Zambia Outreach Oct 2014
The Zambia journey for me
started back in 2009 when I met a now good friend Steyn. Steyn was part of a
mission's organisation called Harvest for Christ. Two men were on the Zambia
side, Albert Muleya and Oliver Matambo, and the on the South African side Steyn
Marais. I met Steyn on a Christian camp one weekend and we learned a lot from
his experiences. He invited us to go with him on these outreaches if we want,
but I immediately denied his request in my head due to financial reasons.
Then in 2010 David Hogan
visited us and we had an extremely radical time with the Lord. This conference
actually changed everything for us as individuals and as a congregation. It was
the last service of the conference when I finally gave in to the Lord's call to
reach out to the nations. The moment I agreed things started falling into
place. I was on fire for the Lord and couldn't see anything less than a massive
revival hitting Zambia through our hands! When I got there I met Albert and Oliver
and when they started praying, I thought I still needed to become born again!
They were radical missionaries for Jesus. They were on fire!!
I learned a great deal from
these men on my trips to the Gwembe valley in Zambia ever since. It is
something I will cherish in my heart forever. However in 2011/2012 the Lord
called Steyn into a whole new thing and he had to withdraw from Zambia.
Everything collapsed for me and I thought my Zambia days were over. The Holy
Spirit had other ideas for me and kept Albert and Oliver in my heart and every
now and then said that I will go back.
Albert and Oliver have been
best friends since their youth. Albert got born again first and Oliver very
shortly after. They had such a passion for the Lord and for the world that they
dedicated their whole lives to the Gospel. They, together with their wives,
will walk many kilometres far to unknown villages just to preach the Gospel.
Many times these villages reject them and chased them out of the village. They
will then make a camp fire in the bush and worship the Lord there. They, with
their wives, will sleep around the camp fire at night with nothing but a heart
on fire for God. The villagers will become curious of what is going on and then
approach them to see. This is when they will share the Gospel and before long
plant a church there! This happened over great distances! They have hundreds of
stories of how God came through for them. Many stories of hardships and perseverance,
but God was and is always faithful!
Then in 2013 Albert phoned
me and told me about a dream he had! He said the Lord showed him how I work
with them and do outreaches in Zambia. He gave me an open invitation and asked
me to pray about it. I replied that no prayer is necessary! The Lord already
said yes! In January 2014 Steyn and I flew to Lusaka to meet with the guys
from Zambia so that Steyn could greet them but also bless us for our work
together. I felt this was very important because Zambia is so close to Steyn's
heart. The Lord blessed it all! But the reality was that this was it. No more
plans or anything! Just a word from the Lord, but no plan!
Later the year Albert phoned
me again and told me the greatest news I could ask for! They discovered 600
villages that are totally unreached! They have never heard the Gospel of Jesus
and I was invited to help them reach these people! I was ecstatic!!! I started
praying and thought the School of Supernatural that we (Aflame Ministries)
present will be a good channel to use and give the students this opportunity.
The only thing was that the date had to be in school holiday. So the date was
set for October 2014.
We were a team of seven
people that answered the call from the Lord for this outreach, of which four
have never been on an outreach before. The best part for me was that they were
all good friends of mine who could share in this that is so close to my heart.
The vision Albert has for
these unreached villages are to plant a church in every village. Meaning we want
to put up some sort of structure in 600 villages that the people can see, so
that they will be reminded of what the Lord had done in their village. This
sounded way too big for me, so I gladly stepped into unity with Albert on this
vision! Cause in my mind it is not so possible and thus I am convinced that I
will experience God in this all the way! So I am in 100%!
