Hello! God bless YOU. Along the way, I’m sure you’ve heard this bible verse, “The righteous perish, and no-one ponders it in his heart…” Isa.57:1
Last week I told you I had friends who were close to two of the doctors who were murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
You have probably heard news stories by now but I asked my friends in Delhi, who personally knew a couple of these dedicated humanitarian workers to share a bit about them.
“Yes we knew Tom Little, the Ophthalmologist from our visit to Kabul in 1991. We then met them again at the “Donut” Church as Tom affectionately called the international church in New Delhi. For the Little’s, Delhi was the “modern” city compared to Kabul. Tom was a hard working, never tiring worker, who poured out his life for the Afghan people. They always had people in their home and have been a beacon of light to the Afghan people for more than 30 years living out their faith in quiet service to the people through war after war. Heaven is richer, we miss Tom.” G.W.
“Dan Terry was married to Saija, a Finish woman, and they have three daughters as well. Dan grew up in India and Afghanistan as a child where his parents were workers for many years. Dan was a bridge to the forgotten people of the country of Afghanistan, connecting funds and resources from governments and Aid organizations bringing water and health. When we asked Saija once about their living conditions in M.S., a Taliban stronghold, I said that it sounds like they were camping, she responded without a beat saying that their whole life had been one long camping trip. Well, Dan now lives in a home, one made by God himself! We are still waiting. Please remember the family members, their hearts are torn between heaven and earth!” G.W.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Eph.6:12
Prayer is not ‘the least we can do’ if this bible verse is true, then praying is one of the most strategic things you and I can do!
Therefore, can you and I pray for Afghanistan every day for a season? It’s time to: PUSH, Pray-Until-Something-Happens.
If you’re not signed on to the Afghan Prayer Patrol, this tool makes daily prayer a ready-to-go activity:
http://prayercentral.net/engage-me/patrols/afghan
Sending you love as we REMEMBER and press in to fight the good fight!
Kathleen Dillard
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Hymn sent to me today from a friend that seems to theme the day. I seem so drawn to the words. Fits these precious servant friends of yours. And we see lived in you and yours Kathleen. Raises the benchmark of how will we live each day.
O LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO
O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be
O light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.
O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.
O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.
Words: George Matheson, in the Church of Scotland magazine Life and Work, January 1882.
Music: Albert L. Peace, 1884.
Matheson said about this hymn:
My hymn was composed in the manse of Innelan [Argyleshire, Scotland] on the evening of the 6th of June, 1882, when I was 40 years of age. I was alone in the manse at that time. It was the night of my sister’s marriage, and the rest of the family were staying overnight in Glasgow. Something happened to me, which was known only to myself, and which caused me the most severe mental suffering. The hymn was the fruit of that suffering. It was the quickest bit of work I ever did in my life. I had the impression of having it dictated to me by some inward voice rather than of working it out myself. I am quite sure that the whole work was completed in five minutes, and equally sure that it never received at my hands any retouching or correction. I have no natural gift of rhythm. All the other verses I have ever written are manufactured articles; this came like a dayspring from on high.
Father, may You bring abundant life out of the deaths of these your servants for the people of Afghanistan. John 12:24 — I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. I lift up the families of these two men of God and pray that Your presence, comfort and encouragement be with them in a powerful way, in Jesus’ name.
Kathleen,
I’m always praying even if I’m not typing it.My heart and prayers go out to these family members. God please take good care of them and bring them comfort. Thanks You for these ones who bless our world so much. Amen.
God bless their work and comfort those left behind.
In Christ,
Kenneth
Dear Kathleen,
Thank you for sending the insights into the lives and ministry of these saints! They will surely be missed. I hope the Afghan people will realize what a gift from God these servants were, and that reflecting on their lives and ministries will cause many to put their trust in God for the first time.
Let’s continue to pray that God will bring down the strongholds that evil has built up in and around Afghanistan. Let’s keep on praying until Light breaks through the darkness and strongholds come down. When God’s people pray it is just a matter of time before we will see a difference. God bless you!
I pray for Baghdad and Afghanistan every day, and I would miss it if I didn’t! God bless you richly for your work!
Dear Kathleen, thank you for sharing about those wonderful saints who gave up evrything for the Lord in Afghanistan. I am truly blessed and inspired to pray side by side with you and the rest. God bless you, Julia and Jessica. My heartfelt longing is to see the breakthrough that will unfold in Afghnistan one day for His glory and honor.
Dear Kathleen, I live just outside of Albany, NY and met the Littles at the Prayer and Healing Center where they shared about their ministry in Afghanistan. Their love for the Afghanistani people is an inspiration. They will bear eternal fruit.
Thank you for keeping us posted on these people who are continually giving their lives for Jesus Christ. Yes, I pray every day possible with you and sincerely am grateful to you for your sacrifice in giving them to us.
God Bless You and your special family.
Yes, Kathleen, I agree with you. We need to PUSH in and never give up as God is the source of our strength.
I am signed up already for the Afghan Prayer Patrol and am thankful it is there for us to pray accordingly.
I continue to pray for my friend’s son, Peter, and his safe return. He is a medic over there and is due to come home soon. He is an excellent medic and a child of the King of Kings.
I say Amen! to your prayers. Thank you for sharing. I pray Tom Little and Dan Terry’s blood will continually cry from the ground where it was shed for the salvation of the perople of Afganistan. That their deaths would serve to draw others to accept Jesus as their Lord. I pray for the consolation, and provision of their precious families.
Amen. Thank you for the testimonies, and for continuing to keep Prayer Central going. May God continue to bless you and your daughters in all you do.
Thank you Kathleen for these testimonies. It brings us closer to those who give their lives in spreading the gospel around the world.
Amen, I agree, let’s pray and push!
I pray that the loss of these people who had been laying down their lives for the Afgans, I pray that this loss will open the eyes of the Afgans who knew them, open their eyes to the darkness that is trying to engulf them, that the darkness is something to separate from, resist, not merely passively hide from or ignore; and Father, send forth your light and your truth with a new power, that the Afgan people will be able to see their “right hand from their left” and choose light and truth.Show the Afgans Your strategy for freeing their country from this darkness.