9 Things You Told Me: Quotes from Believers Working in North Africa (Part 2)
We really believe strongly in the value of work and just putting your hand to something. A lot of times, people just don’t have enough in their days to fill them.
Kids in other places are taught in school to be kind. Kids are still taught to respect each other. Kids are still taught to own their mistakes, even in a secular situation.
We don’t need to dig up demons under some gate in the medina (old city). The strongholds, I will tell you, they are a lack of repentance, owning our mistakes. Unwillingness to forgive. I have sat with women who have said, “I will never forgive that person. I can’t unhear what my daughter-in-law said to me.” But we gotta believe, we gotta forgive, we gotta repent.
We know the Devil’s works. They are always the same. They are theft, killing, and destruction. So whenever we see that in the world, and whenever we see that in the body of Christ, we know who’s at work. It’s not that person who has that skin suit on. It’s the enemy who’s at work. And so we cannot get wrapped up in these flesh and blood battles. We have to go deeper. We have to give it to Jesus.
The things I’ve witnessed and things I’ve seen and things I’ve heard are just really, really disheartening. We are not disheartened, but they are disheartening behaviors.
This wasn’t where I wanted to be. This isn’t where I thought we would be. It’s a slow process, but it’s been a great one.
It’s frustrating dealing with the hoops of North Africa and starting anything anywhere. It’s just the headache.
You just go back to: What do you enjoy doing? That’s always a cool thing when the Lord can marry a talent with the work He's called us to. We’re not all called to the same kind of people. So you can touch the people that other people can’t, which is really cool.
It was an answer to a prayer that we weren’t praying.
Is God stirring your heart for the unreached in North Africa? Talk to a mobilizer about working in North Africa.