Here we are with our religious backgrounds in Guatemala, with an amazing Pastor that came from worshipping Satan to worshipping the Almighty one Jesus Christ.....
Ok so we started off by Ben (The Pastor) telling us to leave all our religious baggage, come with a teachable spirit. And let the Holy Spirit work in this time and forth.
Ok so we had the training in the beginning of the year with FCE that was awesome and gave us a firm foundation to stand on, and to fight for Christ! But there was just more, God wanted to refine us more teach us more, now these were some of the things that I wasn’t taught in the church that I grew up with. This is Spiritual warfare. I knew there was the bad guy Satan and there was our redeemer Christ Jesus, but I just didn’t know of all the evil spirits, and the battles that we are actually busy fighting here on earth. Ben has a ministry in Panajachel, it is a deliverance ministry, where they pray, intercede, fast etc. For the people of Guatemala, Guatemala has a similar background to South Africa or just Africa. They also have a lot of witchcraft and ancestor worship, so there are a lot of generational curses on the people from their ancestors and forefathers. Now this is where the questions started, I mean I didn’t know much about demons and the curses and all those things.
Ben started with teachings that changed a lot of our views toward spiritual warfare and the process that God is refining in us at the moment! It was teachings about everything on spiritual warfare and also baptism and just al the lovely things about Christ!! So this country was the country where I felt that I fought a lot! And the Country where I grew the most this year in my walk in Christ after Zambia, I would say this was level 2...
So I learnt all about spiritual gifts, and where I was standing with Christ. I also got the amazing opportunity where God used me in my new “Gifts”. It was just so awesome I can’t describe the feeling, your heart feels so fulfilled and you just want know more about this gift and what else or how else you can serve our Beautiful, Amazing and Almighty God. O and while all this was happening I thought it was serving, but it was more of an impact in my life than its serving!!
So this is just a quick message from me to encourage everybody who is reading this to search for their gifts in Christ and their true Identity in Him, I am sure that you will be fulfilled too, and if not we can sort it out in Heaven!!
Lots of Blessings
Tjaart de Lange