#TheStruggleIsReal

An alarm clock failing to work, a computer screen that goes blank whenever the presenter mode is closed, communication issues with the location of preachers and the language they will be preaching in, sicknesses that seem to be about ready to surface...just a sampling of some of the extremely minor (and a few major) issues that have surround this trip.

There must be an official law in some mission handbook that says, “When on a mission trip, what can go wrong will go wrong.” Little problems and major issues always seem to pop up when you’re traveled to a foreign country to participate in ministry. In a way, it’s a joke. In reality, it's completely serious.

"For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rules of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."                          Ephesians 6:12

The work we are about to take part in is an issue of life and death, and Satan knows this full well. There is no way he will give up his dominion without a struggle. The area of Brasil that we are in is one of the strongest in voodoo worship and local superstition. Who knows what Satan might throw at us these coming weeks, but the wonderful thought is that God is stronger than the "ruler" of this world. Jesus Himself has the power and strength that no one in heaven or on earth can overcome.

Keep the entire group in your prayers as tonight we begin the many evangelistic series' in Brasil Colombia, and Mexico. Precious souls are at stake.