PRAYING THROUGH THE WINDOW V

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PRAYING THROUGH THE WINDOW V -- October 2001

DAY 1 -- INDIA Pop. 1,014,004,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Hindu; some Muslim Restricts Evangelism MAURITANIA Pop. 2,668,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 2 -- SUDAN Pop. 35,080,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism AFGHANISTAN Pop. 25,889,000 Location: West Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Shiite Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 3 -- KUWAIT Pop. 1,974,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Shiite Muslim Restricts Evangelism BANGLADESH Pop. 129,194,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Muslim; some Hindu Restricts Evangelism	DAY 4 -- JAPAN Pop. 126,550,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Shinto/Buddhist Allows Evangelism GUINEA-BISSAU Pop. 1,286,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Indigenous Religions, some Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 5 -- BHUTAN Pop. 2,005,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Buddhist; some Hindu Restricts Evangelism SAUDI ARABIA Pop. 22,024,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 6 -- GUINEA Pop. 7,466,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism THAILAND Pop. 61,231,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Buddhist Restricts Evangelism	DAY 7 -- NIGER Pop. 10,076,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism KYRGYZSTAN Pop. 4,685,000 Location: Central Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism
DAY 8 -- IRAN Pop. 65,620,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Shiite Muslim; some Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism BURKINA FASO Pop. 11,946,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Indigenous Religions; Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 9 -- MALI Pop. 10,686,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Allows Evangelism AZERBAIJAN Pop. 7,748,000 Location: Central Asia Predominately Shiite Muslim; some Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 10 -- BENIN Pop. 6,396,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Indigenous Religions; some Muslim Allows Evangelism INDONESIA Pop. 224,784,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Muslim; some Hindu Restricts Evangelism	DAY 11 -- LAOS Pop. 5,497,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Buddhist; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism WESTERN SAHARA Pop. 245,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 12 -- EGYPT Pop. 68,360,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism UZBEKISTAN Pop. 24,756,000 Location: West Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 13 -- NEPAL Pop. 24,702,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Hindu; some Buddhist Restricts Evangelism UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Pop. 2,369,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Shiite Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 14 -- ALBANIA Pop. 3,490,000 Location: Eastern Europe Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Orthodox Restricts Evangelism MOROCCO Pop. 30,122,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism
DAY 15 -- IRAQ Pop. 22,676,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Shiite Muslim; some Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism SRI LANKA Pop. 19,239,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Buddhist; some Hindu and Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 16 -- TAJIKISTAN Pop. 6,441,000 Location: Central Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism ISRAEL (Jews and Arabs) Pop. 6,974,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Jewish; some Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 17 -- JIBOUTI Pop. 451,000 Location: East Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism CHINA Pop. 1,261,832,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Atheist; some Chinese Folk Religion Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 18 -- YEMEN Pop. 17,479,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Muslim Prohibits Evangelism VIETNAM Pop. 78,774,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Buddhist; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism	DAY 19 -- TAIWAN Pop. 22,191,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Chinese Folk Religion; some Buddhist Allows Evangelism BAHRAIN Pop. 634,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 20 -- BRUNEI Pop. 336,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Muslim; some Buddhist Restricts Evangelism LEBANON Pop. 3,578,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Muslim; some Maronite Allows Evangelism	DAY 21 -- QATAR Pop. 744,000 Location: Arabian Gulf Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism TURKMENISTAN Pop. 4,518,000 Location: West Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism
DAY 22 -- ETHIOPIA Pop. 64,117,000 Location: East Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim; Ethiopian Orthodox Allows Evangelism MYANMAR Pop. 41,735,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Buddhist; some Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 23 -- CHAD Pop. 8,425,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism ALGERIA Pop. 31,194,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Muslim; some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism	DAY 24 -- LIBYA Pop. 5,115,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism MALAYSIA Pop. 21,793,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Muslim and Buddhist; some Hindu Restricts Evangelism	DAY 25 -- OMAN Pop. 2,533,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Muslim Prohibits Evangelism KAZAKSTAN Pop. 16,733,000 Location: Central Asia Predominately Muslim; some Russian Orthodox Restricts Evangelism	DAY 26 -- TUNISIA Pop. 9,593,000 Location: North Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism CAMBODIA Pop. 12,212,000 Location: Southeast Asia Predominately Buddhist Restricts Evangelism	DAY 27 -- TURKEY Pop. 65,667,000 Location: West Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim/ some Shiite Muslim Restricts Evangelism NORTH KOREA Pop. 21,688,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Atheist; some Indigenous Religions Prohibits Evangelism	DAY 28 -- SOMALIA Pop. 7,253,000 Location: East Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism PAKISTAN Pop. 141,554,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim; some Shiite Muslim Restricts Evangelism
DAY 29 -- NIGERIA Pop. 123,338,000 Location: West Africa Equally Christian and Muslim with some Indigenous Religions Restricts Evangelism MALDIVES Pop. 301,000 Location: South Asia Predominately Sunni Muslim Prohibits Evangelism	JORDAN Pop. 4,999,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism SENEGAL Pop. 9,987,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Sunni Muslim Restricts Evangelism	DAY 30 -- ERITREA Pop. 4,136,000 Location: East Africa Predominately Muslim; Orthodox Restricts Evangelism TIBET Pop. 2,400,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Lamaist Buddhist Prohibits Evangelism	SYRIA Pop. 16,306,000 Location: Middle East Predominately Sunni Muslim, some Shiite Muslim Prohibits Evangelism MONGOLIA Pop. 2,616,000 Location: East Asia Predominately Buddhist Restricts Evangelism	DAY 31 -- GAMBIA Pop. 1,367,000 Location: West Africa Predominately Muslim Restricts Evangelism

