Hello,
These are the testimonies from Tuesday.
I met with As to talk about faithfulness. He had invited a man, the man who gave his heart to Jesus Sunday. I wanted to follow up and get As involved with the consolidation process. As we met we spoke of faithfulness and lining up with the system we have to work with. He agreed and we went off to see this man. We began to cover the consolidation process and talk about his decision from Sunday. This led right into the first week of the Pre-encounter book. The man sat with a blank stare for 15 minutes before he said" I have never heard these words you are speaking". This man is a barber and received a customer so we left and set a time to return later.
We then went to visit one of our new families. I call them B and Co. because B is the oldest of two brothers who have married two sisters. B is the father of 5 children. His wife, El and he have received Jesus as their Lord. Sister H just had a baby Sunday which was, to our knowledge, the purpose of our visit. God had another plan. Kathi had put together a new arrival basket with some baby clothes, diapers and misc. items we received from a local NGO. As we spoke with H I heard B from the other room. His wife, El said he was sick. I walked into the other room and he was sitting on the floor. He had been there all day. He could not stand or walk. He had no feeling in his legs. I picked him up and put him on the couch and got Kathi and As from the other room. We prayed for healing to his legs and body and suddenly he stiffened out like a board and yelled. Then he went limp and began to cry. I helped him up and asked if he could walk he said it was better but he still could not feel his feet. We prayed again and we laid hands on the bump on the back of his neck. This time as we tried to walk he started weeping and praising Jesus. He was bending his toes under and back checking in grateful amazement at his healing. I asked him if he was ok and he said ok, ok praise Jesus! His children were all right there watching the whole thing.
As, who was beside himself with excitement, noticed B had two pictures on the wall that glorified Islam. As asked me if he could recommend they be taken out and I said yes. He told B that was a false God and there was only room for one God in the house. B, WALKED, over to the pictures saying" there is only one God in this house and He is Jesus" and took the pictures out of the house to the firewood pile. On his own two feet.
One of the other stops we were going to make was to see Sh, the man who Jesus appeared, uninvited, to last week in his house, and told him to "come to Me!" We were stopping by our house to drop off Kathi and Sh was standing in front of our house and asked if we would walk with him. We started back to meet with S, the man who received Jesus Sunday, and I told As to share what he just saw at B's. As was so excited he couldn't walk and talk at the same time so we stood in the alley while As told of the healing he had just witnessed. Sh's eyes grew large and he was getting excited as well.
We, the 3 of us, went to S and started to finish the pre-encounter lesson when S said" I hope someday I can tell people what you are telling me now". We said "YOU CAN! I explained that it was ok to make mistakes when sharing and he would learn on the way. Did I mention S is a barber with a large clientele? S was like a bottle that had just been un-corked, much like As, he started asking questions and praising God and looking for life change in his own life. This was exciting to me as he never understood the relationship with God but was willing to believe.
Last Sunday we had 2 visitors who couldn't make it to church due to a death in the family, one family, representing 3 adults and 5 children, who were unable to come because one was having a baby. We had some of the regulars who couldn't come. We had 3 people sitting on the floor plus 14 children in the downstairs children's ministry and 4 in the nursery. We only have 24 chairs, please pray.
The shifting that was prophesied, by Prophetess Jenny Ntia, while we were there in America is happening here NOW! And we believe it's only begun.
Please pray. We need more chairs! Praise God!
We looked and are checking on a larger building here in Gjakova for our meetings. We have one in our sights but we want God's perfect one.
We need a new van(s)to transport people to church with their children.
Pray for the release of God's finances there and here. We know He is bringing in the harvesters and as Pastor Jim always said "God's will God's bill".
Blessings,
Al and Kathi
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