Hey everyone! Sorry about the confusion, for some reason the site sent out alerts on all three of my new blogs at once. Didn’t mean to overwhelm you, they were suposed to come out 5 days apart. So I’m reposting this one and I’ll repost the other later. On Monday, we went out to a small village to visit one of the bush churches. We loaded our gear on the back of our bikes, hopped on and an hour later we were there. When we arrived, we received a very warm greeting filled with shouts and dancing. The rest of the day was composed of door to door visits and a service at night. At the end of the day I felt very uneasy about how the day went. I didn’t like the fact that we were being rushed from one person to another just to throw the gospel at them in a very mechanical way and then leave abruptly. It felt to me as though the people were being treated as objects to convert and not like the people who Jesus loved enough to give himself for. We stayed in tents that night and didn’t get to sleep until about 2am (due to loud music and videos being played. It was a treat for the people to get to experience those things and they kept asking them to play some more). The next day we woke up at 6am to a baby crying and then were expected to be at an early church service. I still didn’t feel settled, so I did the only thing that made sense, I skipped the service and went to spend time with Jesus. I took my concerns to Him and He quickly filled me with peace and gave me a word to speak over the people there (religion vs. relationship). I became very excited for the extended amount of time that we were about to have to go share Jesus with the people. But this time, we had to be led by the Spirit and not a schedule. So we went and at the first house we visited, God did something huge! We met four people there; an older woman named Agness (she is the woman next to me), an older man named Luke, a younger woman named Christine (she has on the orange shirt), and a boy named Daniel. We got to know them a little and then we felt led to share the gospel with them. The Lord put some things on my heart to speak over each one of them individually. After hearing about Jesus and how much He wants them to know Him, the whole family decided to put their faith in Him. We prayed for them and as we were praying the Holy Spirit came upon us. Agness was overcome by the Spirit and she fell over, the whole room full of people were praising God! Then we prayed for healing for Agness and one of the children. We invited them to the service we were going to have that night and then we left. The next three families we visited were Catholic. The first lady we talked to didn’t want to hear anything we had to say at first, but the Lord softened her heart. By the time we left, she said that the things we had told her were sweet to her ears and that she wanted to continue thinking about them. The next two ladies we talked to we very enslaved by a religious spirit, to the point that their eyes were glazed over and it almost looked like they were in a trance. The spirit of religion is so very strong here and it has so many people under it’s control. After the last two visits and some of the experiences I had the previous day, it became very clear why God had put this word against religion on my heart. When the service started, there was Agness and Christine! Both of them looked like totally different than when we first met them. They had huge smiles on their faces and they were singing and dancing. I shared the message and I believe that some of the people got it. Please join me in praying for the people here. Pray against the spirit of religion that holds people captive. That they would understand the love of Jesus and the power of His grace!
