Dave Yadallee's personal blog

Day 29, 29 Jan 2021 (I turn 52 today)





Gen 48-50 , 1 Chron 2



GENESIS 48



Jacob Blesses Joseph's Sons



1 After these things, Joseph was told, "Your father is sick."

So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

2 When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph is coming to you,"

Israel strengthened himself and sat up in the bed.

3 (Ge 17:1; Ex 6:3) Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz

in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.

4 (Ge 17:8) And He said to me, 'I will make you fruitful

and multiply you, and I will make you into

a multitude of people and will give this land

to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.'

5 (Ge 41:50–52; 46:20) "Now your two sons, Ephraim and Ma­nasseh,

who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt,

are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

6 Any children you have after them will be yours and will be called

by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

7 (Ge 35:9; 35:16–19) As for me, when I came from Paddan,

Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way,

when there was still some distance to get to Ephrath,

and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

8 Then Israel saw Joseph's sons and said, "Whose are these?"

9 (Ge 27:4; 33:5) And Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons,

whom God has given me in this place."

And he said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

10 (Ge 27:1; 27:27) Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age,

so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him,

and he kissed them and embraced them.

11 (Ge 37:33; 45:26) Israel said to Joseph, "I never thought I would see

your face, but here God has also shown me your children."

12 (Ge 42:6) So Joseph took them from beside his knees,

and he bowed down with his face to the ground.

13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's

left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand,

and brought them near him.

14 (Ge 41:51) Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's

head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing

his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

15 (Ge 17:1) He blessed Joseph and said,

“God, before whom my fathers

Abraham and Isaac walked,

the God who fed me

all my life long to this day,

16 (Ps 34:22; 121:7) the angel who redeemed me from all evil,

bless the boys;

let them be called by my name,

and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac;

and let them grow into a multitude

in the midst of the earth."

17 (Ge 48:14) When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand

on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took hold of his father's

hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh's head.

18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn.

Put your right hand on his head."

19 (Dt 33:17) His father refused and said, "I know it, my son, I know it.

He will also become a people, and he will also be great,

but truly his younger brother will be greater than he,

and his descendants will become a multitude of nations."

20 (Ru 4:11–12) He blessed them that day, saying,

"By you Israel will bless, saying,

'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' "

So he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 (Ge 46:4; 50:24) Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will

be with you and return you again to the land of your fathers.

22 (Jos 24:32; Jn 4:5) Moreover, I have given to you one portion

more than your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites

with my sword and my bow."



GENESIS 49



Jacob Blesses His Sons



Dt 33:1–29



1( Nu 24:14; Jer 23:20) Jacob called to his sons and said,

"Gather yourselves together, so that I may tell

you what will befall you in the last days.

2 (Ps 34:11) Gather yourselves together and hear, sons of Jacob,

and listen to your father Israel.

3 (Dt 21:17; Ge 29:32) Reuben, you are my firstborn,

my might and the beginning of my strength,

the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

4 (Ge 35:22; Dt 27:20) Unstable as water, you shall not excel,

because you went up to your father’s bed;

then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

5 (Ge 29:33–34; 34:25–31) Simeon and Levi are brothers;

weapons of violence are their swords.

6 (Ps 26:9; Ge 34:30) Let my soul not enter into their council;

let my glory not be united with their assembly;

for in their anger they killed men

and in their self-will they hamstrung oxen.

7 (Jos 19:1–9; 1Ch 4:24–3)1 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;

and their wrath, for it is cruel!

I will divide them in Jacob

and scatter them in Israel.

8 (1Ch 5:2; Ge 27:29) Judah, your brothers shall praise you;

your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;

your father’s sons will bow down before you.

9 (Nu 24:9; Rev 5:5) Judah is a lion’s cub;

from the prey, my son, you have goneup.

He crouches and lies down like a lion;

and as a lion, who dares rouse him?

10 (Nu 24:17; Ps 60:7) The scepter shall not depart from Judah,

nor a lawgiver from between his feet,

until Shiloh comes;

and to him will be the obedience of the people.

11(2Ki 18:32 )He tethers his foal to the vine,

and his colt to the choicest vine;

he washes his garments in wine,

his clothes in the blood of grapes.

12(Pr 23:29 )His eyes are darker than wine,

and his teeth whiter than milk. (Jesus comes from the line of Judah)

13 (Dt 33:18–19; Ge 30:20) Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea;

and he shall be a haven of ships.

His border shall be at Sidon.

14(Ge 30:18; 1Ch 12:32) Issachar is a strong donkey,

lying down between two burdens;

15 he saw that a resting place was good,

and that the land was pleasant;

so he bowed his shoulder to bear the burden

and became a slave to forced labor.

