In Kyrgyzstan, sheep, goats and cattle outnumber people.
In Kyrgyzstan, sheep, goats and cattle outnumber people.
Apr. 30, 2026 | Kyrgyzstan

Forced to Worship Among Sheep

[154] prayers in [12] nations have been posted for Jibek.

A Christian woman reads her Bible while tending sheep to avoid persecution. Jibek is over 60 years old and the only follower of Christ in her family. Her daughters-in-law regularly mock and mistreat her because she left Islam. They have confiscated all her Christian books, including her Bible, and check her phone regularly to delete Bible apps. Jibek lives in a remote mountain area and looks for excuses to visit larger cities where she can attend church services and fellowship with other Christians. She has found the only way she can regularly read her Bible is when she is tending sheep by herself. Alone, she downloads Bible apps and watches online sermons, then deletes everything before returning to her family. Jibek asked for prayer that persecution from her family would lessen, that God will give her strength to witness to her family and that she will have more opportunities to visit church services and read the Bible.

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  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open their families' hearts to You, bringing peace & hope to all! Amen.
    Lisa D - USA
  • Lord Jesus thank You for my sister Jibek. Strengthen her faith. Soften the hearts of her family, drawing them to You Jesus. Give her opportunity to witness to them as You draw them to You.
    Andrew S - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection like Jibek. Bring these families' hearts to You, bringing peace & hope to all! Amen.

    Lisa D - USA
  • Father, you see Jibek and see her faithfulness to you. Father, she needs you to move on her behalf. Open doors, move mountains, rebuke the enemy who wants to destroy her. I pray you strengthen and comfort her. I ask you to help her find opportunities to spend with you and read her Bible. Deal with the hearts of her family. May they find truth. IJN
    Polly C - USA
  • Praise the name of the Lord for the faithfulness and courage that Jibek has. LORD strengthen her resolve and give her great grace and favor over her family. Silence their assaults and give them ears to hear the truth that she tries to bless them with. Open new avenues and strategies and
    Post angels around her to protect and encourage her in Jesus
    Linda D - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open their families' hearts to You, saving the land & giving believers hope!
    Lisa D - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open their families' hearts to You, saving the land & giving believers hope!
    Lisa D - USA
  • Gracious Heavenly Father, Thank you for Jibek's persistence to follow in light of her circumstances. I pray that Jibek's family will come to believe in Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior through her witness. Give Jibek strength through the power of the Holy Spirit so that all who see her see a light that truly shines with the love of Christ.
    Chaplain Dale I - USA
  • Lord, let a strong conduit of grace and fellowship unite Jibek with thee and thy Church.
    Margaret D - USA
  • Heavenly Father, pour out your favor on Jibek as she thirsts for your Word and the fellowship of other believers. Soften the hearts of her family toward her, and you. Create scenarios so she can pray for her family, and you will answer her prayers. Send her daughters-in-law dreams of Isa, so they ask questions about you. Bless Jibek as she honors you!
    Michael M - USA
  • In the name of the Lamb of God, Jesus, our heavenly Father, Yeshua, as brothers and sisters in Christ, we praise You for faithfulness of Jibek. We ask for deliverance, for provision, for healing, hedge of protection and heavenly angels to encamp around and minister to her. Amen
    Gary F - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open these families' hearts to You, saving all the land & giving believers ho
    Lisa D - USA
  • Avi Ad! I thank You that You the great Shepherd are overseeing Jibek, shepherdiss. Help her to rejoice in You always, consistently have a desire to be where You are Jesus and participate in what You are doing and no matter the circumstances have a thankful heart, extolling Your praises. In Yeshua's name
    Randal A - USA
  • Father, thank You for Jibek & her faithfulness to love You no matter what. Thank You for her creativity to seek Your face with Bible apps, visiting churches & wisdom against the enemy. Protect her, Lord, & open the eyes of her family. Let Your love overflow her so they cannot resist You.
    Craig R - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, especially all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open these families' hearts to You! Grant the believers hope! Amen.
    Lisa D - USA
  • Father bless Jibek for her faithfulness and thank you for the opportunities to visit churches and fellowship with other Christians. I pray she will be an example of Christ's love and a beacon of light in her community. I pray for opportunities for Jibek to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with her family. Strengthen Jibek during this difficult period.
    Denise B - USA
  • Dear Lord,

    We pray for Jibek, that faces oppression from all sides for her love for You. As stated above, Jibek asked for prayer that persecution from her family would lessen, that God will give her strength to witness to her family and that she will have more opportunities to visit church services and read the Bible. Thank You that she can.

