On Monday, September 16, 2013, we started our ministry with the National Hospital of Santa Elena in Quiche.
We moved light to heavy medical supplies from one flooded room to an upper floor. It was hard manual labor, but the team choose to do the work with joy; the day was filled with laughter and broken Spanish conversations with the workers. We moved about one and half rooms of medical boxes and documents that day; at the end of the day the workers shared their traditional boiled corn with sea salt and lemon. They were delicious; so delicious that we decided to make some for the entire squad.
On Tuesday, we went back to the hospital and finished moving all the boxes. Later that day, we visited the Maternity Ward area and prayed with the moms and sick children and for the premature babies.
God is always present. The Holy Spirit showed up in our prayers. We prayed with one mother who was in tears seeing her little daughter in pain, as the nurses were intending her. Christina, Jessie and I comforted and prayed with her, and over her daughter. As we were praying, I started praying in tongue over her and her daughter; and over every other mom and dad and children we prayed for. I’ve never prayed in tongue before, surely the Holy Spirit was present in that room.
1 Corinthians 14 speaks about “The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy.” Verse 2 states “For if your gift is the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking to God but not to people, since they won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the spirit, but it will be mysterious.” I still get chills every time I think of that moment.
The next day, one of the children we prayed for, who was shivering, looked so much better; he was happy and playing with a toy car. We have been assisting the nurses at the Maternity Ward; helping them feed the babies and swaddling the premature babies skin to skin to give them body warmth, and playing with the older kids.
Please pray for all the patients in the hospital, the babies, the moms, the dads, the elderlies and their families.
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With Great Love,
Daphnee Sanon
