Port Kaituma Guyana

This trip to Guyana was one with an unusual number of deliverances. The western world has by and large rejected the existence of demons just as they have rejected the existence of God. Nevertheless, they exist, and we still have been given power over ALL the power of the enemy! In America, we simply drug them up instead of casting them out.

Each time we go to Guyana, our main focus is Pastors Seminars and village ministry. Simultaneously as the pastors are being taught in a seminar, their churches are being encouraged and strengthened with the same curriculum used in the pastor's sessions. This model has been a great blessing to the villages as well as the pastors and their wives. In July, we are planning our first Marriage Seminar that Pam and I will lead. Marriages in the interior are under attack just as they are in the US. As the marriages are strengthened, the church will be strengthened as well.

On Friday Pastor Robert Sookermany, myself and two others traveled to Port Kaituma, the village that is adjacent to the old Jim Jones area. Pastor Robert is a dear friend of mine from Trinidad and works in Guyana planting churches under his fellowship Christ Crusaders Assembly. There were two pieces of property that are being given to him to put churches on that we went to look at.

This is a little pride, but as I walked into the village, a lady pastor I had met during our outdoor crusade in April 2005 saw me and said, "We are having crusade tonight and you must preach for us!" I can't even hardly pay people to let me preach in the US and all I have to do in Kaituma is show up…I know, I know Lord forgive me….pride, pride pride…

During the altar service that night there were at least 7 people who were instantly delivered from demons with such ease I thought Jesus must have been standing behind me in the flesh! The joy on people's faces when Jesus set them free was worth all the pushing of the boats and sleeping on hard cots…and to see the people accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior truly is worth every hardship you could ever face!

On the way out of Kaituma those demons went to work. We noticed on our way into Port Kaituma a large tree and a large clump of earth had fallen into the river about one mile out of the village. All of a sudden it got unusually foggy and before we knew it we had slammed the boat into that floating island! The impact sounded as if the boat had completely come apart! The boat tilted and filled with water, and ejected an Amerindian pastor and threw him about 25 yards behind us. But all Glory to God no one was hurt!

I had placed my backpack in the front of the boat for leg room. When I looked it was gone! In my heart I said, "We surely beat up on the devil tonight!" All my credit cards, what little money I had taken with me, my camera, my Bible, my airplane ticket and some snacks were in the pack. If I have ever seen a genuine miracle I was about to see it! My backpack weighs 25 pounds dry: we turned and went back to look and low and behold there was my backpack floating on top of the water! Full of water! I saw iron swim that night!

I also know the devil cannot take you before your time!

I realize everyone is not interested in this much detail of a short term missions trip. There are many in the church in America who believes we need to focus on the U.S. alone and let everybody else go to hell. America has become so soft and sissy, we don't want to go through any kind of difficulty to preach the Gospel! Yet, at the same time, the nations of the world are crying out with a Macedonian call, "come over and help us"! And because of that cry, a collision between good and evil, God and satan is bound to occur.

Friends, He gave it all for us; why can't we give it all for Him?

He went through it all for us, why can't we go through it all for Him?

There is going to be adversity. There will be temptations. You will want to quit. You will want to forget it, go get into a different line of work.

But there will come the time when we will stand before Him. What will you hear Him say? Depart? Or well done, good and faithful servant!