Radical Sertao
Spiritual Warfare in Olho dAgua January 2019
"Spiritual Warfare has been Very Great"
Spiritual Warfare in Olho d’Agua
Radical Sertao – Special Message from the Front Lines: Olho d’Agua, Jan 16, 2019:
Brethren, the spiritual warfare in Olho d’Agua has been very great, as I have not seen in a long time. This is a hard city for the Gospel, evil oppression, two deaths in the early days, and strong opposition of the Catholic church.
The priest of the city set up a whole scheme of confrontation against our work, even the people of the city are surprised and criticizing his position: there is never a Mass on Saturdays, but the priest invented a Mass last Saturday at the time of our inaugural service. The primary site of events in the city square opposite the Catholic Church, (as in most of the country towns). The priest prolonged the mass so that that even the Catholics were surprised.
The priest also summoned two other priests from other cities to come along with 40 young people who began Sunday to visit from home between Noon and 2 p.m., before our visits (which start at 2:00), with masses and other activities in various places of the city. Today we did not hold the service in the square because the priest set up equipment in the neighboring square for an outdoor mass. We changed our plans and made services in the houses instead of being in the square.
God began today to break the barriers and dismantle the spiritual opposition. The five services of tonight in the houses were very blessed, five decisions for Christ, dozens of attentive people. In the middle the services it began to rain torrentially and people opened their houses for our workers to enter their homes for shelter and they sympathetically heard the Gospel.
In one home our evangelists stayed on the balconies of the houses with their residents watching the worship that happened in one of the neighboring balconies. He gave more people in these house services than in the square! God reversed the situation and blessed it extraordinarily! There were five decisions for Christ tonight. This afternoon there was a manifestation of evil possession on one of the streets of the city and Jesus freed the poor man whose life the devil has been spoiling for years. Pray for him that the work be complete, his name is Givanildo. Hallelujah!
Pray, pray, pray for us. Hugs!