A South Asian woman recently attended the funeral of a Christian child. There she and several other Muslim friends heard clearly the gospel and observed the love and hope of the family and friends. Please pray that she and her friends will find the courage to leave their religion and decide to become followers of Jesus. Pray they will realise their religion gives them no confidence of acceptance in the day of judgment.

Pray for S. Asians who have Christian friends to be drawn to faith in Christ through the persistent love of their friends. Pray that Christ’s perfect love pouring out on them will calm their fears and will convince them that Jesus is trustworthy and that He is worth any sacrifice. Pray that they will be bold as they confess their faith in Him to their families and friends.

A young South Asian came to decorate hands with henna in preparation for a Muslim wedding, and saw some Christians who continue to meet with her and her sisters. She is friendly but not yet hungry for God’s Word or anything other than her Islamic religion. Please pray for the Lord to work in her life in such a way that she begins to seek Jesus Christ.

Pray for a S. Asian woman who is very influential in her family to become convinced that Jesus Christ truly is the only way to God. Pray that she will realise that all her good works will not save her. Pray for her to come to Christ in faith, and that her children who have become very interested in the way of salvation will feel great freedom to come to Christ as well.

After a season in which many family members were scattered and staying in other parts of the city, suddenly a S. Asian family has all returned to their original home. They seem to be hungry for spiritual truth. This is the family where the grandfather received an Arabic Bible. Please pray with us that the whole family, like Lydia’s in Acts 16, would turn to faith in Christ.

Please pray for a Muslim S. Asian family. They need the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Various members of the family seem very close to committing themselves to Christ, but others seem resistant. Please pray that even in the hearts of the most resistant members, Christ will break down all the blindness and hardness, and woo them to Himself with His love.

Pray much for a S. Asian teenager and her cousin who have understood their own sinfulness and the uselessness of trying to be good enough to earn heaven. They know that Jesus offered the perfect sacrifice for sin and that they can receive Him by faith. Now they are pondering whether to do that. Pray they will!

Praise God that a Muslim Babu (grandfather) sent a message of thanks for the gift he received of an Arabic Bible. Please pray that he and several others who are learning to read Arabic in his household will read it, and that the Holy Spirit will guide them to passages that will help them come into eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Praise God for many opportunities to share Scripture with a S. Asian Muslim family. Most recently an Arabic Bible was given to the grandfather. Please pray that he and others who can read Arabic will read it. May there be something about reading the Words of Life in Arabic that is even more convincing than in English, and may they put their faith in Christ.

Please pray for a S. Asian family who have turned to Jesus out of Hinduism. They are being tested in a number of ways, especially in compromises to their integrity in business. Pray that the Lord will give them freedom from anxiety and care for their needs, helping them to pay off their debts and live within their means. Pray for a job for the husband that not only brings income for the family but also opens doors for him to minister to people in the name of Jesus. Pray for their healing as they struggle with some health issues. Pray for their encouragement as they cast all their cares on Christ.

Please pray for two S. Asian families who have been invited to attend a Christmas party. May the Lord bring those whose hearts have already been prepared to respond to the gospel. May He protect the evening from any attacks of the enemy, and remove the veil of blindness that lies over their hearts. May they also be so full of joy and courage that they confess openly that they believe in Christ.

Several S. Asian women seem to want to trust both the Quran and the Bible for their salvation and daily living. They are terrified to consider leaving their religion or its doctrines. Yet they keep wanting to read and hear the Bible, and to pray with their Christian friends. Please pray for a breakthrough, that they will be set free indeed by the Son of God as they put all their trust in Him.

My friend had the sobering experience of attending a graduation ceremony at a Muslim school where one of our S. Asian friends teaches young children. She was the only Christian in attendance. It was a place of darkness, with over 100 parents listening as their children recited by rote all the rules of their religion. Rules is all they have. They do not have a mighty Saviour. Our hearts break over their blindness and captivity. December is the season to celebrate the birth of our Saviour, and we plan to invite our friends over for celebrations of joy. Please pray for God to open their ears, their hearts, their minds. Pray for them to be very disillusioned with their religion and come to the saving knowledge of Christ. Pray that nothing will hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.

