Friday, September 29, 2017

She's a beautiful young lady.  Has two children, 3 years old and 2 years old.  He's a handsome man.  Has a good job in Bamenda.  She finished her education after they married and while having the babies.  A year ago she began searching for a job.  A Christian lady she knows came to her one day and said "In four months God is going to give you a job."  A short while later her pastor asked if he could pray with her after the church service.  He felt God had given him a word for her.  Told her God was going to give her a job soon.  Later a strong Christian at her husbands work gave her a tract that talked about God giving us whatever we ask for.  And so it was when she came down to Yaounde one day and bumped into a Christian friend of theirs, and when that man asked what she was doing these days, and when she told him that she was done with her education and looking for a job, she was all primed and ready to fall into the trap the enemy of our souls had laid for her.  The friend offered her an exciting job on the spot.  It was in her field of training.  Came with a good salary.  She could start immediately.  And when she counted the time since the Christian lady had said "In four months God is going to give you a job," it had been exactly four months.  She returned to Bamenda, talked it over with her husband, even spent time praying.  Well mostly praising God for this fantastic answer to prayer.  And thus it was that she took their two little kids and moved down to Yaounde to start her wonderful new job.  An entire year has passed.  He in Bamenda and she in Yaounde, they pray all the time that God will keep them true to their marriage vows.  They are trusting God to fortify them.  And as often as they can (not nearly often enough) one or the other makes the six hour drive to visit the other.  

And then God brought her to Shiloh.  And there was Mama Alice.  And what a time we've just had looking into the Word of God to see what He has to say on the subject.  The tears flowed as she realized for the first time that she is in direct violation of God's plan for marriage.  In God's good plan, she arrived at Shiloh about an hour before her husband.  And Mama Alice spent every moment of that hour teaching her deep truths from God's Word.  Not this "In four months God..." nonsense.  Mama Alice doesn't mince words.  If you don't want to hear the truth, better you go somewhere else.  Shiloh is not for you.

It's for people like this that Shiloh exists.  This is why we keep on keeping on no matter what the enemy throws at us.  It is our deepest joy to be able to be used by our Father to impact people for the Kingdom. What a high honor is ours. 

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