Before the outreach, as
Albert and I spoke, he told me stories about the hunger these people have for
Christ. Albert's team had trouble with the generator that they needed to show
the Jesus Film. People have no reference what so ever about the Lord or the
Gospel, so the film helps a great deal! I assume they couldn't find fuel for
the generator. The people sat and waited patiently for them to start the
service. Eventually three days later the fuel arrived only for them to discover
the DVD player isn't working! Eventually at around midnight they got everything
to work! So Albert announced to the still waiting crowd that they will show the
film the following night due to time. The crowd refused!!! The screamed that
"you told us about this Jesus, now show us! We will not leave!" So
the film started at midnight and many people accepted Jesus after the film. This
story blessed me tremendously to know the desperation people have for Truth!
The Lord prepared this harvest and it is ready! These people are not
disadvantaged by religion, all they know is tradition and witchcraft. That's
all that stands between them and a Life of abundance!
So with the set dates,
Albert arranged a conference where eight surrounding villages will get together
for us to minister to them. Eight villages that have never heard the Gospel!
Countless people! Eight possible churches! We had three days!
So very early morning we
left Pretoria in three vehicles and drove all the way to Kasane, Botswana. We
had a beautiful sunset over the Chobe River and a special evening around the
campfire underneath the African sky in the bush! The next day we relaxed at the
lodge and went on a boat trip game drive. This is a must when in Kasane! I
decided to do this firstly because most of us are usually very rushed before an
outreach and secondly even though I knew the team well, they were all strangers
to each other. I wanted everyone to know each other and to know why we are on
this mission. What an amazing day just appreciating God's awesome creation!
The following morning we
entered into Zambia and met with Albert in Choma. From here we departed to our
campsite next to the amazing Lake Kariba at Kariba Bush Lodge near Maamba. It's
a beautiful place! The journey however took much longer than expected and we
travelled the whole day. We spend the evening fellowshipping with Albert and his
team and prayed with them. The next three days was show time! From morning till
evening we will do whatever we can to get these people saved and healed!
After breakfast we drove the
twenty odd kilometre gravel road to the church where we were to minister the
next three days. We were met by a crowd of singing and dancing people welcoming
us to their village. It was amazing to see the joy on their faces. Something
like this always humbles me especially if I think of my western hospitality. There
is just so much we can learn from each other!
Our first assignment was to
walk from house to house and pray for the sick, and sharing the Gospel to
whoever we meet. We split into two groups. The other group testified of many
healings they witnessed as they prayed for the people. Our group saw three
homes where we could share the Gospel and prayed for the people and bless their
homes. The first house, on the first day, one of the team, Frits, (who is a
businessman and farmer who were there more to support his wife than anything
else), asked if he could share something after I spoke to the people. I don't
know what it was but something happened when he opened his mouth. The Holy
Spirit filled it with words! The people just stood in awe as they listened to
his wisdom he was pouring out on them. His wife, Tanya, looked like a school
girl who fell in love the very first time! This is what I believe the "other"
purpose of every outreach is; that husbands will love their wives more and the
other way round and that the Love of Christ gets even more exposed through
every team member where ever they go, especially at home!
Before the outreach I prayed
together with a few friends for the outreach and the Lord showed Henk a vision
of a lady. I recorded what he said on my phone and I played it to the team on
the trip as well. We had to look for this lady and when we find her the Lord
will heal her and then all heaven will break loose! We knew she was very ill
and very thin because of malnutrition. We also knew the clothes she would wear
and that she was a lady of influence. So we had a mission, find this lady and
get her healed! The other team found her that morning as she was lying on her
bed for the last ten years. Her name is Martha. She was more than just thin as
she was not able to walk the last ten years. She tried everything she could to
get healed. I think she lost all hope. The team reported that she had flies all
over her as she just laid there waiting to die or finding some reason to live. The
team prayed for her and a smile came to her face as she was able to sit up for
the first time in years!
The arrangement I had with
the team is that France and myself will do most of the preaching and that the
team are part of the ministry team. So after the morning's excitement of
ministering from house to house, we gathered in the church for the afternoon
session. Without warning, Albert assigned Charmaine and Erna to minister to the
women. This was their first outreach and Erna only recently became born again!
