Our God is an Awesome God

Our God is an awesome God!!! These last few days since the weekend have been taken up with preaching in one rural location after another. In every place we have seen a very positive and open response to the word of God and so many testimonies of how it has impacted their lives and how they see this as a life changing moment. Surely God is with us and is moving on hearts. My prayer was that a fire would be lit in these locations that would spread beyond these churches to the region. We have seen that start and pray earnestly that the fire would spread.......We have seen conversions and many healings and I just want to share some of the ones that stood out. In the Village of Tulumba a man answered the altar call at the end requesting prayer. He was blind in one eye to the extent where he could not even see my hand in front of his face. You could tell there was something seriously wrong with his eye just by looking at it. After a short prayer Jesus healed him and restored his sight. {I was very happy. It was the first time I have ever witnessed that kind of miracle} The man's wife also testified and was overjoyed, dancing in the church. This was one of a number of significant miracles in the church.......We saw people come to Christ including one man in our very last service in Kitale who was walking past while the service was going on. He walked in and sat down during the preaching and at the end when we asked for testimonies he came forward to declare that he was a backslider of some years who had just recommitted his life to the Lord after God began to convict him deeply. There was no altar call or appeal for salvation. God was speaking to the man through the sermon about God's true purpose for his life.......We have received numerous testimonies from the crusade that shows it was far from in vain. I have heard from several people how they saw through the shallow self centred ministry that went on during Sunday and how they appreciated the word which God gave me. Nothing has been in vain. God has been faithful and he has given me the words to say every step of the way. Looking back this has been clearly a move of God and my main prayer now is that all those touched by God would continue with what He has done in their lives........It is impossible to give perfectly accurate figures for what has transpired but I have counted 24 confessions/commitments to faith from adults and an estimate of a further 230 from children {two hundred and thirty}. We have heard of and seen 27 miracles/confessions of healing and am sure that their are others beside these.....2013 has been a long year with many difficulties and challenges both before and during the mission but as I have had to trust God more deeply I have seen what He can do. Yet again I can only look back and say this is the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in my sight. God is awesome. Lives have been permanently changed. Sinners have repented and believed. The sick have been healed. A blind eye opened. The kingdom is going forward and our God is worthy of all the glory......Pray that every person who has made a confession of faith would hold true to it and see it through to the end and that every believer touched by the word would hold to it and spread His gospel far and wide. May the glory of the Lord be seen by more and more in Nairobi, Juba and western Kenya and may God bless every one of you for praying and standing in the gap for this mission.......Steve