The year 2010 started with great challenges for one of our church planters. After his evangelism training at Congo Frontline Missions, Zabilema and his family accepted a call to plant a new church about 15 miles from Kisangani. The family members were very excited to move to this un-entered area. However, on arriving at their new post of duty, the villagers did not welcome them as they had expected. After some time, they realized that some villagers were practicing strong witchcraft and did not want Christians to live in their village. It was not easy for the witches to force this new family to leave because they had the permission they needed from the government to stay at this village. One evening, Zabilema and his family were enjoying the cool evening breeze outside their house. Suddenly, they saw fire inside the house. They quickly raced inside to put it out before much destruction happened. It was a strange fire in that there seemed to be nothing to cause it. The next morning some people explained to them that the witches had started the fire to scare them away. Nevertheless, this man of God trusted the Lord and was not ready to give up. A few weeks later, a more serious threat came. Early one morning, Zabilema’s wife unlocked the door to cook breakfast. She was shocked to discover a trail of blood encircling the ground around their house.
When they asked the villagers to explain what this meant, they said, “Your home has been cursed. There is no escape. Someone in this house will die.” They further discovered that the witches had given them one week to leave the village or else the destroying spirit would come to kill part or all of the family.
This was a big test to the man of God. Instead of leaving his post of duty allotted to him by the King of Kings, he prayed earnestly and decided to stay. When the mercy period ended, the destroying spirit came to accomplish his evil mission of death. However, instead of destroying the Zabilema family, one of the family members of the head witch died.
The people of village were shocked. They were sure the missionaries would die because the witches had always done whatever they wanted before. This miracle of the Zabilema family opened a new page in this village, which was a demon headquarters. Now, Zabilema has six people worshiping the true God with him and three have already been baptized.
“Satan’s armies are many, and God’s people must spread over all the world, planting the standard of truth in the dark places of the earth and doing their utmost to destroy Satan’s kingdom” {Evangelism, p. 18.2}
Please pray for the thousands of church planters all over the world, that they may have protection from God against the spirits of Satan.
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