Cherishingsparrows2020 @Cherishingsparrows2020@dingdash.com

#Waybackwednesday: 1 Year ago this day we posted "Does this meme and statement from a pastor help the situation?" For those "woke #Christians" that post things like this, what a shame after seeing everything this last year
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TRUE STORY
I was talking with a dear sister from Sudan the other day and she showed me the scars on her throat and arm. When I asked what they were she told me.
"The scar on my throat was from a hot metal poker that the doctor used to burn my throat to make my cough go away when I got the flu. It took three months for the burn to heal. The scars on my arm are from the burns of a hot iron to keep me from getting malaria. All of us were forced to do this in Sudan. It didn't work, but it didn't matter. It made the people feel like they were doing something to fight the disease and it was expected that everyone pretend it was working."
"Wow that's crazy," I said. "Everybody doing something that they know doesn't work, but makes them feel better about doing it anyway."
"Like wearing a mask?" she replied.
WOW! Puts it all into perspective. She deflated my western pride. In some ways we haven't advanced so much.
My Sudanese friend is a medical doctor and now lives in America.

Ivy League Professor says term "Evangelical Christian" is code for white - BUT has HUGE problem with theory - most evangelical Christians in the world today are in Africa, world's largest Evangelical Christian church is in Korea, and World's largest revival is in China.
60% of the world's Christian body now live in Asia and Africa.
Behold! God is doing a NEW THING and it is COMPLETELY shattering academia's antiquated understanding of Christianity revealing their 'wisdom' is like tattered rags.
https://backtojerusalem.com/ivy-league-professor-claims-evangelical-is-code-for-white-fails-to-notice-most-evangelicals-in-africa-and-china/

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B-I-G breakthrough today!
@messenjahofchrist was able to LIVE 🔴
stream today on DingDash.  🤯 
COMING SOON!

@Cherishingsparrows2020 please pray for Mexico: in june 6 Gods will. We will have elections. We have a very bloodie time. More than 80 candidates was killed and others are under warning. Could be the begining of the comunist sistem and we are losing fredoom very fast.

Hello brothers and Sisters.
I hope you are well and family. We would like to let you know about the situation we are passing through volcano in Goma. we evacuation in Goma till Bukavu , family, orphanage and some believers from my Church. We need your prayer for assistance food and water. 8 house for my believers burned now from volcano 4 lost their life. We have 34 orphans and 10 adults normally at orphanage, now many more coming for help. Your prayer is important and assistance.
Pastor Ruboneka Herbo Congo www.cmm.world

I'm requesting prayer tonight.
I'm feeling a little down and feeling the pressure of things around. My wife and our 4 children and I are planning on moving to Brazil in around 100 days from now. We believe we have heard from the Lord over a period of a few years.
We already have our plane tickets (SkyMiles used), we are working on moving out (less than 2 months remains on our lease), I still have a crud-ton of debt that I am believing for God to miraculously remove or help with so that I can leave no debt unpaid. I have not received exact details from the Lord on what I will be doing there (ministry or small store or both or import/export).
A little background: I was invited to preach in Brazil a little over 10 years ago and went towards the end of 2011, well needless to say, the Holy Ghost revealed to us that the Pastor's daughter would be my wife (on the day before leaving from a 2 week mission), and almost 10 years later, we are 9 (happy) years married and have 4 children......

..Continued..
We moved back to the US back in March '15.
I DO believe in miracles! I serve a miracle-working God. I'm asking for prayer. My wife is a full-time stay at home mom who home-schools our children, she's amazing. And we have believed that maybe God would use Brazil to launch us out to other countries to share the Gospel. We also have a heart for/feel a draw to Africa, Mexico and Central/South America and Asia. That's not all-encompassing, I've also considered middle-eastern countries.
Well, the Lord knows all. I know I've been pretty quiet on here for privacy's sake, but I felt that I should reach out, open up and ask for prayer, so thank you in advance.
Blessings be upon you in Jesus' name.

I forgot to mention one or two other things: my permanent residency there in Brazil expires at the end of October and can only be renewed from within the country.
Also, I say I'm self-employed, I should say I'm God-employed, but I love what I do here and I'm not so sure that it really exists in Brazil, what I do here. And I understand that I may not do there, what I do here, and I'm doing my best to be okay with that. It is in many ways a huge sacrifice and it sounds good, but I want to be able to move forward and press past the obstacles (even those in my mind: debt, work, etc.) And I have been believing and will continue to believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the Living. My parents obviously don't want us to go, we don't know how long we'll be gone (1.5 years?, 3 years?, 5 years?, forever?)
Thank you for your prayers and encouragement, I do covet them.
Thank you.

Thank you DingDashers! I am writing my next book and sometimes I need a mental break. You guys are helping me break away from writing and giving my brain a much needed break!

Those who leave everything in Gods hand will eventually see God’s hand in everything.

Please pray for a Gospel worker's wife, who is undergoing treatment for CML. TIA

Please pray for our brethren in India as you pray for these families of pastors who went on to glory as a result of COVID. As the Lord leads sow into their families at www.cmm.world