Miracles on the
Basket Ball Court
5 of 5 23 March
2013
Apart from a few prayer stops for the sick along the way, we
also got to share to group of ten elderly Catholics who all gave their lives to
Christ. Then onto our last outreach before heading back home. This last venue was
in a Muslim fishing village. There was a basket ball court set back a way’s
with surrounding benches and a busy billiard hall adjoining. A basket ball
competition was about to begin so there was a reasonable crowd with officials set
up with their judge’s tables already. Again no small surprise when our white
four wheel drive pulls right up inside the court, we deploy probably looking
something like well rehearsed Special Forces leaving a Blackhawk as in seconds
disco music is powering out and whatever they feel about the intrusion they
seem to like the music.
I saw Jesus Christ
the Son of God
We do not have long so I start to speak with Vennie interpreting.
I humbly ask for just a few minutes please as I explain why I am there and that
I have a very important message for them to hear. I tell them how at the
darkest hour of my life Jesus the Son of God appeared to me and showed me my
sin. If it was Buddha that appeared I’d be a Buddhist today, if it was the Pope
I’d be a Catholic, If it was Mohammed or Allah I’d be a Muslim. But it wasn’t any
of those it was Jesus Christ the Son of God. I share that my greatest sin, a
sin so evil in the eyes of God it alone could send me to hell. How that my
greatest sin is also their greatest sin today – The sin of SELF WILL, You can
always see the shock on the hearers faces when you explain that self will is
like telling God He’s not God, you are god, and that its idolatry and God hates
it, further, that there will only be one God in heaven and since it’s not us then
where will spend eternity for a life time of acting like we are god?
I cover that Christ born of a virgin is the cure that God
has offered for our selfishness and our sin. “Will you today accept Gods only
son, Gods only cure or will you reject him”? Many of these grown men raise
their hands at the invitation and ask Christ to forgive their sins and to come
into their lives.
God will Prove We Are
Telling The Truth – He will Heal You
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| Pain in the chest for 2 years - Could not take a deep breath Jesus totally healed him |
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| Instantly healed of cataracts |
Just as I think I’m done, my line is all prayed for and the
girl’s line is about finished also. For some reason Vennie brings a gentle old
lady to me and asks if I will pray with her. I’m puzzled but don’t ask why as
we always want the people we are praying for to know that we care about them
and they are more than just numbers in a prayer line to us. I ask if she
understands me, she does, I ask what’s wrong and she replies “cataracts, I can
hardly see”. We say a little prayer and she smiles, saying “I can see perfectly
now thank you very much and reaches out to shake my hand”. I ask Jun to check
her in case we have misunderstood each other – She reaffirms, “I can see
perfectly now, thank you very much”. As we are packing up to leave she comes
again to shake my hand and looking me clearly in the eye repeats her thank you.
You can still sense a degree of shock in the atmosphere that
Christians would just drive not only into their community but right where they
are about to have a basketball competition and challenge them to decide “Do you
believe we are telling you lies or is it possible God has sent us to tell you
the story of Jesus today”? One lady said to one of the team “Why did you not
tell us you were coming as many further back in the village would have liked to
hear this today – Next time. Two hours later we are back in our rental.
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