(NOTE- THERE IS IS A NEW BLOG THAT I POSTED CALLED--NO MORE RAMADAN. (BECAUSE OF THE DATE THAT I STARTED IT, IT IS A FEW POSTS BACK, JUST CLICK ON THE NAME ON THE BLOG TITLES)
Matilda is a 25 year old women that has been attending our Bible studies. She was raised as a Traditional Religious follower, and is related to Dora. She has attended our Sunday Morning Salvation Bibles and is very close to understanding salvation. I wrote about her husband a few blogs ago, he has trusted Christ, and we are hoping that she will soon join him.
The hardest things with Matilda has been that she has attended many Charismatic churches, which has hindered her progress. But, despite this she has been faithfully attending with her husband. It has been amazing along the way to she her taking baby steps.
Sunday was a great day! We where able to see alot of baby steps at one time, and it encouraged us. After our first hour of study time, Matilda gave my wife a booklet, and some papers that looked like tracts. At first my wife just thought that they where Pentecostal books that some many people here hand out, but she was surprised. Matilda works at a transportation station. She sellers cokes and energy drinks off a buck on her head, to help her family with money. The station is very busy, and the work bring in pretty good money. Well, on Saturday, she saw a man handing out booklets and he when he came to where she was selling, he asked her what church she went to. She told him that she was a Baptist. After hearing her answer, he told her that he was a Baptist also. He gave her a booklet, and some tracts. When she showed the booklet to Patty on Sunday, Patty read the back. And not only was the national man a Baptist, he had been lead to Christ and trained by a Fundamental Missionary in Nigeria (he was a Nigeria on a trip to Ghana). It was a great testimony to her, and it helped to encourage her to take more steps to faith in Christ.
The other amazing thing that we have seen in her life, even before her salvation, has been a teachable spirit. A few weeks ago we finished teaching about tongues speaking. As we finished our study on 1 Corinthians 14, we showed that God forbids women to speak in tongues. In the passage it also talks about women asking questions in the church. The passage says that if a women is married and she has a question, she should ask her husband, and learn at home. After hearing this, Matilda, has started doing something very strange for a modern Ghanaian women. She has decided to submit to the teaching, and to her husband. Sunday when she had a question, she asked her husband first, and when he did not know the answer, she let him ask the church in her place. It was just so amazing to see. We had not pounded on this point, we had just made it in passing, in the weeks before. But, it was amazing to see her sensitive nature to the teaching. They are trying their best to learn. The encourage thing was that the question was about John chapter 3. They had been reading it together, Bismark had tried to explain it to Matilda, but she had not understood. She thought that it meant that she needed to be born again in the womb physically. She was confused. So we had a great opportunity to witness again about the gospel. It was great to see Bismark, nodding the whole time with understanding.
Please pray for her. My wife and I are hoping to get to speak with her about accepting Christ on Tuesday.
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