…When you teach I will come and I will listen good and if I don’t get it you better sit down and explain it clearly …
Each day in class we have the privilege of holding the ropes of prayer for our brothers and sisters ministering around the world. What a blessing it is to join in what God is doing through prayer. In one day we can have a hand or should I say two hands in the work that God is doing in multiple countries and even Continents. What a MIGHTY GOD we serve!
On Monday during HTR as we call it, we read an email from Tim Shontere sharing some stories from the Inanbimali and letting us know that the Chronological Teaching of God’s word would begin this Monday 1/21/2008 among the Inanbimali. Last Semester Tim sent us pictures of many of the Inanbimali to pray that the Lord would prepare their hearts for the teaching that began on Monday.
As they prepare for the teaching they have been talking with the people asking them where will you go when they die? Here are some of their answers. Is God preparing hearts or is God preparing hearts?!
My friend Momoin told me – “No one knows Na’anol (Tim) – my village name) – no one knows, that’s why we asked you guys to come. We see a difference up river where NTM worked before, but our heads are rocks. We hear little bits and pieces but nope, sorry, it does not fall into our heads, it falls on the rocks and goes back to the river.”
“You better tell me, as he started to cry, for 50 years I have been in darkness, in fear of the spirit in the fire cave over the mountain. I don’t know anything else. You white men, you don’t kill chickens to appease the dead ancestors when you get sick, why? We see a difference with you, but we have sat around the fire at night and we don’t know why, why, why? I will come to that teaching in two weeks and if you don’t tell me the answer ….well… you better tell me…. Because I don’t know, I just don’t know – I want to know, please tell me now, now I want to hear it now!”
My tribal uncle asked me, “Na’an – do you know where you will go if you were to die right now, I paused and then I said, yes. And he immediately looked down to the ground in shame and discomfort with some tears. When you teach I will come and I will listen good and if I don’t get it you better sit down and explain it clearly because there are 20 different ideas in the village of what happens when you die. No one knows. His eyes started to well up in tears, because I am an tribal leader and I should know but my father never told me, my father’s father never told him….and I can’t tell my son because I don’t know. But I will and you better make sure that I hear it good and know EXACTLY what God’s Mouth says.
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