Praise God for an evening when a Muslim family watched a Christian movie with their neighbours in which the gospel was clearly presented. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will work mightily to bring each family member to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that they would stand united against the pressure they receive from their community.

The S. Asian family for whose salvation we have consistently been praying are in a time of many transitions, family fractures, and disharmony. Stress and unhappiness abound. Yet they have not yet turned to Christ for salvation and answers to their problems. Please continue to ask, seek and knock even more persistently for the Lord to save each member of this extended family!

The Muslim widow who loves Jesus and has started praying in His name still does not believe He is the Son of God, just an amazing prophet. But whenever she reads the Bible, she listens and learns and thinks about what she read. Pray that she will continue reading the Bible and that she will believe it, and realise the things her religion taught her about Jesus are not true.

Several S. Asian women attend an Islamics class that reinforces their belief in Islam and seems to provide them with reasons not to believe the Bible. Please pray that the Lord will close down the class, and that they will realise their teachers are not telling them the truth. Pray that instead their trust will be transferred to God’s Word and His Son, Jesus Christ.

A Muslim family has received books, tracts, DVDs and links to Christian websites. They have also had many conversations with their Christian neighbours about the gospel. Please pray that they will all come to deep and lasting faith in Christ, and break entirely with their old religion in order to be publicly associated with Him. Pray for each person in the family…from the old grandfather down to the youngest grandchildren…to receive Jesus and embrace Him.

Please pray that a friend will desire to continue reading Scripture with me. She has lately been distracted, perhaps afraid of the direction she is being led as she reads the words of Jesus in Luke. Pray that the difficulties in her life will cause her to be willing to “sell everything in order to gain the pearl of great price.” Pray that she will discover she cannot simply go back to her former life and ways of thinking now that she has understood the gospel. Pray for her fears about leaving Islam to be conquered by the Lover of her soul.

A number of S. Asian friends have received portions of Scripture, devotionals or Bibles. Please pray that they and others in their homes will read and be drawn to Christ through the powerful Word of God. Pray that as they have questions, they will feel free to ask their Christian friends to explain and teach them more. Pray for a deep hunger for relationship with God and eternal life.

A S. Asian family who were formerly Hindu have walked through difficult times financially. Please pray that as they faithfully walk with Jesus Christ and seek first His kingdom, all that they need will be added to them. Pray that He will display His greatness and glory in their lives, and that they will not lose heart.

An all-day visit to a mission hospital with a father and mother who were worried about their precious 21 year old daughter provided opportunities to discuss prominently displayed Scripture, share the gospel, pray together, and receive blessings through the kind, helpful behaviour of the Christian medical personnel. Please pray that this very Muslim family will continue to grow more and more open to knowing the one true God through Jesus Christ whom He has sent.

Praise God that a S. Asian woman who thought she needed surgery had all her tests come back clear. She is saying this is an answer to prayer. Praise God for her continuing interest in spiritual things and her desire that others in her family would learn about Jesus. Pray for regular scheduled times to continue reading the book of Luke together.

Please pray for a S. Asian young woman who has had unexplained pain in her right side for two weeks. All medical tests come back clear. Much prayer has been offered for her healing in Jesus’ name and she and her family are listening to the gospel with more openness and hunger than ever before. Pray for the salvation of the large entire Muslim family, and for the young woman’s healing.

Thank you for continuing to pray for the Muslim widow who is reading Luke and “learning to love Jesus.” Recently she seemed to begin to understand that all other religions are basically about which good works should be done, but Christians are sharing a message that God came and provided salvation for us through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. Pray for this truth to cause her to reject any system that promotes works-righteousness and declare that all her faith is in Jesus for her salvation.

My Muslim S. Asian neighbours had another family member die Tuesday. That is two funerals in a week. I am begging the One who sees from His throne to use these griefs to soften their hearts, give them a deep fear of death, and make them dissatisfied with the explanations they hear. May He reveal which family members’ hearts are becoming more receptive, more willing to look elsewhere for answers to the questions of life and death. May they initiate conversations that show they are hungering and thirsting for His righteousness.

