The trip was GREAT! There were many trials and the days were long but the fruit that came from it was amazing. Thousands of people were treated and hundreds accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior through personal counseling with the prayer team.
I was privileged to be part of the prayer team and the following verse came alive to us as we saw hundreds of lives transformed in every village. We were reaping that for which we had not labored:
Joh 4:35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. (36) He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. (37) For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ (38) I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
I was never so happy to be hot and tired. 20-30 men came through my station for prayer and healing in each of the 5 villages. Each man carried a unique burden of sin and physical illness. Some were broken when they understood their sin. Others were angry and wanted to strike out or run. God drew many to His throne of grace and they cried out to Jesus and confessed their sin and their Savior. The others had the soil of their heart tended and the seed of the Good News planted and watered.
I pray that other laborers will enter into the labor and reap that which they did not sow. I praise God that when I am weak He is strong.
Psa 92:1-4 It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High; (2) to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night… (4) For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
I am still coming to terms with the mighty work of God that I experienced while serving Christ through serving the people of the Samoan Islands.
In Christ,
Paul