Tanya and Frits were assigned to minister to the children and myself with
France and Danie were to stay and minister to the rest. Tanya has this
supernatural gift with children and she loves ministering to them. Only this
time she had her best friend and husband right by her side! They had such fun
ministering together and the anointing and blessing was just all over them!
Charmaine and Erna rose to the challenge and shared their testimony with the
ladies and then they prayed and laid hands on all of them. One woman who was
very much into witchcraft manifested a demon right there. Erna, being shy and
quite of nature, suddenly received a boldness from heaven and stood in her
authority in Jesus and casted the devil out of the woman leading to deliverance
and salvation! Also many got touched by the Holy Spirit and healed of their
illnesses. This as far as I know was also the first time Charmaine preached.
She did so well that throughout all the conference the ladies kept talking
about her preaching. One lady even gave her a live chicken! Now a chicken to
these people is wealth, it is their livestock! Unfortunately it was unpractical
to travel with a chicken so we had to give it back. With the other people I
laid the foundation for the rest of the conference by sharing the Gospel and
our identity in Christ. We also had opportunity to pray with the people. But
the blessing was to witness the level of boldness that the team stepped up.
They even took on witches when they casted out devils! They went full out!
That evening we had an open
air crusade. I asked France to share the evening service. France just went all
out and shared the heart of Jesus for his people. Many, I believe more than
hundred, became born again! One guy, who almost couldn't walk because of TB,
started dancing when the Lord healed him! It was just such a special day and I
believe a very solid foundation for the rest of the conference. I knew
something else had to break as witchcraft was still very visible in the area.
All of creation there, the trees, animals, everything had this dark glow to it.
It was very clearly the witchcraft displaying its power there. But the moment,
Jesus gets glorified in a place they have no power what so ever! Nevertheless the
team, especially the first timers, were very happy and joyful for what the Lord
had done!
The following morning I had
one mission and that was to find Martha, the lady I mentioned earlier who can't
walk for ten years now. Frits, Tanya and Danie went into a school to minister
there. Many teachers became born again and attended the rest of the conference!
When we came to Martha she was sitting up straight but still very weak and very
thin! The village were gathered all around us worshipping God. Charmaine is a
qualified person in the medical world and she made me feel Martha's knees. Martha
had no knees! It was only crumbs. Her legs and bone structure nearly destroyed
after ten years of lying down. She suffered from osteoporoses. There were also
no muscles to support her body. So I asked that some people pray for new bones,
others for muscle and others for healing and so on. Then as I felt her knees,
instantly God created two brand new knees for her! In my hands, crumbs turned
into bone! Her upper leg muscles also visibly started growing. As I saw this I
flipped! Charmaine helped Martha with a few basic stretch exercises and then we
helped Martha up. Then, for the first time in ten years she was walking! Her one
son was close by and he just burst out in tears. The people went mad as they
worshipped God! Erna and Charmaine took a short walk with Marta and then she started
dancing for the Lord almost two hours straight! Martha had another son who is
the goal keeper for the Zambian soccer team, and that's where her influence
come from that we saw in the vision prior the trip. Think about this; Jesus
knows Martha and He loves her so much that he told a guy in Pretoria about her
and a whole team of people went out looking for her because Jesus wanted to
touch her personally! After ten years lying on your bed not being able to do
anything, in one moment with Jesus, you get up and walk and dance! For the
first time in years she was able to take a bucket and walk the distance to
fetch water for her family. For the first time in years she was able to prepare
her family a meal. Jesus turned her life right side up within minutes!
After the miracle happened
with Martha another lady got carried in. She was also of old age and unable to
walk for many years. Again we prayed with the lady and the village
participated. After Charmaine did her stretching exercise, the lady got up and
walked! Again Erna and Charmaine took her for a walk, but after a while she
left the two young girls and started running! People were freaking out for Jesus!!!
