Praise report from Makindu:
God is good and always faithful. A baby was dumped on an old widow here and her mother ran away. This happened very recently. The mother happened to be a granddaughter of the widow and so the widow naturally took charge of the child. But this great grandchild was sick and malnourished. The widow brought her to the service and asked for prayers and anointing on behalf of the child. But the faith of the widow did not take over and she took the child to the hospital, for the wounds to be attended. But at the hospital, the doctors refused to treat the child and expelled the old widow from the hospital. She came back to prayer meeting and requested prayer for the child again. She had nowhere else to turn but to God this time. Praise the Dear Lord. Within a few days the child was healed of her wounds (it looked like boils, combined with worms and malnutrition, to us). The next Sunday service was a day of joy in the congregation for such a wonderful deed from the Lord.
Then soon after that, another lady was ill. She had been healed directly by the Lord on another occasion before. But this time she chose to go to the hospital. At the hospital, they charged her so much that she was unable to pay. So she came to our house and asked for prayer. At first, we did not feel like the Lord would heal her since she had chosen the doctors initially,* but after her persistence and weeping, we knew she had repented and the Lord would have mercy on her. So we prayed and anointed her. She left and later testified that she was healed instantly (she had been bleeding profusely). It is really wonderful to see how the Lord blesses and encourages.
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." Psalm 118:8
*It is the desire of the Lord to heal all of those that come to Him in faith, but He also sees the motives of our hearts and may withhold mercy if we are asking selfishly, and not humbling our hearts before Him. Consider James 4:3. Other Scriptures on healing from God: Malachi 4:2, Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 6:12-13 & James 5:14
Friday, February 17, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Interior Work
Brother Lawrence has sent a few more pictures of the interior work this past weekend:
Glory to God for another moment to praise and thank Him. We had a blessed service with several visitors today, despite the wet floor and the wet cement on the walls.
The plastering of some parts of the walls is going on while we await prayerfully to be able to fix the pipes that house the electric wiring. The doors are being welded and should be ready by the middle of the week.
God has been so good to us. We praise and glorify His name. Without His favor, we can do nothing. We are praying the Lord for funds for electric wiring and the completion of the latrines, etc. But with grateful hearts, we are going on.
Glory to God for another moment to praise and thank Him. We had a blessed service with several visitors today, despite the wet floor and the wet cement on the walls.
The plastering of some parts of the walls is going on while we await prayerfully to be able to fix the pipes that house the electric wiring. The doors are being welded and should be ready by the middle of the week.
God has been so good to us. We praise and glorify His name. Without His favor, we can do nothing. We are praying the Lord for funds for electric wiring and the completion of the latrines, etc. But with grateful hearts, we are going on.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
He shall establish
Brother Lawrence has sent an update on the building progress today:
Praise the Dear Lord!! He is good and faithful and will never leave nor forsake His children, as He promised. Now the building work has started again... The gaps on the walls have now been filled and the walls are ready for plaster. Glory to God. The floor work has already begun and has progressed some. It should be finished this week, if the cement will be enough, but we are going at the speed the Lord allows us to go at. He has done so much for us, we are grateful and happy. He has taken us so far, actually farther than we can be able to describe in words. Glory to God for all His love and mercies. The outside doors have been ordered and are being welded. We have to use metal doors because of the white ants which eat timber. (Our timber is not treated well enough and these ants here would have a feast). The Lord has been so good to us. Praise His holy name!
These children are excited after the Sunday service. Everyone is grateful and happy as they see the answers to prayers for the building to be finished.
God's purposes are wonderful. They are worth waiting on. Worth suffering for and meditating on. That's because God cares much more about the process and the built-in qualities than the external results. Truly, He works to establish us in Himself.
We start out simply with "raw materials."
It is the wise builder who sees the full potential. As we face the trials and testings of our faith, I am blessed to consider God's purpose: "But the God of all grace, who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." (1 Peter 5:10)
The work on flooring the Bible Center gives us a view of this spiritual process at "the ground level:"
To provide a solid foundation for the cement, the "hardcore" is laid first. Each piece is put in place and beaten level.
A good example of Ephesians 4:2: "with lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love." No place to get edgy under pressure or exalt oneself...
After the hardcore is pressed firmly together, a wheelbarrow runs down the plank and dumps its load of murram...
Pressed and smothered? It's time to be looking at the heavenly perspective - "For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." (1 Cor. 1:26)
Loading and spreading the murram to give a smooth surface for the concrete mix.
When individual identity is forgotten, and God's will alone matters... that's where the work of God can really begin. "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things, and things which are despised... that no flesh should glory in His presence." (1 Cor. 1:27-29) Praise Him!
Note: advertizement links under photos come from KeepandShare and have nothing to do with this blog.
Praise the Dear Lord!! He is good and faithful and will never leave nor forsake His children, as He promised. Now the building work has started again... The gaps on the walls have now been filled and the walls are ready for plaster. Glory to God. The floor work has already begun and has progressed some. It should be finished this week, if the cement will be enough, but we are going at the speed the Lord allows us to go at. He has done so much for us, we are grateful and happy. He has taken us so far, actually farther than we can be able to describe in words. Glory to God for all His love and mercies. The outside doors have been ordered and are being welded. We have to use metal doors because of the white ants which eat timber. (Our timber is not treated well enough and these ants here would have a feast). The Lord has been so good to us. Praise His holy name!
These children are excited after the Sunday service. Everyone is grateful and happy as they see the answers to prayers for the building to be finished.
God's purposes are wonderful. They are worth waiting on. Worth suffering for and meditating on. That's because God cares much more about the process and the built-in qualities than the external results. Truly, He works to establish us in Himself.
We start out simply with "raw materials."
It is the wise builder who sees the full potential. As we face the trials and testings of our faith, I am blessed to consider God's purpose: "But the God of all grace, who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." (1 Peter 5:10)
The work on flooring the Bible Center gives us a view of this spiritual process at "the ground level:"
To provide a solid foundation for the cement, the "hardcore" is laid first. Each piece is put in place and beaten level.
A good example of Ephesians 4:2: "with lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love." No place to get edgy under pressure or exalt oneself...
After the hardcore is pressed firmly together, a wheelbarrow runs down the plank and dumps its load of murram...
Pressed and smothered? It's time to be looking at the heavenly perspective - "For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." (1 Cor. 1:26)
Loading and spreading the murram to give a smooth surface for the concrete mix.
When individual identity is forgotten, and God's will alone matters... that's where the work of God can really begin. "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things, and things which are despised... that no flesh should glory in His presence." (1 Cor. 1:27-29) Praise Him!
Note: advertizement links under photos come from KeepandShare and have nothing to do with this blog.
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