Wow...I just got an amazing email newsletter from a very good friend who is a missionary in Africa. It is definitely eye opening...enjoy. Peace Out ~ Jenni :)
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, be will have whatever he says.
“Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them and you will have them.”
Mark 11:23, 24
This has been a wonderful month. Sorry I didn’t really get out a newsletter earlier but I wasn’t near a computer….
Last month we decided to go to Tanzania for a recon mission to a place where we have never been before. We were told we were going to Mafia Island. When we met the pastor he said to us, “I don’t even want to go to Mafia.” They warned us that it is a really hard place 100% Muslim accept for this pastor and his wife they have lived there for over 13 years and only 60 people have received Jesus in all that time. He said we’ve had many out reaches where not a soul has accepted Jesus. But he told us, “You are still welcome to come.”
So we leave Dar on a bus to Kisiju where we would take a boat to Mafia. When we reached Kisiju the tide was out so the sail boat we would use couldn’t sail until the next morning. So I started to talk with the pastor about healing. We talked about Isaiah 53:3-5 He took our iniquities and bore our sins and by his stripes we are healed. I said, “When I was watching the Passion of Christ, I looked at the price he paid for my sicknesses and God doesn’t want us sick.” He replied, “But God teaches us through sickness.” So this bothered me, how can a loving father put sickness on his child to teach them something? So I prayed most of the night and asked God how can I show him God doesn’t want to teach us through sickness. And God spoke, “And said, ‘Ask him this… Show me in the Bible in the life of Jesus where God used sickness to teach us a lesson.” Pastor Mosha said, I don’t know, but in the life of Paul, but he’s not Jesus, and I do believe God heals.” You know many times we can’t explain why we get sick, but the Bible says it’s a work of the devil and God doesn’t want to teach us through a work of the devil.
So we went in the boat the next morning it was supposed to be a 6-8 hr. boat ride and it took us 48hrs. During the second day the wind stopped to blow and we were going backwards instead of forwards. So I started to pray, “God please send us wind, please, please.” It was so hot and I had to cover by body with a skirt in order to keep from being sunburned. So I fell asleep and started to dream. In my dream God said, “ Jesus spoke to storms, trees, sickness, and disease and told them to go. Speak to the wind and tell it to blow in the name of Jesus.” So while I was still dreaming I spoke to the wind and told it to blow and I said God I don’t know where Mafia is but maybe it’s north of us so I pray, “Wind blow from the south in Jesus name.” And I woke up with a huge wind blowing over my body. I was in the middle of the ocean and I had no idea where I was or what direction the wind came from. Finally we arrive in Mafia and the pastor says to me, We needed a north wind to blow us to Mafia but when the wind came it blew from the South. Praise God he answers our prayers, I got my south wind even if I need it from the other direction.
Once we were in Mafia I prayed and ask God please allow me to teach faith here. I’ve never prayed like I did for those two weeks. I was asked to teach and I taught on faith, the pastor was so blessed, he saw the Word of God like never before. I taught for 3 days on the 4th day we went on our first outreach. As I preached the people were yelling and mocking us the entire time and we left. As I was praying that morning I felt everyone says Mafia is a hard Island, but that’s not a good confession. As I was praying I couldn’t think of anything to call Mafia that was good. So we minister the second day and the people at least listened but still no response. The third morning I started to seek God for a breakthrough on this Island and as I was praying I spoke Mafia is a fruitful Island and it will bare fruit and this fruit shall remain. That evening 7 people accepted Jesus into their lives. It was the first time so many people came to know Jesus at one time. Even a drunk man came and said, “ I don’t want to drink any more I want Jesus.” God is so good. We had fruit on mafia.
When we left the pastor was blessed and so was the church and there were 7 souls added to our family. Praise God!!!!!!!!!!!
Please pray for me. I’m planning on going to Zimbabwe in a week for three weeks and then come back and teach. Please pray for our team and for Wisdom on leading.
God Bless you,
Amber
p.s. one more testimony…
Oh yeah I was telling you…when we were on Mafia I used the name of Allah when I was preaching, the pastor told me they if it was before the war with Iraq we would have been stoned. To use the name of allah is like taking god’s name in vain to them. But since the war in Iraq things have opened, and they are realizing that they are not so safe anymore. I praise God that we went to war. Not only that but they were sending millions of dollars every month to pay people to convert to Islam now the money isn’t coming anymore. Please let people know that it is causing people to come to know Jesus.
Love ya,
Amber
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