The Lord Had a Reason

We didn’t understand why, but the Lord had a reason.

🚩Disclaimer🚩

➡️This post deals with some tough topics, like witchcraft, which you may not want to read out loud with little ones. (My own children do not know all the details.) I try to not go into detail, but please use discretion.⬅️

Eric only had one lesson left to complete in his Bible lessons, but we have been hindered from having the Bible study in Phokera due to weather. Today we found out why.

Due to a sickness going around our family right now, I was unable to go with him. As he headed out the door, he turned around and said, “Pray for us! I’m finishing up this particular lesson today and it deals strongly with salvation! Pray those who need it are there!” Little did we know!

Today, satan sent another hindrance. They couldn’t get the vehicle started! They fiddled with it, tried different things, but it just wouldn’t work. They prayed, and the Lord got it working!

In Phokera, James, one of the faithful men, was out passing tracts when he met a lady. He convinced her to come to the Bible study today. She sat and listened intently. When Eric closed the message, she immediately came up and said that she needed to be saved today. She was only 29, but due to her lifestyle looked much older. As they sat and talked with her, tears poured down her face. She began to share all the wickedness she had been involved in. My mind cannot even fathom! She was not only involved in things like prostitution and human trafficking, but she was also heavily involved in satanism, including human sacrifices. She was now covered in sores because they threw some type of water mixture on her when she refused to sacrifice her oldest, 14 year old son. At the time that James came to her home, she had a bag of pills in her pocket and a rope hung with the plans of taking her own life.

I get chills just thinking about how satan almost had her! What we saw as hindrances, God had it planned for Eric to do that particular lesson on that particular day! Pray for this lady as I’m sure she will be experiencing many attacks. Pray that she will have a peace that she’s never had before, a peace like no other. Pray that the Lord will completely transform her life and others will marvel at how God works! May she be another maniac of Gaderrah, another Mary Magdalene!

And remember to pray for your missionaries! We don’t, and can’t always share every detail of every problem, but there is a great spiritual battle that we are facing! Sometimes it comes in physical sickness or discouragement from nationals, but it is not a battle of flesh and blood that we fight! It is a grave battle with principalities. We have gotten a glimpse lately, and it is great! The only way that battle can be fought is on our knees.