Control Over Nature

In many nations, they have what they call rainmakers, witch doctors who get the rain to fall. That’s what they seek to do. Or they may seek to control the crops and produce fertility in a land, but the aim is control.

The second thing that they want to control is the course of life, and particularly the ability to bring forth children. Some years ago, my wife and I were in Zambia, in a large meeting up in the northwest corner of Zambia. One thing we prayed for was any barren women who could not have children and wanted children. My interpreter didn’t let us pray until he’d asked a question: “How many of you have been to the witch doctor for a potion to cure barrenness?” And you know, there were only two out of two hundred women who did not put up their hands.