Lika

Lika and I spent a long time talking yesterday afternoon. A couple of hours. I challenged her with her need for salvation and gradually through discussion discovered that she didn't really see the difference between how she lives and being a Christian. She prays. She reads her Bible and goes to church sometimes. She's a good person. I did my best to explain to her the difference between knowing someone and being part of their family, but I'm not sure I succeeded. She is a very reserved person so it is hard to tell. In any case, I do know that she understood that I feel she is missing it and that there is a lot more than what she has.
Pray that God would use my words and the words of other people who are challenging her to push her over the edge. She really just needs to take this leap of faith and repent. Some things you cannot understand until you do them.

She's also got some other big problems in her life that are controlling her in many respects and she is living in fear. Please pray that she would get saved so that the peace of God could be in her heart.

Calling for Prayer

I didn't sleep very well last night. For some reason I am having great urgency about the need to talk to Lika about getting saved. She's lived with me for 2 and a half months and now just out of the blue, all of a sudden, I have such great urgency to talk to her about this that I feel compelled to do so!
I am going to go over to her apt. around 1ish (my lunch break) to talk to her. I know that she will probably be there alone and that I have a better chance of being able to talk to her about this there, than when we are at home (at my place) with her mum and Carmen around.
Most of you probably won't read this before then, but for those who do...please pray for the right words and that Lika would respond. This will not be the first time someone has challenged her to get saved.
For those of you who read this later, you can still pray for God's work in her heart. I don't know how she'll respond today. I do know that God has been at work, although since she is a reserved person it is difficult to tell what she is really feeling or thinking. Pray that whatever happens today that God would use my words in her life and the love that He gives her through me. That this conversation would bring her closer to Him rather than turn her away from Him.
I just feel so burdened about this right now and I don't understand the urgency of it, but am praying that He will use it for His glory and her salvation!

Like a kid at Christmas...

A friend of mine came back from Canada on Friday and brought some things I had requested. Like peanut butter, marshmallows and wheetbix, to name a few! I feel so rich! I truly do feel like a kid at Christmas. And not a little guilty when I saw the pile of stuff he brought for me. Made me wonder if he had any room for stuff for his own family--well, not quite.

And here is a fresh pic of me: eating fish! Lika has converted me. I still don't know how to prepare fish, but I'm quite learning to enjoy eating it.