Nigeria: Where Attending Church Is Deadly

Muslim militia from the nomadic Fulani people group killed three worshippers at a Catholic mass on Sunday, June 19, in Nigeria’s Kaduna State; then abducted five men and 31 women and children from a Baptist church service. Two victims were later released to communicate ransom demands.

On Sunday, June 5, (the same day about 70 were killed and others abducted from a Catholic church in Ondo State) more than 100 gunmen on motorcycles terrorized four villages for several hours in Kaduna State, killing at least 32 and abducting more than 20. Again in Kaduna, a Baptist pastor’s family was taken from his home that weekend.

• Pray God will keep every Christian who has been abducted safe from harm, and open the way for their escape and freedom. 
• Pray they will feel God’s presence with them, sing songs to Him, quote Scripture, and encourage one another in the Lord.
• Pray those who guard them will listen in and be cut to the core.
• Pray the Lord will command His angels to stand guard around the Christians, even making those angels visible to all who guard their escape. 
• Pray He will block any attempt to harm the Christians, and do it so miraculously persecutors will tremble in fear of the Lord, purposing to let the Christians go free out of fear of what God will do if they don’t.
• Pray God will give Christians and churches all across Nigeria wisdom to guard against attacks.
• Pray He will post angelic guards around every church and Christian home, and stand as their Shield no enemy can break through.
• Pray God will empower grieving Christians and those still in shock to forgive and share God’s love in the face of persecution; that the joy and peace their persecutors and others see in them will draw many to faith in Christ, and the church will expand by the thousands.
• Pray the reign of terror will end, and every Muslim involved in evil attacks will be apprehended and brought to justice.
• As investigators interview Christians to search out clues, pray they will encounter God’s love, hear the Gospel and be saved.
• Pray God will be a Shield around every Christian and their families, villages, and churches all throughout Nigeria, hiding them completely from the enemy so that no weapon will prosper against them. 
• Pray He will cast out fear with His perfect love, and Christians will rise up in the power of that love to counter hate, drawing millions to Christ through their faithful witness, acts of kindness, peace, joy, love and forgiveness. 
• Pray God’s Word will spread among the Fulani in Nigeria, and every heart will hunger for Christ so desperately they will seek Truth and find Him. John 14:6. 
• Pray all barriers that keep Muslim terrorists from the Good News of Christ will collapse, the chains that bind them to the evil one will break, every enemy plan will be thwarted, and they will surrender to God’s call to repentance and faith.
• Pray every evil plot of the enemy will fall to the ground, and Christ will be glorified in each of these terrible situations; that for every Christian who is abducted, 1000 backsliders will return to Christ; for every Christian martyred or injured, 1000 Muslims will come to faith; for every church attacked, hundreds more will be planted. 
• Pray for a great revival among all the Christian churches of Nigeria, and a great awakening to Christ in every lost heart.

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