PRAYER POINTS

This prayer guide is for personal and corporate prayer to penetrate spiritual darkness in the 10/40 Window nations.
Use it daily as you pray through the calendar.

1. Pray for COMMITMENT: Christians must be obedient to take the Gospel and make disciples of all nations.

Pray that Christians will begin to focus time, resources, and manpower in the 10/40 Window. Less than 1% of Christian income is spent in reaching these people who are precious to God.

Pray for believers to understand the urgency of reaching the Window nations and doing everything possible to see that these young people will not die without knowing Jesus.

2. Pray for PROTECTION: Children, adolescents, and youth are often killed with little regard for repercussion. Girl children in the Window are particularly singled out for oppression.

Pray against the undeclared war that brings poverty, malnutrition, conflict, violent abuse, preventable disease, and chronic social instability.
Pray for:

--Lives endangered by slavery, debt bondage, serfdom, forced labor, compulsory recruitment into armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, and making and/or selling drugs.
--Cessation of the barbaric practice of genital mutilation.
--God to give believers His strategies and solutions to eliminate war, poverty, lack of education, sickness, and disease, which devastate young people in the Window.

3. Pray for HEALTH: The life expectancy in some Window nations is as low as 43 years.
Pray for:

--Water shortages to be relieved. Drought in the poorest of the Window nations has impacted crops, causing diminished food supply.
--Medical supplies, food, farm equipment, business materials, and other forms of relief to reach the people in need and not be confiscated.
--Access to health services, safe water, and sanitation facilities necessary to their survival. Many deaths are preventable.
--An end to malnutrition. In North Korea alone over 60% of children under 7 have been mentally and physically stunted due to lack of proper nutrition.
--The millions who have been infected with HIV. Many were exposed to AIDS due to forced prostitution or need to earn a living.
--Window governments to safeguard children by stopping child exploitation in the sex trade, and ending prostitution in tourism.

4. Pray for AN END TO ABUSIVE CHILD LABOR: More than 500 million children between the ages of 10-14 are working 10-15 hours per day, suffering from fatigue, sickness, and overlong periods of sitting or standing.
Pray for:

--Protection from abuse suffered from forced child labor.
--God to prosper families so children can enjoy a happy childhood.
--The Christian world to financially impact these poverty-stricken people so the children don’t have to work.

5. Pray for EDUCATION: Millions of Window children, especially the female child, are not educated, are refused the right to a basic education, and are viewed as unworthy of this privilege.
Pray for:

The literacy rate among children to increase, especially the female child who has no status in most Window countries.
Powerfully impacting Christian television and radio programs to be beamed into the Window nations.

6. Pray for EMOTIONAL HEALING: The lives of millions of young people have been shattered by seeing their parents and loved ones mutilated or violently killed in civil uprisings, or by experiencing disasters such as earthquakes and droughts. Many are left to raise themselves. Some have been placed in orphanages.

For the sake of future generations, pray that global terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and competitive control will cease.
Pray for:

--These little ones to meet Jesus as Lord and Savior and know that God is the Father of the fatherless.
--Healing and restoration of the hearts of those in war-torn lands who have not had an opportunity to be children.
--Children who have been forced to serve as soldiers and to kill unmercifully.
--Those whose parents have been martyred, persecuted, or ostracized because they are Christians.

7. Pray for HOPE: Many of these young people who come to Christ do not have a Bible, a mentor, or resources to help learn His ways. Most have practiced religion of a sort so that, without these helps, receiving Christ would simply be adding to the many gods they already worship.

Pray that they will receive and know the living God and that He will be the only One they worship.
Pray for:

--Jesus Christ to be revealed to the hearts of children, teens, and young adults through dreams and visions, since 32% of believers come to Christ by the time they are 13 years old.
--Those who have no hope to have an opportunity to hear the Gospel in their own language in a culturally sensitive and contextualized manner.
--God to use them to impact their families, friends, and nation with the Gospel.
--All curses, witchcraft, and evil ancient traditions to be bound and ineffective.
--Willingness to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior even if it means they will be persecuted.