What a blessing, what a joy divine to be in Masaiti, Zambia. Greetings from a soaking wet muddy and water flowing “Koti Ni Eden” farm of FCE.( Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education) Surrounded by bush, villages, termite moulds, the Kafulafuta river, no electricity, kapenters( small fish like cat food), huge ants, mosquito nets and let me not forget to mention continuous raindrops, it’s a privilege to be here. It’s currently rainfall season and when I say rainfall I mean it. Everything is bright green except the red muddy roads and buzzing mosquito’s. However in just a few months time the Zambians say the climate changes drastically here and it becomes very dry, brown and no more rain. Even though my washing takes about four days to dry if I’m lucky and it hasn’t rained wet again, it’s still great to be here!
Why? Well the reason is because it won’t stop raining here. And no it’s not the literal rain that I’m enjoying but it’s the spiritual rain that is just pouring down and abundantly blessing me. Each day we have class from 08:00 to 16:00 in order to study God’s word and to get equipped for the rest of the year. So far we have covered some topics like Knowing God, Two Kingdoms, The Trinity and Prayer which has been quite mind-boggling and at times challenging for me but in the end it’s great to get soaking wet in God’s word.
James 5:17-18 “ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced it’s fruit.” Just like Elijah prayed earnestly that it would not rain and then again that it would rain and then the earth produced fruit. So my humble prayer is that God will not let it stop raining but that He will continue to pour down His blessings like the rain on us so that we can produce fruit! Already we have been on our first outreach to the Christian School where most of the children are from the villages and what a blessing that was.
We will be here in Zambia until the 8th of March and then we head back to our homeland. My continual prayer is that God will “Let it rain, let it rain, open the floodgates of heaven and let it rain.” May we unlike Zambia in a few months not suffer from spiritual drought but may their be sunshine in our soul from the only Son of righteousness and let it rain, let it pour. Today was the first day that the sun was shining for the whole day.
May God continue to rain on each of you, abundant blessings
Wesley
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