\u201cInap mi bai toktok wantaim yu?\u201d (Can I talk with you?)<\/p>\n
Again this past Wednesday, I had my friend over for lunch\u2014the woman of faith I\u2019ve told you about before. She had been sick off-and-on this past week so I asked her if she had still wokim bung long ol meri (\u201chad the meeting for the ladies\u201d that she has every Saturday afternoon, as I\u2019d told you about before). She said she did but that she did all the singing and talking while sitting down, resting. All the ladies had told her that it was no good that she was sick because they loved hearing what she has to say. They all prayed for her then started with questions which led to her teaching for a while.<\/p>\n
The next day, she met a woman from another religion who had come with her friend to church after hearing so much about it and how it had changed her friend. After the service, some of the women told this visitor about my friend and how she taught women how to think as God wants them to, how to believe, how to submit to and behave towards their husbands, how to bring their heavies to God and how to think about them. Upon hearing this, the woman came up and asked my friend, \u201cInap mi bai toktok wantaim yu?\u201d My friend said she talked with this woman for over 2 hours right then and there! She asked many questions and God gave my friend the answers from her experiences and from Scripture. She was again thrilled at how God had used her to encourage and teach another. She said this woman seemed to have a heart understanding of all she shared but she wasn\u2019t sure if the woman is a believer. My friend says that at her women\u2019s meetings every week she has women from all different churches, denominations and religions there. Whenever she\u2019s asked what mission or church or ministry she works for, she answers, \u201cMi wokim long Bikpela God.\u201d (I work for God.)<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been reading through 1st and 2nd Corinthians this past week and talked with my friend about it. The young Corinthian believers were arguing because some said they belonged to Paul, some to Appollos, and some to Jesus. Paul corrected them reminding them that they are all saved only by grace through Jesus Christ and are now His ONE body and filled with His ONE Spirit and guided by Him. My friend just jumps beyond all objections that may be raised amongst the ladies of whom they belong to and jumps right into God\u2019s truth instead. The Gospel has a hearing through her because she\u2019s willing to see ladies and not just groups of beliefs or differences.<\/p>\n
Again I am humbled and challenged by her faith and readiness to drop everything for one God\u2019s placed in her life! A woman who can truly say with the apostle Paul, \u201cCome follow me as I follow Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cInap mi bai toktok wantaim yu?\u201d (Can I talk with you?) Again this past Wednesday, I had my friend over for lunch\u2014the woman of faith I\u2019ve told you about before. She had been sick off-and-on this past week so I asked her if she had still wokim bung long ol meri (\u201chad the meeting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tobi-magill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}