God's Hand
Something I love is seeing God's hand in situations and touching people's hearts. This week we have a team here from Christ Lutheran church. We went into a very poor area to do food distribution. It was amazing to see how open and receptive people were to the gospel in this area. I believe these were truly some of the meek who will inherit the earth. In their circumstances, humility does not come difficult. Most of the houses are constructed using broken pallets tossed out by large companies. They construct walls out of them and put something between the pallets as a barrier. They usually use tin or some type of inexpensive laminate material for the roofs.
One of our students went to one house where a woman was taking care of her 6-7 children. Her youngest child (about 6 months old) was suffering from a very high fever. It appeared as though the baby was struggling to breathe and might not make it. The mother was very worried for him but our team asked if they could pray for him and she said, "Yes."
We held an open-air service for about an hour afterwhich, the student approached me and asked if I would mind going back to that house with her and translating for her to pray with that mother/child again. We got there and went to the back of the house where the baby was. We asked the mother how he was doing and she said, "He's doing much better, here he is." I looked at the baby and couldn't believe it, but I didn't see a baby with a fever or struggling to breathe. I saw a completely healthy 6 month-old baby sitting up in a stroller looking around and smiling. It was incredible. The student proceeded to tell the mother, "We just wanted to come back and share with you that Jesus loves you and your children so much." The Holy Spirit obviously touched her heart as she began to weep. It was amazing to see how God had healed this child and how important this event was to the mother. I felt priviledged to witness a healing that I believe was nothing short of miraculous.
After walking out of the house, I really sensed that God was speaking to this students heart, but not necessarily to go back and pray for the woman and her baby. I believe God wanted her to go back so that she could see what He had done in healing this child.
God, I love you and thank you for surprises, and for having things so much more in control than we think!
One of our students went to one house where a woman was taking care of her 6-7 children. Her youngest child (about 6 months old) was suffering from a very high fever. It appeared as though the baby was struggling to breathe and might not make it. The mother was very worried for him but our team asked if they could pray for him and she said, "Yes."
We held an open-air service for about an hour afterwhich, the student approached me and asked if I would mind going back to that house with her and translating for her to pray with that mother/child again. We got there and went to the back of the house where the baby was. We asked the mother how he was doing and she said, "He's doing much better, here he is." I looked at the baby and couldn't believe it, but I didn't see a baby with a fever or struggling to breathe. I saw a completely healthy 6 month-old baby sitting up in a stroller looking around and smiling. It was incredible. The student proceeded to tell the mother, "We just wanted to come back and share with you that Jesus loves you and your children so much." The Holy Spirit obviously touched her heart as she began to weep. It was amazing to see how God had healed this child and how important this event was to the mother. I felt priviledged to witness a healing that I believe was nothing short of miraculous.
After walking out of the house, I really sensed that God was speaking to this students heart, but not necessarily to go back and pray for the woman and her baby. I believe God wanted her to go back so that she could see what He had done in healing this child.
God, I love you and thank you for surprises, and for having things so much more in control than we think!
posted by Ron Wilson | 3:29 PM
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