Kelly Chadwick, the Director of our Real Life ministries, and recently returned from Kenya. While there, she heard an amazing story of a man who said he would only believe in God if God would end the drought. And so God sent rain…
Two days after our Real Life Kenya team hit African soil, they were given a few tents and sent into the bush with the Maasai tribe for a week. Their assignment? Door to door evangelism. (Well, maybe hut to hut is more accurate!)
So they headed out, confident in the Lord if not in themselves. But for several groups, they were met with a less than favorable response. It seemed nobody was all that interested in hearing about Jesus, and instead could only talk about rain. They’d experienced a drought for several months and finally one man became downright disrespectful before putting it bluntly, ‘If there is a God, why hasn’t He brought rain for so long?’
As the team looked into this man’s eyes their discouragement turned into determination and they prayed for rain. They prayed for rain as if this one man’s life depended on it. And sure enough, that night, the skies opened up and did it ever rain. In fact, it rained for 3 days straight until finally, on the last night, their tents flooded and their mattresses started floating away. When it finally stopped long enough for them to leave their shelter, they went back out and stumbled across this same man.
He didn’t seem to want to get too close and they could see the fear in his eyes. When they finally approached them, he said, ‘I’ve searched up and down this valley for someone who could bring the rains and nobody’s been able to do it. I don’t know who your God is, but if he can control the rain, then I want to know him.‘ So the team prayed with him and praised God that He is not only the God of our salvation, but also a God who can send the rains.
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