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Enemy Attacks

Klint Ostermann • Feb 23, 2015

1 Peter 5:8b, “Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

A couple of weeks ago, I took part in a week-long Farming God’s Way outreach in three very rural villages. We not only taught them Farming God’s Way principles, helped them setup a demonstration garden, and helped many farmers setup their own fields using Farming God’s Way, but we also prayed with them, shared the Gospel, and ministered to them.

It became very evident that the adversary did not like us doing this in these villages. From the very beginning, we came under attack. The very first day we went out to the village, our van showed up an hour late making us late to the village we were serving. The van also had a short on the battery and we had to push start it several times. Some of the training participants had left by the time we arrived. We promised to arrive promptly on time the next day.

The second day, out van showed up a half hour late again because of a flat tire, and then the driver tried to cheat us on fuel expenses at the fuel station. Shortly after the fuel station, the driver was talking on his cell phone and ran a motorcycle off the road. The motorcycle driver recovered and sped ahead of us and stopped quickly in front of us, so our driver hit him. This then evolved into a fight between the van driver and the motorcycle driver in the middle of the road! Even though we promised to arrive on time, we were again 45 minutes late.

The next day, we secured a different van and driver, but this driver was a half hour late again, so we arrived late on the third day. This driver had a young man with him that ended up backing the van into a tree and shattering the rear window, so we had to get a third van and driver for the rest of the time.

The day we helped the farmers set up their garden, we circled around the garden to pray and there was a snake right at the feet of our head trainer. We killed it because we were not sure if it was venomous or not.

Other challenges we faced this week included: one of our people getting run off the road on his motorcycle by a taxi and having to go to the hospital, several of the trainers getting sick, the fuel station putting unleaded fuel in a diesel engine of one of our trainers, one of our trainers hitting his head, and the tarp we were training under constantly getting blown away.

The good news is that even though the adversary tried to disrupt our efforts, he didn’t win! You see, 1 Peter 5:8 says that he prowls around like a roaring lion. He is an impostor, trying to imitate a lion, but he is no match for the true Lion of Judah.  We had countless people praying for our efforts this week. James 4:7 says, “resist the devil and he will flee from you”. Praise God for all the great things that occurred this week in these 3 different villages! Praise God that the impostor didn’t win!

 

 

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