We are living in a prep school (read: orphanage) for older teens. We don’t have running water as of yet, although we have been told that we will eventually have it. Today was the first day that I experienced washing clothes by hand. It is hard and I will not wait until all of my clothes are clean to wash again. More like one maybe two days worth of clothes and then wash, otherwise it is an all day event.
Since we got to Nicaragua our team has been having some great nights of prayer and feedback. Janee, one of the ladies on my team. has had some kind of rash or something on her knee for quite a few weeks and the other night we decided to pray for it. We all prayed for healing for a while and said amen and it was still there. So we decided to pray again. This time it was a little more intense. We finished praying and no change to her knee. The whole time that we prayed I kept seeing apples all over the room and kinda felt like I was supposed to do something with them so I tore an apple in half and rubbed it all over Janee’s knee. As I was doing this Scotty, my team leader said that he felt like we were supposed to use the apples as well. And then the power went out. We then decided to pray for it again. We prayed and the Holy Spirit smacked the room that we were in. I was crying and praying and speaking in tongues and praying and it was awesome. Then another teammate of mine, Aimee, said that she felt like the Holy Spirit was telling us to pray each in our own tongue. I started praying louder and then all the sudden the Holy presence fell and Janee started praying in her own tongue. This was a first for her and I still don’t think that she has absorbed it but she will tell you it was awesome. Janee’s knee since then has become so much better and the rash is getting less and less everyday.
I think that I learned in that experience that God is the same forever and through all people and through all denominations. Janee was raised in a more legalistic church and did not believe in tongues before the World Race. I am not saying that everyone has to speak in tongues or anything like that I actually don’t think that I believe that but for Janee that night it was what she needed and it was an awesome, powerful move of God.
UPDATE: The rash on her knee is so faint you have to really look for it to see it.
Here are some pictures of our ministry location for the month.
This is where I sleep.
This is where I wash clothes.
This is the building we eat in and where the youth live.
This is what I see out my front door. The green building in the distance is the church.
This is what we did one day. They wanted to baptize people so we had to clean out the pool so that they could put water in it.
This is inside the church.
My first experience with bugs the size of my hand. (notice by the facial expression I wasn’t enjoying it.)
In Him,
Cody
