This has been a busy and hard week, yet a great week all in one. I’m still recovering from being sick; had strep throat, then a 24 hour stomach bug, flu and now I have bronchitis all since last Tuesday. Thankfully I have felt better this week and was able to have 4 individuals (counseling sessions), 2 initial interviews, 4 or 5 therapeutic tallers (workshops), and 3 Bible studies all in 4 days. I’m just worn out thinking about it all.
This week’s Bible studies went for the most part well. In Rut, I taught over the Lord’s Prayer and what is prayer. In Ester, I taught over the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Unfortunately, this was a day in which my girls would not pay attention for nothing. In Debora, I taught over heaven and hell and that lesson actually went so much better than I thought and the girls paid so much attention. I was so thankful.
My individuals were pretty good. Yesterday, I met with the girl I wrote about in my last blog post God’s Answers to see where she is at and to try to go deeper. It was a great conversation. We were able to talk through her issues with authority figures and feeling that she has to have all the power and control. We got down to the heart of the issue of how her biological father didn’t want her and her father now is so standoffish that she can’t win his love so why would she want a third father (being God). She can’t even imagine dealing with such pain if God turned out like her two earthly fathers.
I left her with a homework assignment, in which I hope to review with her on Monday. She is to list all the pros and cons to what her life right now, her future and her eternal life would be like if she takes the steps to release some control to trust God and have a relationship with Him and what if she decides to never trust Him as her Savior.
Today, I had an initial interview with a girl, 14 years old, who has been here for about two weeks. In these interviews I learn what they know and how the feel about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the devil; along with what are their beliefs, who helped form them, what do they want to learn, what type of satanic involvement they might have or still have and so forth.
While talking with my girl, she began to tell me that when she was 12 she was part of the satanic church. She participated in rituals almost nightly in where she and many others would use drugs and then start calling out the devil and his demons. They would sacrifice animals, cut themselves, and make pacts with the devil in which they offered their blood, their souls, their lives, and their mind to him in change for something. Usually the “something” was to get more drugs or that bad things would come to those they hated. She spent a year in this and the last time she saw a demon or something like it was at the beginning of this month right before she came to Renacer.
Please be in prayer for these two girls. They need Jesus and they need to know and experience His power. (The latter one is not a Christian but believes she has a relationship with God.) Pray for me to have the Spirit’s wisdom in how to work with these girls. Pray for the strong spiritual war that I am faced with every day as I try to lead them closer and closer to Christ.
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