LET ME TOUCH HIS FLESH...AND THEN SEE!

SATAN, that Old Enemy of us all, is always on the lookout for a way in, and to WIN, in the lives of the Saints. Esther and I have been saying recently that he seems to be working overtime in these last days to disengage and prevent as many as he can from continuing in the Battle. Well I guess he has ALWAYS done that - but maybe the intensity of his effort has increased in these Last Days! JOB always comes to mind on so many occasions as a revelation of just how Satan likes to act. It might be thought that to lose his home, and family in a thrice would have been enough - but NO! 'Let me just touch his flesh.....' And not just in ONE PLACE or one way, but just let me poke and go on poking! THEN we will see....'

You will remember my small operation? In and out in a week. BUT, since then there has been one thing after another to come and upset my well being, well into a month later. General fatigue set in during the first week at home, accompanied by lack of bladder control. THEN, pain in both kidneys - 'Probably more stones, Mr. Green - just drink a lot and eventually they will be washed out - might hurt a bit!' THEN last week severe pain in the right shoulder down to just below the heart - came on in the middle of the night. What now, a heart problem?

NO - some kind of lung infection......two days later my right leg that gave me such a hard time in 2007 started up again and today blood in the urine. Frantic calls to the Doctor - frantic calls to my General Consultant in Heaven! What IS going on? Do I really have more kidney stones? Am I really WELL, or are all these complications and symptoms a cause for real alarm. PEACE! BE STILL, and KNOW that I AM God!

On the phone this morning to my Doctor, a fine Christian brother, I felt quite rebuked.

'John you are really fine.

Your heart is well and strong, your kidneys are both well and fine,

and your blood pressure and sugar, also well and encouraging.

Yes, healing is still continuing from the Op,

but all is well. God is with you!'

Yes, of course, He IS with me! How is it that this knowledge is so easily pushed aside to be replaced with the lies and false deceptions of the Enemy. Pray on for me dear friends. I truly AM much improved, and doing more each day, but I have found myself weak in faith for myself of late. Ah! I rebuke you Satan! I am healed. The LORD GOD, He is my Health and Salvation.

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DURING EASTER, I received my WORK PERMIT from the Kenya Government to permit me to live and work in Kenya for the next two years, until 5th March 2012 which is also our Election Year here! I started to apply for Renewal of the Permit (it has to be renewed every two years) in December last year, and it has taken much longer than usual to obtain it. Every two years the Kenya Immigration Department demands Ksh. 200,000/- from me as the price of that Permit. Additionally they demand that I deposit a similar amount with the Bank as insurance that they can deport me back to UK without cost to themselves if it should become necessary. This is the equivalent (approximately) of 4 thousand pounds sterling, or 5,700 USDollars. It is AMAZING to me that any Government can practically extort such charges from those who are in fact offering FREE services to them in an area that they themselves are still unable to address by their own sole effort. Terribly disappointing, but in a way in tune with the general discouragement those involved in child care have been feeling. I have had talks with the authorities of course and sought to get them to adjust matters but all to no avail. SO now we are praying that when the proposed NEW Constitution is finally ratified, that we might be able to find a way out of further payments of this nature.

TARAN, who is just 7 swallowed a watch battery the day before yesterday. We have no idea how he discovered it, and of course it got stuck on the way down! Rush to the doctor, but by the time they arrived it had passed on down, and no doubt OUT sooner or later. Taran was born with HIV, but by the time he was two he had become negative, and is a very robust and happy child. One of the 35 now cared by for Micah and Senge in Tyndale Cottage with the other Little group pictured here.

By the way please remember to pray for Catherine Senge YEGO. She has not enjoyed good health since giving birth to baby Steve, and has been suffering with various diseases which the doctors do not seem to have been able to deal with. She has been in a lot of distress and even pain touching on her kidneys, a trapped nerve in her right leg, and general fatigue. She is a very dedicated Mother, and so you can imagine that she does not rest, and insists on being busy for her big family.

NOW I must leave you again till next week. Have to bring the Word of God once more on Sunday, and so many other matters that have still to be brought up to date before the new week begins Every day seems busier and fuller than the one previous, but we thank God for His Enduring Strength and Sustaining Power. Truly we all ARE weak - BUT He is Strong.

God Bless and be with you all so very much

JOHN AND ESTHER