The wind of the Holy Andes in Macedonia

As we cross the large marble-lined square with the huge statue of Alexander the Great looking down on us, I hear Eline call out, “Samuel, I think the Holy Spirit wants us to go to that man there!”

We were a group of second year Bible school students who were in the final stage of our one-month mission in North Macedonia. This particular time, we were walking across Alexander Square to meet up with the first year Bible school students for lunch when the Holy Spirit suddenly began to speak to us.

We approached the man who, carrying a fishing rod, had just been down by the river trying his luck. With neither teeth nor the ability to speak English, we tried to communicate the gospel to the happy man in his 80s. But after a while we got hold of our interpreter Martin who helped us. We found out that the man the Holy Spirit had pointed out to Eline had a Roma Muslim background and lived in very poor conditions in solitude. After Eline shared the Gospel, the older man told us that not long ago he had met a group of German young people who had met him and told him exactly the same story. They had also given him a Macedonian New Testament, which he had read through. Overjoyed to hear how God had already planted His Word in the man’s life, Eline asked him if he wanted to accept Jesus, to which he said yes and we had the opportunity to lead him to Christ. Hallelujah! After the prayer, we invited the man to the evening healing meeting that we would hold. During the evening we had the opportunity to pray for the man’s knees that he had injured a few days earlier and was completely healed.

After this encounter, I was reminded that as Jesus’ hands and feet in this world, we should not look to the outside when it comes to reaching out to the unreached. In this case, the Holy Spirit brought us to someone in whom he had begun a work, which we could not see with the naked eye when we met the toothless Roma Macedonian. But it is in those moments that we must walk in faith, looking not to the visible but to the invisible!

Samuel Thoor,
LOBC year 2

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