Honoring a Heroine of the Faith 
in Mozambique

by Marion Farrar

A View from My Chair by James W. Goll ~ Nov 2009
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I have had the honor the past week to minister in Seoul, South Korea.  I ministered on Sunday at two different congregations. The Lord spontaneously gave me a new message of "Celebrating the God of Today."  The ministry of Holy Spirit has been amazing! It was powerful and something I will be chewing on for some time. All this week there have been 5,000 people in attendance for the Revive Korea Conference with Che Ahn, Dutch Sheets, Lance Wallnau and myself.  My son Tyler has come with me on this trip and it has been a blessing for us to travel together.  Your support to EN allows me to be an ambassador for the Kingdom and I am grateful for this! Thanks for your prayers.

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Today we are featuring a word from Compassion Acts Advisory Board member, Marion Farrar.  Marion has been a friend and support to my family for years. She lives the life of an intercessor, praying regularly with people from multiple denominations. In 2007, Marion was a member of the team that went to Pemba, Mozambique with Michal Ann. In her article below she relates some personal experience from her time in Pemba as well as how mysteriously the Lord moves during the Comapssion Acts trips to direct the team in their assignments.

As we make final preparations to send the team to Pemba next May to build Dreamer's Park, consider how you might invest your life with God's dream for the children of Mozambique. As you will see in Marion's devotional below, Mary Linvingston - wife of Dr. David Livingston, came to Mozambique ready to serve; her legacy lives on through not only Heidi Baker, but through all the Christian mothers of Africa and Mozambique. Whether you want to build or pray, there's room for you to join the team in Pemba.

Blessings to each of you! Remember, together in Jesus, we make a great team.

With Thanksgiving and with Honor,

James W. Goll
Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • Compassion Acts

Mary Livingstone

the wife of Dr. David Livingstone, the famous explorer

Alima has beautiful brown eyes, a winning smile, and was always ready with a wonderful hug. Alima was 13 years old and living on the Iris Ministry base in Pemba when I met her there with Compassion Acts 2 ½ years ago. I wish you had been there with me.

Alima would come running up and give me a great big hug, then would pose the question, “When are you coming back?” At first I did not know what to say. Would I ever come back? I did not want to mislead her. Perhaps prompted by Holy Spirit, I heard these words come out of my mouth, “If the Lord sends me, I will come back.”

Towards the end of my stay we had an incredible service where all the children prayed over each one of our team. What an amazing experience! These children know how to pull down a blessing from Heaven!! Later in the day I saw Alima and shyly, she said, “Do you know what I prayed for you?” I answered, "no." Iimmediately she told me,"I prayed the Lord would send you back!”

Well, someone please tell Alima, "I AM COMING BACK!" I have joined the Dreamer's Park Team for next year. Those beautiful children still tug at my heart and I cannot wait to see them again next May! I am coming not to take up a hammer and nails to build a playground, but to take up my trusted tools of prayer to build in the spirit realm a zone of safety, encounragement, creativity, and blessing around the playground. I am a Mary that wants to sit at the feet of Jesus, and we need the "Marys" to come and pray for justice and righteousness where there seems to be little of either!

Mozambique is a country that has endured corruption and darkness to become one of Africa's most respected countries. We were able to spend much time in prayer on Michal Ann’s last trip to Mozambique in 2007. I believe our prayers made a difference for Iris Ministries, Pemba, and Mozambique. There are many stories I could share of our prayer times, but I will only share this one: the day God brought in the “Mother Heart of God.”

HONORING A HEROINE OF THE FAITH IN MOZAMBIQUE

Early in our trip was a time of prayer where the Lord had us honor a mother of the faith in Mozambique, Mary Livingstone. This became essential ground work in the Spirit that I felt the Lord built on throughout our trip. How could we birth God’s will without honoring this first lady of faith in Mozambique and Africa?

Interestingly we found our assignment in our airline magazine as we flew into Pemba. Laid out across 8 pages in both English and Portuguese was the life story of Mary Livingstone, the wife of Dr. David Livingstone, the famous explorer.

Mary Moffat Livingstone was born in the early nineteenth century to missionaries in South Africa and married Dr. Livingstone in 1845. She accompanied him on his explorations and journeys across the continent of Africa in a life of self-sacrifice and hardship. Following a rest at home in England, Mary Livingstone traveled to again join her husband in Mozambique, a difficult journey that took some months. During that journey, a vicious rumor was started by a member of the group with whom she traveled. It was rumored that Mary had become romantically involved with a minister on this long arduous trip. Heartsick at these false accusations and fighting malaria, she arrived in Mozambique quite ill and died within a matter of days. The article attributed her death to not only her physical condition, but also to her distress over the malicious, unfounded gossip that had come against her. Mary Livingstone was buried in a small village in Mozambique in 1862.

I think we all had a sense that this was an unexpected piece of history that the Lord just literally dropped in our laps without having to dig for it. But we were not sure how or when the Lord would bring this into our intercession. One afternoon as we prayed in the "Mother's House," a small house Heidi Baker had built for her own mother and our headquarters for prayer, it became apparent the Lord had Mary Livingstone on His mind. One intercessor began prophesying that "we were all to be spokes of the same wheel", a wheel that was like a water wheel, similar to the spoked laces on the back of a hand-made drum she held as she prayed. The words from the magazine article reverberated through our spirits as we were reminded of what Dr. Livingstone said of Mary Livingstone just before one of their trips to Africa, "My wife, who has always been the main spoke in my wheel, will accompany me in this expedition, and will be most useful to me. She is familiar with the languages of South Africa. She is able to work. She is willing to endure, and she well knows that in that country one must put one's hand to everything."

That day we honored the life of Mary Livingstone, all of her labors, all of her sacrifices with our words and prayers. Then, as we continued to pray, we joined our hands together, our arms extended as spokes of a wheel, and pledged that we, too, wanted to be like this mother in the faith, "able to work...willing to endure, putting one's hand to everything."  It was a powerful time in prayer and as we honored this mother, this heroine of the faith. The Lord began to bring in the mother's anointing, which quickly became the hallmark of this trip. Many things that happened during the remainder of our time there came out of this mother's heart anointing of God for Africa..

In honoring this mother who had been so maligned and gossiped against, a door was closed in the spirit to sickness and even death that had been opened as Christians gossiped against others. We all learned a lesson that day how honor can displace darkness and even close a door! We felt the honor of God upon us as we prayed in Pemba.

It is a privilege to search the heart of God for those who are in such desperate need. Will you come and labor in prayer with me as I again travel to Mozambique? Woman or man, old or young, come round out and strengthen the wheel. We will pray!

In Jesus Name, Amen!

Marrion Farrar