I never thought I would have to go half way across the world to hear some wonderful sermons that really make you think about your life through God. Since being here I have really had my eyes opened to a lot of things. America is in trouble with religion, we have totally destroyed what Jesus wanted in and through his churches. I think within my lifetime we will end up having Africans come to the states as missionaries rather than vice versa. People here in Africa literally have absolutely NOTHING and they still sing praises to God and glorify Him in what they do. Prayer here is taken to a different level; God is the only thing some people have. They have to FULLY rely on prayer because they have no means to fix things themselves. Where as in America so often we will pray for something and then find a way to take care of it on our own after we have prayed. Even the churches here don’t have much you sit in plastic lawn chairs in a building that is half open but yet they serve as missionaries to surrounding slum areas or to churches in the bush. Your offering truly is an offering to God in that it goes to further His kingdom, not your own church. Today in church 4 ladies where there from a surrounding slum that the church is helping out. They live in huts that have old bed sheets as the roof and they take care of 40 children who have lost their parents to aids. So the church every other week takes food and the weeks in between goes to help teach English so that they can read the Bible. You can truly see the hand of God working in this country through people like this who go out and serve even though they are poor themselves. It is pretty amazing to be in the presence of people who are so passionate about serving.
Let us remember James 1:22---Be doers of the word, and not hearers only.
