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Victory MagazineMay/June 2015 Hidden With Christ Ministries

Dear Friends,

It has been more than 8 years since Hidden With Christ Ministries launched out in faith to open the doors to orphaned children in Tanzania. Looking back over the years and reflecting on the growth and change that has taken place in the lives of those who came to live at Treasures of Africa Children’s Home brings tears to the eyes! We are grateful for all who have walked with us and believed for miracles and rejoiced with us as we received them. I believe you will enjoy the photos and articles in this issue of Victory Magazine like the ones found on pages 5 and 6 in “Watching The Children Grow” as it demonstrates the progress that love, faith and prayers have produced.

Blessings and Thanks,

Rita Langeland Executive DirectorHidden With Christ Ministries

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Feature Articles3 Happy Birthday

5 Watching the Children Grow

7 Orphanage Receives a Princely Gift

9 A New Gem Is Welcomed to Treasures of Africa

11 Corporate Charity In Action

13 Building Project Update

15 Blessed To Be a Blessing

16 A Tale of Two Orphans

17 Faith Corner: Waiting On God

Contents

Victory Magazine

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Nurse Jodie Returns for a Visitto Treasures of Africa

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Editor’s Note: Nurse Jodie Schooley Polk served in Tanzania as a missionary nurse and Medical Director of Treasures of Africa from 2006 -2013. Her seven faithful years of service impacted the lives of the children at Treasures of Africa very deeply. She left in November of 2013 and was married in 2014. She and her husband, Rob Polk, returned to Tanzania for a visit and to spend time volunteering at TOA in April, 2015. Both the children and the staff were thrilled to see them._______________________________________

We were really excited for the opportunity to go back to Tanzania and see the kids again. We loved being able to re-connect with them and let them know that even though we live far apart, they are always in our hearts

and prayers. The best part of the trip for us, was having the opportunity to share during their evening devotions and encourage them to press on in their walk with the Lord.

We were grateful to have the opportunity to help out at the orphanage even for such a short period. We loved being able to spend time with the children at TOA and we were so blessed by it.

We were shocked to see how much all of the kids have grown! And of course it was a huge blessing to have the chance to meet the new additions, Gabriella, David, Jessica and Ruby. We could sense, just as with the others, God's purpose and plan in bringing them to Treasures of Africa. The Lord is continuing to do amazing things through the lives of the children at TOA and we believe even greater things are to come!

Nurse Jodie holding ournewest Treasure - Ruby Joy

Nurse Jodie and husband Rob Polk on the porch with some of the children at Treasures of Africa

In many third world countries, birthdays are neither remembered nor celebrated. In certain African cultures a baby is not even named until after he

has survived for two years, because infant mortality rates are so high that the parents fear becoming too attached. Tanzanian culture has not been one to quickly embrace the idea of “celebrating” a birthday. Children are often seen as a burden rather than a blessing. Such an attitude does not make a child feel welcomed in the world. And if a child is abandoned, the feeling of rejection is even more pronounced.

But at Treasures of Africa Children’s Home in Moshi, Tanzania, it has been our intentional practice to celebrate each child’s birthday. We want them to know they are valued and loved. Though our birthday celebrations are much humbler than a traditional birthday one might experience in the U.S., they are treasured by our kids because they mark the celebration of their birth.

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Celebrating the Lives of the Children at Treasures of Africa

When a birthday comes along at TOA (and every month of the year we have birthdays to celebrate) the birthday girl or boy gets to choose whether they prefer cake or ice cream to celebrate their day. Ice cream is quite a popular choice – as it is a rare treat here in Tanzania. But cake is also chosen about 50% of the time. Then we purchase enough of the chosen treat to share with everyone at the dinner table and “Happy Birthday” is sung and the celebrant is prayed for by the other children. Everyone in the house looks forward to dinner time when there is a birthday to be celebrated!

We have recently added a new tradition of taking the birthday child out for a special meal in town – and they are allowed to invite two of their TOA best friends. This special blessing has been a huge hit and the children love the privilege of dressing up to go “to town” and practicing their best manners at a restaurant table.

