Africa

[edit] Geography

The continent of Africa has a total of about 30.4 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles), or about 20% of our world's total land mass.

Many African countries have strong local churches; the pioneer focus is switching toward sharing the gospel with Muslims. Pray for more churches in Africa to take up the challenge and send out their own missionaries. Pray for overseas mission teams to know how best to work in partnership with these African missions.

One big question in Africa, how to handle the issue of ethnicity and tribalism, and the implications that has for how the Christians will live out their faith and carry out mission on this continent and beyond. One of the key questions is this: "What will it take for a discipleship program and mission efforts to penetrate deeply enough that there is a change of allegiance from 'our ways' and 'our people' to God's ways and His new people that He's drawing from many different races and nations?" How many in the Church will turn out to be little different in their beliefs and values from the culture(s) around them? Please pray, that the mission leaders who meet with a wider group of church leaders, as the church in Kenya was often sadly caught up in the post-election violence along with everyone else. As believers and followers of Christ, our citizenship is in heaven, and our identity is as children of the King. He has made of all of us one new man, one new nation who are to be kings and priests unto our God. Please pray that believers across Africa would discover their new identity in Him, and move in the kingly and priestly authority He has for us so that His kingdom is coming more and more across these lands during such a time as this!

Psalms tells us “the boundary lines have fallen for us in pleasant places, surely we have a delightful inheritance.” Sudan is the largest nation in Africa, has the largest number of remaining least-reached peoples (139 groups), and is often known as the gateway to Africa. Prophecies have abounded here that Africa is shaped like a handgun, (if you lok on a map) with South Africa as the muzzle. Revival would begin in Nigeria (near the trigger) and explode out to the world through South Africa. Did you know the Global Day of Prayer originated here in South Africa, spread throughout Africa then to the rest of the world? Last year almost all nations participated on Pentecost in praying together. May 31, 2009 will be next year’s GDOP. Meanwhile, elections come in March 2009 in South Africa; please be praying for God’s sovereign choice. And, 2010 is a landmark year for South Africa in particular because not only will the FIFA World Cup Soccer be here, but also the global Lausanne meetings, the global celebration for Global Day of Prayer, and a number of other very significant global events. Pray as we lead up to 2010 that God exploded by His Holy Spirit across South Africa and His glory is revealed and His kingdom comes here like never before!

According to Ed Silvoso, a stronghold is a mindset impregnated with hopelessness that accepts as unchangeable something contrary to God’s will. Pray with us in particular that all the strongholds in Africa (AIDS/HIV, poverty, disease, wars and rumors of war, corruption, tribal fighting, ignorance, and so on) are broken, and God’s kingdom comes here in Africa as in heaven: divine health and healing, prosperity of spirit, soul and body, unity and reconciliation, honesty and integrity, cooperation, education and spiritual discipleship, and so on.

Pray for breakthrough to begin in Sudan, for more than enough laborers to be raised up and sent, and for God’s kingdom to flourish there! (Liz Adleta)