Monday, February 14, 2011 – It’s War!!

Today we spent the morning at Queens, praying, reading scripture and singing worship songs.  We decided to seek God in prayer and as well as pray for our project and everyone it will effect, since we can’t start our project yet.  After dropping off some things at the school, we got on a minibus to Queens.  Or so we thought, we ended up getting on the wrong bus and going all the way to Limbe!  We felt stupid.  Thankfully, we managed to get on a bus heading back to Blantyre and it dropped us off at Queens along the way.  We were stressed because it made us a half hour late to meet Abigail, but at that point what can you do?  Once we got there and found a nice place to sit on the front lawn, we settled down and had a time of prayer.  We read about Joshua and the battle of Jericho in the Bible and found the story very similar to our own situation.  Queens Hospital is like Jericho and we are praying (instead of marching), praying that the walls of Queens, not the literal walls, but the walls of spiritual darkness surrounding the hospital fall so we can conquer Queens for God!  The morning prayers and worship time was very, very powerful. 

The afternoon was not so good, random things kept occurring that made running errands more difficult than they needed to be.  In the end, we were frustrated and discouraged.  However, we realized that Satan was retaliating because of what we did this morning.  When you are fighting a battle and shoot at the enemy, they will shoot back!  We are fighting a spiritual battle and the war has just begun!