Greetings to you all from a nice and sunny Siem Reap. We have a team from Youth Call here with us for one night only and we are making the most of it with
a real Braai. We killed the pig earlier for the braai, just joking. We
have so much meat that I wonder how we will be able to eat it all. Carnivors........
Thank
you for praying for my leg. Still a bit painful but everyday is a day
closer to getting better. Today I can remove the stitches and that is a
plus point in my life. Need to have landmarks put down so I ca see it on
a calender and that keeps me going. Hopefully I can start with real Physio soon.
Please pray for a dear friend of ours from Australia. Anti Gladys and uncle Derrick, we know already from our Philippines days. Anti Gladys got diagnosed with cancer and she got operated on and await the outcome and further treatment.
My SA friend in Laos, Ouboet Dave is also asking for prayer as it is decision time for them. It is difficult to listen to God if you have good offers popping up for work. Pray that they will listen careful to God about what to do.
Please pray for the church in Ratanakiri.
Here is a real powerful testimony from my friend Gordon and Bee that is
working under the tribal people in the surrounding areas. This is a real encouragement to all of us to hear what God is doing.
""Bringing things to birth in God’s Kingdom
“That which is born
of God overcomes the world” (I John 5:4)
“My little children
for whom I am again the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you”
(Galatians 4:19)
“Are we willing to
travail for those who come to Christ?” (Bradley Stewart).
Minh (Auntie) Yon was woken in the middle of the night with
an intense stirring in her heart to pray for the people in K… and T… Villages. This
was repeated 3 nights in a row - she could hardly sleep but with groans and
tears was pouring out what the Holy Spirit was placing in her heart.
2 days later relatives from K. Village turned up at Minh
Yon’s farm at 2.00 in the afternoon. The young couple brought their 2 month old
daughter who was gasping for breath (probably in the last throes of encephalitis).
They had taken her to the Provincial hospital for treatment and seemed to get
better but while the father was away hunting in the forest she took a turn for
the worse. Then they sent to a neighbouring village for a spirit medium who
determined which spirit had been offended and prescribed a chicken sacrifice.
The sacrifice was to take 3 days and the house was cordoned off for the
ceremony but the baby grew steadily worse. She developed a severe throat
infection, could hardly make any sound and was laboring to breathe.
In desperation, the parents took the baby to a monk at the
Buddhist temple about 30km away. The famous “healing” monk did incantations and
told them the baby “will certainly get better” but they need to prepare incense
and candles and gifts for the monks and then return for the chanting ceremony.
After preparing everything and returning to the temple, the baby’s condition
had deteriorated so much that the Buddhist monk told them there was no hope.
They need to return home and prepare the baby’s spirit for departure.
Dejected and desperate, the parents remembered on their way
home that their relatives in Grouich Village were Christians and the Christians
pray for people to be healed. They had tried everything. Now they were willing
to try God. As they turned up at the farm in the early afternoon, Minh Yon and
her family explained that they need to put their trust in God and not turn back
– even if the baby does not get well. The parents cut off all their
spirit-protection strings and made a commitment to “not turn back”. Then the
family prayed for the baby. She immediately fell into a restful sleep and began
to breathe easily. Over the next few days, whenever she began to cry or labour
in breathing, the parents laid hands on her and cried out to God. They said
they were continually praying, encouraged by the signs of steady improvement.
After 3 days she was completely well and the family took her to house-church in
Grouich Village. That was 3 weeks ago. Since then 3 more families in their
village (relatives) have put their trust in God as a result of their witness.
They requested Khmer Bibles and song books and bought one
set per family so they can “study about God”. When we visited them last week
they are all bubbling over with testimonies of what God has done in their lives
in response to simple but profound faith. Their story of God’s goodness has
spread throughout the village. The Village animist “Priest” left his sacrifice
and came to listen to the story of creation. In his half-inebriated state he
repeated the story and even wrote it down so he could tell it to others. The
village chief came to listen and said he would like to learn about God too
if the Christians will come every week to teach them.
Amazing what God can do when we make ourselves available to
him like Minh Yon to “bring to birth” the things that are on His heart. Please
pray for this village as they start their journey into the kingdom. And pray
that God will raise up more intercessors like Minh Yon. Please pray for the
little miracle baby – that God will restore all the brain cells and nerve
functions and that she will grow up to lead a normal life for the glory of God.""
Thank you very much for your prayers as we cannot go daily without them.
Greetings
Rossouw-clan
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