Sharing the Father Heart of God with the Unreached
“Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.” - Psalm 27:10
This verse encouraged my life and keeps me strong. It reminds me God is everything to me.
I was born in 1981. Growing up, I experienced a lot of hardships. I was neglected and mistreated. One day, I climbed a tree. There, I was meditating on how God is big, how God created this world. That’s when I heard a voice from the Lord telling me: “I am your father.”
One day I read the Bible verse that says, “Even if your parents, even if your mother and your father mistreat you or deny you, God is your father.” That verse encouraged me because it means that even when your brothers, even when your relatives will forsake you, God will pick you up. It made me realize that God is my father. Since that time, I started trusting God more, and trusting God as my father.
One day I went to visit a village to share the Word of God. I met with an old man. He was very sick. I was praying for him. He told me that when I mentioned the name of Jesus, he was feeling very well, he was feeling good. So I asked him, “Have you ever heard about Jesus?” He told me, “No, I haven't heard anything about Jesus.” That was the time I learned there are places where people have never heard anything about Jesus.
Then my heart was full of pain because so many haven’t heard about Jesus. I wanted to share the Word of God. In 2015, I had an opportunity to take the CPx (Church Planting Experience) training in Cape Town. My family and I went to Cape Town to start praying, “How can we disciple? How can we plant churches?” By the grace of God, that CPx training was exactly the right foundation for the ministry that God gave me. I was very happy.
After the training I was sent to disciple a people, the Yao people here in Malawi. Yao people are native. Ninety-nine percent are Muslim. So I was sent here to disciple the Yao people.
God has been faithful to us, to my family since 2015. We are making disciples. We are planting churches. Many people have come to Christ. Many Muslims have now become Christians, and they are also planting churches. This gives me power, a lot of energy. Our ministry is expanding to a lot of districts here in Malawi. God is faithful, God is so amazing, that a person like me, a person who has never seen his father, is now traveling, going to Kenya, going to different countries, just to teach people how they can plant churches, how they can sustain themselves through the Pioneer Business Planting, how they can share the Word of God through businesses, and how they can make disciples.
God is so wonderful to me. I really appreciate what God has done for me, what God's doing through my life.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate serving Jesus through All Nations. Because CPx training has transformed my life, and so all those people were coaching me to grow in Christianity. In the saving name of Christ. May God bless you, family, wherever you are.
About the author: Gibson Banda is a field worker trained, sent and cared for by the All Nations Cape Town Hub.
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