ABS Happenings:
ABS does not stand for Anti-Lock Brake System with the yellow light on the dashboard of your car, but for our Anaji Bible Study. As we go visiting it doesn’t seem so successful, but I believe God Blesses “GO” because it is Obedience to His Command of the Great Commission. Also Sowing His Word is Seed that will make an Eternal Difference in the Ground that Receives It. To “GO” does not only mean to just go down streets knocking on doors, but also GOING and SOWING the GOSPEL SEED in every turn and aspect of life. One day out on visitation with my family Joseph and I were walking down a path across a soccer field where there was a soccer team sitting, waiting on the soccer team that they were to play. While they were sitting there I got to talk with them about the Gospel for about a half hour. On visitation I usually don’t speak to a group of people, I rather speak one on one, because most of the time someone is clowning around and the people are not sober minded, but in this case they all were listening well. The Gospel was Presented/Sown and many of them made a profession of Faith in Christ. The most affective way of Soul winning in these times, I believe, is what we do, teaching others through a process of time that they are not Worthy of Heaven, that no Work of theirs will get them to Heaven, and about Why they Need Salvation to get to Heaven, and the Only Way to Heaven. People in today’s world really do not think they are bad enough, that Judgment is not real or that it is not of God. At the beginning of October Prince and I put our Anaji Bible Study Sign Up. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I spend must of the day at the Bible Study going over and preparing Bible Lessons for the Deaf School and the Old Testament Survey Class that I’ve started, Practicing Signing for our Deaf School. Pray with us that things that we’ve done will spark an interest. We have had 2 men drop-in passing by at different times saying they will come. Their names are Johnny and Benjamin. Last Sunday Evening for Bible Studies we had 2 ladies come. The older lady is named Elizabeth, and the younger lady is named Abigail. Abigail, Jackie invited. She is about 16. Sunday evening she was very intent in listening to the teaching I had taught. Pray for them and us as we “GO,” Seeking The Lost!!!
School Services and Other Miscellaneous News:
In September we had Devotions at the Anaji Public School for the Junior High. Hopefully, the school will allow us to resume that in the New Year. We are trying another avenue into the Anaji Public Schools, Prince has been allowed to go to their elementary school on Friday mornings to have devotions with them. We hope to get in the door by the New Year. At the end of September the Deaf School of Sekondi resumed their classes. The Sunday Morning Bible classes that we have with them are going very well, even the devil showed up last week. A Muslim teacher with a twisted definition of Christianity as would be expected, but his understanding is also twisted in part of seeing what the Country of Ghana displays as Christianity. When God is working the Devil is sure to show up! I’m excited, my class seems to be excited, even some of the teachers are coming and excited. They are helping explain to the students my Bible Lesson, my Review Questions, and my Lessons To Learn from the Story just taught that is written down on the Chalkboard. Pray for Salvations and more in roads there. On October the 6th my family and I went to a Naming Service where I preached the Morning Service and did the Naming Ceremony. The sister of the Pastor’s wife came and received Christ as her Savior, Praise the Lord! It was nice to visit and see another work from a former Missionary to Ghana that is pastored by a Ghanaian National.
Baby Naming Ceremony
Resent Revival:
CBBC in Sekondi, Pastor Prince’s Church, had me preach their Revival Services Oct 27-30. The two words that were my Theme, Thought, and Focus were: Our “NEED” and Our “FRUITFULNESS”. The messages were: What Soul-Winning Brings; The Documented Command To “GO” & It’s Principles; OurRedemption, Explained; “GO’s” Pursuit; Our Attitude, Is A Game Changer; and Finishing The Formula For Fruitfulness. Because I was the speaker for the Revival, Sunday night CBBC came over for their Service to the Anaji Bible Study so I would not have to leave the new work. We had 3 visitors from Anaji come: Perbi, Abigail, and Elizabeth. Hearts were challenged and God is still at work.
Bits Of Bread:
Jeremiah said, “Why Will Ye Die,..? ”Pleading to Judah to not listen to Hananiah, the false prophet who came in the name of the Lord, but was LYING to them –Jeremiah 27:13-15. Liars Afflict Those Who DON’T LISTEN to the TRUTH.
~~~HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!~~~
Matthew J Siekbert
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