Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The One Who sent me opened the Way


Listoni  Mtemela  is working in Mbesa along with his wife and four children. They have stayed there six months at the time of this story.

When we arrived at our place to work for God, we knew what was needed. We were thinking how can we approach the people? My plan was to conduct the Quest Sabbath, three days meetings. I didn’t have the money for that, but I asked God to open the door.  Things remained difficult. Then we decided to fast each Wednesday.  Finally God in his love opened the door and we got 150,000 TSH.

Life was not easy with the people around us because of starvation.  People were coming to me asking for food.  I tried to help as I could.  The atmosphere changed due to people telling each other that if they come to me they could get food.  Because of this it caused me to finish about all the food I had. Finally I ended having only 300 TSH.  Life was very hard to me.  The maize flour we had was now only three (3) liters.  Then somebody came to early in the morning telling me the really bad situation that they had at home.  We decided that we would give her one liter of flour.  That left us with only two liters.  We used one liter.  With only one liter remaining we prayed to God asking him what are we going to do? Money and food are gone.  Then in the evening we saw somebody coming towards our house.  To our amazement he gave us 10 liters of maize.  Three days later another person brought to us about 7 liters.  And again someone came with 15 liters of maize.  From home my fellow church members sent some money.  God answered our prayers. This is the miracle which God did for us.

One of the challenges in our area is its being a Musl*m area. 90% of the population is Isl*mic religion, is hard for people to join Christianity and is not easy to convert a Musl*m.  They need time, observation, and then they can decide what to do. Please pray for us as we continue to work for God.