Roger is still in touch with our guy in Nairobi trying to figure it all out. It is true that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is why we ask for your prayers. God is not out of control, no matter the outcome - or the process of getting to the outcome - of this situation. Please - I do wish you to pray for a resolution that doesn't a) cost us a fortune, or b) land Roger in jail, but I also ask you to pray for us spiritually - that we not become discouraged, that we not loose hope, that we not loose sight of the fact that God is in control and that He works all things together for good to those who love Him, that we put on the full armor of God - including the Gospel of PEACE - that we are good ambassadors for Christ during this time, that we trust Fully in Him, and that all will work out to the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pray that the peace of God would rule in our hearts - even as we have contact with those who would not pursue peace with us. These (as difficult as it is to say at the moment) are much more important and eternal factors of this situation in which we find ourselves. But we desperately need GRACE in which to stand. It is available to us. We need to grasp it and trust it rather than trusting in ourselves - either in our own physical resources or in our own emotional resources. I will keep you posted. Thank you.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Urgent Prayer Requested in our Vehicle Situation
Well, I would normally put this on my prayer request page, but its rather urgent, so I'm just putting it here. We need lots of prayer concerning our car situation. The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) in Kitale is harassing Roger. If you don't know about our situation, we have recently found out that the license plate on our car is registered to a different person and a different vehicle. This has been the plate on the car ever since it was imported by another missionary several years ago, and the Kenya Tax Revenue helped to import the car. The guy that authorized the license plate is some police authority dude in Nairobi. We don't know if the plate is actually illegal (in which case, the police guy that got the plate is corrupt) or if there is an administration error in the paper work, but Roger has been having it investigated this week. We are working with the guy who got the plate in the first place, to try to find out what is going on, but this is not good enough for the CID. Roger is supposed to take the car in tomorrow and it will be impounded - we will have to pay about 10,000 Kenyan Shillings every day it is impounded. This is about $119.00 per day. We are also a bit afraid that they will arrest Roger at that time. Please, please pray for this situation. You've never seen a Kenyan jail - it's not like in the States.
Roger is still in touch with our guy in Nairobi trying to figure it all out. It is true that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is why we ask for your prayers. God is not out of control, no matter the outcome - or the process of getting to the outcome - of this situation. Please - I do wish you to pray for a resolution that doesn't a) cost us a fortune, or b) land Roger in jail, but I also ask you to pray for us spiritually - that we not become discouraged, that we not loose hope, that we not loose sight of the fact that God is in control and that He works all things together for good to those who love Him, that we put on the full armor of God - including the Gospel of PEACE - that we are good ambassadors for Christ during this time, that we trust Fully in Him, and that all will work out to the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pray that the peace of God would rule in our hearts - even as we have contact with those who would not pursue peace with us. These (as difficult as it is to say at the moment) are much more important and eternal factors of this situation in which we find ourselves. But we desperately need GRACE in which to stand. It is available to us. We need to grasp it and trust it rather than trusting in ourselves - either in our own physical resources or in our own emotional resources. I will keep you posted. Thank you.
Roger is still in touch with our guy in Nairobi trying to figure it all out. It is true that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is why we ask for your prayers. God is not out of control, no matter the outcome - or the process of getting to the outcome - of this situation. Please - I do wish you to pray for a resolution that doesn't a) cost us a fortune, or b) land Roger in jail, but I also ask you to pray for us spiritually - that we not become discouraged, that we not loose hope, that we not loose sight of the fact that God is in control and that He works all things together for good to those who love Him, that we put on the full armor of God - including the Gospel of PEACE - that we are good ambassadors for Christ during this time, that we trust Fully in Him, and that all will work out to the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pray that the peace of God would rule in our hearts - even as we have contact with those who would not pursue peace with us. These (as difficult as it is to say at the moment) are much more important and eternal factors of this situation in which we find ourselves. But we desperately need GRACE in which to stand. It is available to us. We need to grasp it and trust it rather than trusting in ourselves - either in our own physical resources or in our own emotional resources. I will keep you posted. Thank you.
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