Source: OM International, March 31, 2016<\/p>\n
The Nsumbu village sits near the Democratic Republic of Congo border, northwest of OM Lake Tanganyika\u2019s base in Mpulungu. There, [OM worker Charles Chansa] and his team have led several locals to Christ, only to see them return to old practices and \u201ctraditional medicine\u201d\u2014meaning witchcraft\u2014revealing what Charles calls \u201ctheir true Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not an impossible problem, as God\u2019s grace demonstrates, but it does require a concentrated effort from Charles and his team to reach locals as they fight on a spiritual level.<\/p>\n
Some time ago, Charles remembered, there were three women in the village who were pregnant at various times. All three suffered greatly from the hot weather. They told Charles later that they almost died from the pain they experienced. All three babies were stillborn.<\/p>\n
Recently, the women became pregnant again, and when the pain returned, they visited the village\u2019s traditional doctors, received medicine, and were assured that their babies were fine. But when the pain didn\u2019t stop, they looked to Charles and the OM team for help.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sat down with them and explained that we don\u2019t give out medicine, but we know that, by calling on the name of Jesus, if spiritual forces have been causing their pain before, that their pregnancies would not end as they had before,\u201d Charles said. \u201cI read them the Bible, I led them to Christ, and we prayed with them that they would have faith that Jesus was [with] them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just two days later, Charles received word that one of the women had given birth to a living, healthy child.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>. See also Miraculous Healing in Mozambique<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: OM International, March 31, 2016 The Nsumbu village sits near the Democratic Republic of Congo border, northwest of OM Lake Tanganyika\u2019s base in Mpulungu. There, [OM worker Charles Chansa] and his team have led several locals to Christ, only to see them return to old practices and \u201ctraditional medicine\u201d\u2014meaning witchcraft\u2014revealing what Charles calls \u201ctheir … Continue reading ZAMBIA: Overcoming Spiritual Foes on the Lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}