    Amen!
    Chris R - USA
  • Father bless dear sister, Your daughter, who endures so much for the sake of the gospel. I pray her family would read the bible they have stolen, and Your Holy Spirit would move on their hearts to bring them to faith, and to reject their persecution. I pray for godly fellowship for Jibek, and strength to stand against the tide of ostracism.
    Mike D - USA
  • Loving Father, please make Jibek wiser than her enemies. Comfort her in her loneliness, provide for her physical, spiritual & emotional needs. Thank you for these small opportunities for her to strengthen her faith. Vindicate her according to your righteousness, plead her cause, open the hearts of her family to the truth of the Gospel of Christ
    Julie C - USA
  • Oh God, be with Jibek. Keep her so strong in you. Use her to win souls. Let your word come so alive in her. Give her strength and use her for your glory
    Nancy T - USA
  • Holy Father, I pray for believers in Kyrgyzstan: Protect, provide for, comfort, strengthen, encourage & guide them. May they stay strong & united in faith, hope & love, committed to Christ. Praise You for them! Sustain them, particularly all facing family rejection, like Jibek. Open these families' hearts to You, saving all the land! Amen.
    Lisa D - USA
  • Mighty Father God, thank You for our sister Jibek. Give her strength & courage as she stands strong in Christ. Help her to forgive her persecutors & to love them in Christ. Give her wisdom in witnessing to her family. Help her to have fellowship & have continued access to Your Word. Be glorified through this. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen
    Rebecca C - USA
  • Father provide continuous desire for Jibek to find ways of reading and worshiping you. May the light be brought to her family that they may be filled with the truth off the gospel. Give Jibek strength and love to continue in prayer and worship. Lesson the persecution of those around her that she may praise you and worship you openly. In Jesus' name.
    Ilene A - USA
  • Father, thank you that by Jesus's blood of the covenant you've released and sent forth your imprisoned people out of the pits they are in the same way you released Joseph from the pit he was in and raised him up to do great and mighty things (Zechariah 9:11).
    Rob N - USA
  • Father, we pray you'll send laborers to her kids; he'll recieve these laborers &, with meekness, the engrafted word of God which is able to save his soul; the fear of God would consume him; he'd be convicted of guilt in regard to sin, righteousness, & judgment; repent of his sins; confess Jesus Christ as Lord; & receive the baptisim of the Holy Spirit.
    Rob N - USA
  • Father, you are good and only do good. You said "in" (not for) everything give thanks (1Thes 5:18). So, we thank you that Jibek's faith & love is growing exceedingly. Thank you for their patience & faith in all their percutions they endure (1Thes 1:3-4).
    Rob N - USA
  • Evil pursueth sinners, And good recompenseth the righteous (Proverbs 13:21 YLT). Father, we ask that you repay these with even better of everything they lost and with even more influence.
    Rob N - USA
  • Father, we choose to remember (by praying for) prisoners as if chained with them, since we are also in the body (Heb. 13:3). We pray for those who are being persecuted for righteousness sake. We call them blessed and declare that no one will be able to harm them because they are followers of what is good. We pray they will not afraid (1 Peter 3:13-17).
    Rob N - USA
  • I pray for those who are being persecuted for righteousness sake. I call them blessed & declare that no one will be able to harm them because they are followers of what is good. I pray they will not be afraid (1Peter 3:13-17). No weapon formed against them shall prosper & every tongue that rises against them shall be shown to be in the wrong (Is53:17).
    Rob N - USA
  • And he said to them, Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,who may not receive back manifold more IN THIS TIME, and in the coming age, life age-during' (Luke 18:29-30 YLT).
    Rob N - USA
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