Unity. Progress. Justice. When the Burnkinabe people escaped centuries of subjugation and French colonization to gain independence in 1960, this motto embodied unbridled hope for Burkina Faso, “the country of honorable people.” Some fifty years later, almost eighty ethnic groups embrace countless religious practices, including earth priests, fortune tellers, healers, witchcraft, and animal sacrifice. The result is an ethnically integrated secular state with no fulfillment of those original bold ambitions. But the gospel can provide them hope.
Pray for believers to deal biblically with extreme poverty issues and to overcome a dependence mentality.
• Pray for the occult power to be broken and made decisively subordinate to the name of Jesus.
• Pray for the indigenous church to continue to grow both in influence and as a missions-sending body.
Use these resources to help pray specifically each day.