16 (Ge 30:6; Dt 33:22) Dan shall judge his people

as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent by the road,

a viper on the path,

that bites the horse’s heels

so that its rider will fall backward.

18 (Ps 119:166; 119:174) I wait for Your salvation, O Lord!

19 (Ge 30:11 ) Gad shall be attacked by raiding bands,

but he shall raid at their heels.

20 (Ge 30:13; Dt 33:24–25) Asher’s food shall be rich,

and he shall yield royal delicacies.

21 (Dt 33:23; Ge 30:8) Naphtali is a doe set loose;

he gives beautiful words.

22 (Ge 41:52) Joseph is a fruitful bough,

a fruitful bough by a spring,

whose branches run over the wall.

23 (Ge 37:24; 37:28) The archers bitterly attacked him,

they shot at him and hated him.

24 (Ps 132:2; 132:5) But his bow remained firm.

His arms were agile

because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,

because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

25 (Ge 28:13; 17:1) because of the God of your father who will help you,

and by the Almighty who will bless you

with blessings from heaven above,

blessings from the deep that lies beneath,

the blessings of the breasts and the womb.

26 (Dt 33:15–16; Hab 3:6) The blessings of your father have surpassed

the blessings of my fathers,

up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

They will be on the head of Joseph,

and on the crown of the head of him who was set apart from his brothers.

27 (Ge 35:18; Jdg 20:21) Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;

in the morning he devours the prey,

and at night he divides the spoil.”

28 These are all the twelve tribes of Israel,

and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them.

He blessed them, each with the blessing appropriate to him.



The Death of Jacob



29 (Ge 47:30; 50:13) Then he charged them and said to them,

"I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers

in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah,

which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan,

which Abraham bought along with the field from

Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

31 (Ge 25:9; 35:29) They buried Abraham and Sarah his wife there.

They buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife there, and I buried Leah there.

32 The field and the cave that is there were purchased

from the children of Heth."

33 (Ge 49:29; 25:8) When Jacob finished instructing his sons,

he drew his feet into the bed, breathed his last,

and was gathered to his people.



GENESIS 50



The Burial of Jacob



1 (Ge 46:4) Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him

and kissed him.

2 (Ge 50:26; 2Ch 16:14) Joseph commanded his servants the physicians

to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 (Nu 20:29; Dt 34:8) Forty days were required for him,

for such is the time required for those who are embalmed.

Then the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

4 When the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke

to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor

in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh, saying,

5(2Ch 16:14; Isa 22:16)'My father made me swear, saying,

"I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb which

I dug for myself in the land of Canaan."

Now therefore please let me go up and bury my father,

and then I will return.' "

6 Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."

7 Joseph went up to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh

went up with him too, the elders of his household and all the elders

of the land of Egypt,

8 all the house of Joseph and his brothers and his father's household.

They left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds

in the land of Goshen.

9 Both the chariots and horsemen also went up with him.

It was a very great company.

10 (Ac 8:2; 2Sa 1:17) When they came to the threshing floor of Atad,

which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned with a great

and very sorrowful lamentation.

He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,

saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,

"This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians."

Therefore the place was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

12 So his sons did with him just as he had commanded them.

13 (Ge 23:16–18; Ac 7:16) For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan

and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre,

which Abraham bought with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt,

he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.



Joseph Reassures His Brothers



15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead,

they said, "Perhaps Joseph will hate us and will certainly

pay us back for all the wrong we did to him."

16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying,

"Your father gave this command before he died:

17 (Ge 49:25)'Say to Joseph,

"I beg you, forgive the transgressions of your brothers

and their sin. For they did evil to you." '

Now, please forgive the transgressions of the servants

of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

18 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face and said,

"We are your servants."

19 (Ge 30:2; 2Ki 5:7) Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

20 (Ro 8:28) But as for you, you intended to harm me,

but God intended it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day,

to save many lives.

21(Ge 47:12)So now, do not fear. I will provide for you

and your little ones." So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.



The Death of Joseph



22 Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father's household,

and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

23 (Ge 30:3; Nu 32:39) Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation.

Also, the children of Makir, the son of Manasseh,

were brought up on Joseph's knees.

24 (Ge 26:3; 35:12; 46:4) Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die.

God will surely come to you and bring you out of this land

to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

25 (Ex 13:19; Jos 24:32) Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying,

"God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years old,

and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.



1 CHRONICLES 2



Sons of Israel



Ge 35:23–26; Ru 4:18–22; Mt 1:3–6



1 (Ge 29:32–35; 35:22–26) These are the sons of Israel:

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.



