By Pastor Andrew Farland
God can reach you at the lowest possible place, even in your deepest sorrow, with no hope in sight.
I had an experience in Rwanda that showed this.
We were working with a bunch of kids who wanted to explore the ministry.
When we split into teams, my team had five people including me. Right away, one boy and one girl left us, and we became a team of three. We still wanted to go door to door that morning to pray with people and for them.
The team knocked on the first and second doors, and we continued making our way down the street. We finally arrived at the last door on the end of the street. A young girl invited them in. Even with our translator helping, there wasn’t much talking. Everyone prayed together, and we left.
The next day, we went back to the same community. Our translator ran up to us, saying, “You’re not going to believe what happened. It’s crazy!”
“Tell us!” I said. “We love to be encouraged!”
“Remember the last house at the end of the street?” asked our translator. “The night before you came, the lady you prayed with put a rope around the top of the beam in her ceiling, and laid the noose around her neck.
She heard a voice say, “Don’t kill yourself; help is on the way.”
The translator continued. “Then she had a vision of three white people coming to pray for her. But wait, It gets crazier. In the vision, she saw your faces — one girl, and two boys — coming to the door.”
This story illustrates that you might be at the end of the road and at the end of your rope, ready to give up.
But don’t.
God is there, putting the right people in place to help you. God did this in Rwanda for the woman who contemplated suicide.
He gave her a vision of three white people who would come and pray with her. He sent away two members of the five-member team so only the envisioned prayer warriors would be left. Everything fit perfectly in God’s plan. He made it so.
You see, God shows us that there ways where there are no ways. Life and hope exist where there is death and hopelessness.
We discovered on our next trip to the area that all three of the lady’s prayer requests had been answered.
God will help you with yours!
Isaiah 42:13
“For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
Be encouraged today because God is with you.
