A friend from Minnesota wrote a letter recently asking me what to tell a young woman whom he's been ministering to...
This woman is a schoolteacher who lives in Togo, West Africa. Her family has begun to persecute her and show hatred towards her for giving her life to Christ. She comes from a family of witches and, according to my friend, both of her parents and her sister are high ranking village witches.
He is in contact with this "sister" via e-mail. After some prayer the Lord gave me Matthew 5:43-46 and Matthew 10:34-36. I told Mark that he needs to tell her to pray for those family members, that they get "saved" and delivered. Prayer changes things and God can soften any heart.
The above passages from the Gospel of Matthew deal with being hated, even by family members, for following Jesus. The Lord says we are to love our "enemies," to do good to them, and to lift up each one in prayer.
He will e-mail all this back to her. And I know that this dear sister in Christ will overcome because "Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4).
D.B.
He is in contact with this "sister" via e-mail. After some prayer the Lord gave me Matthew 5:43-46 and Matthew 10:34-36. I told Mark that he needs to tell her to pray for those family members, that they get "saved" and delivered. Prayer changes things and God can soften any heart.
The above passages from the Gospel of Matthew deal with being hated, even by family members, for following Jesus. The Lord says we are to love our "enemies," to do good to them, and to lift up each one in prayer.
He will e-mail all this back to her. And I know that this dear sister in Christ will overcome because "Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4).
D.B.