Wow! Hello to everyone in the States and outside the states I suppose...
I cannot believe that it is already almost Thanksgiving! I was reading through my journal last night and it was talking about how tehre are "only 6 1/2 weeks left" and now, it is almost the end of November with only about 2 1/2 weeks left in India and this time next month it will be Christmas day! Wow!
Those things are fun to think about with all the excitment of returning and seeing people who we have missed for these 5 months, but we are still here in India and I am eager to see what the LORD has for us in this last chapter of our story here....
We have been here in Neyveli for about one month now, and I think the last i shared with you all we had JUST arrived.
So, since then... we have experineced some AMAZING things, just on Monday, a woman--a church believer, whom the whole team prayed for in her house, came to show us God's power and grace. She was in REALLY bad shape last week, maybe Friday night, I'm not sure when we went to this village, she was in really bad conditions. She could sit up only because she was leaning back on something, she hadn't eaten or drank anything in about 3 days, and she just looked like she was in a mess of pain. The whole team went to her house after the outreach, and prayed for her. After we prayed she took some water, but she still looked VERY bad..... I had the thought, wow, she might die tomorrow. BUT the LORD had other plans, because on Monday, while the other 6 of the team was out on our free day, Tonya and I were at the house (which means we were at the church, because that's where we live) and this woman strolls in with a heavy bag being balanced on her head, COMPLETELY FINE. She came with another church believer we prayed for thaqt woman's illness, and then we prayed and thanked our God for the mighty healing work He did in her life and body. After we prayed, we were just praising God-- "Stotrum, Stotrum," this woman said with her arms raised and waving in the air. The God that we serve is a mighty and powerful and loving God who restores and gives life!
That is just one of the things that God has done, actually... funny story, but very serious at the same time. Last night we were having our "Team Time", one of the principles that S.E.N.D. practices to make sure that we are keeping each other a priority, so we were you know playing telephone and sharades, when the Pastor walks in with about 5 other people and a young woman who looks like,
1- she is ill, or
2- she is demonized
She definetely was not sick, so we stopped our team time to pray for this woman and experienced for our second time a woman being set free. 2 demons came out of her, but they are all not gone yet. See, what happened is that when a family member of a household dies (as did her 97-year-old Chrisitan grandmother, who we prayed for the same night as the woman mentioned above, on Monday), they ask the spirit of that person to come into their body, in doing that they open themselves up for evil spirits to come in. We prayed that the LORD would cover us with His blood and got to sing some songs to worship our King, because where Light is darkness CANNOT be, the family left, and we went back to our team time.Life in South India man, it's crazy. I think what astounds me second to the power and authority of the name of Jesus is the work He has done in our team that He has prepared us for that, and it wasn't super crazy, comparatively, but He has just established our steps and everyone just thanked and praised and glorified God for who He is. You know, it wasn't until we started praying boldly the name of JESUS over that woman that anything really changed, but in that instant of praying JESUS, that spirit knew who was in charge... there are many stories, but all in all I can wrap it up in the fact that God is powerful and He will be glorified and He has a PERFECT plan, and I need to know and understand that His ways are higher than mine, and trust in Him.
We are leaving Neyveli early on Sunday morning to head WAY up to Bejipur for the last leg of our trip. We will be there for about 6 days, and then we head back down south to Thiruvannamalai where it all began to say our goodbyes to our friends and new found family, and fly out of Chennai on the 12th of December at 2:05am our time.
Thank you for your love and prayers and suport, and know that I am EXCITED to come back and share what the LORD has done over these past months with whoever wants to hear. All glory to God!
Please join with us in prayer this last leg for:
-Unity within Mike and I and the team
-Perseverence to SPRINT the last 3 weeks of the trip
-the remaining $2,000.00 to come in that we may continue to have what we need to finish here
-continued pouring out of God's heart to us for eachother and the people of India,
Stotrum (Praise the LORD),
In Jesus,
Liz
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