God Makes a Way in Nicaragua

GOD WILL MAKE A WAY…

Kathy Most, CMA missionary shared about her recent ministry trip to Nicaragua.

It was the evening before my very early morning flight to Nicaragua where I would be translating for the main speaker. I had just received an email from the Nicaraguan Immigration Department marking my “negative Covid test” as unacceptable. You can imagine the intensity of the moment, as I was placed “on hold” for hours waiting to see if it could possibly be submitted again – surely this was an error?

Over and over in the days leading up to this Nicaraguan Women of Hope Conference the enemy sought to bring obstacle after obstacle not just to me, but several on our team. And yet, we clung to Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.

He made “a way” around turned down Covid tests, “a way” around last minute food poisoning, “a way” around airport shuttles that did not show up, “a way” around immigration hold ups. Over and over, He showed His might and we could hardly wait to see all the new things He had planned for these 150+ women that would attend the conference.

God powerfully used Jennifer Speers as she spoke on Women of Hope using the lives of various women from Scripture - women who had battled against injustices, shame, bitterness and new seasons of life – much like the women God had selected to attend that weekend.

One such woman was “M”. She and I had a history … going back 15 years, she was part of our “young mom’s class”. She had come to know the Lord and walked closely with Him over many years, and yet like many of us, life had hit hard, and the enemy had been crafty. Disillusioned, hurt and very broken, and she had turned her back on her God and the tight “young moms” group that had walked life with her over the years.

And yet, God would see her, invite her, and meet with her at this conference. She and I stood next to each other in line for the bathroom, and she would not lift her head to look at me - her chin practically on her chest. I called her name, and slowly, so very slowly reached up to her sweet face, and began lifting her chin as I told her how much I loved her, yet not nearly as much as her faithful God. Through tears she confessed such hard years, sin and how she bore the weight of so much shame. She voiced aloud “how could she ever look me in the eyes again?” “How could she know His forgiveness and restoration?” We both stood there sobbing together as I kept pointing her back to all that He is – the only One who can break the chains of shame. He was waiting for her, ready to free her.

And then the 3rd session began … Hope for the Shamed!! As I translated this session, “M”, sitting on the front row, cried through the whole session. Chains were broken, she was set free, as He again made “a way” through the very dry desert, gushing fresh waters of “forgiveness” over her life.

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