We finished teaching El the foundational lessons. Then we asked the question, “Do you believe that Jesus is God, who came to suffer & die to wash away your sins? Her answer was “Yes, when I first heard that there was a God who was concerned about me, I was interested. I listened and decided to follow. I read my Bible daily (sometimes several times a day) and prayed for God to forgive my sins and heal my body. Since the beginning when you came, my body has steadily become stronger. I want to walk so that I can go to church to be with other believers, tell others about God and serve in the local church. I have started in this path already and I don’t intend to return to my old ways.”
Since studying with us, we have seen El change from hate for her husband (for leaving her and having a minor wife) to consideration for him. We pray for El’s continued physical healing – that she will walk again, serve God and that her spiritual life will show God’s love to many in her community.
At Christmas we had given her a picture of Jesus. (We put it up high on her wall like you would do to show respect for a picture of the Thai king.) Her husband saw the picture and said that Jesus was handsome and that he, himself, looked like Jesus. He wanted his picture placed on the wall alongside the picture of Jesus. We explained to El that Jesus was like the king & that we could not place her husband’s picture beside that of Jesus, but we would put it underneath the one of Jesus. Richard brought his drill and placed the picture of El’s husband below and to the side of Jesus’ picture. In jest, we also warned that we would change the husband’s picture for one of El’s cat, if her husband did not begin following Jesus. Pray for El’s husband to think and begin following Jesus too.
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