FRANÇOISE LUTALA OF RWANDA 7

FROM THE CONVENT TO THE SALVATION OF GOD

This testimony is the seventh part of a series of seven.

After hearing Sister Philomene, I asked her to give me a moment of prayer. Not that I doubt your words, but simply to put me in the mood of the Holy Spirit. I made a fast of two days, at the end of which God confirmed the prophecy by putting in me a strong conviction. Sister Philomene was certain of my agreement. Without consulting me, she had already bought two Kinshasa-Kindu air tickets on May 20, 1983. Two days after my conversation with her, on May 21, I went to Righini early in the morning. I had taken all my travel belongings. My decision was to return only once the prophecy was fulfilled. "Are you ready for the trip?" she said, welcoming me when I arrived at her house. "What trip? I do not have a ticket." "Everything is in order, by the grace of God. We have the tickets. Standing! On the way to the airport!"

KC: Once in Kindu, did you have a base to start your services?

MM: In Kasongo lived a pastor who had known us since the time of our prayer group located on 9th Street in Kinshasa-Limete. God knows how to fix things, my brother. This pastor was the legal representative of all the Assemblies of God of the sub-region! Since he knew us as servants of God, he did not oppose our request to work in the church entrusted to him. We observed three days of fasting and prayer. We started doing Bible seminars in churches before doing evangelistic crusades. God glorified the Name of His Son through our ministry there. There were many miracles: The paralytics walked, the deaf heard, the blind recovered their sight, those who were possessed by unclean spirits were delivered. It is especially this last category which was the most numerous.

KC: If I understand correctly, it was during this period that you became acquainted with Sister Lutala Françoise? Could you enlighten readers about the circumstances in which you have known her, and give her physical description?

MM: Well, my brother, God bless you for the question! Among those whom the Lord had delivered through our ministry was a young woman from Shabunda, who is also the home area of Sister Lutala. This sister had been delivered from an unclean spirit that had tormented her for a long time. Once back home, she informed Lutala's parents about what the Lord had done in her life. She did not fail to tell them that we were in Kasongo, about 90 kilometers away. From her own experience, she managed to convince Lutala's parents to take her, not to Tanzania, but to where we were, in Kasongo.

One Sunday evening, Pastor Sansaku, who welcomed us, Sister Philomene Kaseka, and I, returned from Mitende, a town 7 km from Kasongo, where we had preached the Word of God in one of the parishes of Assemblies of God. After walking this distance on foot and back, we were very tired. When we arrived in Kasongo, we found a group of one man and four women. One of them caught my attention. She was very skinny. She had tousled and dirty hair. Her eyes were swollen and her eyes were haggard. In spite of her thinness, her breast was very swollen, like a woman who is breastfeeding. She was wearing a very dirty ragged dress. Her legs and feet were very swollen. There was no need to call a doctor to diagnose elephantiasis. She was crazy. I learned later that this group was from Shabunda. [Shabunda to Kasongo is 290 km by road]. I do not know how long they had to walk that distance on foot. It was Sunday, June 10, 1983.

DELIVERANCE

KC: Until then, you did not know the motive of their visit?

MM: Seeing the person I just described, I quickly realized that she needed a prayer of deliverance. Given the late hour and the fatigue that was gaining my body, I whispered to myself, "Why not wait until tomorrow for the deliverance of this woman?" It is then that the Holy Spirit clearly says to me, "Why do you want to compromise My work?" Convinced of the Lord's support, I asked my traveling companion to keep the newcomer on repentance and forgiveness of sins, the time to withdraw to ask not the will but the direction of the Lord.

Indeed, my younger brother Kapena, the deliverance service requires a lot of prayers (Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting). I rejoined Sister Philomena, once my prayer was over. In her turn, she retired to pray. While waiting for her return to begin the deliverance prayer, I undertook to sound out Sister Lutala. I asked her some questions related to the Word of God. Her answers showed fierce resistance to the Word of God. The Holy Spirit forbids me to continue asking her questions. I quickly realized that she was not the one answering, but the bad spirits in her. Unable to get anything out of her, I turned to those who had taken her away. I asked them to talk to me a little about her.

Sister Philomene returned, and we began together with the prayer of deliverance. Seeing the Lutala's state of advanced possession, I had the presence of mind to spread the crowd, lest evil spirits, once driven out of Lutala's body, enter the many pagans who were in the crowd. I speak well of pagans since the true children of God are covered by the blood of the Lamb of God. As the crowd refused to depart, I remained calm, and then I had the idea of taking Lutala a little further away for her deliverance.

