April 9, 2006

• Please read… this is an excerpt from Heidi Baker’s book “Always Enough.”  Heidi and her husband were led by God to plant orphanages in war torn Mozambique.  Let this story touch you…

  
  

   

  
  

  … Another girl, Constancia, was abandoned on our bakery stairs.  She might have been five or six.  She was so traumatized that she couldn’t speak.  The Lord told me to chase her.  I would, and she’d let me catch her.  She wouldn’t scream or cry out, but tears would silently flow down her sunken cheeks.  I would hold her until she fell asleep.  I understood the Lord’s heart.  He wanted to chase her with His love and hold her in His arms.  She was filled with inexpressible grief, a most broken child. 

  
  

    Understanding this grief and what it was to be unwanted and unlovely, Beatrice (another young, abused and abandoned orphan) reached out to Constancia with love and compassion.  Even though Constancia couldn’t speak, Beatrice would talk to her all the time, holding her hand and taking her on walks. 

  
  

    One day I was amazed to see Constancia standing in line to be baptized.  I thought, “How am I going to baptize a girl who doesn’t speak?  How can she understand?”  I asked her, “Do you really know what this means?”  There was a line of over one hundred and twenty people that day.  I was standing in an old laundry tank.  By this time the water was a murky green from all the people who had been immersed in it.  I asked Constancia again, “Do you really know God is speaking to your heart?  Do you really want to be baptized?”  She nodded. 

  
  

    I simply picked up this frail, broken, beaten little girl and placed her in the water.  In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I baptized her.  When she came up from the water, she smiled for the first time among us.  Her face radiated the glory of God.  That day she suddenly began speaking again and told me she wanted to lead the children’s choir.

  
  

    Later she also told us that she had seen her parents being shot and their heads cut off.  Until then we had no idea what horror had so frozen her spirit.  But Jesus came to her in that baptismal water and turned her mourning into joy.  Both Beatrice and Constancia want to be missionaries and lay their lives down for Him.

  
  

   

  
  

  I encourage you to buy the book: “Always Enough” by Rolland and Heidi Baker.  Come, Lord Jesus!

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