We wanted to share with you some of our recent and upcoming birthdays at Treasures of Africa. We ask you to pray for each of these children that their next year of life will be blessed and protected. Thanks for your heart for the precious children at Treasures of Africa Children’s Home!

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Gabriella at 17 months of age - so much has changed since she arrived at Treasures of Africa Children's Home as an infant!

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Maturation:

a. the process of becoming matureb. the emergence of personal and behavioral characteristics through growth processesc. the process of growing up

Oftentimes parents struggle with the issue of their children growing up. They

love seeing them as sweet, picture-perfect little infants and don’t want that moment to change. Yet when they experience the joy of seeing a child mature – make good decisions, achieve personal victories or develop integrity of character, they rejoice at the progress of that child toward adulthood.

At Treasures of Africa Children’s Home we have also treasured the moments our kids were cuddly little infants and yet marveled as we watched them

crawl, toddle and then run! We have rejoiced at the development of maturity we have observed in our teenagers and cheered as they conquered mountains – both literally and figuratively speaking.

We enjoyed watching the “firsts” in their lives – first steps, first time in a swimming pool, first taste of a strawberry milkshake! All have brought joys to both the children and those of us who had the

privilege to share them. Those of you who have donated so generously by sponsoring a child or giving “area most needed” donations have been a part of ALL of the “firsts” our kids have experienced.

We know that there is a long road ahead of us to see these children receive an advanced education and prepare for leadership in their nation. But we are getting there – and along the way – we are enjoying watching the children grow!

Watching The Children Grow

Margaret and Irene are now young adults and our first

college students

Emmanuel, Innocent and Antoni playing soccer during Spring Break

Six year old Jessica enters a swimming pool for the first

time

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More than 8 years ago, just prior to the doors opening at Treasures of Africa Children’s Home, a businessman and his family made a major donation. They purchased 10 brand new Dell computers and printers to set up a computer lab at the orphanage in memory of a loved one who had passed away. It was a magnificently generous gift that immediately placed our children in a position of incredible advantage, since schools in Tanzania do not have computers and only the elite in the country had access to computers and computer training.

Tech experts generally agree a computer should last anywhere between three to five years before needing to be replaced. Since dust is one of the biggest enemies of electronics – and Tanzania has an abundance of dust and particulate in the air because of constant burning of trash - the fact that our desktop computers lasted more than 8 years is nothing short of a miracle!

Through the generosity of donors who purchased new Windows 7 software over the past two years, we had upgraded all of our old computers and kept them running. But we knew time was of the essence. We had been praying that we would be able

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Orphanage Receives

Donor Invests in Children’s Future

Jessica gives a thumbs up forTOA's new computer lab

to obtain new computers for the orphanage before our old ones crashed and burned.

Then a Realtor from Florida pledged the full commissions from the sale of several houses she had on the market, in order to buy the new computers Treasures of Africa desperately needed. The sales went through, the computers were purchased and Treasures of Africa Children’s Home received the princely gift of 14 brand new Dell desktop computers and 3 laser printers. The computer lab was reconfigured with 10 new computers, and the 4 remaining computers were set up in the Orphanage main office and the accounting office. It felt like Christmas!!!

The timing of the gift coincided perfectly with the arrival of two tech savvy volunteers from America who came to serve at Treasures of Africa for a month. They worked hard to set up and network all the computers and download brand new software for each computer. What normally takes an hour or two in the U.S., took days due to the slow internet speed. But they pressed on until all 14 computers were functioning as they should.

We had a “ribbon-cutting” ceremony to officially open the newly refurbished computer lab – and the children were thrilled to start working on the computers using the educational software we had loaded on each computer. We are so grateful to our generous donors who have such hearts of love for the children at Treasures of Africa and a vision to see them become successful in a high tech world!

A Princely Gift

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Maria playing an educational game in the computer lab

TOA kids fully engaged with new computers

TOA teen girls excitedly open gifts given to them at the LAVISH LOVE event

Page 9 Ruby Joy on the day she arrived at Treasures of Africa

There are few experiences in life that can match the joy of seeing an abandoned child rescued and placed in a loving home. Though an orphanage is not the ideal setting for raising a child – loving families were God’s design – we try very hard to create a loving environment for all the children who are brought to us.

