BurningforJesus
05-15-2003, 09:12 AM
Praise the Lord!!
[COLOR=blue]Praise the Lord, bro and sisters!! We run a few Home Friendship Group Nights at our church and I am very involved with the one that has three deaf people coming so far. For the past six months we have been praying for a deaf/blind man to want to come to these nights and last night he did!!! Not only did he come but he opened up and told the people there how he was feeling and how he wanted a better life. I was unable to attend as I had a family issue which is going to be in the prayer requests soon.. But I am told that our Jesus was moving in a mighty way. There is a lady going there who I have known for some months now, she is also deaf and the change in her is so fantastic it is hard to discribe!! She has been so hurt in her life and like a lot of us has had so many disappointments that she had put up layers and layers of protection. But with the love and patience that comes from the people in our church because of the Lord's love, those layers are slowly being stripped away. Because of her limited understanding of church words it has been a slow time of getting her to understand what the bible says about repentence, Baptism in Jesus name and being filled with the Holy Ghost. She has had no teaching on anything like that. Now, last night she told my sister in the Lord that she wanted to repent. She has already been talking about baptism but she needed the repentence first. I am praying for her big time.
The other two deaf people in the church are beautiful people. The Lord has done such a work in them. They are now married, repented of their sins and baptised in the wonderful wonderful name of Jesus, and last night all who were there were praying to get the Holy Ghost. It must have been wonderful. I know when I got told about it this morning it was something I needed right there and then. A word of encouragement from the Lord. How great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
But that is not all..... We have had interpreters come to these meeting too. Our funds through the interpreting service ran out a while ago and there is one lady who loves coming to all the things to interpret. So now she has volunteered her services and she goes home refreshed and ready for another hectic day the next day. I am looking forward to her being a born again beleiver soon and very soon!!! Things are really happening here in Canberra (Australia), and it hasn't finished yet!!!!! I could go on more but I will have to start another thread.
Burning.
[COLOR=blue]Praise the Lord, bro and sisters!! We run a few Home Friendship Group Nights at our church and I am very involved with the one that has three deaf people coming so far. For the past six months we have been praying for a deaf/blind man to want to come to these nights and last night he did!!! Not only did he come but he opened up and told the people there how he was feeling and how he wanted a better life. I was unable to attend as I had a family issue which is going to be in the prayer requests soon.. But I am told that our Jesus was moving in a mighty way. There is a lady going there who I have known for some months now, she is also deaf and the change in her is so fantastic it is hard to discribe!! She has been so hurt in her life and like a lot of us has had so many disappointments that she had put up layers and layers of protection. But with the love and patience that comes from the people in our church because of the Lord's love, those layers are slowly being stripped away. Because of her limited understanding of church words it has been a slow time of getting her to understand what the bible says about repentence, Baptism in Jesus name and being filled with the Holy Ghost. She has had no teaching on anything like that. Now, last night she told my sister in the Lord that she wanted to repent. She has already been talking about baptism but she needed the repentence first. I am praying for her big time.
The other two deaf people in the church are beautiful people. The Lord has done such a work in them. They are now married, repented of their sins and baptised in the wonderful wonderful name of Jesus, and last night all who were there were praying to get the Holy Ghost. It must have been wonderful. I know when I got told about it this morning it was something I needed right there and then. A word of encouragement from the Lord. How great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
But that is not all..... We have had interpreters come to these meeting too. Our funds through the interpreting service ran out a while ago and there is one lady who loves coming to all the things to interpret. So now she has volunteered her services and she goes home refreshed and ready for another hectic day the next day. I am looking forward to her being a born again beleiver soon and very soon!!! Things are really happening here in Canberra (Australia), and it hasn't finished yet!!!!! I could go on more but I will have to start another thread.
Burning.