{"id":1141,"date":"2023-11-23T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wh.paulwebdesign.uk\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:29:45","slug":"the-question-i-was-not-expecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/the-question-i-was-not-expecting\/","title":{"rendered":"La question \u00e0 laquelle je ne m&#039;attendais pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incroyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c9videmment, j\u2019ai dit oui. \u00ab Je savais que tu le connaissais. J\u00e9sus \u00e9tait un homme formidable\u2026 \u00bb, a compl\u00e9t\u00e9 le monsieur. Et puis il m\u2019a dit pourquoi J\u00e9sus est important et nous avons commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 parler de Celui qui m\u2019a mis sur son chemin. En arrivant l\u00e0 o\u00f9 il devait \u00eatre, il m\u2019a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme \u00ab son fils \u00bb (normal dans la culture ici) et nous nous sommes dit au revoir. J\u2019ai pu le revoir \u00e0 une autre occasion, et nous avons eu \u00e0 nouveau une belle conversation.<br>Servir Dieu nous r\u00e9serve des surprises incroyables. Ce sont des exp\u00e9riences que nous ne pourrons jamais oublier, m\u00eame dans des lieux difficiles d\u2019acc\u00e8s, o\u00f9 il y a beaucoup d\u2019obstacles, comme ici en Afrique du Nord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cependant, alors que nous marchons avec Lui, Dieu Lui-m\u00eame nous montre des personnes pour lesquelles nous pouvons \u00eatre une lumi\u00e8re. Au cours de ces presque 8 ann\u00e9es de service pour Lui et pour les gens d\u2019ici, nous sommes profond\u00e9ment reconnaissants \u00e0 Dieu pour chaque \u00ab rencontre \u00bb unique, chaque conversation sur le ciel, chaque sourire, chaque poign\u00e9e de main et chaque amiti\u00e9. Oui, nous voulons bien plus que des \u00ab contacts \u00bb, nous voulons des amis, et en \u00e9tant amis pour eux, nous pourrons leur montrer comment ils peuvent \u00eatre amis de Dieu. Avec une certitude absolue, c\u2019est une mission merveilleuse !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nous habitons \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 de nombreux monuments historiques, et lorsque nous nous rendons compte de la fa\u00e7on dont vivaient les Berb\u00e8res avant et que nous reconnaissons un symbole de la trinit\u00e9 dans un tapis berb\u00e8re, cela nous am\u00e8ne \u00e0 croire que Dieu nous a laiss\u00e9 un chemin \u00e0 suivre pour que nous puissions trouver des gens comme ce monsieur. Ce sont des jeunes, des enfants, des \u00e9tudiants, des entrepreneurs\u2026 Oui, des gens autour de nous qui peuvent voir en nous le Christ que nous proclamons. Tant d\u2019opportunit\u00e9s, tant de personnes et si peu de t\u00e9moignages de la Lumi\u00e8re. Ob\u00e9issons au Ma\u00eetre et demandons plus d\u2019ouvriers pour la moisson. Que Dieu nous envoie plus de gens, pour que ces Nord-Africains qui ont besoin de voir la Lumi\u00e8re.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un jour, alors que j&#039;allais au bureau, un monsieur \u00e2g\u00e9 m&#039;a demand\u00e9 de l&#039;aider \u00e0 descendre \u00e0 l&#039;arr\u00eat de bus. Il \u00e9tait aveugle. Tenant son bras, il m&#039;a beaucoup remerci\u00e9, m&#039;adressant des paroles de b\u00e9n\u00e9diction. Puis il m&#039;a demand\u00e9 : &quot;Mon fils, connais-tu J\u00e9sus ?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>J&#039;ai eu peur ! Eh bien, j&#039;\u00e9tais l\u00e0 pour t\u00e9moigner de Lui aux gens par mon comportement et mes paroles ! Mais j&#039;\u00e9tais l\u00e0, tenant le bras d&#039;un vieil homme, \u00e0 qui on demandait si je connaissais J\u00e9sus.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Incredible.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Obviously I said yes. \"I knew you knew him. Jesus was a formidable person\u2026\", completed the gentleman. And then he told me why Jesus is important and we started talking about the One who put me in his path. Upon arriving where he was supposed to be, he introduced me as \"his son\" (normal in the culture here) and we said goodbye. I was able to see him again on another occasion, and we had a great conversation again.<br>Serving God brings us incredible surprises. These are experiences that we can never forget, even in places that are difficult to access, where there are many obstacles, like here in North Africa.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>However, as we walk with Him, God Himself shows us people that we can be a light for. During these almost 8 years of service for Him and people here, we are deeply grateful to God for each unique \"meeting\", each conversation about heaven, each smile, handshake and friendship. Yes, we want much more than \"contacts\", we want friends, and been friends to them we will be able to show how they can be friends to God. With absolute certainty, it is a wonderful mission!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We live close to many historical monuments, and when we realize how Berbers lived before and recognizing a symbol of the trinity in a Berber rug, leads us to believe that God has left us a path to follow so that we can find people like this gentleman. They are young people, children, students, businessmen\u2026 Yes, people around us who can see in us the Christ we proclaim. So many opportunities, so many people and so little testimony of the Light. Let\u2019s obey the Master and ask for more workers for the harvest. May God send us more people, for those North Africans who are in need to see the Light.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-in-action","category-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/North-Africa-pexels-zakaria-hanif-10541181.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldhorizons.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}