When we made the announcement that a new baby was on the way to Treasures of Africa, our children literally jumped and squealed for joy. When she finally arrived, their tenderness toward this tiny infant was so heartwarming to watch.

Weighing barely a kilo (2.2 Pounds) when she was found abandoned in a rural field, doctors at the local hospital determined that she was premature at birth. The infant child spent more than two months at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center before being placed at Treasures of Africa weighing just over 5 pounds.

Her story bore a sad but striking resemblance to that of our now 7 1/2 year old, Diamond. So in order to speak value over her (like we did with Diamond more than 7 years ago) we decided to name her Ruby Joy. She is a quiet, peaceful and absolutely beautiful treasure!

After three weeks of loving attention and lots of consistent nutrition, Ruby Joy nearly doubled her weight from 5 pounds to 9.9 pounds. Though we had a momentary medical concern, she has gotten the “all clear” from the doctor and continues to thrive without any medical issues.

We were thrilled to make room for another baby at Treasures of Africa, with a crib set up in the room where both 17 month old Gabriella and 14 month old David sleep. The addition of a newborn means more diapers, more formula and additional round the clock staffing. But Ruby Joy is worth the time, money and effort required to see her have a new start in her very young life.

If you would like to be part of “Ruby’s Rescue Team” you can go to our website www.treasuresofafrica.org and click on the MEET THE CHILDREN menu tab and scroll down until you find Ruby Joy. It takes approximately $120 per month to care for a child at Treasures of Africa. Perhaps you and 3 friends could sponsor Ruby for $30 per month and fully cover her needs. She is a precious gem that is worth caring for!

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A New Gem Is Welcomed To Treasures Of Africa

TOA Admin. Coordinator Faith Kimori holding Ruby Joy after nearly a month

of loving care and good nutrition

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Can you imagine an American based software development company sending two of its highly skilled employees all the way to Africa to serve in an orphanage for a month while paying their full salaries and all their transportation expenses? That is corporate charity at an extreme level and that is exactly what the Florida based company - Geographic Solutions - did for Treasures of Africa Children's Home.

One of the biggest frustrations we experience in Tanzania is trying to find people skilled enough to make repairs ranging from plumbing to electrical to auto mechanics. We

have had multiple incidents in which the people we hired to repair something at the orphanage ended up breaking things or incorrectly installing parts causing additional problems and costing us more money. This has been such an ongoing frustration for years that the idea of having two skilled men from the U.S. come to work on our long list of projects seemed like a dream!

That dream came true when the two Geographic Solutions employees - Andy Hargraves and Scotty McEntire - arrived at Treasures of Africa in mid-April. Although both men have high level tech skills utilized in the IT world – they both possess a myriad of other abilities which TOA was able to tap. Their first project was the set up and networking of 14 brand new computers and 3 printers which the orphanage received as a major gift. But once that task was accomplished, the two men began tackling a long list of other assignments. From the simplest job of installing new smoke detectors, to repairing the washing machine to thoroughly assessing the condition of our 4 orphanage vehicles and making needed auto repairs, these two men worked tirelessly.

They have been able to figure out how to

Corporate Charity

Geographic Solutions employee Scotty McEntire takes a momentary break after setting up and networking new computers at Treasures of AfricaPage 11

In Actionresolve the thorniest problems we could not fix and did it all with a smile. The children have enjoyed them as well and loved watching them work and learning from them. But the two volunteers were also deeply impacted by their time at Treasures of Africa.

Andy Hargraves described his experience this way: “I came with the intentions of being able to help out the orphanage. But I was the one that was blessed by those kids! Little Gabriella would come up to me with her arms outstretched for me to pick her up. And at first, Baby David would do what he could to avoid me, but by the end of my trip, he was doing the same thing… reaching out to me to pick him up. Those kids have so much love to give!”

When Scotty McEntire was asked what surprised him the most during his stay in Tanzania, he shared the following: “My biggest surprise by far was the attitude of each kid at Treasures of Africa. My perception of life as an orphan includes descriptions containing words like alone, unwanted, abandoned, and unloved. Within moments of meeting the children I saw the same thing in each of their eyes, and heard in every voice: love. No matter how tragic the stories were of how they came to TOA, each of them felt loved.”

