I'm sitting at the church listening to one of my team mates give another message this month and I'm holding an african baby in my arms (what's new) when this child reaches for my glasses and starts playing with them. Usually I take my glasses back because I don't want them to be broken but I just watch this child bend them back and forth and try to eat them when an interesting thought hits me.
I just witnessed two women get healed in front of my eyes in the hospital while praying for them and I also heard of two girls on my squad be healed from a hearing problem and poor eye vision and I start to think of how much I rely on those stupid glasses to get me places. Because I can't see anything without those things. The first thing I do every morning is wake up and put on my glasses and it's the last thing I take off when going to bed. I haven't had good eye sight since elementary school. Maybe I was on a high because I literally felt a woman's arm shrink under my hands while praying for the swelling to go down or seeing a woman who had a stroke who couldn't move her entire left side be healed and after prayer sit up with a smile on her face because she could feel my hand on hers and she could squeeze my hand….let me repeat…she could squeeze my hand when she couldn't even move her fingers before. I had been seeing God move in some pretty miraculous ways so I was sitting there pondering the idea of having faith that God could heal my eye sight. I kept going back and forth with the argument that if I threw those glasses away I wouldn't be able to see anything and I had no idea when God would heal me. But as we finished up at the church and headed out to go play volleyball with the youth, I stood up broke my glasses in half, walked outside, broke them in half again and threw them off the mountain. My team mates looked at me with eyes wide open and jaws dropped asking the question…what are you doing? And I look at them with a crazy look in my eye saying "the Lord is going to heal me of my eye sight". Some of them raise their eye brows in thought that this girl is crazy and some of them said "Amen!"
That was 4 days ago and right now as I am typing out this blog, I am literally inches away from the screen because I can't see anything or anyone but I am so excited for what God is going to show me through this. I know He is going to heal me of my sight because He has already healed me in some pretty miraculous ways on this race…cause today I am a new woman who has been redeemed and restored to a higher calling. I am having faith that pretty soon I will be able to write a blog updating you all on God healing my eye sight!! I am literally walking out in faith, because now instead of putting on my glasses first thing in the mornings, I am asking/relying on the Lord to give me my vision, to give me new eyes to see Him and to see the world. You might think I am crazy….and yes I am crazy, crazy enough to believe in the God of the bible instead of the God of America or Malawi or any where else.
I am headed to South Africa for a few days then off to Swaziland for a month of ministry!! If you are wondering where I am finacially I still need $1,200 to be fully funded!!
