Fulani Muslims of Nigeria

Nigeria is rated the seventh most dangerous country in the world for Christians, largely due to terrorist activities by Fulani militia, who have martyred and abducted vast numbers of Christians, especially during Sunday church services. Let’s pray for this Muslim unreached people group so desperately in need of Christ’s love.

The semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen of Nigeria are divided into two main groups. The Adamawa Fulani, numbering 1,630,000 in Nigeria, are Sunni Muslims with added animistic beliefs. They live mostly in the east, bleeding over into Cameroon and Chad. The Nigerian Fulani, numbering 17,664,000 in Nigeria, are scattered across several states, as well as Cameroon. They fiercely oppose anything they see as contrary to their lifestyle of roaming with their herds, including education, literacy, permanent homes, and especially Christians and established farmers and ranchers in locations where Fulani want to graze their cattle.

Largely unstopped by the Nigerian government, Fulani gangs and militia have gained great wealth through kidnapping ransoms, which they have used to buy arms and vehicles to further their terrorist activities. In a recent attack, Fulani on motorcycles wove through several villages spraying innocent men, women and children with gunfire for hours without government intervention. When villagers tried to flee, a helicopter gunned them down.

• Pray God will awaken the Fulani to a deep hunger for Him. Pray they will thirst for Him so desperately they will seek Him with all their hearts and find Him. Jeremiah 29:13.
• The Bible has been completed in the Adamawa Fulfulde (Fulani) language, and the New Testament is available in audio form. Pray every person will find it and whole communities will eagerly listen together and be saved.
• The New Testament has been completed in the Nigerian Fulfulde (Fulani) language, and is available in audio and video form. Pray the whole Bible will be completed and made available to every Nigerian Fulani, and they will excitedly receive it as truth and believe.
• Pray the few hidden Christians among the Fulani will find each other, so they can encourage one another and grow together in their faith.
• Pray God will protect them from persecution, and give them wisdom in each situation.
• Pray He will send to them disciples to help them grow in their faith, and provide a safe way for that to happen.
• Pray Christians will feel Christ’s comforting presence, and the Holy Spirit will empower them to walk in His fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) so visibly, others’ hearts will open to desire Christ, as well.
• Pray God will destroy every barrier that keeps the Fulani from believing in Him. Pray they will become dissatisfied with Islam and animism, angered by the violence and murder. Pray they will seek ways to leave that lifestyle so they can make a difference for the good of their country, rather than for its harm. Pray for a longing to become educated, read, get a jobs in the city, learn English (the official language of Nigeria, which many Christians speak), study the Bible, and anything else that will help them better their family’s lives.
• Pray many Fulani will come to Christ, and He will begin a new movement of repentance and salvation that spreads like wildfire through every Fulani community.
• Pray God will call out evangelists with a heart for the Fulani, and anoint and equip them to cross every barrier so the lost can hear the Good News of Christ in a way they can easily understand and receive.
• Pray Christians captured by Fulani militia will shine so brightly with His love and peace, their captors will hunger and thirst for what they see lacking in their own lives, and ask them how to know Christ. Anoint those Christians to preach the Good News and lead their captors to salvation.
• Pray terrorists will see the angels guarding Christians and, stricken by fear of the Lord, they will drop their weapons and fall on their faces before Him in repentance and surrender.
• Pray God will march His angel armies into every terrorist camp, defeating the powers of darkness, breaking the chains that bind people to Satan’s causes, and releasing them to hungrily seek Christ’s salvation.
• Pray God will meet every Fulani in powerful ways through dreams, visions, encounters with Christians, audio versions of His Word, and other means. Pray His voice will slice through demonic lies and set up His throne among the Fulani, beginning a new people movement where Truth reigns.

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