“You fast too?” Sami asked. I looked at her incredulously, “Fasting has been around much longer than Islam has…” I answered facetiously. This opened a big box of questions my friend had regarding fasting and conversation opened up about the different kinds of fasting – with water, without water, multiple days long, sunrise to sunset, and most importantly; the reason why I fast – not to earn favor and points with God, but to worship and grow more hungry and closer to Him. I also said that this was a big difference in our fasts.
Even as followers of Jesus, we ourselves can get caught in an insidious cycle of legalism. Please pray for our Rohingya friends who worship God from a place of fear and distance. Pray that they would also come to know the personal, kind, powerful, and generous relationship God wants to have with them, and His demonstration of that through His son Jesus.
- Pray for the workers amongst the Rohingya to share about the Kingdom of God plainly, but wisely; compassionately, but boldly.
- Pray for those Rohingya who fast and seek after God, that they would have an encounter with Jesus