The Spiritual battles continue

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12

After the many encouragements and open doors from the past week, we had a major discouragement yesterday. When we arrived at the church building for morning services, we found that someone had broken into the building. They broke into all the offering boxes and stole the offering, took the sound system, and stole many other small valuable items. This was a major shock and mystery as we can not fully understand how they got in the building. The disappointment just reminds me that the spiritual battles continue. Satan is out to discourage and distract us from the many things that the Lord is doing.

On the other hand, the Lord is continuing to open doors with contacts we have made at these ESL classes and the family down the street. During the evening service at church yesterday, the father of the family down the street walked in 15 minutes before the end. Although he was late, the very fact that he took the effort to walk all the way down the street in dark, cold winter weather reflects genuine interest in spiritual things. For those of you at GBC, I am working on a little description of all the family members so that you can better pray for and get to know this family. Oh and by the way, little Bianca came home from the hospital today!

Until later,
Kristen