Last Monday was our day off. The whole team was so excited to go to Phnom Penh for the day. We all piled in the van for the three hour ride at 7:30am. We got into Phnom Penh at about 10:30. Several of my team members wanted to go to the war museum. Lauren and I decided to go to the mall to get internet and some food. After they finished at the museum everyone met us back at the mall and we all had lunch together.
Then we went to the Central Market. We were all looking for different things. T-shirts, cameras, jade elephants, and purses were all on the list to find. So off Daina and I went. We found the stickers for Cambodia, we found the t-shirts, and we found some gifts for some of our new friends. But when we were buying some flowers at the front of the market the most amazing thing happened. This woman holding a baby walked up to me and asked me for money. She didn’t speak any English, only Khmer. She just held out her hand and kept asking. I told her that I didn’t have any money on me but that I would pray for her and the baby. I am sure that she had no idea why my hand was on her shoulder but I prayed for her anyway. Then she showed me the baby’s arm. It was missing all of it’s fingers. It was just a nub. It broke my heart. So I put the baby’s “hand” in my hand and prayed with everything in me that God would heal this little innocent child’s hand.
I prayed for a long time it felt like. I could feel the Holy Spirit all over my body. When I finished praying I let go of the baby’s arm and much to my surprise and the mother’s as well there was a tiny finger nub sticking out of the previously fingerless nub!!! I looked over my shoulder and said to Daina, “I think that finger just grew out of the babies arm.” I was just as calm as I had ever been. She looked at me and just said, “awesome.” As we walked away from the mother who was just staring at me, I got excited and started screaming about how good God is. It is my prayer that God continues to grow the rest of that baby’s hand.
It was an incredible experience. I love how God just uses the most random times to bring glory to His name. He didn’t have to use me but He chose to. He asked me to pray and I prayed. I can’t count the number of people that have come up to me begging for money this last year and all I did was to pray for them. A lot of the time I have some food on me or some water but I don’t ever hand out money. Most of the time when I pray for these people nothing happens. This was just an act of obedience and look what God did!!! He grew a finger!!! What is He asking you to do today? Are you willing to do it or will you pass up the opportunity because you might look silly?
