Light Reveals That Sin Is Present…

There is something to say about the Christian life that those in the secular world cannot comprehend, when truth is being revealed for the first time it brings a joy to ones heart and they feel immediately different. Being here and experiencing it first hand, is rather amazing if we can be honest. There is never a day off, where Satan is not trying new ways to win people over and shoot a fiery dart long distance to try and cripple someone. But we have noticed that as we teach, encourage, and love on people they see that God’s Word is true freedom. They relate it to carrying a heavy backpack over many mountains, and once they confess and repent, they feel like they can skip as they cross the mountains because the backpack has been removed.

Seth has been training the men that sin has consequences, and that we as leaders need to be like doctors to help remove sin from peoples lives and make them whole again (restore them). As Seth and one of the local pastors were counseling a man and his wife, Seth was training the pastor that sin has layers, and touches more than one area of a person’s life. As the conversation progressed, after many questions, the man they were counseling said, “The chiefs dealt with my sin and I paid the price for my sin. I felt okay, but I felt like it was pitch-black and they were looking into my life like looking into a house, but they were just outside looking in through a window. But now you guys came, I feel refreshed, I feel fellowship, you used God’s Word, you pursued my heart, you came into my house and brought the strongest flashlight you had and checked every part of my life for sin. You did that not to judge me, but to show me where all the dirt was so I can clean it up and get right with God, thank you uncle”… (He calls Seth uncle). Please pray for this couple, Cho and Martha that they continue to grow in their relationship with God and with each other.

Bible School Student: Pattison

Bible School Student: Kevin

Bible School Student: Isaiah

Bible School Student: Francky

Time and time again we have seen the truths of God’s Word penetrate the hearts of the people, we even had a chief come to us and say, “How Christians talk and how those who are not Christians talk is totally different, it would just be better and easier if everyone was a Christian”. Here is another amazing story of how God’s Word penetrates hearts, Seth and the four Bible school students were going through Ephesians 5 and learning that there are no clauses or exceptions to how husbands ought to treat their wives. Whether she makes you happy or not you ought to love her just the same. Immediately after hearing these truths, the eldest of the four students stood up and said, “You two who are not married have a chance to go on the right path before you start, us two who are married started wrong, we have been on this road for years, going the wrong way, we now have to fix our path, we never heard these truths before, now we know them, now we have to follow them. You two… don’t be like us and start wrong, we didn’t know, now I have to go and fix my road”. God’s Word in itself is amazing and powerful, it is a light in the darkness, it leads us on the right path, and it will make us look different in a good way, if we let it. Praise God that He is all we need, He is enough, we are so thankful it does not depend on us.

Studying & Hard at Work

Your feet to the unreached, Seth & Nicole Stokes