IMMERSION WATER BAPTISM

The thought of having to abandon our sister was worrying us. We did not want to leave a new convert to the Lord without adequate guidance. We had to leave three days later. We decided to baptize Lutala. I was not counting on her reaction. The next morning, I exhorted her on the necessity of baptism of water by immersion. She asked me a lot of questions, in spite of all that the Lord had done in her life, through our ministry, and no later than the day before. She refused to be baptized. Pretending she was a former nun belonging to the convent, she told me that there was no question that she would be renamed. I took the time to explain what the Christian baptism was. This is the commitment of a good conscience towards God (1 Pet. 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.). It is not baptism alone that saves. A baptism is a public act of faith in the Lord. We must first believe in Jesus Christ. Once we believe, why go through baptism? Jesus says, in Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and who is baptized will be saved." This order was given to the apostles by Jesus Himself, in Mat 28: 19-20 "Go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them. to observe all that I have commanded you. "

I felt that my interlocutor did not understand a word of everything I said. At about ten o'clock, she excused herself, to take a little rest in her room. I accepted without difficulty while interceding so that God might have pity on her, and make her understand the merits of baptism by immersion. This is how the Lord answered our prayer. At around 2 pm, Lutala herself came to tell us that she was ready for baptism, "I want to receive baptism by immersion as soon as possible." I wanted to know why this flip-flop was so fast.

"Oh, pastor, God spoke to me!"

"God spoke to you, how did you know it was He?"

"I had a dream where I saw myself plunging completely in the river to reach the other shore. On the other side, there was a man wearing many white hats. Each of those who had crossed the river, after having dived there, received a hat from the man with the hats. Inside each hat was written the name of its recipient. I then approached the river, and wanted to get my hat, but without crossing the river. He who stood on the other side said to me, 'Francoise, here on this side, it's not the same thing as where you are. I have your hat here, with your name written in it. But to receive it, you have to dive into the river like everyone else.' I went back and took my place in the queue with the others. When my turn came to dive to get my hat back, that's when I woke up. It was not necessary to be a prophetess to understand that this message was for me. Pastor, I want to receive my white hat. I therefore ardently desire to be baptized by immersion."

"Sister Francoise, will you make me believe that after all this time spent at the convent, you do not know that this passage is found in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, in the second chapter, and in verse 38?"

"No, pastor!"

"Sister Philomena, read us Acts 2:38!"

Sister Philomene complied, "Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

Around 3 pm, we went to a stream, it was located 5 kilometers from our agglomeration. The Bible says that "John was baptizing in Enon near Salim because there was a lot of water" (John 3:23) So it was out of the question for us to just sprinkle a little water on Lutala's head, as some churches do, or even to perform ablution similar to what is practiced in Judaism or Islam.

There was too little water in the bed of this stream. My sister Philomene and I have dug the bed of the brook by hand, in order to obtain a sufficient hollow to completely immerse Sister Lutala, according to the Holy Scriptures. Then I baptized her after asking her if she wanted to leave the devil and his works to turn to the Lord Jesus: "Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?" In answering "Yes," she confirmed that her immersion in the water was a representation of her death in Jesus Christ. She also accepted the fact that Jesus Christ had died for her. This meant that Lutala was dead to sins, although still alive in the world. The way out of the water represents the resurrection of Christ, the victory over sin and death. This also foreshadows the rapture of the Church when Christ comes to take His own to bring them up in the clouds to meet Him! How clear are these things!

THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Back home, we prayed to God for the Lord to baptize our sister in His Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.). After the laying on of hands, the Lord instantly baptized her in His Holy Spirit. Lutala then began to pray in an unknown language, to our great satisfaction, and to the astonishment of the laymen. We knew that we had to leave Francoise under the protection of the Holy Spirit, but it saddened us to abandon her without supervision. We begged her to join us in Kinshasa at the first opportunity. We left Kasongo on June 13, 1983, to arrive in Kinshasa on the 24th. Two days after our arrival, while we were in the middle of a worship meeting, we heard a knock at the front door. I left the meeting to see what was going on, and I saw Sister Lutala in the doorway! We kissed for a long time, and then I called Sister Philomene Kaseka. It was an immense joy for us, which we shared with the brothers and sisters who were praying with us.

KC: She who did not know the city, how could she reach Righini so easily?

MM: It was a great miracle! I can answer without hesitation that it was the Angel of the Lord who guided her. She told us how she arrived: "Once the formalities of N'Djili airport were over, I heard a taxi driver shouting 'Lemba, Lemba, Lemba!' I approached him and asked him if he knew a Philomene Kaseka, and the man said that he knew her well, and I replied that I was in no hurry because I had arrived in Kinshasa. He deposited the last one, as he had said, at the Righini quarter in Lemba, and when I came in, I met the pastor on the doorstep!" The hugs ended, Sister Philomene and I left the garden to pay for the ride, pick up the suitcases and thank the driver. Except for the suitcases of Sister Francoise, we found no one. There were not even the wheel tracks of a vehicle! The car and its driver were gone! Calmly we retrieved the suitcases, none of which were missing. When we went back to the "upper room," the intensity of the praises increased! Everyone realized that it was God who had an angel and his vehicle to drive the sister to safety! The next day we testified in our assembly. On June 30, 1983, Sister Francoise gave her first testimony at the People's Palace in Kinshasa. (End of testimony)

CAUTION

We would like to remind you, dear brothers and dear friends, of this warning about testimonials. As we have said, the testimonies, in general, open our eyes to the Spiritual Combat and help us to be better equipped against the attacks of which we are constantly victims of Satan and his agents. But these testimonies, in any case, cannot be taken for Word of the Gospel. In addition, our choice to publish these testimonials does not constitute any recommendation of their authors.

