If Satan's plan was to attack our health this month, he picked the wrong place to do it.
Along with doing construction this month the two teams here are alternating working in the free clinic that is a part of Mission of Hope. Because of some bug bites that went crazy I ended up with a pretty bad infection on my foot that left me unable to wear shoes and help out my brothers and sisters in the Haitian heat doing construction. I was actually disappointed at first. Construction is something new for me and I was excited to see how God was going to stretch me and challenge me through it. But I knew that it was His plan for me to be in the clinic for a few days until my foot got better.
A girl about 10 years old came in with her mother. Stating they were Christians, her mother spoke of her concern that there was a bad spirit in her daughter. After some discussion it was still kind of unclear what was going on with this girl. Unable to give her any medicine for the seizures she was having, Angela, our nurse and contact, suggested that we just pray over the girl and speak life into her. After asking permission we laid hands on her and we prayed. Through that experience I gained a better understanding of how God is our ultimate healer and comforter. There may be times when there's no earthly thing that can help us. But God gives us the power of prayer as a way to talk with Him.
That night I began to feel very sick and ended up getting a high fever. Angela suggested that it would be a smart decision to get a malaria test taken since I had all the symptoms for it. The next day our translator, Ricardo, took me to a lab to get the test done. That was an interesting experience in itself and I'm now a fan of Spanish soap operas that are dubbed in Creole. Anyways, PRAISE THE LORD! The malaria test was negative. Before I had gone to the lab my wonderful teammates and the other team that is here prayed over me a few times. I'm fully convinced that if there had been an ounce of malaria in me it left because of the power of prayer.
I guess through all of this God is just showing me how much more I need to lean on Him. It's almost too easy to depend on anything except God. Whether it be a person or medicine, these things are not perfect, only God is.
Why do we feel more comfortable leaning on things first and not God?
I don't have an answer.
All I know is my faith in God and what He can do is being stretched and molded in a way that it's never been before.
All I know is that God is good and my faith is in Him.
Matthew 21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.