From Judah to David



3 (Ge 38:2–10; 46:12) The sons of Judah were

Er, Onan, and Shelah: These three were born to him by

the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. Now Er, the firstborn of Judah,

was evil in the sight of the Lord, and He put him to death.

4 (Mt 1:3; Ge 38:13–30; Ru 4:12) Then Tamar his daughter-in-law

bore Perez and Zerah for him. In all, Judah had five sons.

5 (Ge 46:12; Nu 26:21) The sons of Perez were

Hezron and Hamul.

6 The sons of Zerah were

Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, and Dara, five of them in all.

7Jos 6:18The sons of Karmi were

Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in regard to the ban.

8 The son of Ethan was

Azariah.

9 (Ru 4:19; 1Ch 2:42) Now the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, were

Jerahmeel, Ram, and Kelubai.



Sons of Ram



10(Mt 1:4; Nu 1:7)Ram became the father of

Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon,

a leader of the sons of Judah.

11 (Ru 4:21; Mt 1:4–5) Nahshon became the father of Salma,

and Salma became the father of Boaz.

12 Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse.

13 (1Sa 17:13) Now Jesse became the father of

his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

16 (1Sa 26:6) their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail.

The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three in all.

17 (2Sa 17:25) Abigail bore Amasa: the father of Amasa

was Jether the Ishmaelite.



Sons of Caleb



18 Caleb the son of Hezron had children with his wife Azubah and with Jerioth.

These are her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

19 (1Ch 2:50) Now Azubah died, and Caleb took Ephrath as a wife.

She bore Hur for him.

20 (Ex 31:2) Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.

21 (Nu 27:1) Afterward Hezron had relations with the daughter of Makir,

the father of Gilead, whom he took as a wife when he was sixty years old,

and she bore Segub for him.

22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities

in the land of Gilead.

23 He took Geshur and Aram, the towns of Jair, from them,

with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns.

All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

24 (1Ch 4:5) After the death of Hezron in Caleb Ephrathah,

Hezron’s wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.



Sons of Jerahmeel



25 Now the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were

Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

26 Jerahmeel also had another wife.

Her name was Atarah, and she was the mother of Onam.

27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Je­rahmeel were

Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

28 The sons of Onam were

Shammai and Jada.

And the sons of Shammai were

Nadab and Abishur.

29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail. She bore him Ahban and Molid.

30 The sons of Nadab were

Seled and Appaim, but Seled died without children.

31 (1Ch 2:34–35) The son of Appaim was

Ishi. The son of Ishi was Sheshan,

and the son of Sheshan was Ahlai.

32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were

Jether and Jonathan, but Jether died without children.

33 The sons of Jonathan were

Peleth and Zaza.

These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

34 Now Sheshan had no children except daughters,

but he did have a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

35 Sheshan gave one of his daughters to Jarha his servant as a wife,

and she bore him Attai.

36 (1Ch 11:41) Attai became the father of Nathan,

and Nathan became the father of Zabad.

37 Zabad became the father of Ephlal,

and Ephlal became the father of Obed.

38 Obed became the father of Jehu,

and Jehu became the father of Azariah.

39 Azariah became the father of Helez,

and Helez became the father of Eleasah.

40 Eleasah became the father of Sismai,

and Sismai became the father of Shallum.

41 Shallum became the father of Jekamiah,

and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.



Caleb’s Clans



42 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were

Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

43 The sons of Hebron were

Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam,

and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

45 (Jos 15:58) The son of Shammai was Maon,

and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

46 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza,

and Gazez, and Haran became the father of Gazez.

47 The sons of Jahdai were

Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

48 Maakah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

49 (Jos 15:31) She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah,

Sheva the father of Makbenah, and the father of Gibea.

The daughter of Caleb was Aksah.

50 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah:

Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,

51 (1Ch 4:4) Salma the father of Bethlehem,

and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.

52 (1Ch 4:2)Now sons were born to Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim:

Haroeh and half of the Manahathites.

53 (2Sa 23:38) The families of Kiriath Jearim were the Ithrites, the Puthites,

the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these the Zorathites

and the Eshtaolites went forth.

54 (Ezr 2:22; Ne 7:26) The sons of Salma were

Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab,

and half of the Manahath­ites, the Zorites.

55 (Jdg 1:16; 2Ki 10:15) The families of the scribes who lived at Jabez

were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites.

They are the Kenites who came from Hammath,

the father of the house of Rekab.