Now two ladies who couldn't walk a few minutes before were dancing for Jesus
together! A third lady who also couldn't walk got carried in! She also had a
broken wrist which effected many other parts of the body with illness. We
prayed over a cloth and wrapped her wrist in it and gave her an invite to come
to the crusade that evening. Then we prayed for her to get up and the third
lady in minutes got up and walked! Unfortunately this lady we didn't see at the
crusade again to take the cloth of her wrist, but we saw her again the
following day and she was walking perfectly with a bucket of water!
For the afternoon session I
asked France to share to the leaders and get an outpouring of the Holy Spirit! Tomorrow
we will be gone, but the Holy Spirit will never leave them nor forsake them! People
need God way more than they need us! France took the stage and preached his
heart out. I got called outside by one of the pastors while France was
preaching. They asked me to go and pray for a young man that suffers from fits
or something. This was just a hundred meter or so away from the church. To be
really honest, this kind of annoyed me for I wanted to support France and then
after the service we will pray for all who needs it. But never the less I went
and prayed for the guy with my stinking attitude! Our God is just so much
greater than we can ever imagine and absolutely nothing can scare Him off! He
just ignored my attitude and healed the guy right there and then! Then the sick
just came from everywhere and everyone wanted prayer! Luckily a team member or
two followed me and we prayed for them. The sequence of events is a bit blurry
as it all happened very fast. The one lady testified later that there was
another guy lying on the floor and I told him to get up and walk, and he did!!!
She was so amazed at this and how easy miracles were happening that she took
her three year old boy of her back. This boy has NEVER walked in his life
before! I remember I saw the lady taking off her boy she was carrying on her
back. His right arm was paralytic. So I got on my knees and called the boy to
me. As he ran towards me I just hugged him and prayed for his arm, not knowing
that this boy has never walked in his life before! Jesus healed his arm and
legs! Then there was also a blind guy and we prayed for him. His vision started
coming back, so we prayed some more and it improved. I think we prayed about
four times for him and then he had complete sight in his eyes again! People were
worshipping and praising God like nothing before!
I decided it was time to get
back to the service where France was busy preaching. The Holy Spirit was at
work there! Many received the Holy Spirit that service and they also prayed in
tongues and were on the floor worshipping Jesus with eyes full of tears. We
also did many deliverance's on people there. The Kingdom of Light just
manifested there and it sends out a message to all that it is here to stay! It
was an extremely Powerful service! The expression on people's faces had to be
seen in order to get some sort of an idea what was happening in the Spirit
there.
The evening crusade I took
the stage. The spiritual realm was beyond chaotic! There was just no peace at
all! Many times when I preach and I don't know what the Lord wants to do, I do
not panic because every time He came through and gave me His message in the
worship or so. However this time He gave me nothing! I was standing with the
mic already and still had nothing! So I decided to call out words of knowledge
rather! So I called out a few people who struggled with certain illnesses and
asked them to stand. Now, feeling very bold still from this amazing day we had,
I said that they will be healed before the service is over. I will call them
later on and then we will see that it is God that heals and not us. In the
spirit though, I felt like I was being attacked from all sides! One of the team
members later on confirmed this as she saw dark figures throwing me with balls
of fire from all directions. The crowd sensed the restlessness and one lady
came to front towards me. She was screaming, but it was not her. It was a demon
screaming at me! Still overflowing with confidence from the days' miracles, I
took the mic and screamed back at her! I roared like a lion! :D The second I opened my mouth and roared, I
realised that this will not work at all. This demon likes the stage and wants
to put up a show for all to see. Some of the team must have sensed this and
they came and took the lady one side away from the spotlight and did a very
easy deliverance on her. I explained to the crowd what happened and shared
Jesus with them, hoping God will give me a message for them as I speak. Nothing
came! I just shared stories and prayed in my spirit. At one stage I told the
team in Afrikaans that they must get ready. I am just waiting for the shift in
the Spirit to come and then we will pray for the people.
