ

Deception is acceptable under certain circumstances in Islam. In the Bible it says “Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator” (Colossians 3:9-10). Pray for Somali people to be people who pursue truth and feel conviction about deceiving others.

Liberty to the Captives

Each of us who comes to Christ must repent of and renounce every pact, promise, or identity we held before faith in Christ. Join us in praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ from a Muslim background as they repent of their former identity as Muslims. This prayer is inspired by chapter 7 and 8 of Liberty to the Captives by Mark Durie

Pray for Believers in Somalia to trust fully that God is unchanging and faithful in his relationships. He always keeps his word.

“God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” (Numbers 23:19).

Praying Scripture

“Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place. How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth” (Exodus 33:15-16).

Pray that emerging generations of churches would host His presence as they devote themselves to prayer.
Pray that God’s presence with believers in Somalia would draw men and women to the true King.

Praying for the Church

Pray that Somali Believers will have vision and urgency to see all parts of their country reached with the gospel. Pray that the Lord will give his heart for the lost to Believers.

“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36)

Claiming Our Hope in Christ and His Heart for the Nations

Lord, help us to release control and allow your Holy Spirit to build your church. We pray, Father, for grace to raise up new generations of leaders, grace to resist the love of ego and our ‘little kingdoms’; grace to embrace the way of Jesus.

Lord, make our Brothers and Sisters in Somalia more like Paul, who poured out his life like a drink offering, who labored and toiled for his spiritual children. Give them the grace that was on his life to establish self-sustaining gospel communities. And Lord, as leaders of emerging movements imitate Christ, allow new facilitators and new leaders to imitate them. In this way, Lord, may your church sustain itself: disciples making disciples, leaders raising up leaders, groups starting groups, and churches planting churches.