The Spirit is Moving Through the Women's Retreat

Today we received to separate updates from CLC members who are traveling with the Outreach Team. Both ladies are involved with the Women's Outreat Team. They have wonderful news to share!

FROM CASSANDRA:

What an experience!!! We are finished with the 4th day of the Women's Retreat - believe it or not! The ladies have been responsive. We were repeatedly told - at home and here - that they would not; could not, but they have been very responsive. All your prayers were worth it! On Tuesday, I asked those to come forward who had never asked Jesus Christ into their hearts. Ten ladies came forward!!! One of the ladies that I prayed with said she had said the prayer before, but she had "gone way, way far away from God, and I want to come back to Him!" The next day she asked for a couple more booklets because two women could not come because they had to work, and she was going back and telling them what she had learned that day.

We went to a homestead where a wife and husband and six children lived. The father has been walking on crutches for the last 20+ years. It was absolutely amazing to see him walk up the mountain to his house on crutches! He said he never saw God's blessings before his ailment, but since then God has been so good to him!!! I said to his wife, "We have two more days of retreat." She said, "No, I want five more days!"

By the way - it is still Winter here! When we got here, it was in the 30's! We were sooooo cold. We have had no heat in the room we are staying!!! It is colder in the mountains.

Don't stop praying Intercessors - we have one more day to go. Thank you, again, soooooo much for your prayers. I could honestly 'feel' them!!!


FROM STACEY:

The women's retreat has been far more incredible than any of us had ever imagined. All along the way people were telling us, even the pastors, that the women, especially the ones that only spoke Saswati, would be very reluctant to open up and share. That it would take several days of the retreat to get them to respond. However the Lord decided to totally move in all of them...it was as if someone had taken a bottle of water and just poured it out all over the place.
They were talking the very first day, even about things that were personal and difficult to talk about. Every single day I go in there thinking, "ok God, I am so emotionally tired...I hope that today is good too." And He ends up doing something even greater than the day before

The women worship so beautifully and with such power of the Spirit.
They are responding with excitement and joy to everything Cassandra is teaching them, sometimes they just randomly burst into song. One woman gave her testimony and became so moved during it that she began to cry and could not continue. The other women all started to praise Jesus with loud and joyful voices to comfort her so she could finish. On the second day, atleast 10 women either came to accept Jesus as Savior or said they had turned away from God and now wanted to come back.

We have been praying constantly that these women would hear with their hearts, that they would be truly repentant, that there would be no veil over their hearts, that God would bring to us rich soil that would produce real fruit. As far as we can tell these women who are crying out to God are coming to Him with full sincerity of soul. We can all feel the Holy Spirit moving through them. We have reiterated and reiterated that we must accept Jesus not only with our words and minds but also with our heart and it must bring about genuine repentence and a change of behavior. That we should put off our old selves and walk with Jesus as our only God. Today we talked about forgiveness because many of the women had admitted to us that one thing they are having trouble with is forgiving people who have hurt them. Some of them were crying very hard as we all prayed that God would help us to forgive.

God has been awsome. Once, after worship the women all started praying very loud in Saswati and it became louder and louder until I felt almost that I was witnessing pentacost, so tangible was the presence of the Spirit moving in them, and I was so overwhelmed I had to sit down.

Please continue praying and praising God for the incredible faithfullness He has shown in answering our prayer, even more than we had expected or asked He would do. "