A Letter from Timothy in Ghana - The first letter of
his second term in Ghana.
August 1, 2009
Greetings from Tarkwa!!
I wanted to send you all a quick update. I arrived here safely with all
my luggage without any difficulty. One potential problem: I forgot my
yellow-fever card!! But praise the Lord the officer didn't even notice!
And then when I went through customs with my big cart full of luggage, I
simply showed my Residence permit to the officer and without even
touching any of my bags he sent me right on my way! Thank you all for
your many prayers!
It's been great being back here and into the work. Always a joy seeing
old friends too! John and Austin have been doing well with the ministry,
exploring new villages and revisiting old ones. Yesterday we were
blessed to have Isaac finish our six month course! (Which is essentially
the five week course, just stretched over six months and only on
Saturday morning.) What really blessed us was he works for the mines
monday through friday and also has the option to work Saturday which
counts as overtime--meaning he gets paid double. However the last six
months he has made the great sacrifice to, instead, come and study the
Word.
Tomorrow we go into the third week of our current discipleship course,
we have three young students Richard, Mensah and Patrick.
We also just formatted and printed up and we have begun passing out a
new tract on "What really happened on the day of Pentecost," along with
one, "Stony heart, and heart of flesh." Brother James wrote them just
before leaving, they are evidence of the Lord giving us more and more
insight into the specific needs and strongholds present that need to be
addressed.
I also wanted to share a little something the Lord has been speaking to
me about. I was reading in Luke chapter 5:1-11, the story where Peter
goes out fishing all night, which is the best time for fishing, and
catches nothing. Then the Lord comes to him and tells "launch out into
the deep, and let down your nets for a draught."
Peter responds with "Master, we have toiled all night, and taken
nothing: nevertheless *at thy word* I will let down the net." And of
course they catch multitude of fishes, so much so that the nets begin to
break.
The thing that really stuck out to me is that the second time they went
out it seemed nothing was different, same lake, boat, nets etc.. But
there was one big difference: the second time, they went out with the
Word. The Word makes all the difference. We need a greater revelation of
Jesus. It's clear Peter received a greater revelation of Jesus, because
he saw himself more clearly: verse 8 says "When Peter saw it he fell
down at Jesus knees, saying, depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O
Lord."
The Lord continues to give me a greater revelation of Himself--and a
greater revelation of myself. We need more of Jesus! You can work all
night but he is the difference between catching nothing--or a
multitude!!
We are very excited and encouraged with what we see the Lord doing and
continue to covet your prayers!
I love you all and miss you already! Keep praying for more of Jesus!
Your son in the Lord--tim
Back with friends in Ghana... common meal. Back
to work... (friend being funny wearing helmet)
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