Lusi Matai

Praise the Lord

My name is Sister Lusi Matai and I attend the Kubulau Sub Center in the Northern Region, Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands.

I came to the Lord and received the Holy Spirit on 16.1.2005 evidenced by speaking in other tongues and was baptized by full immersion for the forgiveness of my sins a week later. This was very important to me because the promises of God in Acts 2:4 became real to me that day.

However, that day was just the culmination of a series of events that led to my Spirit-filled experience. Prior to receiving the Holy Spirit, I had a friend who attended the Revival Fellowship in my town shared the message of salvation to me. She did this for almost a period of two years and I would pretend to listen out of respect but deep inside me, rejected her message because it contradicted my religious beliefs.

Then I got sick with cancer. I was admitted and released from the hospital without any improvement. This cycle became part of my life until the doctors sent me home for the final time telling me that I should await my fate there. On my sick bed, my heart yearned for peace and comfort and wished for my friend who attended the Revival Fellowship to come visit me one more time.

I had grown weak and had lost my appetite. One morning, I could hear my friend’s voice around my house and thought I was dreaming. In fact, she had turned up at my home uninvited. As soon as our eyes met, I felt great relief.  My husband was surprised when I asked him to prepare some food for me. She shared the message again to me and this time I made up my mind to go with her to her church. I received the Holy Spirit and was baptized and everything about me: my family and my health changed for the better. It is now over 16 years since my discharge from the Hospital with no hope, condemned to await death at home since there was no medical cure for the sickness cancer. I am well now and my husband and I are now starting a church in our own district.

These experiences occurred to prove that God loves me and had plans for my life. He allowed my friend to share the message to me for several years. He allowed me to get sick to draw my undivided attention on Him. I could not thank Him enough for putting up with my weaknesses in order to bring me to a place of repentance and finally secure my freedom in Him.

Friends, you may be in a spot of bother in your life just as it happened to me. I am a witness that there is a way in Jesus Christ. Acts 2:38’ “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit”

God Bless!