2 ER visits, one case of pink eye, one car accident (neighbor hit our parked car), another neighbor freaking out and screaming for a while (told you guys about that one), and other crazy events all have happened in the past 2 weeks. Please pray for protection and health in our family. We are working to establish a Kingdom...the Kingdom of God...in this nation. Currently another kingdom rules here and it desires for us and others to be out of here. This is not a battle against flesh and blood, as Paul explained to us. We battle in the spiritual realm. It sounds like voo-doo, but it's not. It's the real deal. It's more real than we think. So, we humbly ask for your prayers.
Good news: church service on Sunday was excellent. It was a small group of us because many of our folks were out at retreats and conferences. We had 5 adults so we planned to just pray and worship and eat lunch together. Honestly, our expectations were low...which was wrong. Needless to say, we all came into the time of worship and prayer very tired and honestly not wanting to be there. Robi told me he just wanted to go home and sleep. That's always encouraging to hear when you're about to lead your church into a time of worship. :) Fact is, I wanted to do the same. Anyway, we just began to pray and sing...and the Holy Spirit came. I was playing guitar and singing standing up. I was just asking God to do something...anything. Everyone else was sitting down with fairly long faces. Then, on the 2nd song, we began to sing, "God is good. We sing to Him now. God is good. Now we worship Him", and I saw Robi (and his 7 foot self) stand up and begin to sing with all his might. Then his wife Anita really began to join in as well. We didn't stop for the next hour or more. We then ate together from 1pm till 4:30pm. The community was just too good to leave. God was so kind to us to come and minister His love to us.
May you be encouraged today because of Jesus. Blessings and love to all of you!
-J,L,L,B
2 comments:
My dear family! I am so sorry you had to go through all that, but I know exactly what you are talking about with the spritual battle. Just know we are praying for you because that is really what can destroy satan and that is what we are up against. We love you and miss you tons. PRAISE THE LORD for the great sunday! Isn't he awesome when he blesses us like that, just to uplift us?
Great work.
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