I began this blog several days ago, but decided to not write it. I didn't want to alarm anyone. But then, the more the thoughts swirled around in my head, the more I realized that we need extra prayer warriors doing battle.
Here's the deal. After some reflection, we have come to the conclusion that the enemy is launching an attack upon the work here in Costa Rica. Good things are happening, and he's not happy about it. People are coming to the Lord, new groups are being started, and the Spirit is working in lives. When this happens, satan goes to work too.
In the last few weeks one missionary family has had it's house robbed; another missionary was driving home with her teenage son when they were forcibly stopped and the car taken, leaving them on the side of the road. Some of the families in language school are having difficulties; there has been instances of equipment being broken, and plans have either fallen through or had to be altered.
A couple of days ago I was riding my motorcycle down from the village where we work with a family. There is one particularly bad stretch of road...no pavement, really rough, deep erosions. This is the dry season so the road has kind of powdery dust on it. I was going around a car, very slowly, when it veered toward me. I quickly backed off, but hit some loose dirt on a slope and fell over. No injury, but bent a bracket on the moto, which I didn't notice until I had gone a ways, heard the sound of something rubbing, and saw that a bolt was digging into the tire. No big deal, but another in what seems to be a series of events of varying degrees of seriousness.
Praise the Lord, no one has been hurt and most of the "happenings" have been fixable or of little consequence, but it just seems that an inordinate number of these things are occurring.
So....please pray for God to surround His work here with strong protection and ask that the enemy not be able to thwart the growth of the kingdom, to the glory of our Lord.
