In the wee hours of Sunday morning, I found myself wide awake and unable to sleep. There was a heaviness in my heart. So I believe G0d revealed to me that I needed to get up and just pr@ise Him…to stop pondering so much and start pr@ising. So I did…and I realized really how long it had been since I just stopped to pr@ise and give thanks to Him. It was a sweet, sweet time of fellowship with Him, and I realized how much I needed to share with you all that He has been doing. Its not that it is BIG, HUGE, life changing things…but the sweetness and tenderness of His Presence at work…again small glimpses of His Glory in the sometimes difficult days of adjustments and changes.
G0d continues to use the small solar powered radios to reveal Himself, to teach His ways, and to fill the hearts and minds of the people on the street with His truth. I want to personally thank each of you, your churches, and your workplaces that have donated these radios…God is using them for HIS GLORY! Let me tell you how….
Ladies on the street…
A group of ladies all working side by side on the street…on their stand sits a radio playing songs about Jss. One lady says, “That is a great song!” They begin to talk about it and what it means. Each lady adding her thoughts. I love that the Old Woman among them who follows a different road sings and shares her thoughts…taking in the TRUTHS as well.
A young woman…around 18 years, with 2 small children…she is working with one of the ladies and you can see that she looks up to her as a role model and mentor. A song is playing and “the mentor” picks the radio up. She calls the young woman to lean closer to her. She begins quietly asking her to listen and then asking if she understands. She quietly explains the meaning of the song to the young woman.
After a difficult few days of spiritual warfare and a confrontation early in the morning, this same lady pulls out the radio and sits it on the table. She begins listening and a song comes on that speaks to her. She turns to her friend and says, “Did you hear that?” She explains to her friend that the song is saying “If you have a trouble or a problem comes between you and someone else, be careful. Satan will come and sit with you and lead you down the wrong road.” Then she looks at me and says, “Did you change this song so that it would be the next song I would hear?” You see, we had just had this discussion, this same battle of Satan trying to destroy, lead astray, and cause division. Of course I had not changed the song and my language is not good enough to even know that the song was on there. It was my first time to hear the song. G0d knew it was there, and I love how He used it at just the right moment to teach, affirm, and solidify a truth that is vital in our walk with Him.
Men on the Street…
Shortly after we returned from a conference, one of the young guys (Amad) on the street asked me for one of the radios. My translator had gone to the village and I do not like to give the radios out without someone talking with them about what is on the radio and finding out a little about why they are asking for one…are they really seeking G0d or do they just want a cool radio… So I asked him to wait until the translator got back from the village and we would talk about it. A few days later the brother of our friend who died was standing talking to one of the women about the radio and about how he had been listening every Saturday and Sunday to the teaching of Good News on the radio station in the city. He was asking about the radio she was listening to and what was on it. Later, he came and asked about getting one. Again, I asked him to wait for the translator to return from the village. So when he returned, he sat with the two of them and talked. He sensed a great interest and a great opportunity for G0d’s Words to penetrate their hearts and lives. We gave each of them one of the radios. This week we talked to one of them about what he has been listening to on the radio and what he remembers about it. He said really the words in the radio are hard. He has realized really that he is not living like those words. We had a chance to talk with him about the importance of honesty and recognizing that we are all sinners. He shared with him how he too was a sinner but there was one difference between them. Jss has forgiven him and has given him eternal life. They continued to talk and he continues to listen. Pr@y for his salvation and his acceptance of the gift of forgiveness through Jss. Pr@y for the opportunity to talk to the other man about what He is hearing and how it is impacting him.
Pr@ise G0d for the sound of His Word and the Songs of His Truth being played everyday on a street corner!
more pr@ising to follow….