Lost People Matter to God
#1
Posted 03 July 2013 - 03:07 AM
But there is one woman whose desperate cries to God have been heard. And she matters to Him. Her name is Korotimi. Eight months ago, in a fit of rage, she pushed her co-wife into a stream where they were collecting water and held her under until she drowned. She has been in prison all this time without a single visitor. No friend, no relative, no family member, none of her children, no one. So desperate was her situation that she tried to kill herself. Her darkness and depression ooze out from every pore of her being. But she matters to God. Last week she heard that her husband has died. There is now no hope for her to ever return to her five children. There will be no place for her to go. All the bad things that happen in her extended family will be blamed on her. But the light of Christ is dawning in her life. As she shared this story, our group of Christian women poured prayer and courage into her and she could smile as we left. All of this waiting and praying and orchestrating to bring us into the prison could have just been because this one lost woman matters to God. Christ came to set the prisoners free, to bring light to those living in darkness.
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#2
Posted 03 July 2013 - 04:07 AM
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#3
Posted 23 September 2013 - 10:42 AM
This morning, September 23, 2013, Korotimi accepted Christ as her Savior! She has gradually changed over the few months that we have been working with her in our prison ministry. It is because of your prayers and your commitment to the lost that his woman has been freed from Satan's hold. She went to church yesterday which was already a huge breakthrough. This morning after a brief lesson on the Apostle Paul's prison break, I asked if any would like to be saved like the jailer had been. She was sitting next to me and quietly nudged me and said that she would. She then repeated after me the sinner's prayer. Rejoice with us and pray for this woman, that the enemy would not trouble her anymore. Pray that the Christian community would embrace her and that she would grow in her faith.
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#4
Posted 23 September 2013 - 01:25 PM
Praise the Lord for that wonderful news. Thank you for your faithful service to the Lord in Burkina Faso
#5
Posted 13 April 2014 - 11:56 AM
praying for you
#6
Posted 15 April 2014 - 02:07 PM
wonderful news of her salvation and the Lord's work there
thank you for sharing
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Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
We are pressured in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair;
we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.
~2 Corinthians 4:7-9~
#7
Posted 14 July 2014 - 11:04 PM
The change in this woman is remarkable. She is wearing clean cloths, smiling, singing. She might never get out of the physical prison but the spiritual prison of darkness has been shattered. Every lost person matters to God. We, on the Bobo Team, are committed to giving access to the Gospel to those living in darkness.
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#8
Posted 08 September 2014 - 09:53 AM
Andrew, this rates as among the very very best threads that I have read. It is VERY encouraging!!!! Thank you for sharing.