Poured Out – Part 2
These are the events of November 14, 2014 written for God’s Glory.
Thomas and I walked away from our first family visit and walked through a scorched field. They set fires to help with the new growing season. We came across another home, a mud-brick home that had a thatched roof with a thatched roof place of meeting. The grounds have been well kept, swept every morning, so the African dirt looks smooth. It’s a beautiful home. When we arrive a young mother of about 20 is nursing, there are four kids probably around the ages 14, 12, 6, and 4. There are also two men about my age or just a little younger. They speak only their native Tonga language, so Thomas introduces us and tells me I can start. ‘Holy Spirit what do you want to say here?’ I share a little of my testimony and how Christ’s love has changed my life. I open my Bible and my eyes are drawn to ‘The Sign of Jonah’ at Luke 11:29-32. So I begin to explain the Scripture as best I can and Thomas translates/helps fill in the blanks. By this time the baby is snoring in its food coma. In the moments when Thomas is translating I’m listening to the Holy Spirit and what He is speaking. I felt like He was calling the man on the left a man of prayer and the one on the right a man of patience. After we feel like the Holy Spirit was finished with teaching I asked if they had any questions. The two men wanted prayer for God to bring them the woman that would be their wife. God has such a sense of humor having me pray what I desire most over them. I was excited to bless them. And the man on the right also wanted prayer for his anger issues. I bound up anything demonic and cast it out then blessed him with more of Jesus’ love. As we walked through their fields on the way out this man is walking with us and I declare over him that he is a man of patience from now on. He received it and thanked us as we walked on. Jesus declared Peter a rock when he wasn’t, but he did eventually walk in his identity. God calls everyone and everything into their identity, ‘let there be light and there was light.’ In the same way, we who are filled with the Holy Spirit have the ability to call people and things into their identity when the Holy Spirit prompts us to. Praise the Lord, He is good! 🙂
