Väckelsen bland de fattiga i Sydsudan

Medan kyrkan är rätt så stillastående i Sverige är Gud väldigt aktiv i världens nyaste land. Iris Ministries Sudan är en missionsorganisation som planterades 2006 av Heidi och Rolland Baker, ledare för Iris Ministries i Mozambique, och som sedan starten leds av glädjespridaren Michele Perry.

Michele beskriver hur utgångsläget inte är det enklaste men hur Gud förvandlar liv när det verkligen ser som mörkast ut:

• At $90 USD GDP per capita we are now the poorest nation on the planet
• We are also simultaneously one of the most expensive in the world: an apple can go for $2 or a mud hut for $1500USD/month to rent in some parts.
• We have 90% unemployment
• 90% of the population makes under $1/day
• We have 15 of the 16 of the world’s most deadly diseases
• There is approximately 1 doctor/500,000 people conservatively here
• We have the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, 1 in 6 women die in childbirth or due to related complications
• Anywhere from 1 in 2 to 1 in 4 children don’t live to see their 5th birthdays
• Regional drought and supply route interruptions has caused some food prices to more than double, if they are available at all.
• We top the worst of the worst in illiteracy, girl child education and well access to basic education in general.
• There are well over 1 million orphans here alone.
• Some estimate less than 3% of the population have a personal relationship with Jesus.

But these numbers are just the beginning of the story.  They tell the need, not the incredible opportunity to step into the unseen realm of God’s promises and see His unfailing love change the world around us.

The story of God’s miraculous provision, holy transformation, healing and freeing of a nation is just getting started.  The story of the supernatural realm of heaven coming once again to the last, the least and the lost, to those that know their need.

We think there is no better place to call home… a place where faith and trust in His goodness is not an option.  Please join us as we pray and trust for all of heaven to be manifest in our midst.  We love you and cherish your prayers!

Rolland Baker skriver i Iris senaste nyhetsbrev:

WE ARE IN AFRICA among the poorest of the poor because we love seeing what our perfect Savior can do! For example, here’s Elaina, a fifteen-year-old when she was brought to our Iris 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 DRCongo. She was tortured, saw people killed in front of her and was left for days tied to trees. 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.

I was with Michele Perry and the rest of our Iris family in Yei right after Elaina came. A few days later we caught her relaxed and happy, laughing with her new friends around her. Two months later she was back with her family in Aba, DRCongo, healed and restored in Jesus with nearly full strength back in her hands. One by one we keep seeing victims of Satan’s cruelty brought back to life, healed inside and out, a picture of the joy of Jesus. If there is hope in Jesus for Elaina, there is hope for anyone, anywhere!

Jesus has been busy in Yei, as He has been everywhere in our Iris world. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses! Around the time of my last visit to Yei our Iris Revival School students reported in a few days this sampling:

VISITATION: Two of our students went to visit one of our neighbors, a catholic man. Everyone in his family was seriously sick. God gave him a dream the night before that two men would come to pray and he saw Jesus coming with them. Next day our students turn up. The man is beside himself that strangers would come and pray when his church would not. Everyone was healed.

PRISON: The officials have been asking for prayer too. Our team prayed over each room because of evil tormenting spirits and the demons left. Many prisoners came forward to be released from the pains in their bodies. When they chose forgiveness these pains left. Prayed for one man who was in pain all over his body. He had been in prison for 6 years falsely accused he says. The moment he chose to forgive his accuser the pain left with prayer.

HOSPITAL: God is healing so many people, 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 have been thanking our teams and asking not only for prayer but for teaching to learn how to pray for their patients!

HOSPITAL: There was a little 10-year-old girl stabbed in the back of the brain by a SPLA bayonet. Her whole body was seizing violently, eyes rolled back in her head, screaming in pain and the team prayed peace. She grew still immediately. John Sebit took the witchcraft charms from her mother and the girl began to scream again. John got face to face with her and told her to repeat a prayer of choosing Jesus after him. SHE DID! Stabbed in the brain and then suddenly lucid and able to focus and pray out loud. She is resting well.

HOSPITAL: One woman was laying lifeless in the wards on the floor. She wanted to die and took poison that left her blind, deaf, mute and unable to talk or walk. He stops with the team and prays for her. Then they move on to pray for a few more cases. On his way out of the ward, he runs into her: seeing, walking, hearing, she introduces herself as Rose.

HOSPITAL: One young boy had recently returned with his family from Khartoum in fear of the referendum. He fell out of a tree he was climbing and was left paralyzed and in pain, his legs twisted beneath him. Our students pray for him — his pain leaves, his legs straighten. They stand him up and he walks!

POLICE TRAINING: About a month ago we took notice of about 500 police officers in training just near to our compound. It turns out they are 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 key leaders, John jumped out and went and met the lead commander. He basically said, where have you been? We have needed someone to tell us what to do with all the demonic attacks. They invited us to come back and share with all of the students. So we took our our Revival School team and preached there. 495 of the 500 decided to follow Jesus, and we will be baptizing them all in our local, all-purpose community pond!

Här är några böneämnen:

• Please pray for the base in Yei which right now is having an outbreak of several serious sicknesses. Pray for healing, breakthrough and the eradication of the source of the sickness. Thank you so much! We thank Jesus for each of you who pray for us.
• Please pray for continued peace as South Sudan begins to be established as a new nation.
• For wisdom, love, grace and revelation for the senior leadership team of Iris Sudan and all the projects and regional leaders.
• For provision for all God has asked us to do.
• For an all out revival move of God’s Spirit that open’s heaven and changes earth that this nation will never be the same.
• For healing for Michele who has battled chronic health conditions since arriving, some life threatening and for protection for ALL our leaders and missionaries who are paying great prices to serve with us.
• For favor with God and man- especially government offices and when traveling!