Updates on Sugar Village

This past week we went to Sugar Village and met with Christopher and Elizabeth. We asked Elizabeth about her legs because a few months ago they had been healed during a worship night we had in Sugar village. After that, the pain slowly started coming back. 

She informed us that the pain was back and that she was going to go to the witchdoctor. Apparently she had been to the clinic and there was nothing they could do for her and she has been prayed over a number of different times so she believes that the sickness must be dealt with by a witchdoctor. She believes someone has put a curse on her and so whatever is in her legs needs to be taken out by the witchdoctor. 

We abandoned our plans of discussing the Lord's Supper and spent a very long time talking about binding and loosing from Matthew 16. We also talked about only serving one master and choosing between Jesus and the witchdoctor. She didn't seem ready to make a decision about just following Jesus because it is so culturally acceptable to dabble in whatever works... and the pain in her legs hadn't left. 

Memory, one of our Zambian coworkers talked about Shadrach, Meshack, and Abendago and how they trusted God even if He didn't rescue them. Her husband, Christopher, joined in and brought up the story of Job and how he always stayed faithful to God. Elizabeth agreed that she would only trust Jesus. Memory pressed her and asked that if we left her with money, would she take that and visit the witchdoctor the following day. She said she would make the decision not go to the witchdoctor. 

We then spent time in passionate, militant prayer over her. We prayed that any curses on her life would be bound in Jesus name and that the pain would be gone. After a while, we stopped and asked her how the pain was. She said the pain had moved from her knees to her hips while we were praying, so we prayed again. This time she said that the pain left her completely! Praise Jesus! We then prayed again to seal everything that happened and to pray against fear and pain creeping back into her life. The Lord is working in mighty ways to transform the lives of the people in that group. Please continue praying that their hearts would be open to a personal relationship with Jesus.