Two ladies were also
standing in front of me. I think one was deaf and the other blind, but I cannot
remember! I prayed for them and the Lord healed them n front of the crowd, but
still there was no peace. This chaos continued for what felt like hours! Then
as I shared about the Holy Spirit the shift came! I explained to the pastors and
people what a fire tunnel is. It is when we (pastors) stand opposite each other
and form a tunnel. Now the people walk through this tunnel and we lay hands on
them for whatever it is they trust the Lord with. It can be healing,
deliverance, impartation, breakthrough or anything! The people walked through
and it started off quite peacefully I must say. Usually the Holy Spirit just "whacks"
the people and manifestations are very common with these fire tunnels. We do
not strive for manifestation. We pray by faith, not by sight! The reason I want
Holy Spirit manifestation is because when people see, they believe and they are
encouraged and their faith is much higher. Faith pleases God! The manifestation
is not the proof of anything but it simply stirs the faith!
And then it happened, a lady
carrying a baby on the back came through. France and I were the last in the
tunnel. Then just before she got to us she just took off the ground and came
flying through the air taking France with her through a speaker standing close
by. Luckily no one got hurt! I got scared! I am used to crazy manifestations
and I have seen quite a few of them, but women flying through the air with
babies on their back? This is a first! I really thought we will need to raise
the dead after this! Then as the people came through and then the pastors,
everything just exploded! I said to Albert that I am not guilty of this! He
just laughed! It then got to a stage where many people were just flying through
the air all over as the Holy Spirit moved literally through them. I saw
something similar in a DVD once about the Chinese church with Todd Bently where
the Lord literally walked through the crowd. People just collapsed! I had to switch
on my lamp to see what was busy happening. Groups of people getting smacked to
the ground all at once! It looked like they were fighting! But on closer
inspection all were laughing from their bellies and nobody got hurt at all!
I stood still at one stage
just observing what God is busy doing (and wondering if it really is Him!),
Albert came flying past me and he grabbed my arm. The moment he touch me I can
only describe as that moment your favourite sports team scores the winning
points in a world cup final; that instant overwhelming joy where everything in
you instantly react without you first evaluating the situation. This times a
million more joy is what I felt when he touched me! Then I knew that this was
beyond any doubt the Lord Himself. Could this have been a taste of the joy we
will experience constantly when we are in heaven? I just rejoiced and
worshipped Him! I think we as western civilisation are scared of what we do not
know or understand or cannot control. And I believe God doesn't want to give us
these things because He wants to be in control and He wants us to trust and follow
Him. It is scary, but I believe this is what God wants! He wants us to step
down from our own false thrones and sit with Him on His throne based on
righteousness and justice. He uses the foolish/simple things in life to shame
the wise. I had to make a conscious decision there that no matter what my level
of comfort or understanding is, I will not interfere with God's plans but rather
partner with Him in whatever He wants to do!
We only went home after
midnight that day, tired but full of excitement, thankfulness, Peace and joy
for what had happened. The following morning we headed back to church and started
with street ministry again. As we walked to a house we saw a lady lying on bed
also not able to walk for many years. She also had osteoporosis. God again created
new knees and muscles and she got up and walked! Two more stood up and walked
that morning! They were all dancing! Many other got healed from pain in their
bodies and sicknesses. We also did deliverance on few people setting them free
in Jesus name from bondage. Next door there was another guy who had asthma. He
was quite old. God healed his asthma as we prayed! He also had pain in his
groin and God healed it. As we were rejoicing, I noticed the cataract on his
eyes. When we prayed he received strike three for the morning as it disappeared
from his eyes and his vision was restored!
We had a short rest from the
forty degree plus sun and enjoyed lunch and a short nap. Then the afternoon
session started. France and Tanya ministered to the children that afternoon and
did many deliverances on the children who were bound by traditional spirits and
generational curses. They also prayed for all the kids to be filled with the
Holy Spirit! Although we had a very successful trip so far, the earth was
still bound by witchcraft. That darkness I explained in the beginning was still
clearly visible. I had something very specific I felt the Lord wanted to
accomplish here today. I started the session by just confirming our sonship in
Christ and the position He has restored us too. This is fundamental to just about
every aspect of our Faith. I felt that I wanted to take them as leaders into
the courtrooms of heaven (Psalm 82, Zechariah 3 and many more) to represent
their villages before the Lord. I believe the judgement of God brings freedom.
