VICTORY!

What a week!! God is so good!!
Christ gave us victory when He died on the cross and rose again! He gave us victory over anything/anyone we come in contact with on this earth, and victory over death itself! I am so humbled and unworthy to be His child and to have victory. Many days I feel defeated and weak; or maybe just too young to deal with such real life issues.
But...I am/we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us and gave Himself for us!
...HUGE RED FLASHING SIGNS...VICTORY!
As we were finishing a medical clinic in one of our favorite camps this week, Thursday to be exact, I had to go visit an elderly woman, Helen, in a hut with a probable dislocated shoulder. Jeffrey (the translator/medical asst) and I greeted the woman and began speaking with her while working on her shoulder. We then moved inside her small, dark, mud hut as there came a downpour. Helen quickly forgot about the horrible pain in her shoulder and asked me if I knew Jesus and if He had the power to stop evil spirits from visiting her. WHOA!
What do you say to that? As I was responding that I knew Jesus the second question hit me like a brick in the chest. Can Jesus stop the evil spirits? Does He have the power? Do I really believe He has the power? If I tell her yes, what if He doesn't do it? I hate doubt, and here I was sitting on the ground of this tiny mud hut in Africa, doubting the Lord. Had He ever let me down? No way. Never.
"YES!" I told the woman. "He has the power to stop the evil spirits!" Actually I had to scream "Yes" because she was hard of hearing, but that just reaffirmed it to me all the more. YES, Jesus is victorious! So we prayed and she asked Jesus to save her. GLORY! And immediately after finishing the prayer she said, "I believe He will stop the spirits. Please continue to pray for me."
Truly, there is no greater joy than leading someone to Jesus; just pointing the way to the Savior! I have heard somewhere before that leading someone to the Lord is like one beggar telling another beggar where the food is. It is true!
Praise Jesus for Helen! Praise Jesus for victory! And please lift up Helen as the battle will be strong. The enemy doesn't give up easy...BUT WE ARE VICTORIOUS!
Thanks for caring,
Shaunessy