Psalm 107:1-3
1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD tell their story—
those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
3 those he gathered from the lands,
from east and west, from north and south.
Below is a portion of an email I received from a fellow missionary who is ministering among the Dao, a people group in Indonesia. Stories like this motivate us to continue doing what we can to take the Gospel to people who are isolated from it by their language, culture and geography.
We send it to you in hopes that you will fervently pray for the “least reached” peoples of the world and those who are committed to reaching them.
For more stories, go to http://www.ntm.org/news/
Jan & Cheryl Bast
NTBI—Waukesha
A ministry of New Tribes Mission
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Paatoma sang these words to a beautiful Dao melody along with his wife and the other believers that were gathered this morning.
“Jesus, our older brother. Jesus our older brother.
He opened the eyes of those that could not see.
Jesus, our older brother. Jesus our older brother .
He brought healing to those that were sick.
Jesus, our older brother. Jesus our older brother.
He brought sanity to those that seemed insane.
Jesus, our older brother. Jesus our older brother .
He gave life to those that were dead.
Jesus, He is our older brother.
Jesus He is our older brother “
“The Creator gave me that song while you were gone to America” [Paatoma] said to us later on. “It was His gift to me as a lay in my hut one night. I heard it sung to me in a dream as I lay sleeping. When I woke up in the morning and had realized what happened I sang it for all the others in my house. The Creator gave that song to me. It was His gift to me!” he continued on almost laughing with joy as he talked.
[T]aking a black writing pen and placing it on the floor in front of him Paatoma said, “We are like this dark colored pen, our hearts darkened from all our wrongdoings; God seeing that we have done wrong as He looks at us”.
Then Paatoma took a white piece of paper and placed it over top of the black pen so that it could no longer be seen. “Jesus is like this completely clean and spotless piece of paper place over top of the pen so that we can’t see it anymore. Because Jesus has covered over our wrong doings through his sacrifice on the crossed wood, now God sees us as clean and spotless in His sight because of what Jesus has done.”
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