Mar. 6th, 2006

AEIOU: Arise Shine Morocco! #65

NATIONWIDE: Response to the "cartoons about Mohammed" incident has thankfully not been as bad in Morocco as in other nations but possible repercussions are still a cause for concern. Pray!!

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From various regions:
Pray for a new believer who will lend his voice for a test taping of the recently translated book of Romans. Thank the Lord for him and for his uncle who are both growing in their faith. Pray for wisdom for expatriates and believers as they make plans for further translation.

Continue to pray for provision of funds needed to secure a building to house various ministry activities and as a gathering place for believers.

Pray for work towards establishing a legally recognized religious group in a Spanish enclave. Pray Muslim-background believers will be encouraged and that the paperwork would pass through all the right channels.

Praise the Lord for an apparent open door here for development projects. The need now is for wisdom and direction for what exactly workers will do as a project, where, and when. Keep praying for two projects in process and aimed at meeting the needs of some of the most vulnerable of Moroccans. Each project needs funding and many details to come together.

Praise the Lord for a new family now settling in at a new location. Pray for workers and their children: for spiritual discernment and strong faith in the face of various influences. Pray for good friends for each one. Pray for mothers and for babies due in coming months.

Pray for efforts to start a new business with a goal to employ nationals and help with economic development in the region. There are many hurdles to overcome in starting a business here.

Pray an upcoming partnership meeting will stimulate participants to love and good deeds directed toward Berbers. Pray for a scheduled orientation meeting about Berbers for a group of new workers. Pray for a short-term team that will be traveling in the south of the region for two weeks. Pray they will have opportunities to sow and that new workers and prayer partners will result from this trip. Other potential new workers will visit the region soon. Pray the Lord will guide them.

Praise God for a new team of workers who have a desire to live, work and see change in this key region. Pray for protection over them as they take a step of faith in this new venture.

Pray members of a handicrafts project for at-risk people will find buyers for their products.

Praise God for answers to prayer in a difficult situation. A potentially explosive situation diffused in an amazing way, leading to opportunities to share with a family grieving over the death of a young child.

Praise God for a recent visit of a brother from another North African nation who was able to minister in a powerful way to local believers here. There were many breakthroughs in people's lives. Pray for ongoing growth and maturity in the local believers.

Praise God for a family that recently came to know the Lord. Pray they will be able to spur each other on in their faith. Pray the Lord will set them free from bondages. One has a heart for evangelism so pray that God will bless and anoint that urge and make her bold with discernment.

Praise God for a new monthly prayer gathering. Pray God's agenda for prayer will prevail. Pray workers and national believers will have the eyes of their hearts opened to see the spiritual reality around them. Pray they will be open to hear things from God that are new or that are not easy or pleasant to hear. Pray they will not allow Satan to keep them from all that God has for them.

Pray for a worker family struggling to get residency visas processed. The long delays have felt like an enemy tactic to discourage and frustrate this family. Ask for God's breakthrough!

Praise God for increased prayer in this city. Pray He would give increasing measures of this spirit of prayer and supplication all across the nation. Ask God to visit his people transforming them into worshipping evangelists, as at Pentecost.

Please pray for a worker in need of wisdom regarding on which responsibilities to focus and which ones to lay aside.

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Lighthouse Church:
Pray that a sister who has been with the church for a year will decide to be baptized. Ask the Lord to use brother M among his family and friends. Pray for another brother to make the decision to be baptized and for his wife to come to faith. Pray a member will obtain a fixed salary.

Pray church members will be vigilant with new disciples. Ask the Lord to open a door for ministry into a region near this city. Pray for a village nearby where church meetings will begin this month.

Pray for a couple dealing with discouragement. A brother with whom they have met for years was influenced by religious Muslims and has wandered away from the faith. Pray that "B" will come to his senses and return to the Way.

Pray for healing and deliverance for sick or afflicted local believers. One leading couple has endured weakening illnesses. A sister with heart problems has gone on a strict diet. A brother has a family member affected by spirits. Finally, a teenage girl from a believing family is in the hospital with a serious condition.

Pray encouragement for the believers of “A” group that are discouraged by others moving away and by unemployment. Uphold local believer leaders. Pray they will have love, spiritual power, and wisdom in caring for their flocks.

Pray protection, anointing, guidance, spiritual power, love, and wisdom for recent and new believers. "G", a family man, is a vendor in the marketplace and has many friends with whom he shares. "P" who works in Europe has come to faith and visits his family here from time to time. Pray for his whole extended family to come to faith and to reach out.