We are deeply grateful to Geographic Solutions for the

amazing generosity they extended to Treasures of Africa by sending

Andy and Scotty to serve for a month. They made an amazing

contribution and we are so happy that our kids impacted them too!

Geographic Solutions employee Andy Hargraves installing new smoke alarms at Treasures of Africa

Andy Hargraves holding Gabriella at Treasures of Africa Page 12

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Building Project

A View of the wall that surrounds the future Treasures of Africa Children's Village building site

The Treasures of Africa Children’s Village Building Project is alive and well. With the recent receipt of our TITLE DEED for the 5.4 acre property we purchased in 2011, we are now ready to launch a fundraising

campaign to raise the necessary funds to build. This visionary project will be a completely solar powered campus that will be a powerful center for raising and training future leaders for East Africa from among Tanzania’s orphaned and abandoned children.

Last month we rented a bus and drove out to the property with our staff and children to give thanks to the Lord for the release of the TITLE DEED which we fought for in prayer for nearly 4 years. We also took time to pray for the funds to come in quickly so we can begin to build and move forward with this project.

We ask you to join us in praying for the needed funding and invite you to give toward this project as you are led by God.

Please visit our website to read all about the Building Project and see the Architectural Plans as well as make a secure online donation.

www.treasuresofafrica.org

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Update

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Working in Tanzania has enabled us to gain insight into

the myriad of struggles that plague a developing nation. Interacting with the various government offices in the course of our mission to care for orphaned and abandoned children, has made us aware of the lack of resources that a typical government office in Africa deals with on a day to day basis. Specifically we have been close observers of the Social Welfare offices because we deal with them on a regular basis in regard to the children living in our orphanage. The lack of the most basic office supplies (like paper) has always amazed us. For example, we

have gone to pick up a required form we needed and found they had only one copy and have been asked to duplicate it and return the original. We have made hundreds of copies just to be a blessing.

When a Social Welfare officer receives a call about an abandoned baby, he or she must write an official report and then another report when placing that child in an orphanage. Over the years of operating Treasures of Africa we have noticed that all of these reports about the children who have been placed at TOA, have been hand-written by the social workers, using carbon paper to produce the necessary additional copies. This is a laborious process that has been utilized because the Social Welfare Office in Kilimanjaro Region did not possess a single computer or printer.

With the enormous gift of brand new computers that Treasures of Africa received in April, we were able to fulfill a desire we have had for a long time, which was to bless the Social Welfare Office with a few computers. We set aside the best of our used computers which had been upgraded with Windows 7 software and one laser printer to be given as a gift to the Welfare Office. We approached the Kilimanjaro Regional Welfare Officer with the idea of making this donation and she was thrilled. In order to follow proper protocol, she arranged a meeting with the City of Moshi Municipal Director and we made a formal request to be allowed to make a donation to the Social Welfare Office from our NGO, (non-governmental organization) Hidden With Christ Ministries. This request was approved and we made arrangements for the installation of three Dell computers and one Dell laser printer in the Social Welfare Office to assist them with their important work. We bought a case of printer paper to get them started as well.

We believe that we are "blessed to be a blessing" and it was a joy to assist the hard working staff in the Social Welfare office in Moshi Tanzania, who struggle with few resources, to serve the most vulnerable members of the community.

Blessed to be a Blessing

HWC Executive Director Rita Langeland presenting the gift of computers from HWCM to the Regional Welfare Officer

Mrs. Agnes Urassa in Moshi Tanzania

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By Rita LangelandExecutive Director

Hidden With Christ Ministries

Sunday Jeremiah Joseph was 8 years old, and his young brother Dominick, only three years, when their father abandoned the family in Dodoma, Tanzania.

Five years later, their mother died. The two boys, and their only sister, were not only suddenly orphaned but they were also separated, farmed out to different family members in far away cities. Sunday was sent to live with an uncle in Dar Es Salaam, the bustling port city which is the largest population center in the nation. His uncle struggled to make a living and to send his own children, let alone his newly orphaned 13 year old nephew, to school. Meanwhile, young Dominick went to live with a different uncle in another city, who had two daughters of his own that he was trying to put through college.

