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Gifts

Increasingly, I receive sacrificial love gifts from the people: A trip I took in August of 2005, I received 3 gifts of cloth, 2 gifts of clothes, pictures; and the food of: coconuts, peanuts, bananas, cassava, oranges, chicken, turkey wings, beans, eggs, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, avocados.  Sometimes I receive what they call 'prophet's offerings'.  One of the last times this happened, the pastor announced that I would be willing to lay hands upon and minister to the person or persons who brought the largest offering.  "The man of God will minister to you, if you bring, such and such amount of money."  I told the pastor that I would be willing to lay hands upon, and embrace anyone who came, money or not.  And, so we did.  They came, put their money in the basket, or not, and received my blessing or embrace.

TRIP: Feb/Mar: 2006 with Michael Robin, married to Kari:

We depend so very much on God for our finances for these trips. After sending out nearly 300 letters of appeal and making personal appeals for the dear ones in Africa, we found ourselves with very little to take with us for the dear ones there.  The situation was so bleak that I called our main host, Elijah Bankole, to ask him if we should cancel our trip.  He told us that the people were waiting for us, and that we should come, by faith, believing that God would supply.  So, we forged ahead.

On Friday before the Wednesday we were to leave, the postman delivered to us our passports and visas.  The only problem was that the overnight postal envelope had become worn and had developed a tear on one end.  The visas were not there, nor were the passports.  They had become lost in the mail!!!  By the time we checked out the obvious places the post office might have left them, the week-end had come.  On Monday before the Wednesday we were to leave, 'day after tomorrow', we spent the day confirming that the passports were not able to be recovered, so, at the last minute we flew to New York.  Keep in mind:  we are to leave in two days! 

Monday night, arrive in New York, where we are greeted by the driver for our friend, Dr. Jo Omeokwe, a pastor and a math professor in the New York College system, who for years, has expedited our obtaining of visas for Nigeria.

Tuesday morning in New York: (We are to leave the next afternoon from Minneapolis!)  The Nigerian Embassy told us the they could not help us until we obtained a passport.  I called the U.S. Passport people, who told us that we could not get an appointment for days.  Michael Robin called the same people and we were given an appointment for 2 P.M. that same day!!  We had our passports in hand that same day!  We rushed to the Nigeria Embassy and were told to return at 9 the next day, in New York, the same day we were scheduled to fly out of Minneapolis!  At that point we had to make a last minute decision: whether to risk $3,000 that we would forfeit if we could not make our next day's flight, or to cancel, and, perhaps reschedule, to be on the safe side.  We decided to risk everything, hoping that God would do the impossible, by 1) getting our Nigerian visas the next morning, in time to make our 10:50 a.m. flight to Minneapolis, in time to catch our 3 something P.M. flight to Africa.  We received our passports at the Nigerian visas in Manhattan at 10 A.M.  Normally, it takes nearly an hour and a half to get to the Kennedy airport.  We made it in about 20 to 25 minutes!!!  They were just making the last call, and were ready to close the gate when we rushed up.  Karen and Kari did our last minute shopping and packing, picked us up at the Humphrey Airport in Minneapolis, and rushed us to the main terminal in Minneapolis.  We ran for the gate, and arrived, just as they also were making the last call at the gate.  When we sat down in the airplane, we looked at each other in amazement, and rolled our eyes, wept tears of joy!

We ministered all the way over, on the plane, including the airport in Amsterdam. 

Ministry to Chaplains

In Nigeria, we ministered to chaplains, about 150 of them, on Marriage and Family.  I taught them the difference between a marriage that may only be "Christian", as contrasted with a marriage that is "Kingdom", that is, a marriage where the couple relate to each other as Christ the King of Everything, wants them to relate.  I talked to them about a Kingdom Husband who is loving, tender, gentle, right spirited, with the fruit of the Spirit, and who is servant hearted.  I gave them a commission from John 13 where Jesus thrice commanded us to wash each other's feet.  The husbands present were given the charge to go home and wash the feet of their wife.  Later the 70 year old arch bishop, founder, president and general in charge of the chaplain's association, went home, knelt at the feet of his wife, and washed her feet!!!  I was mightily impressed, and, so was his wife!

SAVED FROM THE CUTTING!!

One of the most gratifying things was to hear two first hand testimonies of two baby girls who had been saved from the cutting, because of our book on female circumcision.  An Anglican priest, Brother Segun, took it upon himself, with permission, to print two thousand of these in memory of his late wife, and we have been getting these books out, through spheres of influence, to the dear ones who can and do do something about the matter.

Songs

To enable me to be able to remember better, certain verses of Scripture I set to music and song.  Many of the verses that I often refer to while preaching the Gospel of The Kingdom.  Here are some of them:

Ps. 16:8 & Ps. 16:11

Ps. 37:7,8

Ps. 91:1-4

Ps.135:20,21

Ps.136:1 & Ps.136:3

Mt. 5:48

Mt. 6:33

Mt. 7:21

Mt.24:13 & Mt.24:14

Ro. 6:6 & Ro. 6:11

1 Co.15:57

1 Co.16:23

2 Co.1:3 & 2 Co.1:12

2 Co.2:14

2 Co.3:18

2 Co.9:8

Gal. 2:20

Eph.5:20

Ph.4:13

1 Th.1:1

He.13:15

While I am able to go to Africa, the stories will continue!  In the meanwhile, we all lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!

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