What dreams are made of.

These women crowd around Maggie and Elizabeth as they go over the review points for the day’s lesson. It’s a great time to reinforce truths and answer questions that the ladies are especially concerned with.

In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
(Gen 11:8-9 NLT)

I saw him clearly.

“It was my grandfather. He said that I should put the offering at that particular place and that he would make sure that my garden would grow big.” – Pal friend speaking of a dream that he had

As we build for our friends a framework of truth, we are able more and more to confront their traditions and the ways that it has kept them in bondage. In the case of my friend, we had that day spoken together of God’s promise to Noah, that there would be harvest times and planting times as long as the earth will last. As he sat and thought about that and the fact that God has always loved man, he said out loud. “That dream it was a trick! It wasn’t my grandfather at all! God made everything and it follows His talk/words. I was tricked by the spirits.”

Truly we are living in exciting days! Will you keep praying with us that God’s truth, given to our friends, would bear real fruit in their hearts?

This picture is just one of many – we wish we could share with you. Our friends are listening and thinking about each lesson.

For God so loved the world…

In order to make sure that our written work is as good as it can get (really it will need several revisions as we increase in proficiency in the Pal language), I have a couple of guys coming over to check my lessons and translation for spelling and grammar errors. Yesterday, one of my faithful helpers was checking some translated scripture, his wife leaning over his shoulder, he read John 3:16-21 out loud in Pal.

Podis and Amun finished the passage and were quiet for a minute.  Remember, we have only made it to Genesis 23 or so in our teaching here so far. We’ve covered God’s promise of the Deliverer in Genesis 3 and the promise to Abraham later on. We’ve said that that Deliverer will finish sin forever. We’ve also said that the way to be considered right in God’s eyes is to trust in His Word…

“How exactly was Jesus the promised Deliverer? Are you going to tell us?” – Podis

Later on, Kulut, Podis’s elder brother came to us and asked, “How do I trust in Jesus as God’s Way?” Remember, we are only in Genesis. Kulut has had a little more teaching he has been helping us straighten out the lessons and has heard up through to just before the birth of Jesus.

Please pray that God’s Word continues to communicate with our friends and that they will trust it.

Not just the typical older men and women are paying attention. Here a young man listens closely to the first lesson on Abraham.

This Week:

Monday: This is a critical lesson about Abraham and Isaac. About substitution. About faith. About God’s provision and promise. Chris will dramatize the event with his son Cole.

Tuesday: Nate will teach about Jacob and Esau. We’ll talk about how Esau counted his birthright as a small thing – it was his saying that he didn’t care that much about being an ancestor of the Deliverer – an heir to the promise God gave to Abraham. We’ll talk about how Jacob did care and went after that right. We’ll talk about how God reiterated His promise to Abraham.

Wednesday: Nate will be doing the first of two Joseph lessons. The point of both lessons are that God was doing things according to His plan. (Remember, He told Abraham about the 400 years in Egypt long before Joseph was even born.) God is the revealer of dreams and the one who always follows through.

Thursday: The second Joseph lesson. This lesson focuses on the details of the moving the family to Egypt. It also focuses on Joseph’s faith in God. That he did not blame his brothers. He was confident and content in the program God had laid out.

Friday: We’ll not be meeting on this day. There is a large court case in the local community. Turns out some of the leaders of the Pal folks in our area have been talking about fertility rights and have come up with some pretty interesting theories about getting stuff. They have been propounding their theories in the larger area here – even outside of Pal – even hinting that we missionaries have given them the ‘inside scoop’. In fact, their lies have caught up with them. We are praying that the fallout will not disturb the continued teaching here.

Thanks so much for standing with us faithfully and supporting the work here in Pal.

Nate for us all.