Pastor Abdel Aziz Ndalu of Senegal writes:
We have been working with the Lord in reaching prisoners in Senegal: providing for them clothes, soap, sanitary supply, women’s needs, and food. We are also allowed to show the Jesus Film, not as an evangelistic outreach but as an entertainment movie according to prison officials. We also distribute Bibles to ladies who can read French. The other women said, “We want Bibles too. We will send the Bibles to our children who go to school. We want them to read the Bible.”
One day, after showing the Jesus Film and preaching, we prayed for them as usual before leaving. A lady exclaimed: “Jesus can do miracles for sure! Can we ask him to make a miracle for us? Let’s ask Jesus to let us out of this prison.” Our planting church team said, “Yes we can ask Jesus.” We prayed with the prisoners that the Lord would release them from the prison. On the very next day, the President of Senegal announced the release all the women of this prison! These women continue to meet regularly to worship the Lord and receive teaching.
While these power encounters seem strange to many in the west, in Africa, the worldview is a power-fear relationship with the spiritual world. People live in fear and do things to appease their dead ancestors and dark spirits who they feel have great power. So when the love of Jesus is expressed in power and might, it shakes their world and opens the door to worshipping this powerful God who loves them individually.