Please pray Acts 26:18 for the Conference

It is almost a month since our last post. Praise the Lord He is working! I am still unemployed yet our needs continue to be supplied. We were able to send a check from the church account to cover the food and transportation costs while at the mission. We also transferred the airfare bill to the 0 percent account and the time was extended to January ’09 before the interest begins to accrue. It almost seems like an oxymoron to consider the interest rate … faith that the Lord will provide vs. being a good steward with what He has provided. Any way enough about the money.
I spoke with Dennis this week, and he said that he is seeing the warfare beginning to intensify. I had mentioned earlier that ½ the Children’s team had to drop out; one of our ‘travel buddies’ also had to withdraw. I would ask that you continue to pray for the team. I have been thinking of last year’s experience with spiritual warfare. While in prayer as our Pastor spoke during the Conference, three of us thought we were about to be attacked by a vicious dog. Each of us heard the snarl of the dog as if it was about to pounce on us at the same time, even though we were each 8 – 10 feet apart. The experience was so real, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end and I moved to protect myself of ‘nothing’. Ephesians 6:12 says For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The battle is and will be real! Satan does not want the Gospel shared. He does not want people to know what Jesus said in John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. He certainly does not want them to believe Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Satan wants to keep as many as possible in the dark and will do all he can to keep it from happening. So if you would pray Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me for the team and those at the Conference. To Him be the Glory.