Pray for worker families suffering from allergies and related illnesses. Pray for the Lord’s guidance for a senior worker couple as they consider a possible change of ministry location.

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Requests from workers among Moroccans in Europe:
Pray a ministry doing correspondence courses will have more people to do follow-up in Morocco.

Pray for Moroccan believers in Europe that meet together but see no need to form a church. If it is God's will for them to form a church, pray that He would put this desire in their hearts.

Pray for provision of a computer for a Moroccan missionary.

Pray for a couple that has come to work with Moroccans in Spain. Pray they will have clear direction from God for their ministry and that they would soon make good contact with Moroccans.

From workers in Paris: "We truly covet your fervent prayers for the Moroccan Souss Berber community. A great evangelist who is himself a Souss Berber will join us for two weeks. Pray that a fellowship of believers among the Souss people will result."

Evangelical missionaries in Morocco back in the limelight
To read this article from Morocco Times (in English) – Click the link below:
http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=11&id=12370

Oct. 5th, 2005

ASM: Arise Shine Morocco

Arise Shine Morocco
Prayer Bulletin #60 (10/05)
www.interum.org/ASM
asm@interum.org

FIRST NOTES: Pray for a gathering of workers coming together to pray for Morocco in the next few days. Then Ramadan begins on October 4. A “30 Days of Prayer” booklet for the Muslim World is available for download at: www.30-days.net .


NORTHEASTERN REGION:
Please pray a new national Bible translation helper will be found and that the various translation projects can continue.

Thank the Lord for the arrival of new workers! Pray for adjustment to their new surroundings and for making new friends. Pray the Lord will provide the perfect home for them.

Pray for wisdom in worker’s desire to open a facility to minister to nationals. Pray for finances, a suitable building, and for unity among believing workers and nationals involved in this outreach.


NORTHWESTERN REGION:
Pray for new friends made in this town. Some are very open to discussing faith. Pray for open doors to share the gospel.

Pray for a worker family that has been in Morocco for more than 20 years and is now in the process of relocation to a European nation to continue the work.


WESTERN COASTAL REGION:
A worker asks for prayer for a friend whose grandmother is close to death. Pray she will hear and receive the gospel before she dies.

Praise God that new workers have arrived and started to settle in. Ask God to provide them with the right language helpers and for divine appointments with seekers to befriend.

Pray for S who has had the gospel shared with him for several years. He seems close to putting faith in Christ but the trinity is still a sticking point. After years of discussing this, he still says, “So basically we believe in many of the same things, except that I believe in one God and you believe in three”. Only the Holy Spirit can break through this barrier.


CENTRAL REGION:
Praise the Lord for progress in a Bible storying project but keep praying that the work will move ahead.

Please keep praying for three or four new groups of workers getting started in the coming months. Most need to get jobs and projects off the ground, work on language, relocate to new areas and build relationships.

Please pray for some special training being planned for November. Pray for those giving the training and for those attending that it would be helpful for the advancement of the kingdom.

Pray workers will be successful in obtaining accurate information on outreach currently being done in Europe in areas where they are thinking about doing distribution. Pray for wisdom as to how to proceed with this.

Pray for various translation projects in process. Pray for two workers who each lost a parent this summer.


SOUTHCENTRAL REGION:
Pray for a worker who has been jumping through many hoops to renew residency and whose papers have finally been received. Pray for peace of mind and the granting of renewed residency.

Pray for a drought situation in the region that is impacting all. Pray for good rain to come soon.


SOUTHWESTERN REGION:
Ask the Lord to inspire workers at an upcoming partnership gathering. A focus this year will be on intensive intercession, as many feel prayer is the only way through a blockage around the Berber Muslim community. Pray also for provision of childcare workers during the conference.

Ask the Lord to give grace to workers here as friends and neighbors fast for Ramadan during the coming month. Pray that dullness over the minds of people would dissipate and a fresh revelation of Jesus be received.

Thank the Lord that new workers have made tremendous progress in language and culture learning in a very short time. They've experienced grace to overcome many sicknesses to integrate into the community.

Please pray for the birth of a second child in a worker family that is expecting the baby about now. Pray for good health for both mother and child. Pray also for a possible big job change for the husband, one with good potential for ministry.


FAR SOUTH:
Pray for new believers and for the workers discipling them. Pray long term residency can be established for workers.


Ministry to Moroccans in Europe:
Pray for believers in a Moroccan church to grow spiritually and to reach out. Pray for finances needed to pay the rent for a center that is used for ministry.

Pray for healing of a missionary's knee. The doctors have not found the cause of the problem but pain is limiting what the worker can do. Pray also for healing for a missionary who is having problems with his left eye.
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