Hey Everybody! I pray this blog finds you all richly blessed on this Thursday afternoon which is evening for me in fact around 10PM. It has been a challenging, but a blessed day. i learned many things and some of which i will share, but some were hard and brought more things to light with the state of spirituality in Cameroon, but first, I wanted to give you all an update on Carrie and Liz. First, of all, thank you for all of you for praying for Carrie. I got an update on her today and the doctors are in awe and shocked because she is doing well and with out a whole lot of complications. God is sustaining and strengthening her by His mighty hand and using her as a testimony of His strength. She is now up to her 14th treatment now and doing well. She is currently having really no major side effects from the large doses of KIMO she has to go through. The doctors are blown away because she is the first person to rich her 14th treatment, doctors said that most patients only been able to make it up to 10/11 doses. So please continue to be praying for her for your prayers are being heard and God is continuing to be glorified in all this. So again thank you! As for Liz she is was diagnosed with malaria yesterday afternoon. She was dealing with high fever which was reaching as high as 102 and then the high fever would turn to major chills that were so bad that she hurt every where. Today, was a different story! Today it really wasn't fever and chills, and looking like death warmed over, but now it was major fatigue and headache that would not stop throbbing. Every time she got whether it was slow or fast it felt like the back of her head was slammed up against the brick wall. i have been told that malaria can last 3 or 4 days so i pray that tomorrow God will allow her to feel like her chipper self. She is planning to go back to school to teach around 1:30PM. So please pray that God will heal her so she can return back to her students and to teach. If God's will to not heal her that He would provide her the strength to be able to teach or to have the wisdom to know that it is ok to rest. Well, those are the updates on Carrie and Liz. As for me it has been an awesome and a eventful day with Liz. Her refrigerator maybe going out because of the electrical problems they have been having in the apartment she is staying at and it may have fried the refrigerator, but not sure. Please pray for wisdom from God to be given to Wilbur the maintenance man who oversees the apartments that they figure out the polarity of the electrical and that there will be no need to but a new fridge and that it is just the polarity of the wiring. So she had to deal with this while she is trying to get over her malaria.
Also, today I was blessed with the opportunity to talk with the Heath family, they are Dan and Theresa Heath they are Bible translators here in Yaounde. They have been working with a people group that is about 3 hours north from Yaounde. They are one of the longest running translators still working on the translation of the Bible. They have been at it for 30+ years, their kids also went to RFIS and graduated from their. In fact i also found out that Patricia the one who i was to go for the dedication was actually 27years of working on that translation in Omaande. i have been richly blessed to hear about what goes into Bible translation. It is a long process, with lots of checks and rechecks. It is a process that involves not only the translators of Wycliff or any other translator ministry, but also a large involvement of the people and the leadership of the people i.e. the pastors of that region. It means developing a relationship with the people and living your life out to them. Also, here in Cameroon there is a lot of corruption and many of the pastors that Dan and Theresa deal with don't want the Bible translated because the language being used gives them power over the people. i feel like in someways hearing what Martin Luther dealt with dealing with the Catholic church in longing to have the Bible in his own language. i am working on piece about a gentleman who is working with Dan, who was a pastor for 20 years, and God radically grab a hold of his life and is now coming alongside Dan and translating the Bible into his language for his people. He is receiving a lot of spiritual attacks not only from the outside but also from the inside from his own piers i.e. pastors. Please be praying for him i will pass on his name as soon as i make sure i can do so but, also pray that God would raise up leaders who would be willing to come out and to train pastors. There is a great need for discipleship here in Yaounde there are men who long to teach correctly, but not enough people who can. There are many pastors who is teaching heresy i.e. Faith Movement, New Perspective of Paul. These movements and these men, are raping the Word of God for their own gain and leading souls to Hell. For example pastors are charging people for prayer. For prayer a free gift that God has given to us as His children through His son Jesus Christ. Through the shedding of His precious blood and the forgiveness of sin do we have the privilege to come boldly to the throne room of God! No man needs to go through another man for prayer, but these men are charging their own people for prayer, because they are the "so called men of God". i pray that God will deliver these people from these men and show them the true light of Jesus Christ, and that they are of the devil and the works of the devil, and if these men are preaching out of ignorance, may God have mercy on these men and may the Lord rebuke these men and show them their error and save them. i am sorry for going off, but this infuriates me and grieves my heart. People are in need and are hungry for training and to learn, but few are able to help, they are looking for pastors who are willing to come out and to help these men to learn and have a passion to teach God's Word and to rightly divide it, but there are those men also who don't want it and are out for the money and prestige and honor here on earth. My heart is to come back and to share with you, but my prayer is that God will help me to be able to represent these men and women, these families who have chosen to obey the calling in their life, many of whom i have become friends with, and have been blessed to see and hear their stories, to be an advocate or a voice for them. We have been blessed by so much, both financially but also spiritually as both as a church and as a country, may God help us and give us wisdom on how we can best use His resources for the good of our brothers and sisters in other countries to help equip them for the work of the ministry. i love you all! i wish i could say more, and in more detail and i pray that you are encouraged and blessed as you read this. Thank our Lord Jesus Christ that we have a church that lives to serve Christ and to bring Him glory in all things. i look forward to seeing you all shortly God bless! Good night!
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