Waiting on the Rain

As May comes in we are feeling the daily increases in temperature. And as the temperature increases we are reminded that the rains are on the way and with them come the life giving water that the land desperately needs after over eight months of total dryness.

As we sow the seed of the Gospel among the spiritually dry and parched fields of southern Senegal we are praying for God to send His rain. In Isaiah 55:10-11 God says, “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”

We sow the seed of the Word of God with confidence knowing that when God sends His rain a crop with be produced. In reading Jesus’ parable in Mark 4:26-29 we were recently reminded that the job of the sower is simply to sow. He is in the field, among the dryness and the thorns, with sweat on his brow, and he faithfully sows the seed. And then he waits, sometimes with tears (Psalm 126:5-6), for the crops to come.

Recently, we have seen what appears to be God working in some of the fields where we have been sowing. Please pray as we sow the seed of the Gospel and show the love of the Lord Jesus to these individuals and families who are showing evidence of the Lord's work in their lives. Also, please be in prayer for the villages of Karongue and Birassou Bodiankounda as after months of prayer and relationship building the doors for further ministry are slowly but surely opening more and more.

 

Above all, pray that God would send His rain to water the seed of the Gospel that we are planting among the Diola of Senegal!