Returning For The Third Time

Spent a good while on my face before the Lord yesterday and this afternoon for this week's ministry. Was assisted with my voice mightily, despite the reluctance I had in delivering such a dreadful message; I cast myself instead unto the mercies of his good grace that no word should come back to the Lord void. The first spot we had in mind in Tala, Malaria, didn't really yield any space with the sidewalks barely accommodating two people and so we drove back again to Muzon to take the Word there for the third time. 

We seem to have struck a cord with the traffic enforcers there whose kindness towards us now seem to grow evidently more than the last time, with some of them breaking off from their stations to listen intently from a distance. Along with the common folk who listened from their stalls, the people dining outside the convenience store right across us, the tricycle drivers who broke from their queue and did not take passengers just to listen, giving their full audience, the people were more attentive this evening compared to when we were last here. (Lord, please glorify your name in this place.)

We distributed all the tracts we had quite quickly save one, with a lot more people this time approaching us to ask for a tract, unlike before when we had to get their attention first for them just to get one. I did a reading of my scripture guides, then proceeded to give a short sermon on the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, which I had to take license and change the words Pharisee to priest, fasting twice a week to going to mass twice a week, so the local people, comprising mostly of Roman Catholics, can relate to it. Some mockers were present as well, perhaps convicted in their spirit because of the continuous lashings they received, though answering in jest, yet it indicated that they were listening. Good. Now they have no cloak for their sin.

This night's seed sowing went safely by the Lord's grace, I would have to take the tracts distributed up in prayer, in preparation for its future reaping, till the Lord, in his time, is pleased to bring in His increase. The sermon is in Tagalog but we have placed subtitles for our English speaking friends.