Heart for the World with Terry and Barbi Franklin

"STORY LINKS" FROM SIBERIA 2005 MISSIONS OUTREACH DETAILS

Lord, Who is "Gea Shea Llama"?

Why is it always in the middle of the night that God seems to call us into prayer? Miracle of miracles, I was amazed that I felt refreshed throughout our entire outreach (all except for one day I had a small bout with a bug, and thus became dear friends with Imodium and Pepto-Bismol).

It seemed that God had many tasks to accomplish while I should have been sleeping, so He chose to give me added physical strength to get through the many days of this outreach in this remote region of Southeastern Siberia. I'm sure this abnormal ability was from the prayers of the 1,000's of intercessors that heard we were being... what we're now calling... "hassled for Christ". (We can't exactly call what we went through "persecution" when 1,000's are literally giving their lives to preach the Gospel around the world.)

One night half-way through our outreach in Siberia, as I was praying half asleep/half conscious, I kept awaking praying for Gea Shea Llama. At first I thought it was a heavenly language, and then I said, "Lord, who is Gea Shea Llama? Is it a person's name?" But the Lord was silent. So I committed it to prayer and held it in my heart.

The next morning, one of the ministers reminded me that Llama is what they call Buddhist teachers. So I thought it must be the name of one of the leaders of Buddhism there near Ulan Ude, Siberia, where we were ministering. As the days progressed, I probed and finally found out that the Gea Shea Llama are actually the "ordained priests" of the Buddhist temples. I had never heard this title. But I was told they get several years of training in the teachings of Buddha's philosophies from the 1,000's of pages of manuscripts. Then they go to India to be "commissioned" and sent out to their appointed locations.

I never did meet any of these Gea Shea Llama while in Siberia. But upon our trip home, low and behold, God sat me right next to a Buddhist "faith healer" who's "master" was a Gea Shea Llama. He told me how he travels the world to teach people how to draw on the energy of the universe for healing power. So I told him, "Oh, well, we pray to God for healing in Jesus name, and we've seen many people healed by His power." It turns out that this precious man's father, Nino, is very sick, so I told him we would pray for him to be healed in Jesus name.

I was able to share God's love and His intimate grace and compassion with this student/teacher of one of the Buddhist Gea Shea Llama and as he nodded with deep gratitude for my concern, I gave him a CD of our Christian music and told him that I would also pray for him (his name is Rama).

Join me in praying that God will reveal His great and intimate love to Rama, his "master", and his dad, Nino, as well as all the leaders and Gea Shea Llamas around the world. They are hungry to know that it's not their works or hard-earned state of nirvana, or "denial of all desires", that they find freedom from evil and turmoil. Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace and has already earned their freedom if they will see and admit their sin and need for His salvation. God can open the eyes of all Buddhists around the world if we will pray!

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