Our Journey Thus Far: March 11th

So once again this morning we didn't go to the morning service, this morning we didn't go because a family from church wanted to take us to a restaurant for lunch.  So we slept in and then our driver arrived to take us to the restaurant.  We arrived at the restaurant and it was surrounded by beautiful gardens and was an outdoor type restaurant.  I can't wait to show you all some photos!  We waited, and waited, and waited a while longer for the family to come.  Eventually they did, it so happened that our driver had taken us to the wrong restaurant!  We ate there anyways.  It was extremely nice, even in American terms it was a nice restaurant as far as atmosphere.  The food was alright, but not anything to brag a whole lot about.  We tried some ginger juice, which was the most interesting tasting stuff ever.  It would be good for someone who was sick but I don't know why anyone would want to drink it for enjoyment.  If any of you have ever tasted pure ginger root, it taste exactly like that only in thick liquid form.   I think the family who took us out was a little disappointed our driver had taken us to the wrong place because the other restaurant had much better food.  Oh by the way the family members who took us out were Jack and his wife Christine and then their son Israel who I am guessing was probably around Nat or I's age.  We also finally learned our driver's name!  His name is Matthew! Tomorrow we have been invited to go visit a family from church's house, the man(I can't remember his name!) is very excited for us to see it. He says the live like the Chinese in very small quarters with people and children everywhere.  After we got back from the restaurant we got ready for the evening service and then off we went.  Pastor Robinson preached the first half of the service and probably almost 200 more people came forward to accept Jesus!  Yay! So that was once again very exciting.  Then Bishop Jack got up to preach (I'm not really sure why he is called a Bishop?  Or what that even means?) he is so full of the Holy Ghost and he gave an awesome message on spirits that influence the church as a whole.  He spoke about; the Jezebel spirit,which is the spirit of witchcraft or control, It removes you from the place that God has assigned to you.(1 Kings 19 & 21)  The Absolam spirit, which the spirit of pride that cuts you off of God, it is a spirit of having false humility. (2 Samuel 15)  The Ahithophel spirit which is a critical spirit and has more faith in self than in God. (2 Samuel 15,16 & 17) The Shimel spirit which is a tribal spirit that is envious of leadership. (1 King 2:8, Genesis 38, 2 Samuel 5-7)  The final spirit that he spoke on was the Adonijah spirit which is the spirit that takes advantage of passive leadership and  excludes the prophetic giftings. (1 King 1) It was such an awesome message!  God is really moving in this church here, it is so exciting to see the transformation even in the little time that we have been here!   I can't wait to see what God continues to do!