Every morning before my team and I go to our ministry site we sit down together and pray for our day. One of my teammates has been reading the book In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day the book is about having big expectaions so we prayed this morning that God would do big things. As we walked to the church, which is a 30 minute walk away, we continued to pray.
Before we came to San Juan, Dominican Republic we spent the day at the ocean with all of our squad and Tiffany, my team leader, had gotten stung on her arm by jellyfish. The first day we worked at the church Tiffany couldn´t come because the jellyfish sting had blistered, was hurting, and needed healing, so she had to stay home that day.
I am sensitive to the sun and alergic to sunscreen so when we got to San Juan I had gotten a heat rash all over both of my arms and had been very uncomfortable and in pain for a few days.
When we got to the ministry site this morning Solanda, the pastor of the church we are working at, came to Tiffany and told her that because she had burns on her arm, the jellyfish sting, that she needed to come pray for a little girl who had been burned. Solanda then asked Tiffany if anyone else had skin problems so Tiffany told me to come as well. Tiffany, Solanda, and I began to walk down into the part of the neighborhood where people lived in shacks, goats ran wild, and to say the least was a part of the Dominican Republic I hadn´t seen yet. Soon we came to a small house at the very end of the road, there was a group of about six people standing infront of this house. Keep in mind Solanda speaks only Dominican Spanish and my leader Tiffany knows Spanish, although she has a hard time understanding Dominican Spanish. So I had no clue what anyone was saying beyond a few words here or there.
Solanda started to take us into the house and told us we were going to pray for a girl who was burned. When we walked into this tiny room there was a little girl, probably about 7 years old, and she was laying on her stomach. This little girl had burns all down her back and onto her legs. It was honestly the sadest thing I have ever seen in my life so far. She was burned on Christmas Day by a candle that had fallen onto her and caught fire to her dress.
Tiffany and I began to pray over this little girl. We prayed without ceasing for a little over an hour. The girl began to move and looked right into my eyes and as I looked at her I told her ´´Jesus Te Amor´´ which means Jesus loves you. Solanda then looked at Tiffany and then me she smiled and said you both have been healed, she said this in Spanish but Tiffany translated it to me. When I looked the rash on my arms that had been bright red and itcy were no longer red, and they no longer hurt and by the time we got home that night had fadded. Tiffanys jellyfish stings had stopped swelling and the redness in her arms had gone away too. The little girl was laughing and told me in Spanish that she didn´t hurt anymore!
For the next hour we sat with the girl and she played with our hair. She has the brightest smile. At moments she would feel pain so Tiffany and I would pray over her again until the pain went away.
This is not the end to this story because we pray that this little girl will be able to walk and play with all the other children at the church by the time we leave. We are going to paint her nails tomorrow morning and pray for her again. We did not get her name but please be praying with us for BIG THINGS!