Sunday finished Secondary School and eventually left Dar Es Salaam and traveled to the city of Moshi where an aunt lived. Without money to attend college, he worked as a construction laborer, before being hired at Treasures of Africa Children’s Home as a house cleaner. Sunday demonstrated an amazing work ethic, and great integrity in everything he did and as a result, was sent to driving school to obtain a license. He was entrusted with more and more responsibilities at Treasures of Africa. He was later sent to school to learn computer skills and was promoted to a supervisory position. He has become one of the orphanage’s most valued and trusted employees. But his dreams for college have never left him.

When Sunday’s young brother Dominick finished Secondary School last year, he came to live with Sunday, in the hopes of attending a Business College located in Moshi. His uncle had promised to pay the fees. But when the time came to enroll, the uncle told him he was struggling financially and could not send him to college as promised. Dominick was devastated and his disappointment deeply affected Sunday as well, feeling so concerned for his younger brother, for whom he was now responsible.

One morning, Sunday came to work at Treasures of Africa and it was obvious something was deeply disturbing him. His usual cheerful countenance was gone. Because I was in Tanzania for a month and half during the furlough of our Orphanage Director and Chaplain, Warren and Christina Oberst, I had the chance to sit down with Sunday and find out what was troubling him. That is when I learned of the situation with his brother, and Sunday’s feeling of helplessness to resolve the problem. I told Sunday that I would share the need with our Hidden With Christ Ministries family and see if we could find a way to help this orphan’s dream of advanced education come true.

Over the years, Hidden With Christ Ministries has assisted students in Africa with necessary school fees on a case by case basis. We have always chosen worthy individuals who have a genuine need and a verifiable circumstance. In the case of both Dominick and Sunday, these are two young adult orphans who have dreams of college that we would like to help.

If you have a heart to give to our African Scholarship Fund, you can make a donation of any size to Hidden With Christ Ministries. The Business College that Dominick would like to attend has fees of approximately $500 total for the first term. Any amount received above what is needed immediately will be set aside for other academic expenses including books, and if enough is received, for future students in need. We would also like to assist Sunday to attend night classes, since he has never given up on his own dream of a higher education.

A Tale of Two Orphans

Orphaned brothers Dominick (left) andSunday in Moshi, Tanzania

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by Rita Langeland

For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.”Isaiah 30:18 (NKJV)

In American culture one of our greatest collective weaknesses is our inability to wait. We don’t like to wait in line at the grocery store or the fast food restaurant drive-thru more than a minute or two. If we feel that someone else’s inefficiency has been the cause of us being forced to wait - we feel incensed at their rude treatment of us. It could be safely said that “waiting” is not a discipline that we have cultivated as a society. Yet “waiting” is a spiritual discipline that is very essential for our development as mature Christian believers.

Though there are several different scriptural ways of “waiting upon God” such as waiting in prayer, I am referring here to the concept of “waiting for God.” More specifically, I am addressing the issue of waiting for God to move on our behalf according to the promises we see clearly written in His Word.

Over the course of more than 25 years of pastoral ministry I have observed many people stumble in their relationship with the Lord when they have had to endure a season of “waiting for God.” Some allowed themselves to become so frustrated in the “waiting period” that they took matters into their own hands with disastrous results. Others mistakenly concluded that God didn’t care about them or their situation and eventually sunk into a mire of hopelessness, becoming bitter at God.

Neither of those scenarios are the intention of God when He allows a season of waiting in our lives. It is His heart to be gracious to us and to bring a blessing and a purpose to the waiting. Isaiah 30:18 (NIV) concludes with, “Blessed are all those who wait for Him.”

But as Americans, we have been taught an ingrained cultural value stated in the well-known adage, “God helps those who help themselves!” as if it was a quote straight from the pages of the Bible. (Which it is not!) I believe that this cultural mindset has contributed to the temptation to try to “make things happen” in our own strength when God is asking us to wait upon Him to intervene.

