Greetings from Crow Agency Reservation, Montana!

PRAYER JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA

9/13/2013

Day 5

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Crow Agency, Montana

Greetings to all my readers from one of my favorite places, Crow Agency, home to the famed Crow Natives. My special friends DUANE AND ANITA BULLCHIEF pastor their church, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, here. You can actually see their little white church from Interstate 90 as one travels across America.

MY FATHER'S HOUSE  at Crow Agency, Montana

I stopped here today to speak with a relative of theirs who runs a delightful gift shop here. She is a dedicated Christian who prays continually for her people. She shared with me her concern for the tragic problems of drugs and alcohol plaguing this reservation. Spousal and child abuse and suicide also are heavily present of this reservation. Many reservations in fact suffer from all these identical problems.

However, many Native people find relief and deliverance through turning to Jesus Christ for salvation and true freedom at last from such problems.

I have often had conversations with my native American friends across America. We have discussed deeper aspects of the historical Jesus Christ. We agreed that He had much in common with the customs of native peoples, in fact.

Jesus' people were TRIBAL. They often lived in TENTS on the plains, similar to the Native peoples living in tipis. Native peoples often wore their hair in pony tails, even as Jesus did (His hair, while not as long as women's, was longer than modern men's today, and was worn in a short pony tail, according to culture of that day.)

The historical Jesus had darker skin, and not "white man" bleached skin coloring, due to where He lived in the Middle East, where darker skin coloring is the norm.

Every culture likes to make Jesus more relevant to their understanding and customs. And so European Americans love pictures that often depict Jesus as European in background, pale in complexion with European features. But the historical Jesus was not European nor a "pale face"!

Please pray with me for these precious Crow Native people. Pastor Duane's wife Anita once shared with me how her people were committing suicide, Crow-style, here. I asked her how that happened. She replied, "See those railroad tracks over there?" I nodded. They run along Interstate 90 by Crow Agency.

Railroad tracks in front of Crow Agency along I-90

Pray against all suicide here.

"About once a year, people commit suicide Crow style. They wait for the train to come, and then throw themselves in front of the train..." I cringed when I heard those terrifying words.

But this is indicative of how deep depression can be on any reservation across America. And what hope do people have, apart from Jesus Christ? WE must tell the world that THERE IS HOPE! And JESUS IS THE ANSWER! And then prove it with our love and our actions helping to bring them hope through Him.

Thank you for your prayers for REVIVAL and for God to touch the hearts and lives of these plains dwellers, 

the CROW PEOPLE of Montana. 

-Pamela Rae Schuffert reporting from ACROSS THE USA-

                                        

                                              

Coping With Life's Problems in Times We Face

The following words are very difficult for me to share with my readers. It is almost impossible to put into mere human words the things God has been impressing me as I spend more and more time in intercessory prayer for this nation. The more research I perform, the more perfectly I understand the tragic future planned for our nation and against millions of her inhabitants. The more I uncover, the more my heart is grieved...and therefore the more time I am then compelled to spend in PRAYER.

Yesterday, before my medic friend Lisa flew to another Eskimo village, she said to me quietly, "I appreciate the time you spend in prayer..." Lisa knows I am called to weep and cry out to God for our nation and her people.


All my normal sleeping patterns are shattered. My years of researching what is planned for our nation has quite effectively destroyed any semblance of a normal life. What IS  a "normal life?" For me, I cannot sleep much of the night. I put on background music, and then spend hours praying about everything I research. Sleep only comes after exhaustion begins to take it's toll, and then I grab a blanket and pillow and collapse for a few hours.


I bury my head in the heart of God during my time of sleep. I give to Him my tears and sadness over all I research, asking Him to take the pain away. And to help me forget, even for a few hours of sleep, everything my research has uncovered.


It is a very good thing I remain a strong and committed Christian. If I did not know the power and love of Jesus Christ and His mighty grace to bear and overcome difficult circumstances, I could have possibly become as those who turn to alcohol or drugs to numb the heartache of life's hardships and tragedies. And there are even those who tragically turn to suicide as a seeming exit as well.


But for those of you reading this, who are experiencing the pain of life's hardships and losses and difficulties, I want to tell you that there IS hope, and there IS something GREATER than than the destructive practices of turning to alcohol or drugs. 


Jesus Christ is REAL. His power to save you and change your life is REAL. His power to forgive your sins and heal your body bless your life and save you from life's circumstances are REAL.


There are no answers in drugs, alcohol or sin. SUICIDE WILL ONLY PLUNGE YOUR SOUL INTO HELL...DON'T DO IT!There is only hope in something and Someone greater than you and this dark world's circumstances: Jesus Christ!


This is why God sent His Son into this sad and dark world!


Receive Jesus Christ now by praying for Him to come into your life TODAY. If you don't have a Bible, purchase one today. BEGIN TO READ the New Testament and the words of Jesus Christ...and DO what His word instructs you to do. Find other Christians to pray with. Walk with Him every single day.

You will find your life transformed through Jesus Christ. You will the love you need. You will find the comfort, protection, encouragement, the EVERYTHING YOU NEED as you follow and learn to know God and His love through your Saviour Jesus Christ.


-Pamela Rae Schuffert