ENCOUNTER WITH THE WITCHDOCTOR

 

Next week the Bible school is sending a student team to an indigenous village that, according to the Joshua Project, is still an "unreached people group".  We actually visited them once before.  Here is what happened in that first encounter!

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2 years ago one of our missions teams decided to go into the jungle to reach an unreached Indigenous Indian village called  “La Po” home of the Embera-Chami Indians.

The team traveled all day and finally arrived around sundown.  After meeting the village leaders and getting something to eat, they found a flat spot to set up their tents.

But no one expected what was about to happen…  

Around 2:00 AM several of the students on the team woke up feeling a strong oppression and could hear footsteps walking around outside their tents....

Even though they tried to see who it was with flashlights, they couldn’t actually see anyone. The students got real scared and started waking up the rest of the team.  They found out later that the spot where they were camped belonged to the witchdoctor of that village.

The team leader calms everyone down and started to lead them in prayer.  They immediately felt things start to shift and their “out-of-control” fear was channeled into courage and faith in the God that brought them their. 
Several of them quoted verses like; 1 John 4:4 declaring; “…Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world!!”  The oppression left, the footsteps outside the tents stopped and a peace came upon the group.

Here’s the good part…

The very NEXT day the team got to work sharing with everyone in the village.  They didn’t realize it, but in one of the huts they visited was a very sick woman… the Witchdoctor’s wife. 
God completely healed her and from that moment the doors were opened to minister to whole village!

Where HE guides… He provides!!

PRAYER REQUEST
Next week, the Bible school is sending another team to this village.  It's been two years since the last team visited.  Please pray for  Favor, Spiritual Breakthrough and SAFETY.

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