Praise Jesus for gospel videos in ShilHa from creation to the resurrection… prophet stories that teach of Jesus. According to one brother, they are ‘spreading like fire in hay’ throughout the countryside. People who have already seen the videos, come to him asking about Jesus. He keeps praying, ‘May the Word be planted in my heart so I can share clearly by the Spirit.’

One woman had a dream she was talking with a sister and ‘one she couldn’t see clearly’ who spoke the same words as Jesus spoke on the waves: “Take courage. It is I. Don’t be afraid.” She had heard the gospel only once but is asking the LORD Jesus to help her. Pray for her and those like her who are just now hearing about Jesus, that they would believe and follow Him and grow in the knowledge of Christ, growing deep roots.

Four brothers (two less than a week old in Jesus and the other two less than a year) met together discussing how to love their wives, how to share the gospel, where to meet regularly. Praise Jesus for their zeal and ask for continued humility and unity and obedience.

Lord Jesus, humble the hearts of those who still feel that it is more devout and honorable to fulfill the rules by human effort. Let them feel the weight of their sin and recognize the grace of Jesus’ death on the cross that offers life. Free the Amazigh from the spirit of self- righteousness in Islam or in humanitarianism. Gal 2:21

Southern Shilha Berbers of Algeria

• The Southern Shilha are peacemakers. Pray that they will know Jesus, who is Himself our peace and theirs.
• Pray for revelation that Jesus is the Peace they seek.
• Pray for workers to go to the Southern Shilha and preach peace through Jesus Christ to them.
• Pray for God to call gospel workers from near cultures, like the Moroccan Shilha.
• Ask God for family movements to Christ among the Southern Shilha.
• Pray for God to raise up gospel storytellers among them.
• Ask the Lord to bring a migrant Southern Shilha into your life.

Praise Jesus for courageous brothers sharing the gospel and obeying the Word of God. Several have said they want to follow Jesus. Pray that each believer would keep abiding in Jesus and growing in the knowledge of God, that no heresy would creep in as the gospel bears fruit and grows (Col 1:6)

Rif Amazigh

Ask the Lord to send workers among the Rif Amazigh of Algeria.

Ask the Lord to raise up near-culture believers from neighboring Morocco, even among Moroccan Rifians, with a burden and call to go to their Rifian kin in Algeria and share the Good News.

Please pray for a young believer, ‘Monty’, who has recently moved to our city. He is isolated from fellowship and works long hours every day in a phone repair shop. He has boldly shared his faith with his family who don’t understand but at least are not hostile towards him. Pray that his mother, father and sister will come to know the Saviour through Monty’s witness. We long for whole families to come to believe together.

Father, we ask for increased boldness for those who have been hiding for years. Thank you for the man who has followed you for 30 years and led his two sons to the Lord. Thank you for his recent courage since meeting with the new believer. May they continue to meet regularly to pray, and may they keep welcoming in those who are asking. Thank you for the group of men they met with last week who are sincerely listening. May they also believe.

The Tajakant are a Sahrawi tribe of Amazigh/Berber Sanhaja origins, primarily living in Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, and Mali.

• Stand in the gap before the Lord on behalf of the Tajakant. Pray and don’t be silent. Ask the Lord to draw the Tajakant to Himself that they may be counted among the Redeemed on the day He makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
• Pray for the younger generations that they may encounter the Word of God through media and be curious to learn more about the Messiah.
• Pray for the older generations to dream dreams and lead their families to discover Jesus.
• May the Tajakant be among those who stand before the throne, crying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Praise Jesus for strong bold Arab believers who witness online. A young Amazighi brother was in the countryside and said he found 17 who seemed open and 6 that he talked to directly about Christ. He has been watching TikTok videos about Jesus by Arab believers from a nearby country and is sharing them with his friends who don’t read. His not-yet-believing wife also watched several. Pray that Christians would carefully speak the full gospel as revealed in Scripture and that those listening would believe.

Praise Jesus for continued hunger and humility and child-like faith. One widow when she heard of the bronze snake in the wilderness and connected it to the cross, she said, ‘Do you mean like the One who died, was in the tomb and came alive again?’ She then asked for the next story. Jesus, please continue to give deep hunger.

Praise Jesus for the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit even between brothers who have never met. Believers are laboring in prayer for those in prison for the gospel in other countries. Pray for not-yet-believers who are seeing this love and the way God speaks. One woman said, ‘Maybe their God really is the true God’

May the church of God arise and tell the good news to the Amazigh who have never heard of the cross and resurrection. One woman when she heard about the Messiah dying to pay the price of our sin, asked, ‘What is this Messiah? Is it an animal that dies?’ Another woman, hearing of the cross for the first time, was in tears as she held out her own wrists touching the places where the nails were fastened… Lord, send harvesters to speak to these tender hearts you are preparing.

Praise God for strong mature believers who know Scripture and know Jesus and are filled with the Spirit and love to share with boldness. Pray that they continue to walk in humility as they serve the body and that many more would become courageous, loving, proclaiming disciples. One brother said, ‘I want to be just like you (speaking to the mature shepherd) and better!’ The shepherd’s response was an emphatic: “Yes!”

Praise Jesus for our brother who met other local believers (from a city two hours away) for the first time this week! He was so encouraged to hear about believers gathering in other cities and wanted to do the same here, but had heard of none until yesterday. Praise Jesus he now has the number of a local brother in his same city and hopes to meet him today. Pray they would  meet! Pray that the Amazigh would prioritize meeting together to pray!

