“Just Listen and Obey?” – Mike & Sandy Kadera
“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 (NAS)
We shared with you all back in August how the Lord has been teaching us to listen and obey, sort of like the extension of the Lectio Divina practice that Pastor Rob has been teaching us. We started praying Jeremiah 33:3 over our condo complex every morning, asking God to move spiritually among our neighbors. Within two months one of the non-Christian couples asked us to teach them the Bible. And within two weeks the wife, Janet, received Christ and a week later her husband, German, also made his decision.
Sandy and I were ecstatic. The neighbors that we were only accustomed to waving at and greeting like nice neighbors do, were now our brother and sister in Christ. But God wanted to keep showing us more of those “mighty things”. A few weeks later Sandy just mentioned in passing to Janet that our church was starting a marriage enrichment class and that to promote it everyone was being encouraged to view a free movie over the internet. Immediately Janet asked for the link and said that she was going to ask German to watch it with her. He agreed and they are now in the midst a six week on line marriage/parenting course with 15 other couples, and they are thoroughly enjoying it. This is absolutely incredible because they are very private people and definitely not accustomed to talking about their lives with total strangers.
I guess Sandy and I are finally getting it. God wants to hear our requests, but big time. So the other day I asked the Lord to tell me what’s next and here is what He told me. German and Janet’s adult daughter, Melanie, who lives with them, is going to see such incredible changes in their family that at some point she is going to ask us, “What is happening with my parents?”
Mike and Sandy Kadera
Verbo Christian Ministries
Guatemala
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