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<<<   When the bags exited the scanner, the guard motioned for me to approach her, and then instead of asking politely, as is typical, yelled at me in English, "Bring the Bibles over here!" with a scowl. The young girl had turned into a tigress.

Instead of witnessing to her, I actually swallowed in fear like a school boy caught by his teacher and complied with slumped shoulders. The defeat was complete, as was the humiliation. She told me to take the Bibles out, but I told her to keep the whole suitcase. I was so angry with myself that if she had slapped my face, I would have appreciated it.

God had given me instructions, and I had disobeyed it. It wasn't intentional, and I wasn't even thinking that I could handle the last guard on my own. But I had been bracing for another counter full of guards. When I saw only one between me and the exit and she was only half paying attention, I had been thrown off my guard. I had taken my eyes off Jesus to look at how small the waves were, and had sunk.

The other factor was that I hadn't asked for prayer cover for this Bible run when I had the chance. At the end of my last email, I was tempted to ask for prayer cover for the day's Bible load but I didn't know for sure if we would be smuggling Bibles, so I hadn't asked for your prayer cover. Therefore some of you probably thought that we wouldn't be smuggling Bibles again until a few days later. It goes to show how critical prayer cover is to spiritual warfare.

Jesus said, "for without Me you can do nothing." (John 15:5). How true are His Words. With Him I/we can smuggle Bibles and witness to border guards. Without Him, we can do NOT some things, but absolutely "nothing", and I for one am reduced to a cowering wimp before a young girl.

I walked into Hades sickened to my stomach and fuming at myself for having disobeyed God and disappointed all of you, as well as the Hades Christians waiting for the confiscated Bibles. Learning that 2 of the 3 others with Bibles - the founder of the Bible smuggling organization and a 71-year old pastor from New Zealand - had also been caught didn't help matters and showed that Satan isn't going to just roll over and play dead.  >>>