So as we have been continually praying for God's will to be done the devil has also been making his own plans to discourage. Because we feel that the Lord is calling us to full time ministry service, there will be many things like the incident below! This was my first experience with such a Spiritual attack and I know that it will not be my/our last!
Krista’s Testimony #1
There was a woman that bought some of our furniture that we are holding for her. She gave us a check for the items and then was going to bring cash today in place of the check. After her initial ‘purchase’ she found some other items she wanted and asked if I could hold those for her too and she would pay for those along with the other items Monday. Well, in my desperate attempt to get all this stuff sold, I ended up selling two pieces that I was holding for her (without the deposit) because I was able to get a better price! Yes, I know I shouldn’t have done it for one, and I should have called the woman to let her know I got a better price and to see if she would price match. But it was a crazy moment and I sold it without thinking clearly.
Well, the lady came by today to bring the cash in exchange for the check and for the other items and I informed her kindly that I ended up selling two of the items that I was holding for her because I got a better price. Well, she got completely irate and told me that I wasn’t any kind of a Christian and that I was a lost person essentially. I apologized over and over again, that I had realized my mistake after the fact and I should have called her before making the sale. She didn’t want to hear my apology and kept going on and on attacking me verbally. She said that she wasn’t going to buy the other pieces and I told her I understood that she could either buy them or not that it was my mistake. And she just kept going on and on attacking me. Well I couldn’t take it anymore. All this…no money, can’t pay rent, have to move, doing ministry on the road, having to sell almost everything we own…has been a bit stressful and I just broke. I started crying, explaining to her that I am desperately trying to sell all of our stuff so that we have this money to live on and that I just wasn’t thinking clearly. Well, apparently that got her attention because she stopped attacking me and began calming down.
Well, if that wasn’t enough she started telling me that God doesn’t forgive sin and that we are all doomed! Oh boy, was I in for it! I tried to explain to her that if we confess our sins that God does forgive us of our sins; that we are washed clean as snow with the blood of Jesus who died for us on the cross. Well, she kept saying that God doesn’t forgive sin because we all die. Needless to say we went round and round in our conversation. I tried many times to stop the conversation but she just wouldn’t let me. And I didn’t want to rudely throw her out of my house. Well, our discussion covered the fact that she believes that when Christ came and died for our sins , that at that time the 144,000 went to the Kingdom in the rapture. And that everyone will be in the Kingdom no matter what they did except for Judas. I explained that I believe that the Lord was coming back to take His righteous home at the second coming and that only righteous will be in heaven. But she said that no one is allowed in Heaven except for those 144,000 but that we will be in His Kingdom. Went round and round again. ( I really did try to not have a debate with her but she wouldn’t let up). So then she went on to say that what we are doing, going on the road and doing ministry wasn’t of the Lord. That He would never call people to do such a thing. I then said, well what about Abraham? The Lord asked him to leave Ur but didn’t tell him where he was going. Well, she shut me down right then and there and said that I couldn’t compare myself to Abraham! Wow! What a statement! I asked her why not? Did not Abraham sin? I have every right to compare myself with those in the Bible. Apparently that got through and she went on to another subject she needed to ‘discuss’. She then went on to ask a couple of other things and then why we went to church on Saturday. I explained to her that I believed that Saturday was the Sabbath. That God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. That He blessed that day and made it special. Well, then she began arguing that the 7th day isn’t actually Saturday but Sunday and that the Jews have been doing it wrong this whole time.
Well, she then proceeded to explain that there was a 7 day war and that it ended on Saturday so that the Jews could get ready for Sabbath, ‘Sunday’. I couldn’t get any more information other than its in history and that this proved that Sunday is the true Sabbath and not Saturday. She was also explaining that Sunday is the 7th day of the week and that Monday is the first. All this time I keep telling her that I really have to go; trying to get her to leave. All this took at least an hour or hour and a half. To be honest I can’t remember everything that was discussed but I tell, you there was so much more!
I tell you my friends, not until that very conversation did I realized just how much I have to learn about what my Bible says. And how I am so not prepared to try and explain some things to people! I brought my Bible out and we looked up a couple of verses but then she said that my Bible wasn’t good enough because it wasn’t the original Hebrew and Greek and that with the translations we are being taught false doctrine.
Well, then she wanted to go back to our ministry in the conversation and was saying that the world doesn’t need missionaries and that the Lord wouldn’t ask us to go out doing ministry work to try and reach people who don’t know about Jesus. But that God Himself can reach them just fine. I asked her what about the commission that God gave to His disciples, to go to all the Nations teaching and preaching? She couldn’t give me a clear answer on that but that it stopped at some point. She went on to say that in Jeremiah, it talks about how False Prophets go out teaching people false doctrine and how they went over land and sea to get there. She then said that these were missionaries who were all false prophets and that we are all doing the work of the devil! During this whole, complete conversation I am becoming more and more of an emotional wreck! I’m thinking, how can I get this woman out of my house, have I said anything to her that has sunk in, does she really think that I’m doing the devil’s work? It just would never end!
Friends, I am almost in tears while writing this… thinking of how many people have the wrong information and how it is up to us Christians to plant the seeds for God’s work so that He can and WILL come very soon! It is my responsibility to do what I can to be a missionary for God.
I am NOT a false prophet!! I believe that my Lord and Savior is coming soon and because I ask for forgiveness for my sins and I except Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I live the best to my ability to keep His Laws and Statutes I will be in Heaven one day!
The devil may have tried to convince me that I will be no good at trying to witness to others for the Lord. But he failed!!!!! I am even more convinced that the Lord wants us to do this work where we feel very strongly that we are to be doing traveling ministry. Although, I don’t have all the answers, I know now, how important it is to make sure I know my Bible more than I do and that no matter how much you do know your Bible, some people you just can’t reach!
Friends, please pray for us in our ministry! We have to be doing something right, for the devil to use this woman to get at me! To attack the very thing that our family is getting ready to do: to put our faith out there, knowing that the Lord will provide, not knowing where we are going what ministry we are doing, that we are giving up all our comforts for a life of camping and ministry (I don’t know about you, but being in the woods, listening to the birds sing and the wind blowing is very comforting to me! ) The Lord has put such a burden on our hearts that we need to help in finishing the work that Jesus left behind! We pray for direction in what we are to do in our ministry…..We need prayer warriors!