2) Our Daily Bread for 20 Jan 2021

https://odb.org/CA/2021/01/29/out-of-breath

entitled Out of Breath



Deuteronomy 5:12–15



12 (Ex 20:8–11) Keep the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,

just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

14 (Heb 4:4; Ge 2:2) but the seventh day is the Sabbath

of the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work:

you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant,

nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey,

nor any of your livestock, nor the foreigner that is within your gates,

so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

15 (Dt 15:15; 16:12) Remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt,

and that the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand

and by an outstretched arm; therefore your God commanded you to

keep the Sabbath day.



There’s a home-improvement store near me that has a big green button in one

of its departments. If no assistant is present, you push the button,

which starts a timer. If you're not served within a minute,

you get a discount on your purchase.



We like being the customer in this scenario

who enjoys the speedy service.

But the demand for fast service often takes a toll when

we're the one expected to deliver it.

So many of us today feel rushed doing our jobs,

working long hours, checking email multiple times a day,

and feeling pressured to meet tighter and tighter deadlines.

The customer service tactics of the home-improvement

store have seeped into all our lives, creating a culture of rush.



When God told the Israelites to keep a Sabbath,

He added an important reason:

"Remember that you were slaves in Egypt" (Deuteronomy 5:15).

There they’d been forced to work ceaselessly

under Pharaoh's excessive time constraints (Exodus 5:6–9).

Now freed, they were to give themselves a whole day each week

to ensure they and those who served them could rest (Deuteronomy 5:14).

Under God's rule, there were to be no flush-faced, out-of-breath people.



How often do you work to the point of exhaustion or get impatient

with people who keep you waiting?

Let's give ourselves and each other a break.

A culture of rush is Pharaoh's doing, not God's.



By: Sheridan Voysey





Reflect & Pray



How can you resist the urge to overwork?

How will you be patient this week with people who keep you waiting?



God of the Sabbath, thank You for commanding me to rest so I can be whole.



3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



Words in Season Scripture Memory Tools



Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 6 Humility and Exaltation



1 Peter 5:6-7



6 (Jas 4:10; Mt 23:12) Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,

that He may exalt you in due time.

7 (Ps 55:22; 37:5) Cast all your care upon Him, because He cares for you.



"I was so humble I was given an award for humility," the pastor quipped.

"They gave me a humility plaque - but they had to take it back when I hung it

on my office wall."

Humility is rare among 20th Centuey Christians. Our pride tkaes two

seemingly contradictory forms: Self-exaltation and self-denial. But both

focus on self, not on God.

Francois Fenelon, 17th century French archibishop, FRom his

"Letters of Spiritual Counsel" wrote:

"He who so completely forgetd himself that he never thinks of self ... is

truly humble. If we had the light to discern it, we should see clearly that

when we think we are humbling ourselves we are exalting ourselves;

when we think we are annihilating ourseles we are seeking out own life."

True humility, as Fenelon implies, means recognising who we are in the light

of who God is. Excess of self-importance and low self-esteem are both

self-centered perspectives; true humility is God-centered.

When we humble ourselves, we become intensely aware of God and less

aware of ourselves. We can focus on his face and get our eyes off our own

image. We can stop worrying about how others percieve us. Such humbling

is diffiuclt - as one 70-year-old saint joked, "It ain't the heat that gets

you, it's the humility." But when we submit to him and fell the weight of the

"Mighty hand of God" upon us, we can forget ourselves, abandon

ourselves to his presence, and cast our cares upon him.



Application



a) What form does my pride usualy take - self-exaltation or self-degradtion?



b) Why must I humble myself in order for the Lord to lift me up?



4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



3 John 2



2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be

in good health, even as your soul is well.





5) From a Book called God's Promises for you:





God' Inexhaustible Strength



Is 40:27-31



27 Why do you say, O Jacob,

and assert, O Israel,

"My way is hidden from the Lord,

and my justice escapes the notice of my God"?

28 (Ps 147:5; Ge 21:33; Isa 57:15) Have you not known?

Have you not heard,

that the everlasting God, the Lord,

the Creator of the ends of the earth,

does not faint, nor is He weary?

His understanding is inscrutable.

29 (Isa 41:10) He gives power to the faint,

and to those who have no might He increases strength.

30 (Isa 9:17) Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

and the young men shall utterly fall,

31 (2Co 4:16; Ps 103:5; Ex 19:4) but those who wait upon the Lord

shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings as eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

and they shall walk and not faint.



Remember God's promises when You pray



The Lord's prayer



Matthew 6:9-13



9 “Therefore pray in this manner:

Our Father who is in heaven,

hallowed be Your name.

10 (Mt 3:2; 4:17) Your kingdom come;

Your will be done

on earth, as it is in heaven.

11 (Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16) Give us this day our daily bread.

12 (Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1) And forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

13 (1Co 10:13; Jn 17:15) And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.





