Don't Faint, Don't Quit

The scriptures declare: "Do not become weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap - if you faint not." 


It is about 6:00 a.m. as I begin this post and I'm just sitting down for a cup of coffee and I am weary. We were donated a container of medicines from the International Children's Fund. Over twenty-five million dollars worth of medicines to be distributed to rural clinics and hospitals throughout Kenya.  ICF agreed to ship the container to Nairobi if we could manage the rather daunting task of allocating and distributing the medicines to the various agencies who would then utilize it to prescribe and treat many, many (400,000 treatments) people who so desperately need medical care. 


The medicines have been in the Port of Mombassa for over a week and it looks now like they will be shipped up to Nairobi on Monday, but not until our guys have spent more than half of the money I sent them for distribution costs, just trying to get the stupid thing out of the port.  It seems like every time you turn around there is another hand extended for payment; 40,000 ksh here, 70,000 ksh there, and pretty soon  we will be broke again - and still need to distribute the meds. 


I have been working in East Africa for over 20 years now, and I understand that nothing comes easy in this part of the world - except trouble. I am sitting here thinking how exhausted Wes Agengo and Josephat Mulango (who is himself sick because of diabetes) must be - and how frustrated.  Josephat himself can benefit from the medicines in that box - and yet, the battle rages. 


I am reminded, again, that we are in a warfare for the lives and souls of men that will not end until the Prince of Peace Himself comes.  I am reminded that as much as I love the people of Kenya and want to see their lives made just a little bit easier, the devil hates them and wants to kill them.  As much I want to lift up the heads of the students and staff at Immanuel Christian School for the Deaf, the devil wants to beat them down again and again.  
     God said to Ezekiel, "I sought for a man to stand in the gap for them...........and I found none."  How many times has the Lord sought for a man to stand in the gap for someone who cannot stand for themselves, or to speak for one who cannot speak for himself; to defend someone who cannot defend himself - and found no man to stand or speak for them; because he became weary and fainted in the midst of the fight. 


     This morning, I received yet another email recounting the difficulties they are having trying to secure this container so they can actually begin the work. Wes and Josephat have been in Mombassa for one full week simply trying to gain possession of what is already theirs.  Josephat is sick and Wesley is tired and frustrated.  For some "life" is locked up inside that container that sits on the docks in Mombassa while greedy men fight for every penny they can grab or con or steal - and I suddenly was overwhelmed with weariness.


     I have just gotten out of bed and if feels like the weight of a nation is on my shoulders. (I know its not - its just feels like it.)  Then the Lord spoke to my heart and simply said, "Don't faint, don't quit, stand in the gap for them."  So I guess I am asking for prayer for my own weariness in this matter (because I won't quit and I won't faint), and for a RELEASE of these meds.  Its like they are bound by some unseen FORCE in Mombassa and we need a powerful release from their bonds.  Jesus came to set the captive free and it would seem that our medicines are being held captive by the powers of Hell.  Jesus said that whatever we "loose" on earth would be loosed in Heaven - so in the Name of Jesus, I loose that container from the Port of Mombassa and release it to the people of Kenya who need it so badly.