"You came seeking prosperity and are finding God!"

In the space of one week so much has happened, it's hard to keep up with what God is doing.  Last night at our third meeting Stevo challenged the Roma: "you may have come all the way from Romania to seek economic prosperity, but I believe you have been brought here to find God."   Towards the end of the service, he asked us all, "how do you know when the Holy Spirit has come? When the children start to weep."   That is just what had happened.  The day before some of us were praying together for one Roma lad's knee that he injured six months ago and has caused him constant pain and taken him off school.  At the service I asked him how the knee was now.  All the pain and swelling had gone.  Earlier in the week we were praying at another home.  One Roma woman who had recently been through a traumatic personal experience was visibly filled with the Spirit before our eyes.  She had been unable to speak and had frozen over emotionally.  She began to smile, and to speak again.  I was amazed at how instantly the change had come over her.  On the same occasion another Roma woman I had not met before shared the dream she had had the night before.  "I saw fire coming down from heaven to earth, and then a white horse appear."  When I told her this image was in the Bible she was amazed.  Revelation 19:11-18 makes clear that the white horse represents the judgment that Jesus brings to earth.  Nothing could have spoken more clearly into the situation going on in the community at this time.  There is a sense of awe in some of the Roma at what they are seeing God do in their midst.  They are beginning to see the extreme financial problems they face against the backdrop of a God who wants to touch first and foremost their hearts with his love.  But there has been a breakthrough on the material front too.  We have been battling away for over a year to get benefits for one widow.  She has just received her first payment. Without that she and her four children would have been evicted.  God has been at work on another front too.  At our meeting last night the local health councellor came along.  The guys gathered around him as he took a lung pollution reading on the Roma lady who is on the stop smoking programme.  "Your lungs had been full of pollution.  Look now, they are completely clear!"  The councellor advised others: "you need God's help to do this, not just the patches!"  This was interesting.  He is a Hindu. There is common ground we can share.  To grow our Roma church further one thing we need is more cars to bring the families in.  Or a bus!