"Great and marvelous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are Your ways, King of the ages. Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed."
Revelation 15:3-4
The Lord protected Jonathan and Holly Lesley and my translator Charles' family as they evacuated from South Sudan yesterday. There is a rebel leader that has threatened the town of Kapoeta, and he told the UN to get all foreigners out of the area.
Last night, I know that an army of prayer warriors knelt before the Sovereign God on their behalf as they drove from the compound to Lokichoggio, Kenya. At one point they were stuck in the mud, but God worked through that and freed the truck from the mud. They have safely crossed the border, and I just want to declare from the depths of my soul that it is only by HIS POWER and HIS GRACE that it is so.
How great is our God? Greater than we can ever know. Please continue in the battle with me through prayer for all of my friends in the Kapoeta area. Pray that the God whose deeds are forever just and true would demonstrate His power in this area. That all people, from Toposa schoolboys to SPLA soldiers, from the rebel leader David Yau Yau to the Kenyans still in the area, would fear the Lord and seek Him and cry out to Him in this time of great need.
He is a great God, and there is no need too great, no earthly army or spiritual power too strong, no plan too firm, that He cannot meet and conquer and thwart. His purpose alone remains. He stands in control, even now.
And He Himself has proclaimed this truth to which I cling, "ALL NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP HIM." May You, my Great God, be glorified in South Sudan!!!!!
And pray for my heart and the heart of each member of the Toposa team...that in every doubt and fear and worry and through all the tears we would trust in the Great God whose deeds are marvelous all the time. That we would cling to Him, hold fast to Him, trust completely in Him, for He alone is holy and eternally good.
"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging...Come and see the works of the Lord, the desolations He has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear, He burns the shields with fire. Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress."
Psalm 46:1-3, 8-11
