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Appalling poverty, degrading living conditions, eyes that ask, plead, or look at you apathetically ... because how are you supposed to feel anymore, when cold, hunger and hopelessness fill your days! When you know that your day ends again in that drafty shack, where you and 2 families (10 people) shelter for the night. What are you left to feel when, as a teenager, you suddenly turn out to be a mother, when your mother doesn't even know how to feed her family for the next day....
In those circumstances, our team comes to visit. With a van, with bags full of food. With hot coffee, and hot dog sausage sandwiches. With music, with love. People ask us to pray. Pain, need and sorrow come up. Prayer requires faith ... because what do we ourselves have to give, when even the basic needs for these dear people are not taken for granted?
We pray, we bless, we speak the name of Jesus over the people, the children. We were allowed to see miracles, a woman who had been in bed for ages with severe pains on the right side of her body, she felt the pain leave, and started moving her arms...pain free! She started standing and walking! What joy on that face! Thank You Jesus! She even came out later to wave off the team.
We danced and played with the children, lovely to hear their laughter!
We were allowed to pray for a boy who was in bad shape after being struck by lightning. His heart was disordered and parts of his body numb. While praying, he experienced that his heart calmed down and his deaf body began to tingle! We don't know how it is now. As you read this, join in the prayer that God will show his greatness to this boy! There is hope and hope in his life.
What is written on Hans ' retina is that a woman came up to him and said: Please save me! save me! Hans was touched by the sadness and despair she radiated. He told her that he could not save her, but that Jesus saved her for eternity and that if she calls on Jesus she will be saved!! (ROM.10:13 ..and all who call on Jesus he has given power to become children of God) they did so together, she cried out to Jesus to save her and come into her life. Her face shone through her tears! There was such deep peace and joy about her..
God's love drives out fear. It's in the Bible, and we actually see it happen. People crave God's love and are so open to receiving it. In one of the mountain villages, at least half of the people and children gave their lives to Jesus. How will they know when no one tells them?
Besides visiting the mountain villages, we got to speak in many Roma churches, give testimonies, lead worship, and pray and prophesy over the people as a team. How blessed we ourselves have been by the wonderful congregations. People are deeply touched also by the beautiful violin playing. How healing music can also be ... it transcends every language barrier! After all, God Himself knows exactly what each person needs. So we were not surprised that people start crying, because God knows exactly where to touch what one needs in his own process. The Holy Spirit has given a lot of restoration, confirmation and encouragement and has convinced people of sin or of the fact that they need God. And we as a team were allowed to move in that, comforting, praying, hugging, prophesying ... whatever was needed. Thanks to the wonderful team as well, who flawlessly moved along in what God was doing. Our gratitude to God is great, and our love for the Roma people has only grown!
