27/08/2026
🔥NO ROAD. NO MAP. BUT GOD SHOWED THEM WHERE TO GO! | MEL TARI’S MIRACLE EXPERIENCES (PART 9)
. . Contd. from Part 8
"God speaks to His people in different ways. Sometimes He speaks
through His Word, sometimes through circumstances,
and at other times He may speak through a vision.
The Bible gives us several examples of God communicating with His
servants through visions.
In the Old Testament, Ezekiel wrote:
“The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.”
(Ezekiel 1:1).
And in the New Testament, John wrote:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…” (Revelation 1:10).
We experienced something similar many times when we were preparing to go into the villages to preach the Gospel.
NO ROADS. NO MAPS. JUST THE JUNGLE
In Timor, travelling from one village to another was not always easy.
There were very few roads, and we had no maps to guide us.
Instead, there were small paths and trails winding through the jungles.
If you had already visited a particular village, you might remember the way.
But if you had never been there before, finding it could be extremely difficult.
Imagine being told to go and preach in a village you had never visited before
— without a proper road, without a map and without anyone to guide you.
WHERE WOULD YOU EVEN BEGIN?
That was often our situation. So we would pray.
And many times, as we prayed, THE LORD WOULD GIVE US A VISION.
I have sometimes described it as being like LOOKING AT GOD'S TELEVISION.
Through the vision, the Lord would show us things we needed to know about the journey.
He might show us that we were to go straight ahead.
Then He
might show us certain trees we would encounter.
After that, we might have to cross a river. The instructions were not necessarily complicated.
But they were specific enough to help us find our way through
places where there were no proper roads or maps.
WE WROTE DOWN WHAT GOD SHOWED US
Whenever the Lord gave us these directions, we would write them down.
We did not simply say,
“We Think This Is The Way.”
We recorded what had been shown to us and then followed the instructions. So we would set out.
We would walk through the jungle, following the directions we had received.
GO STRAIGHT.
LOOK FOR THE TREES.
CROSS THE RIVER.
Step by step, we followed the guidance.
And eventually, we would arrive at the very place where we were supposed to go.
What made these experiences even more remarkable was
that sometimes the Lord would reveal more than simply the route.
When we arrived, we would often already know HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD
BE THERE AND WHAT SOME OF THEIR NEEDS WOULD BE.
The Lord had shown us these things beforehand.
This meant that when we finally reached the village, we were not simply arriving at an unknown destination.
We knew that God had sent us there.
GOD KNOWS THE WAY WHEN WE DON'T
Looking back, these experiences taught us an important lesson.
We did not need to know everything before we started.
We simply needed to know WHO WAS SENDING US.
The jungle might have been unfamiliar.
The paths might have been confusing. There might have been no map to consult.
But God knew exactly where the village was.
And if He wanted us to reach that village to preach the Gospel, He was able to show us the way.
That is the confidence we learned to have:
WHEN GOD SENDS YOU, HE CAN ALSO GUIDE YOU.
• We did not have the road.
• We did not have the map.
But we had the Lord." narrated Mel Tari.
. . . to be continued in Part 10.
My name is Success Obi (also known on Facebook as Augustine Alade Obi), a servant of Jesus Christ, an evangelist and the founder of Jesus Online Signs and Wonders Ministry. I share real testimonies of miracles, signs and wonders to stir faith and reveal the power of God.