AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! OKAY SO I AM FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW!!! CRAZYYY STORY YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ!!!! GET EXCITED!!!!!
SOOOO It is our last day here in Lira Uganda! We have been doing a little hospital ministry this week (for the past 3 days). We have been going into the hospital and talking and praying for healing. We have met a lot of interesting people with many things wrong from babies to old men. A lot with AIDS, malaria, weird swellings, fungus…you name it they have it. The sad part of it all is that the hospital is very poor. They said they have lots of well trained staff, doctors and nurses, but no money for med’s. So a lot of the people who come into the hospital that are sick have to go out and have someone buy the med’s from the shop in town that are very expensive. I asked a doctor what the average income of a family here in Uganda is and he said around 100,000-200,000 shillings if they do well. The exchange rate from Ugandan Shillings to the American Dollar is 1900 to 1. These families usually have no less than 6 people in them…usually more. So we made our way around the hospital the past three days. We met a man named Maxwell who used to be a police officer. Hes gotta be around 35 years old and he is sick in the hospital. He has been there for like a month and the doctors do not know what is wrong with him. His wife is there wiht him every day praying and taking care of him. What it seems like to us is some sort of muscle deterioration. They said they have run many tests on him but they can not figure out what is wrong with him (prob. because they don’t have money for the right kind of tests to run). With the muscle strength going his eyes have also failed him…his wife told us that he has not been able to see for over a month. So every day for the past three days we have been coming to see him and his wife. Most days he just lays there still. sometimes wiggling around a little, mumbling his words. He knows we are there, but we prayed and prayed for him and his wife who has been along side of him this whole time. Today, our 3rd day there with him, we decided to lay hands on him one last time before we leave and then be able to walk away knowing that God had Maxwell in his hands from that point on and understanding that his will WILL BE DONE for Maxwell. Our whole team and Libre as well as Allison as grown a bond with him and his wife over the few days we were there. She would always be excited that we had come to pray! WELL TODAY after we prayed for him we said our goodbyes and a cupple people walked down into the rest of the ward to pray & into other areas of the hospital. Braedon & I decided to stay where we were and pray for the other people in the 10 or so other beds that were in the room with Maxwell. One after another we prayed for healing and love and comfort for all of them! About 15 minutes into that I hear Maxwells life saying “Come come, come see”. She has tears building in her eyes from the excitement. I ran over to see what she was getting out attention for and MAXWELLS EYES WERE OPEN and he was SMILING from ear to ear, saying “JESUS AMEN” over and over again!! So I did what any “normal” person would do and begain to jump up and down in excitement looking at him saying “DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS??? JESUS HEALED YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE LOVES YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH THAT HE OPENED YOUR EYES SO THAT YOU CAN SEE YOUR BEAUTIFUL WIFE AGAIN!!!!” (I litterally was going CRAZY… prob. thought I was a little weird) He kept closing them and then opening them again and smiling and AHHHH IT WAS JUST SOOOOOOO EXCITING….adn instead of mumbling he was SPEAKING clearly… saying “JESUS, and PATIENCE & PRAYER”. I just started thanking God for him. Through Jesus healing him I think I was filled with the Joy of the HOLY SPIRIT!!! I was shaking and freaking out and I ran to get my other friends from where they were praying and Lindsay & Tangi saw me coming towards them… RUNNING and WAILING my arms in the AIR saying ” JESUS HEALED HIM!!! MAXWELL’S EYES ARE OPEN!!!!”
I think part of what I am feeling right now in PURE 100% JOY from the Lord! I have never doubted what has been done in the bible BUT SEEING SIGHT BEING GIVEN TO THE BLIND in front of my very eyes is an INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY TO GODS POWER, LOVE, COMPASSION on his CHILDREN. I could also tell that Maxwell was filled with the spirit because of his smile….he looked like a little kid who had just experienced something for the first time…the wonder and joy that you could see radiating through him was CONTAGIOUS! I too now feel like a kid sooooo stoked on life full of wonder and awe of what just happened. I SAW GOD TODAY through Maxwell and I will never ever ever ever forget it! PRAISE THE LORD!!
Pray that Maxwell will continue to regain strength within his entire body!!! AMEN!
