On Earth….
For the past two weeks this story keeps coming to my mind. I didn’t really think it was blog worthy but since it keeps coming to mind, I’ll share. In Kenya I told you of a story in which a blind man was healed. In that blog I told you how another team prayed for him and my then team prayed over me for healing in my eye. We prayed for roughly 45 minutes or so but nothing happend. So that was the end of that story for me…so I thought.
Skip ahead a few months to India. Probably one of my least favorite countries but one that I saw God literally do a lot in me, my teammates, and the village we lived in. In India we lived in a village. We used a government owned house to live in; we pitched our tents on the roof and had no privacy what so ever! Our task was to build a church saturate the village with Jesus. The first week in the village I realized how hot it would be. The temprature ranged from about 100 degrees F to 120 degrees F. I knew that wearing my glasses would be horrible. They would get so gross because of the dirt everywhere and the sweat that would inevitably fall off my face onto them. Well, since Kenya I knew I was to explore this aspect more. Mostly for what it looks like for me personally. My teammate, Amiee Holliday would always tell me that God wants his children whole and we should just ask for it. So this day I decided that if God didn’t want to heal my eye completly this year that he should at least take my migrains away so I didn’t have to wear my glasses in India.
I took a chance. I prayed a small prayer…’Jesus, I don’t want to deal with my glasses this month…Take my migrains away.’ Not only did I expect Jesus to do something but he expected me to do something. I had to believe enough. When I felt a migrain coming, I had to pray it away. I had to take authority over my head and my body and belive that God wanted something better for me. I know this may seem silly but migrains put me down for the count. I’m done for the day sometimes two days if I get one. I realized that wearing my glasses had become out of fear. So in order for healing to happen I had to walk out of that fear. I had to be like Jesus to myself.
As of today, I haven’t had a migrain since India. That’s about four months with no glasses (except at night so I can see better or just to give my eyes a rest from strain) and no migrians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To this day, I do have to pray off migrains, I’m determined to not get them. I have to remind myself of the authority God has given me and not just for others…for myself. Claim it. own it. run with it and see what God does through it.
The disciples prayer is more alive to me today than ever because of this:
Matthew 6:9-13
“Pray then in this way:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not bring us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. “
Anyways, I thought I should share this. Pray for big things.God is the same God that we read about in scripture..
As it is in heaven…