A widowed Muslim lady has great concern for her adult children who are secular and worldly. Recently she has begun reading the Bible. Now her son has told her that he read the Bible in school, as well as other religious books. Her daughter and grandchildren were recently spared in what could have a been a very serious traffic accident. Please pray that each of her children will also be seeking–and finding–the Lord while she does, and that as a family they may come to faith in Christ.

Please pray for the salvation of a S. Asian woman who has been diagnosed with MS. Pray that she will ask her Christian friends to pray for her again, since through their prayers she had a dramatic reversal some time ago. Pray that she will realise medicine is limited, science is imperfect, but Jesus never fails.

Please pray for a young S. Asian man who read parts of the Quran, the Bible and Sanskrit when he was a student in high school. He is nominally Muslim. Pray that, now with a Bible in his house, he will read it again and be saved. Pray for the salvation of his widowed mother, who lives with him and is also interested.

Pray for effective outreach to S. Asian men with the gospel. Many times their wives are in contact with Christians but unless the men also hear and respond to God’s Word, whole families are not saved. Pray for inroads to their hearts, and for contact and conversations with Christians who will share Christ with them.

During Kenya elections, a S. Asian family are all home for a week, school and work cancelled. Pray that there will be many open doors to share Christ with them as they spend their free time with Christian friends.

Continue to pray for the salvation of a Muslim S. Asian family. The very sad death of a dear uncle this week is reminding them again that life is uncertain. Since Ramadan they seem less open to the gospel. We are asking God to remove the blocks in their hearts, reveal the utter hopelessness and futility of their religion, and bring them all to the conclusion that Christ is the way, the truth and the life. Please pray that the funeral of this uncle will prompt them to deeply question the foundations of their beliefs.

Please continue to pray for the Lord to work in the heart of a S. Asian woman who prayed to receive the gift of eternal life and have her sins washed by Jesus’ blood. Pray for the Spirit to confirm to her that the Way of Jesus is the Truth, and that she may long for the pure milk of the Word like a newborn baby, and grow through it.

The S. Asian widow listened carefully to the gospel, and then prayed with her Christian friend to ask Jesus to wash her sins clean with His blood and give her eternal life. She was thrilled to receive a Bible with the date written in it. There is still so much confusion in her head about Islam and the Bible, the things each one teaches. Pray for her to be protected in her faith in Christ, and that she will continue to meet regularly with her friend to read the Scriptures and pray. Pray that she will share her faith with others, and grow in her conviction that this is true. Pray that she feels great freedom as she rejoices that her sins have been forgiven! Pray she will sense that her Father in heaven loves her and has a plan for her life. Pray that her faith will not be shaken.

A S. Asian Muslim woman is beginning to ask for prayer and Bible reading every time she and her Christian friend meet. Please pray for a regular scheduled meeting between the two of them and that through consistent study of the Scriptures she will put her faith in Christ

A S. Asian woman listened as two Christian women shared the gospel with her. She began to understand that yes, God is merciful, but He is also just and cannot simply ignore sin just because she says “sorry.” She is feeling burdened by her sinfulness. Now she heard and understood for the first time that Jesus died to be the perfect sacrifice for sin, so that God could be both just and the justifier of those who put their faith in Jesus Christ. Pray for her to take that step soon.

A S. Asian family struggles with a load of debt they incurred before they became believers. Please pray for the Lord to help them pay off their debt and “owe no one anything except to love one another.”

A young S Asian woman comes to meet with a missionary. Pray that she would pay good attention and have understanding of the victory we have in Jesus as the One who won all the blessing/merit she needs and also took all her shame upon Himself to give her a completely clean heart before God.

Pray for a S. Asian woman whose income has been drastically reduced and who will soon need to rent out her large house and move to a smaller one. Pray that she will see that God answers her Christian friends’ prayers for good renters, and that soon she will be ready for a Bible study.

Pray for a S Asian woman who will see missionary friends for lunch just before the month of Ramadan fasting begins. Pray that she will stop talking about Islam and instead begin to ask questions about the Bible and following Christ.