In the past I struggled with the feeling that I was being lazy or irresponsible if I didn’t “do something” to help change a situation that needed God’s intervention. Even after I prayed about a matter, I battled waiting even a single day to see if God would intervene. I always felt compelled to “do something!” I have learned over the years that it is much harder to wait than it is to act.

G. Campbell Morgan was a great Bible teacher from England who was born in 1863. He retired from his pastorate at Westminster Chapel in London in 1943 at the age of 80. He made a profound observation about waiting for God. He said, “Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.” Learning this vital principle will help you resist the temptation to try to bring about your own deliverance.

In the 11th chapter of the Gospel of John we find a story about a family that was “waiting for God” to intervene in a desperate situation.

Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death.

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No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days. (John 11:1, 3-6 NIV)

This story illustrates several important points. Mary and Martha had a need. Their brother was deathly ill. They cried out to the Lord by sending word to Jesus of their brother’s sickness. Then we can observe an astonishing thing - Jesus intentionally made them wait – by staying two more days in the town where he was preaching instead of responding immediately to their plea. That waiting period must have been excruciating for the two sisters as they watched their brother’s condition grow worse and worse. Sound familiar?

Perhaps you have a need and you have prayed to God about it but it seems like God is making you wait a painfully long amount of time for the answer. Could there possibly be some redemptive purpose in the “waiting?” In the case of Lazarus, the purpose of the delay in answering Mary and Martha’s request is plainly stated. It says, “…so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

If you read the rest of the story in John chapter 11, you will find that Lazarus died several days before Jesus reached the town of Bethany. When He arrived, Jesus performed one of the most outstanding miracles recorded in the Gospels by raising Lazarus from the dead after he had been entombed for 4 days. The Son of God was definitely glorified by this miracle and many believed in Him after that event. Through the difficult waiting period, Jesus brought forth a miracle that was far greater than healing – it was raising Lazarus from the dead! Lazarus became a walking testimony to the power of God and to the reality of Jesus as the true Messiah that the Jews had been awaiting for centuries.

Often when we are waiting for the intervention of God we cannot imagine what good there could possibly be in having the answer delayed – especially when the situation appears to be growing worse by the day. But God always has a higher purpose in mind. Many times that purpose has to do with a work God wants accomplished in our hearts. In other words – sometimes when we are waiting for God – He is actually waiting for us! The first part of Isaiah 30:18 (NKJV) says this:

“Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you.” This scripture clearly states that God waits…but what is God waiting for? I sincerely believe that God is waiting for our hearts to come into alignment with His will. Often a season of waiting for God will reveal what is in our hearts that needs to change. A classic example can be found in the Book of Exodus (chapter 15) when the children of Israel were walking through the wilderness just after they escaped the pursuing Egyptian army by a miraculous deliverance. They walked for three days and found no water. God was fully planning to provide fresh water for them – He had no intention of allowing them to die of thirst. Yet He allowed them to wait three days and then find a pool of bitter water before He acted on their behalf. During that waiting period, something in their hearts that displeased God was exposed.

Even though they had just seen a miracle of unprecedented proportions when God split the Red Sea for them, instead of trusting God to perform another miracle, they began to grumble against Moses, their God-given leader. The spirits of unbelief and complaining were revealed by this waiting period. These were issues of the heart that God wanted His people to be cleansed from. Can you walk through a season of waiting for God to intervene in your situation without complaining or stumbling in unbelief? It is what God desires for each of us. Yet it is often the waiting period that exposes those sinful tendencies in our hearts.

So if you have found yourself struggling during your “wait” for God’s intervention, simply ask Him for forgiveness and ready your heart in faith. Trust God’s Word of promise in Isaiah 30:18 that says, “Blessed are all those who wait for Him.” If you do, you will find out just how much God loves to be gracious toward you, and you will have a testimony like Lazarus did, of the power and the goodness of the Lord. ____________________________________________________________________________________Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint from a Victory Magazine published in 2010. It was the author’s original intention to publish a series of articles on this subject, but due to circumstances at the time, this was the only article printed. Next issue will contain the second in this series on “Waiting for God.”

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In Loving MemoryOf

Laura Ann Sheehan1932-2015

South Brunswick, New Jersey

Loving Mother, Grandmotherand Great-Grandmother

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