Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Power of Prayer


I am sitting here Wednesday morning trying to remember everything that has gone on these past 2 days. It has been a great time full of adventure. It has been a chilly couple of days only getting up to around 90 or so, which has been absolutely incredible!

Monday and Tuesday during the daytime were not too eventful. The older boys were studying for their big test and the rest of the kids were just being lazy since they are off school for a couple of days. I am not sure why they are off school. So I have been spending that time in worship, prayer, and reading the Word. It is more and more evident how much this town just needs people praying for it to loosen the chains of the enemy and bring about God’s kingdom. It was a great time of praying for the town, although sometimes I can get distracted with other things. I am going to ask a couple of the people in the orphanage if they want to go around and pray for the town with me this weekend. It will be exciting to get the kids involved and just teaching them the importance of prayer for their own city.

Monday and Tuesday evenings were a little different from the day. After a delicious barbeque chicken dinner made African style (which was so good! Only 5 dollars for a whole chicken with some special spices. Mike buys from the same Muslim guy in order to build ties), we went back to the orphanage. On the way back we stopped with a couple of kids at a store. While at the store there is a mentally insane lady. She doesn’t have shirt on and yells about who knows what. The short time we were there I prayed for her and God has constantly been reminding me to pray at random times throughout the day for her that she may be a testimony to God’s goodness and power. And the rest of Monday night was bonding time with a couple of my favorite boys, Eduard and Josue. These guys are about 16 or 17 years old and are the funniest and greatest guys ever. I want to spend a night in one of their villages while I am there. They always say how great it would be if that happened, but no one ever does it. So I am really hoping I can.

Last night was an interesting one. There was the prayer meeting and bible meeting that the kids had in the orphanage. They talked about having God’s Word engraved on our hearts. It was great! Afterwards we talked a little with the kids and we were going to play a game with them but they were punks and did not want to. While we were waiting to see if they wanted to play the game, Judith went to go talk to one of the boys about why he has been acting the way he has lately. He has been stealing and claims he has been hearing voices to tell him to steal. We are not sure if he is lying (cause he often does) or if he is being serious. While Judith was talking to him, Anne, Delaney, and I prayed for the boy and the conversation going on. Judith came in later and said how the conversation went and said he asked if Judith could pray for him after they got done talking. So she did. And when she came back inside we prayed some more. After we got done praying, we had a nice game of hide and go seek in the missions house at the orphanage. It was so fun and we were covered in dirt by the end of the night!

This morning I am starting off with some AW Tozer and a little bit of praying for the day. I am excitd to see what God has for me today.



Oh and also happy birthday to my friend Megan! I am pretty sure it was her birthday yesterday. So Happy Birthday!



Please be praying for the boy that Judith talked to the other night. It is the main thing that needs prayer right now. And the next thing is for the mentally insane lady. That she may have a clear mind and come to know Jesus.



And I just found out that so far all of the kids that just took their test to get out of 10th grade passed!! A few of them have taken it before and failed, but now they are finished and happily moving on to 11th grade!!! (we are still waiting to find out about 1 more girl)

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