God uses who He wants, to burst His glory, or to speak to His children. The mere fact that someone renders a testimony like the one you just read does not make the person a true child of God. Whether the testimony is of a person who served Satan, or of someone who has seen Heaven and/or Hell, you must just receive what the Lord wants to give you as a revelation through these stories. without falling into the trap of believing that the people through whom the Lord has gone to give them to you are sent from God.

Know very well that God, to convey His messages, makes use of everything, including animals, as you have seen in the case of Balaam. If you agree with me that the donkey that God used to speak to Balaam was neither a true servant of God, nor a true child of God, nor a messenger of God, understand that those by whom God uses to give the different testimonies we read are not necessarily true servants of God, nor true children of God, nor messengers of God. This must be clear to you from now on.

Several people after reading these testimonials, went on the internet to do a little research on their authors. What they saw scandalized them. They realized that the authors of these testimonies have nothing of God in their way of living. They are almost all, a real slander for the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are simply scandals. Almost all these so-called ex-Satanists, men and women, have proclaimed themselves servants of God. Everyone has given himself the title he likes. Some call themselves pastors, other evangelists, other prophets. Others even have the nerve to call themselves apostles. There were some who began as pastors, and a few months later became apostles.

They have embarked on a gospel that has nothing to do with the sound doctrine of Christ. To see some of them, you find it hard to believe that they once knew Jesus Christ; they are not different from the worldly ones. They adorn themselves jewelry and makeup of all kinds. Women wear wigs, wicks and other hateful hairstyles. Although they say they have met the Lord, they do not seem to know that the woman who fears God has to hide her head, dress decently, flee makeup, jewelry, satanic accouterments such as pants and other clothes called sexily. That it does not distract you anymore. It's just another plan of Satan to sow discord in God's work. Bless God for Discernment.

One of these ex-Satanists in his testimony, clearly reveals that Satan had offered to open a chain of jewelry, explaining that selling the jewelry, it should allow Satan to continuously obtain human blood and souls. She herself tells us that Satan had revealed to her that those who buy jewelry become their victims. She reveals to us that the jewels, thanks to the many incantations made on it, contain demons and that when someone buys a jewel, it is actually demons that she buys, and that once in their house, these demons at night extinguished the blood of the occupants of the house. She knows better than you and me that the jewels contain demons which not only possess those who wear them but even possess those who live in the same house as those who wear them. But when you see this so-called ex-Satanist, you are outraged. She is always adorned with jewels of all kinds, even the most extravagant. This is a true calumny of the Gospel. Remember that one of the missions of Satan's agents is to slander the gospel, to sow confusion in the minds of people, so that those who want to follow the Lord, are confused.

Those who read these testimonies and are outraged by seeing their authors on the Internet, write to us asking, "How is it possible that a person who claims to have seen Heaven or Hell, and even met the Lord Jesus Christ live the opposite of what the Word of God teaches." The answer is simple: They are not of God. So beware of the expressions "ex-Satanists" or "ancient Satanists" used to describe those who served Satan and claim to have converted to Jesus Christ. It is possible that some of these conversions are true, but these so-called ex-Satanists are generally nothing but real Satanists. So do not be seduced by these agents of Satan disguised as children of God. Make good use of discernment that the Lord has given us.

Know then, beloved, that many of these testimonies of Heaven, Hell, the world of darkness, etc., are true. If their authors are turning away from God, that does not invalidate these testimonies. Just understand that these are the donkeys God used to reveal what He wanted to reveal to us. The message that the donkey had given to Balaam came from God. The fact that this message really came from God did not make the donkey a child of God or a messenger of God. The donkey gave his message to Balaam and remained donkey. Balaam received the message of God and was free to obey or not to obey. This is the case for you today. After receiving these testimonies that the Lord gives us through these donkeys, you are free to repent and fear God.

Dear brothers and dear friends, remember once and for all that having seen Heaven and/or Hell does not make anyone a child of God. Serving Satan and eventually meeting Jesus Christ does not make anyone a child of God. Many servants of Satan who claim to have abandoned him to follow Jesus, always end up returning to their true master Satan. Take what edifies you in the testimonies, but take care not to idolize their authors. Do as God has recommended in Matthew 23:1-3, "Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So do and watch everything they tell you, but do not act according to their works. Because they say, and do not do. "

May grace be with you all who have Jesus Christ as Master!

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