Send us Lord…..
Being on the road as a member of the rally team wasn’t always great but we had the privilege of seeing Scripture come alive. Scriptures like, the joy of the Lord is my strength, God honours obedience more than sacrifice, unless the labourers work with and under God they work in vain.
What I learnt about God is that God just is. God can work with and without man. God brought me to a place where I realised it’s not the dancing or the dramas that drew the kids to him but He draws, by using the dancing and the dramas. From that I learnt that you have to take your quiet
times and devotions very seriously and your first priority is seeking God. So that when you perform you become invisible and your maker is visible.
In one school in Letlhakane, I counselled a lot of troubled young ladies, some had been raped, and when they reported no one believed them, not even their parents because of their past lives, some where abandoned by their parents and others were without parents. These kids had nothing and they were hurting, and you’d think they would want nothing to do with God and we had to tell them God loves you, that was hard. But this is where I realised that God works when and where he wants because these were the very same girls who came crying, saying “I don’t understand it but when you were performing I felt something different and I want it” Wow! Not man but God. Now they are walking with God and their lives are not perfect but a lot better than before.
It’s very easy to adopt these kids and you can’t help but love them and when they find Christ they don’t want to let go of him because they have found life. Even when they get off track, they never go back as far as they were before.
It was really awesome going back to the schools and finding students with worn out abstinence pledge cards from last year and they were still walking with God. They are proud of themselves. Abstaining has become cool in the schools and it is cool.
Pastor Norman talked about prayer and how prayer back home made a big difference for the volunteers on the field. That is so true. The spiritual war fare was so tangible this year and it can only be the hand of God that took and lead the rally teams all around the country safely. God woke us up one night at 3a.m to pray because we had forgotten that we were in the fore front. Every time we did a rally God broke down walls and the devil threw stuff at us but the prayers of the saints were at work way before we started. Thank you for the prayers and the encouraging smses. Please send more next year and the year after that.
Living a life of moral purity is impossible in the eyes of man but nothing is impossible with God. There is evidence of God’s marvellous works and I am glad to have been a tea spoon in his kitchen
My testimony of Face the Nation 2008
By Onnetse (Kez) Samagabadi
Saturday the 3rd August 2008 saw FTN 2008 volunteers gathered together for the last time.