God judges through the Cross and looks at us as a new creation. In other words,
everything that is not you (depression, aggression, fear, condemnation
whatever!) gets taken away from you so
that the real you can be free! That's why we need to die in ourselves!
But before I could do this I
wanted to take them into the Spirit first and make sure they are connected with
the Holy Spirit. Revelation 22 speaks about a river of Life that flows from the
thrown of God. As I took them to that river, the Spirit got poured out on all
of them! I couldn't preach! The Holy Spirit took over and people were on their
knees weeping in front of the Lord. They drank from the river and got drunk
with the Great Holy Spirit. It was easy to see that these people had a very
real and very deep encounter with a living God that day! This went on for about
half an hour as they were praying, weeping and worshipping all the way! When
the Lord finished I could continue! (I LOVE it when God interferes!!!) Albert
then helped me to explain the court rooms to them. This was a new concept for
them but it's pretty simple and straight forward so everyone got it! We were
all in unity and ready for what we had to do! Revival will start with us as the
church when we get our acts together. With the church I mean us the people!
Revival starts with us, not the world! All of creation is in eager anticipation
for the revealing of the sons!
After we all went in for
ourselves, we went to the courtrooms together. The devil is the accuser, Jesus
is our Advocate, Father is our Judge and Holy Spirit helps us speak. This is
the basic! We prayed and asked Father what the accuser has against us. The devil
came and he accused the villages of idolatry and witchcraft. We then repented
on behalf of the villages for being guilty of these crimes. Now Father, please
judge us! We then waited for Jesus to handle the case for us and for Father to
give His judgement. I said that the Lord will show one of the main leaders a
picture or something n what His decision is. The one pastor then came forward
and said He saw Father handing us a clean sheet! We celebrated big time! I do
not know the full meaning of this but what I do believe is that witchcraft and idolatry
is completely destroyed in at least these eight villages! When we exited the
service that dark glance of death that covered everything was gone! Light was
shining everywhere!!! It was a physical sign that what we prayed for happened
and was very real! Jesus makes all things new!
That evening we had the Jesus
Film set up and showed it to the people. It is always a blessing to see the people
of the bush facial expressions as they relive the story as they see it. Some
cheer, others cry, sometimes they even warn Jesus or curse the Pharisees and
roman soldiers when the take Jesus! As
Jesus got lifted on the cross, we paused the film and France started preaching.
When he finished we wanted to pray for the sick. People were bundled up to
await their prayer. As the leaders stepped forward, the people flew to the
ground! The Holy Spirit took of where He stopped the previous night! People
fell to the ground in groups as the Lord moved through them. We were not even
touching the people at first. The moment we get in a meters range of them, they
flew to the ground! Again, nobody got hurt, but many got healed, delivered and
set free!
Then my attention was drawn
to a different kind of scream. This was demonic and I saw two pastors already
praying for the lady. I felt in my heart to go there. I stopped it all and the
demon through the lady pointed at another lady and screamed in perfect English
that she is hers or something. I asked the other lady what is the name of this person
manifesting and she said her name and that she was her cousin who is involved
with satanism. That was it. I asked her to leave. I then called the lady who
was manifesting by name and commanded the manifestation to stop. It immediately
did. I spoke to her normally then telling her that she knew exactly what was
going on and that the demons are mad at her. The only One that can help her is
Jesus. She must choose. She chose Jesus! She prayed after me a short prayer of
repentance and became born again. I think the prayer was maybe 5 minutes and
she was saved, delivered and filled with the Holy Spirit! I encountered 6 more
similar instances after her that night which proofed to me the courtrooms of
the afternoon was successful!!! The darkness lost ground and they had to come
and attempt to win their ground back. As the witches, sangomas, satanists and
who ever came in to bring destruction, Jesus won them for His Kingdom!
