Ask the Lord – Granada

1) On day 2, we decided we’d take care of our errands before starting a prayer walk through the city the following day. Despite this, the Spirit had other plans. As Brenna and I were setting up our sim cards for the team phones, Leah and Katrina walked through a nearby park. After finishing with the cell phones, we found the two of them sitting down praying with an elderly woman. It was clear the language barrier had hardly limited their interaction. Neither Leah nor Katrina speak Spanish well enough to carry a full conversation, but the woman’s smile and joyful embrace of each of them afterwards seemed to say the words simply aren’t as important as we imagine.

2) Near Granada there is a men’s home for people overcoming alcohol and drug addiction. It is more  of a discipling program because it is nine months, more tome than usually used simply to maintain sobriety. Ryan and I visited this home on Good Friday. The program had just been started a couple weeks before. There were three men there attending. Mario was one of these three men; he speaks English and is a translator by trade.

I poured out hope to these men. I assured them that they would be a great hope and inspiration to many men that will be coming to the program later. We enjoyed a worship service together along with visitors from the local village, then watched the Passion of the Christ. After this we had dinner together, then I asked to pray for these men. I prayed for their faithfulness to be the men God wants them to be, I thanked God for the wonderful works He would do in and through their lives, I prayed for the program and asked for blessings upon it, as well as thanking God for the incredible servant’s heart of the program director. (The program director set the program up after recovering from addiction himself.)

These men’s families would be visiting Sunday. Mario said he was afraid he might be too hard on his daughter who is getting into trouble. I prayed grace over him and assured him that his concern would certainly stifle him from being too rigid.

Our team practiced listening prayer throughout our time in Granada. We felt called to leave after three days, in order to head towards San Juan Del Sur. All of the hostels we called were overbooked due to Semana Santa. We booked our transportation for the day before Easter… without a destination in San Juan Del Sur.