Vrydag/Friday, our close neighbour and one of the local religion’s leaders, gave the following glowing testimony about a recent 40 day religious-house to religious-house visit. This a traditional “preaching” spree of the local eastern religion and used to be the time when the preachers/leaders/priests talked about all the laws and must-do’s of their religion. Now, since Vrydag has learned the Truth, he continues to go on these visits, BUT listen to what he is teaching now (translated from a recording):
“[In a nutshell], we told (informed) the people the Way of God. That He forgive us our sins because of the Redeemer. We start by telling them about God and that He made everything and that He made it good. He created everything in 7 days. Truly we did not know this!
“The people that we tell this, do not reject it! They like to hear the truth very much! We told the story of Josef and they like to listen very much. People from (a district far from here) are coming to buy a [translated part of Scripture] book because they like to hear the Word of God.
“We visited 13 (religious houses) during the [preaching tour]. We stayed 3 days in each place. We did not preach at night – we slept then (as was traditionally done)! We preached during the afternoons after the prayer times. The people [who came to pray] stay to hear. They used to sit in a circle around us and listen to what we preach. Sometimes they sit until the next prayer time, especially on Fridays. Many people would listen, men, women, children. They like it very much.
“We start in Genesis from the beginning and continue until we get to the Saviour. We even continued [during this last preaching tour] until the war with Satan [in Revelations]. The people listened closely to everything.
“We have not met anyone that has rejected the Truth. People like to hear what God says. He speaks to us. Before we only heard about God in A. [religious language known by very few Mwinika] and we did not understand it. Now we can hear it in our own language! When we told them how God made the earth and everything in eMwinika, they were very surprised and happy to hear it. We did not know any of this, but now because we can hear it in our own language, we know about God and about ourselves.”
“Before [you came] we did not know, we just did not know the Truth. Now, truly, I believe that our sin is forgiven because of the Saviour! Without this believe in the Saviour, you cannot come to God. Without the Saviour we are dying. We are dying then very much. This is terrible and dangerous. Now the Mwinika people are beginning to hear and to understand.”
Praise Him! And in this… “You [are] also helping together by prayer for us “ 2 Co 1:11a
Thank you for praying for the Mwinika people and few new believers.