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I just heard from a sister who went to Zambia how the people there all believe in God & the bible but they just want someone to show them what it says! Get a bible out and you get mobbed!
The opposite happens in England.
2 assemblies started while they were there, 44 baptisms & infilled with the Holy Spirit & they spent the rest of the time visiting the 22 fellowships, teaching them basics on how to run meetings. They have a few cultural ideas about men not sitting with women, the women not being able to read & other gods etc, the report made me wish with I'd gone . . . but apparently we have 2 trips/year so I hope to be at the next one.
(you have to have injections and the diet is pretty basic .. chicken & rice, or chicken & rice . . though someone gave them a load of land to grow veg).
We think Africa is poor and with a poor standard of living & life expectancy - BUT look at it from God's perspective and WE live in a spiritually poor, dark country with all kinds of spiritual disease and death!!
(diseases:- hard-heartedness, willing ignorance, unbelief, selfishness, loving material things & silliness instead of wanting to know what God offers)
Ezekiel had the same:-
:3:5: For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
. . . Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
:7: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
:8: Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
:9: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
The opposite happens in England.
2 assemblies started while they were there, 44 baptisms & infilled with the Holy Spirit & they spent the rest of the time visiting the 22 fellowships, teaching them basics on how to run meetings. They have a few cultural ideas about men not sitting with women, the women not being able to read & other gods etc, the report made me wish with I'd gone . . . but apparently we have 2 trips/year so I hope to be at the next one.
(you have to have injections and the diet is pretty basic .. chicken & rice, or chicken & rice . . though someone gave them a load of land to grow veg).
We think Africa is poor and with a poor standard of living & life expectancy - BUT look at it from God's perspective and WE live in a spiritually poor, dark country with all kinds of spiritual disease and death!!
(diseases:- hard-heartedness, willing ignorance, unbelief, selfishness, loving material things & silliness instead of wanting to know what God offers)
Ezekiel had the same:-
:3:5: For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
. . . Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
:7: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
:8: Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
:9: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
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