This month of Ramadan, Algerians are gathering around the table every evening for spiritual conversations. They are longing to strengthen the bonds of love, brotherhood, and family ties. They do not know that a table conversation with God Himself is possible. They don’t realize that He has made a way for them to be reconciled to Himself through Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Ask the Lord to come to their tables and speak truth into their hearts that will shape their lives for eternity.

Pray for dissatisfaction in religious rule-following, and a deep conviction of the impossibility of human effort to make one righteous. Pray for revival and revelation of Jesus among the experts in Islamic law.

Pray for the Algerian community leaders who seek to be agents of reconciliation. Pray that the Lord reveals to them their limitations, and their need for the Messiah Jesus who brings lasting peace.

Pray that Algerians will see the futility of trying to purify their own hearts and that they will long for One who will make them completely clean.
Pray that Jesus will move among Algerians, appearing to them in dreams and visions. Pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal to them His ability to make them clean and embolden them to approach Him. Pray that Algerians will hear the voice of Jesus saying, “I am willing. Be clean!”
Ask the Lord for a people movement among Algerians as the word spreads that Jesus makes hearts clean.

Ask for deliverance for those ensnared by magic charms, and false prophets who say ‘peace when there is no peace.’ (Ezekiel 13) Pray that they will know the Lord, that the white-washed flimsy refuge of Islam would be swept away, exposed as worthless and empty. We pray for many to hear the truth of the gospel and receive true peace with God through the cross.

Pray that each believer would be ‘alert and keep on praying and that words would be given them to fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel.’ Pray especially for those who are afraid to tell their closest family members, that their transformed lives would open opportunities and fear would be swept away.

May those who have just begun to hear stories of Jesus not reject the truth when they compare it to the lies they have been told for centuries. May they joyfully throw off all deceit and all sin that easily entangles, and follow Jesus, the truth, running the race set before them.

Praise Jesus for the mighty work of the Spirit in the lives of new believers. Pray that those who don’t read well, and those who do, will choose to listen to or read the word of God and learn how to commune with him. One man asked yesterday, ‘If we get interrupted when we are praying, is that ok?’ He was relieved to know we can continually turn back to God in prayer and prayed with a brother for his family’s salvation.

Praise Jesus… the Amazigh scattered throughout the world are choosing to follow Jesus and gathering together. An Amazighi woman from Morocco chose to follow Jesus in Libya and then went to Italy. Her sister also came to Jesus in Italy and a Libyan there just joined the fellowship in Italy led by Egyptians.

A woman who was listening to the story of the woman at the well heard that the water Jesus gives will become in people “a spring that wells up to eternal life.” Her response was… “that is the Holy Spirit, right?” May many more listen to the truth with faith and receive the Holy Spirit.

Many delight to hear the gospel and the true stories of the prophets and Jesus. Some have learned well the rituals of Islam but have not read or understood the Koran. Because of this, they receive the true stories of the prophets not realizing the core of them (all pointing to Jesus) disagrees with Islam. And some even accept Jesus’ death as the Lamb of God… and some his deity! But still they quote the memorized passages of the Koran and bow as the mosque calls out the shahada. Pray that there would not be syncretism… but pure disciples.

Berbers prefer to be called Amazigh. We praise Jesus for the delight many have hearing the stories of Jesus in small cities. We pray that through believers or through apps, the Amazigh will listen carefully to the Word of God, believe it’s true and wholly obey and follow Jesus. We pray for Amazigh believers to carry the word back to their families in the mountains and boldly and faithfully tell the true stories of Jesus (esp to those who don’t have internet or written Scripture that they understand.)

Please pray for courage for those who now believe the truth but are counting the cost. One man’s words were: “I know the way but if I deny Jesus before my parents, will Jesus deny me? Pray for me… “ Ask for each one counting the cost to know that the kingdom of God is like a pearl of great price… worth everything… (Matt 13)

Ask that the Amazigh (Berbers) continue to hunger for the Word of God, hear the truth in a way they can understand, and receive it with faith. Pray especially that those in the mountains who do not speak Arabic, that they would hear the gospel in their language.

Pray for the families who have said they want to understand scripture to be courageous and honest and willing to keep studying. Pray that they will see Jesus and for their hearts to be completely transformed by the Spirit of God and for boldness to share.

Pray that those who hear the truth would believe the truth and follow Jesus unafraid of those who threaten them.

Pray that believers would be released from fear and that they would stand firm in Jesus…even in persecution.

Please pray for those still in difficult living conditions after losing their homes, livelihoods, and loved ones in the earthquake in Sept. Pray that seeds planted in expressions of care and the truth spoken would bear fruit and that the Father would use this devastating situation to grow His kingdom.

Praise Jesus for increased courage in the hearts of believers. Pray for those who have been asking of Jesus but are now afraid to keep searching because of the arrests. May their hunger overcome their fear.

A local Sister has a sister who lives in one of the villages outside Kesh. This sister said the last three nights all the women in the village have gathered outside their homes and just looked at the sky for hours. She asked them what they were doing.

“We saw a face in the sky so we are looking to see if we can see it again.”

The sister, who is not a believer but has read the Word a little bit, asked her Sister, who is a believer, “Is it Isa (Jesus)?”

So now they are all looking in the sky for Him! Amazing!! Ask Jesus to reveal Himself powerfully to these women and that they’d realize He loves them so much that He stepped down from His throne into our world to be Emmanuel!