We were told Spiritualists lived in the home we were
going to visit in Sao Paulo. Spiritualism is a system of belief or religious
practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead
especially through mediums. I didn’t
really know what to expect. Tom, my teammate, was going to present the evangecube
plan of salvation.
The pastor, several members of the church, our interpreter, and Tom
and I entered the kitchen. Several birds in cages mounted on the wall began to
chirp. As Tom began presenting the gospel to the woman, her mother, whose gray hair was twisted into a ball on top of her head, stormed up
to the door from the hallway outside, and began to holler at us. I guess she
was telling us to leave. Her daughter was embarrassed and hung her head and
kind of laughed. Just as Tom began showing the cube, her brother came in. Their
mother came back to the door and rebuked us loudly and rapidly. You could
feel a spirit of darkness in the room. After the mother repeatedly shrieked at
us, the pastor moved across the kitchen and gently led the mother out of the entrance way.
I was standing behind Tom praying as hard as I could and rebuking Satan from the
room. The birds quit twittering, and Tom was able to present the message of
salvation. The young man and his sister both prayed to receive Christ as their
Savior. We gave them a Portuguese New Testament. The brother said he could use
it to show Catholics about Jesus’s love.
The pastor came back into the kitchen. He held the
woman’s son and prayed for him, too. Then we all went down the walkway to a basement area, and the pastor prayed with sister and brother again. Our
interpreter said he thought the pastor was talking to them about having a meeting
at their house. When we left, I saw the mother standing against the wall. She
was so quiet, I almost missed seeing her. As we walked back to the church, we
talked about how the Holy Spirit had definitely worked at this home.
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