Recently, at a conference in Masindi at Family Empowerment Ministries, Jill shared with the
sisters a radical testimony of the powerful fruit of walking in simple trust in
the Word.
A sister from the refugee camp where she lived got radically saved.
When she went home her husband was furious. She prayed and God led her to
practice 1 Peter 3:1-6.
One day her husband threatened her, "If you go to hear
a Bible study again I will beat you!" The day came for her women's study
and she prepared her house and left to listen.
When she returned she found her husband true to his threat,
he beat her smugly believing that would be the end of the matter. The following
week to his surprise, she went again and resolved herself that it was worth even
another beating. In exasperation, this husband plotted an even more aggressive
threat. He was sure this one would stop her forever from going to learn about
Jesus Christ....
"I have decided to take a beautiful young women from
this village as my wife," he jeered, "and you must not only wash the
bedroom and prepare clean new linens for us, I will collect her from her
father's home and bring her to you. You will bathe, perfume, and make her look
beautiful for me. Then I expect you to present her in all that glory to
me!"
She bowed her head in agreement...no doubt pleading in prayer for
strength as you or I would have to do....
The wedding day came, and he watched her every move,
expecting at any moment she would confront him in some way, but nothing happened.
Quietly, yet lovingly, she fulfilled his every command without so much as a
cross word. When he saw the room prepared more beautifully than she ever had,
the warm water with its aromatic perfume, and her perfect peace as he marched
in the bride to be, he stopped dead in his tracks.
First he ordered the girl to
be taken home, then he fell to his knees before his wife and said, "What
must I do to be saved by this Jesus!" Today they live together for the
glory of God.
Jill challenged the women to live drenched in His
supernatural love. "Never consider that you are hidden away in this remote
little village...so was she, but as I have shared this story and others I know
have repeated it, it's been celebrated all over the world!" Jill exhorted
them as they exploded in applause to the Lord.
We never know the great things God can do as we surrender
and obey...one of my favorite pastors said that when we learn to a link your
impotence to His omnipotence, the most ordinary and mundane becomes a living
picture of the miraculous. This world we live in has lost it's hope in a love
like that....maybe God has chosen you for such a time as this...Those precious
sisters part of Family Empowerment Ministries were willing to believe God could
do exceedingly abundantly more in them...can you do the same?
