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Report for 28^th April 2011

In the morning following an overnight that I can compare to the fellowship at Cornelius’ home in the Acts of the Apostles, another side of Brother Kiama unfolded. He took us 10 kilometres eastwards to a home where his wife Janet stays with his/her two daughters – Wanjiru now 18 and Muthoni, 20. (I should note that when Kiama was called into solitude in 1994, Wanjiru was 14 months old and Muthoni was 2 years and a half).

When we arrived at 6am, Wanjiru was feeding their cow while her mom was feeding chickens. Muthoni is in Nairobi in college.

As we pulled in, they dropped their buckets and ran towards the car. Kiama got out and they fell on his neck. They last saw him in June last year. I felt sorry for them but I was wrong because soon I would learn another lesson about the working of the Lord. We who often ignore the Spirit’s voice and direction because we want to stick to normalcy go wrong and we miss it altogether. We think in our little minds that a man must remain with his children for them to grow up well in love and security and fear of the Lord. But wait a sec! Is it not true that great men of God in the Bible had questionable family lives? They were crazy men under cultural considerations. To wit- Moses married again—where is Zipporah? Joel was ordered to marry a prostitute. Elijah had no direction. Elisha was ordered to simply leave everything and go etc. Every powerful prophet of God was crazy in a way; they were crazy by worldly standards and expectations.

That aside: I came to learn that when Brother Kiama was told to leave his family, his wife Janet supported it fully. They had only a quarter an acre of land and a small two-roomed timber house. On his resignation, he was given 10,000 shillings ($120) and that was it. She prayed for him and released him into the wild. It boggles my mind, yet so real and true. In her testimony, Janet said that her daughters never got sick. Her little business of selling milk and other household goods flourished. She reared cattle and fed neighbours with milk. She reared chicken and fish and these things she still has them. The Lord blessed her and expanded her territory and now she has three hectares of land. The other abandoned house stands on half an acre of land, and it’s not tilled. One secret that Janet shared with us is this- prayer. She has ceaselessly held her husband before the Lord in prayer. Her prayers have sustained him in the wild, among lions and other dangerous man-eating reptiles, without a companion and good food.

I was amazed by Wanjiru and her seasoned demeanour. She is a godly young woman. She is a worshipper. She is quick and hardworking. She is beautiful and decent. Above all, she loves the Lord so much.

We spent the whole Thursday 28^th April with this unique family and set up a home church in their house with four families that neighbour them. The Lord has been preparing them for the organic body life. At exactly 5 pm, Brother Kiama was supposed to leave for his abode in the Mount Kenya forest and so he did. He left on foot. Our time with him and his family was officially over. We got into our car and drove off to Timau town where we spent the night. The whole episode left us shaking.

Let God be true. Let the Lord roar in Zion! Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.