All Consuming Fire

So, Im not sure if I told you all this, but in Ecuador, God told me this
month would be a month of healing. This excited me, since healing was
prophesied over me during training camp and launch. So when God told me
this was going to happen, I thought to myself how cool that would be,
and it would be nice to get to my ministry site and see God start moving. Well, God didnt want to wait that long…

 

So we pulled in to Tumbes, a city just inside the border of Peru, where we would wait for the day for the rest of the squad to meet us and then leave that night for another 12 hour bus ride to Trujillo, then split off to our ministry sites. In Tumbes, our bus driver told us the name of a square thats safe for white people to walk around by themselves, so we dropped our packs off in a hostal, then went and explored this square. There were shopping stores upon shopping stores. There was an actual radio shack, and a hair cutting place called Sketche. Looks like the Ecuadorian motto is following us here… So anyway, we walked around and did some shopping, and as you come to the end of the plaza, there is a huge catholic church, and across the street a huge park with some trees that are not for climbing apparently… But anyway, the park quickly became the hang out spot while we waited 8 hours till our next bus ride. After a while, we split up some of to get some mani’s and pedi’s and others to go get ice cream, and I went with a few people to an internet cafe.

 

So after we had finished our emails, we headed back out towards the park to all meet up again. On our way through the square, I saw an elderly lady who was hunched over and could not lift her head up off her chest. I immediately felt the Holy Spirit tell me to pray for her, so I did. As I walked closer to the group, the presence of the Holy Spirit got so much stronger. When I found them, they were talking to a man, and I asked what was happening. Apparently, the same woman I just saw, they saw and the Holy Spirit told them to pray for her. They laid hands on her, and not only was her back messed up, but she had a tumor on her stomach that had been there for almost twenty years.She had been saving money over those years, so she could afford a surgery to remove the tumor. The guy that was talking to the group was the ladies grandmother, and he was talking about how great God is and how He was felt in that situation.

 

So the team laid hands on her, and as I was told, she immediately said she felt the pain in her stomach drastically decrease and her back actually straightened out a little right in front of the group. The healing process had begun immediately. The group said as they lifted there heads from prayer, the looked up and a large group had gathered around watching them. Yeah we get stared at cause we look different, but this group that had gathered was because just like in the Bible, people flocked to where Jesus was because the felt the Holy Spirit there. And I strongly believe thats why they were gathered around. The Holy Spirit was felt in that place, and the most beautiful form of evangelism was done on the steps of the Catholic church.

 

And it doesnt stop there. Two days ago at dinner, I had some extreme pain in my wrist. Every once in a while, I get pain in my wrist from playing a little extreme when it came to basketball and volleyball in high school. Now the pain I had, I wasnt even concerned about, because I deal with it often, so I didnt think anything of it. But during dinner, my amazingly Spirit-led teammate Allison felt like God was asking her to pray healing over someones wrist. She asked the entire table during dinner if someone had pain in their wrist. At first I just sat there, then after thinking about it I was like oh yeah, i do. So she prayed healing over it, and as soon as the prayer was done, ALL of the pain was gone, and flexibility I havent had in my wrist in a long time was back to almost perfect. I was in shock, but at the same time, I knew God had the power to do it. 

 

Last month, God told me He would be doing healings, but never did I think He was super excited to get going with it. Never did I think we would be barely inside the border, and it would begin. Never did I think God would want to heal my wrist, when I thought I would be the one doing the healings, but He did! My wrist is better, and I fully believe with the pain gone in the woman’s stomach, that her tumor is gone, and that her back will straighten out little by little every day. God is moving, and the exciting part is that He wants to do this all over the world! How amazing is our God!!