Written by Jenny
Well, here we are almost a week since the last post and wow, how things have changed! Even as you begin to read this post, I just want to already ask you to begin to PRAY HARD for Maria and her family!!!!
OK, so Maria was off Monday so she could take her kids to the first day of school. Tuesday when she got here, right off she told me she had bad news. The look on her face startled me. I sat down and asked her what was going on. She said that she won't be able to work for us anymore after this week!!!! I was shocked and asked her what happened. With tears running down her face, she told me this story:
Thursday (THE VERY DAY SHE HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST TO US IN HEARING MORE FROM THE WORD OF GOD), she gets home and her husband had had a "cleaning" by some lady his mom had brought over (Maria and her kids live with her husband's parents). Maria got angry and asked why he had done that without talking to her first. Well, then on Friday she gets home and her 3 kids (the same ages as our boys (7, 6, 4) are all wearing these necklaces with a charm on it with the face of "Santa Muerte" (Saint Death)! The lady from Thursday had returned!! to give the kids these charms and filled their sweet impressionable young minds with a bunch of garbage about the "power" of this Saint. Maria's daughter said that now if she sees a spider, for example, she just holds up the charm and the spider will go away!
Well, obviously Maria got very upset. And she told me that her oldest son was being real disobedient to her and kept telling her things the lady had said. She finally got the kids to take the charms off that night!! After taking them off, her oldest son said his chest was hurting where the charm had been and that the lady had said he would hurt if he ever took it off! Her daughter woke up that night scared, crying for her mom to "protect her from that man!"
So, right then as Maria told us, we asked her if we could pray and she said sure. John and I both prayed for her and her whole family by name!! I was so encouraged, for that moment, that this was bringing Maria even closer to the Lord! And we really felt like she was being forced to quit working for us. In fact, she was crying telling us how much she loved working here and loves our kids!! I felt so sorry for her!
Well, that soft Maria is no more! Today, she came and was totally different. We had offered for her kids to come here after school and for her youngest to come to work with her if she wanted while she figured things out. I asked her if she had decided to do that. Her face was totally different as she told me the kids would be fine with her husband! And she never mentioned anything else all day!
So, only the Lord knows what is going on at their house and what is being said, but I know this is spiritual warfare! It's a pretty effective blow by the enemy as he is taking a very interested person out of a believing home AND leaving us in a huge difficult place as we are ready to begin home school Sept. 5 and are in full time language learning (Maria is my main language helper, my only, in fact!!). I really have no idea how we would manage without a full time helper! I have been tempted to worry today and fret over this, but John has been so good to remind me to be faithful in God! God is sovereign and He is way bigger than this!
PLEASE PRAY FOR MARIA AND HER SALVATION!!!!!!!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR HER HUSBAND'S HEART TO SOFTEN TOWARD THE LORD!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR HER CHILDREN TO BE PROTECTED FROM THESE LIES FROM THE DEVIL!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR A HELPER FOR US!
This is so serious! We, all of us Christians, are at war with Satan, who hates God and hates us! Please pray! Thank you!
If you're interested, here's a quick video about Santa Muerte! This is not Catholic! And very dangerous!!
Well, here we are almost a week since the last post and wow, how things have changed! Even as you begin to read this post, I just want to already ask you to begin to PRAY HARD for Maria and her family!!!!
OK, so Maria was off Monday so she could take her kids to the first day of school. Tuesday when she got here, right off she told me she had bad news. The look on her face startled me. I sat down and asked her what was going on. She said that she won't be able to work for us anymore after this week!!!! I was shocked and asked her what happened. With tears running down her face, she told me this story:
Thursday (THE VERY DAY SHE HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST TO US IN HEARING MORE FROM THE WORD OF GOD), she gets home and her husband had had a "cleaning" by some lady his mom had brought over (Maria and her kids live with her husband's parents). Maria got angry and asked why he had done that without talking to her first. Well, then on Friday she gets home and her 3 kids (the same ages as our boys (7, 6, 4) are all wearing these necklaces with a charm on it with the face of "Santa Muerte" (Saint Death)! The lady from Thursday had returned!! to give the kids these charms and filled their sweet impressionable young minds with a bunch of garbage about the "power" of this Saint. Maria's daughter said that now if she sees a spider, for example, she just holds up the charm and the spider will go away!
Well, obviously Maria got very upset. And she told me that her oldest son was being real disobedient to her and kept telling her things the lady had said. She finally got the kids to take the charms off that night!! After taking them off, her oldest son said his chest was hurting where the charm had been and that the lady had said he would hurt if he ever took it off! Her daughter woke up that night scared, crying for her mom to "protect her from that man!"
So, right then as Maria told us, we asked her if we could pray and she said sure. John and I both prayed for her and her whole family by name!! I was so encouraged, for that moment, that this was bringing Maria even closer to the Lord! And we really felt like she was being forced to quit working for us. In fact, she was crying telling us how much she loved working here and loves our kids!! I felt so sorry for her!
Well, that soft Maria is no more! Today, she came and was totally different. We had offered for her kids to come here after school and for her youngest to come to work with her if she wanted while she figured things out. I asked her if she had decided to do that. Her face was totally different as she told me the kids would be fine with her husband! And she never mentioned anything else all day!
So, only the Lord knows what is going on at their house and what is being said, but I know this is spiritual warfare! It's a pretty effective blow by the enemy as he is taking a very interested person out of a believing home AND leaving us in a huge difficult place as we are ready to begin home school Sept. 5 and are in full time language learning (Maria is my main language helper, my only, in fact!!). I really have no idea how we would manage without a full time helper! I have been tempted to worry today and fret over this, but John has been so good to remind me to be faithful in God! God is sovereign and He is way bigger than this!
PLEASE PRAY FOR MARIA AND HER SALVATION!!!!!!!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR HER HUSBAND'S HEART TO SOFTEN TOWARD THE LORD!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR HER CHILDREN TO BE PROTECTED FROM THESE LIES FROM THE DEVIL!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR A HELPER FOR US!
This is so serious! We, all of us Christians, are at war with Satan, who hates God and hates us! Please pray! Thank you!
If you're interested, here's a quick video about Santa Muerte! This is not Catholic! And very dangerous!!
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