(9.18.13)
“Josh gathered all the Americans, they locked
hands around me and started praying; lifting me up before God, asking for
deliverance from my pain, and healing for my hand…”
The man who
told us this dream, experience, has been coming to get his arm cleaned for a
couple of weeks now. There was an accident involving a machete and since then
he has been unable to move his hand or fingers.
Worried the
cut might be deeper than we originally thought Josh decided he would take him
to get an x-ray and see if surgery was necessary, or possible. When he arrived
this morning the above, and following, words are what he told Josh.
“…When I awoke from this dream I could move my
fingers. Today I think I am going to accept Christ!”
Chills.
Tears. That’s what we all experienced this morning as we were told what had
just happened.
Our God is
able beyond what we could ever comprehend. I think everyone’s faith was
deepened today.
A bit later
we get a text from Josh who is on the way to the hospital with this man,
another little girl and our school nurse.
The school nurse is sharing the Gospel with him!!!
I am
reminded how powerful prayer is, how important it is for us to pray for and
with every individual we help. We try to make it a point to pray over each
person we see in the clinic but for some reason we hadn’t with this man.
God also
challenged me that even the small little things we do He can use mightily and
do great things through them.
The
following is from Beth Moore’s James Bible study.
“God is
practical. He doesn’t ask us to do what doesn’t matter. What seems a drop in
the bucket to you is a sip from the wellspring of life to someone about to
thirst to death. Let’s muster the courage to ask Him to show us who to help and
how. True religion is all hands on deck and all heads out of the sand. The
mystery is that, there, we often find our own healing and fulfilling.
…You don’t
live this kind of life accidentally. You make up your mind who you want to be
and daily die to the rest. You surrender yourself to living in the tension
where you’ll always be stretched and often be broken. Religion pure and
undefiled is grit without the grime. You accept that far easier ways to live
exist, but you were born for nothing less.”
So, even
those things that seem like “a drop in the bucket” to me, God can turn into a
“wellspring of life” for someone.
I am
challenged to continue trusting God, to keep on keeping on and to not lose
sight of Him in all the daily tasks of living; to not miss opportunities to
serve, and lift up in prayer.
For I was
born for nothing less.
(written a
few hours later)
This evening
we gathered to pray for Theodore, as we began to pray he showed up at our gate.
In his own words he told us his dream and showed us how he could move his
fingers and rotate his wrist. Things he couldn’t do the day before. Powerful
moment! God restored Theodore’s hand!
We all
gathered around, laying hands on him, and prayed.
One of our
Haitian staff then led Theodore in prayer as he professed faith in Christ! A humbling,
and joyous moment. All I could think was, “one day I will be worshipping in
heaven with this brother.”
God is
moving in this family, Theodore’s wife accepted Christ last Sunday! Pray for
Theodore, his wife and their two sons as God begins this new chapter in their
lives.
Words cannot
describe these moments. I read this and it seems so inadequate to describe how
God moved and what He did.
