you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he will still be with you to
teach you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. Your own ears will
hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, ‘This is the way you should go,’
whether to the right or to the left.” Isaiah 30:20-21
Greetings to you all and gratitude to our Father
for your journey with us in 2012!!
you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he will still be with you to
teach you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. Your own ears will
hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, ‘This is the way you should go,’
whether to the right or to the left.” Isaiah 30:20-21
After our c0up refuge in S3neg@l and our retOn the day when Ama and Lasi
were sitting in the peanut gallery listening to our conversation with
S0, the peanut gallery reversed. S0 became the one watching and
listening as Ama and Lasi shared their stories and then listened as they
found answers to their life needs–J.s.s. S0 sat listening and watching
as these 2 young men talked about the power they felt in our words and
how they wanted to f0ll0w J.s.s. Then for the next couple of weeks, SO
watched as Ama studied and talked about G0d’s word with us. He was
filling the seats of the peanut gallery.
Then one day out of the blue, as soon as we arrived on the street,
S0 began telling C@therine and I something with great enthusiasm and
animation. I looked at C@therine puzzled and trying to process what I
thought I had just heard…my language then and now is still not always
what I think I’m hearing. I said to her, “I think he just said he wants
to f0ll0w J.s.s.” She said, “I think I heard that too.” So we listened
and then told S0 we would get out friend D@n to come and talk with us to
make sure we understood what he was saying correctly.
It was true!!! S@lvation had come to S0!! He had made the
choice to stop traveling 2 roads–flip floping from animism to !sl@m to
Chr!sti@nity. From that day to this day, S0 is f0ll0wing J.s.s in power,
truth, courage, and f@ithfulness!!! I have never seen a man more hungry
to know how to walk this road of J.s.s, how to live out this f@ith, and
how to serve his G0d!! Every day, S0 wants to study G0d’s word, to know
what we have read that day, to pr@y together, to help each other with
our daily struggles. This man is a new creation in Chr!st…as we read
and talked about yesterday…”the old has gone and the new life has
come!”