It was just such a Powerful
atmosphere. As we prayed for the people the presence of God became thicker and
thicker. I think we experienced part of what the disciples in Acts experienced
on the day of Pentecost. The disciples were drunk they confessed, but not drunk
with alcohol, meaning one can get drunk in the Spirit! I at one stage got so
drunk that I looked like a student on a Friday night. I almost couldn't stand
on my feet! The difference is drunkenness in the flesh leads to death, drunkenness
in the Spirit leads to Life! And the fruit from all that was there! People
experienced deep deep intimacy with their Father! Holy Holy Holy! After we all
prayed for each other we called people to testify. Many testified how the Lord
changed their lives including Martha! Then this lady who was in satanism and we
prayed for her earlier on came to bring her testimony. Now these things are
real, whether you want to believe it or not. I don't understand many things,
but I cannot limit reality and Truth to my small understanding! This is what
the lady testified: She is involved with satanism for many years now and
obtained many powers over the years. She physically lives in the Indian Ocean
and came from there to this meeting. She will turn herself into a snake and put
curses on people, killing at will. She said she killed more than a thousand
people. She will put curses on buses and then the people will die in an
accident or stuff like that. She challenges all the other people present there
that is involved with the occult, to repent and give their lives to Jesus!!! Now
the little that I know about these things through my experience working with
them, I know that you do not say these kinds of things over a microphone if you
are not free! They will kill you! It is just so amazing to me! A brand new born
again lady straight from satanism onto the pulpit preaching the Gospel to
hundreds of people!
All this so much reminded me
on how we need to leave our plans and ideas and just follow Jesus! The harvest
is so ready! I think we must not only pray for the labourers to get more, but
also that the few labourers that we are, that we will totally submit to Holy
Spirit and labour at the right places where He wants us! That we will be more
effective in what we do! This will be our most effective "game plan"
as the body of Christ! Jesus is going to save the world. It is still Jesus. It
always was Jesus and it will always be Jesus. Every knee shall bow and every
tongue shall confess His Lordship. To say Jesus is King, means that we do not
have the right to control!
The following day
unfortunately we had to greet all the people and we took the long road back
home. We slept in Livingstone one night as one of the vehicles lost its air-conditioning.
Erna, Charmaine and France never saw the Vic Falls before so I went with them
as the others looked at the car. It was amazing to see France's face as he saw
God in this and was in total awe of God's goodness and creation. The following
evening we slept at place close to Nata called Elephant Sands. Amazing place!
Just before we reached there we got stopped by police at a permanent check
point for meat products. We were guilty and forgot some of the meat! So we
lost some meat, BUT we were able to minister to all the police on duty there
that day! The Lord touched them with His amazing love and also healed those who
were sick! Then at Nata the elephants came within few meters from us! Herds and
herds of elephant that came to drink. It was just such an awesome way to end an
amazing outreach together! This outreach was filled with many personal
challenges for all of us, but it was amazing to see how each one of us grew in
the Lord.
This outreach was the biggest
revival I have witnessed to date! In our three days of ministry we planted four
churches and at least three sangomas with their families accepted Christ, which
will influence their entire village! Countless people got healed, saved and
filled with the Holy Spirit! We received invites from the main witchdoctors
that are appointed over many villages to go back there and minister to them and
have crusades there! This was the beginning of something new! Even as we left,
the number of churches, the number of villages and the number of sangomas that
got saved and multiplied. The work is just self expanding as the Holy Spirit is
doing the work! The future is in God's hands and He can do and change as He
pleases, but for now we are encouraged and focussed to reach all of these 600
villages and to plant some sort of physical structure there for generations to
come! We will start a base camp where we will equip the people with everything
we have and from base camp, they will go out and evangelise from village to
village. Evangelism, discipleship, church planting, church building, farming
Gods way are all terms and ideas that we have to reach these villages and
establish the Kingdom of heaven there for generations to come!
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