SUDAN: JESUS OUR PERFECT SAVIOUR!

"We are in Africa among the poorest of the poor, because we love seeing what our perfect Saviour can do! For example, there's Elaina, a fifteen-year-old when she was brought to our Iris Ministries Base in Yei, Sudan, by the UN. She escaped to the Sudanese border after she had been abducted and brutalized by the LRA in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was tortured, saw people killed in front of her and was tied to trees for days. When she arrived she could barely sit up, had no use of either hand, scars all over her body and a faraway look of fear and pain in her eyes. Two months later she was back with her family in Aba, DR Congo, healed and restored in Jesus with nearly full strength back in both her hands. One by one we keep seeing victims of Satan's cruelty brought back to life, healed inside and out." Other Iris Ministries workers in South Sudan mailed these testimonies: 1. "Two of our students went to visit one of our neighbours. Everyone in his family was seriously ill. God gave him a dream the night before that two men would come to pray with them and he saw Jesus coming with them. The next day our students turned up. The man was beside himself that strangers would come and pray. Everyone was healed!" 2. "Prison officials have been asking for prayer. When we were there, many prisoners came forward to be released from the pains in their bodies. We prayed for a man who was hurting all over his body. He had been in prison for six years, falsely accused he said. The moment he chose to forgive his accuser, the pain left." 3. "God is healing so many people, that the hospital which was full the last 3 - 4 weeks is now almost empty! There were very few sick people left to pray for. The nurses did not only ask for prayer, but for teaching to learn how to pray for their patients! One woman was lying lifeless in the wards on the floor. She wanted to die and took poison that left her blind, deaf, and unable to talk or walk. The team prayed for her. Then they moved on to pray for a few more cases. On the way out of the ward, they met her again. She could see, hear and walk, and introduced herself as Rose." 4. "About a month ago we took notice of about 500 police officers in training just near to our compound. It turned out that they were coming from all over our state. One of our team members was heavily burdened for them and began to pray. One day we were driving by and there was an overwhelming sense to stop. So we did and one of our leaders, John, jumped out and went and met the lead commander. The commander asked: 'Where have you been? We need someone to tell us what to do with all the demonic attacks.' They invited us to come back and share the Good News with all officers. When we preached, many of them decided to follow Jesus. We will baptize them in our local, all-purpose community pond!" [Missionaries Roland and Heidi Baker report from South Sudan, JOEL NEWS INTER-NATIONAL 787 / 15 September 2011].