6) This come from Praying for Muslims in Canada 2015 (Is there a 2021 edition?)







2015 Population - 4631302 Muslims about 136493







British Columbia - British Columbia's Muslim Population is growing constantly.



Every week there are immigrants ad refugees coming to the Greater Vancouver



and surrounding areas. There are also significant Muslim student populations



in our colleges and universities. Some have even suggested that there are



between 4000 and 5000 Saudi Arabian students alone, without counting all



other nationalities.







Greater Vancouver has an estimated 180000 Muslims, and there are significant



and growing communities in the Fraser Valley such as in Langley, Abbotsford,



Chilliwack, etc. Including these communities the total population for this



region is about 200000.



Of these, there are an estimated 100000 Iranians, 35000 Arabs, 15000 Ismailis,



more than 20000 Afghanis, 10000 South Asian Muslims, 3000 Turks, and small



numbers from other countries such as Sudan, Somalia, Albania, etc.



We are seeing some Muslims coming to Christ and we rejoice in that.



A few people also have some ongoing ministry to Muslims in the area,



for which we also rejoice. Let us agree in that







- the church will catch a vision to pray,



and a burden to train outreach to Muslims



- the church will press in to participate in effective



discipleship of these new Muslim background believers.







Adding further







30 days of prayer for the Muslim World 24 April to 23 May 2020







Under the Keep Praying page







When the new moon is sighted it marks the beginning of t he new Islamic month



and Eid al-Fitr, the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", will start! After 30 days



of fasting, the Eid celebration at the end of Ramadan is a joyful time that



usually lasts about 3 days. Muslims will buy new clothes, exchange gifts and,



of course, enjoy special foods. In Muslim-majority nations, the streets may be



decorated and festivals will be held.







For many Muslims, Eid-al-Fitr begins with communal prayers at daybreak and the



distribution of money (zakat) to the poor, which is one of the 5 pillars of



Islam.







You can greet Muslim friends during this time by saying "Eid Mubarak",



which means Blessed Eid!"







Ramadan is over for this year, but you can continue to pray for Muslims you



know, and Muslims around the world:







- Despite the unsettling developments in our world today that involve actions



in the name of Islam, there is at the same time a largely untold story about



unprecedented movement to Christ among Muslims. There have been more such



movements of thousands or more new disciples among Muslims in the last three



decades or so than in all the previous history of Christian Muslim



relationships! Pray for this momentum to continue.



Acts 2:12-17 : 17 "In the last days it shall be," says God,



"that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;



your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,



your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.



18 Even on My menservants and maidservants



I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.



19 And I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below:



blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness,



and the moon into blood, before that great and glorious day of the Lord comes.



21 And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."[a]







Footnotes



Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32.



- Pray for Christian workers an organisations focused on seeing effective



discipleship movements among Muslim people.



- Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to inspire you to have god's heart for



Muslims, to see them as He does, and to be the light that then to Jesus.



Matthew 5:14-15 : 14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a



hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under



a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the



house."







Ideas for prayer







- Pray for opportunities to show the love of Christ to Muslims around you



- Pray for, and offer generous hospitality to, those you know who are serving



Christ among Muslim people -



Romans 12:13 "contribute to the needs of the saints, practice hospitality."



- When you gather with fellow believers, remember to pray for Muslims



throughout the year and encourage them to also participate in 30 Days!







My paternal side is of Muslim heritage and will offer this section to further



call for Muslim converts to Christian and any other converts to Christianity



(Hindus, Jews, aboriginals Canadian, ...) .







7) Prayers for the nation (Canada) coming from Prayer map of Canada



http://www.ehc.ca



Day 29 of the Month



a) Pray that God will enlighten those in medicine and health care

to acknowledge the sanctity of life and server with true

integrity and compassion (

Ps 139:13-16



13 You brought my inner parts into being;

You wove me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise you, for You made me with fear and wonder;

marvelous are Your works,

and You know me completely.

15 My frame was not hidden from You

when I was made in secret,

and intricately put together in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw me unformed,

yet in Your book

all my days were written,

before any of them came into being.



)



b) Pray that the Church in Canada will remember the poor

and compassionately respond to their plight (



Gal 2:10



10 (Ac 24:17) Only they requested that we should remember the poor,

which I also was eager to do.

)





Conclusion:



Pray to seek the Lord's will in your family to be prosperous .



Pray not to be overworked or overworking .



Pray to be humble in the Lord



Pray to the Lord for prosperity in your.



Pray for those in medicine and health care



Pray for the poor



Pray for forgiveness of sins and repentance.



Pray to accept Jesus in your life.