Yesterday, a few of my teammates and I were assigned to do an ATL, which means we were to spend our afternoon Asking The Lord what he would have for us to do. Before we went out, I met with The Lord and asked that He would show me what He would have for me. I prayed that I would be able to discern His voice from others because that’s something I’ve been struggling with lately. I asked God to remove any distractions and prayed for a vision. When I asked Him this, He gave me a vision of the place where people wash their clothes in San Pedro and I also saw a vision of my teammate, Brooke, helping someone walk. As I left my prayer time, I still wasn’t sure if what I was seeing and hearing was from The Lord, but I wasn’t receiving anything else so I decided to finish my prayer time.
My teammates and I decided to walk into San Pedro and go to the clothes washing station and then we would ask The Lord where to go from there. When we got into the central part of town, we noticed that a very large funeral was just then concluding so we decided to stop and pray for the families. At this time, I turned around and realized that we were standing right in front of the clothes washing station. I thought it was really awesome that The Lord brought me there and I didn’t even realize it! I believe that The Father brought us there so we could come to Him on behalf of those hurting and this was the fulfillment of the first vision He gave me.
After we finished praying, we started walking around the town with no specific intentions, just waiting on The Lord. As we were walking down the road, Brooke noticed an elderly woman using a cane with one hand and was using the other to steady herself on the wall. Brooke was the first to notice this woman and pointed out that we should stop and help her. I reached out and put one hand around her waist to steady her and led her with my other hand while Brooke came along the other side of the woman. After we walked for a little bit, it hit me that this was the vision that The Lord had given me. He had shown me that Brooke would be helping someone walk, and that was exactly what was happening.
It wasn’t the person that I thought it might be, it wasn’t the place I thought it would be, and I certainly didn’t think that I would be on the other side, but it was happening right in front of me and it brought me to tears that what God had showed me would happen was actually happening.
We walked her to where she directed us and sat her down in a chair. We asked her if we could pray for her and she said yes, her legs and hips were hurting. We laid hands on her hip and prayed that God would bring comfort, peace, and healing to her. We thanked God for giving us this opportunity and for being faithful in keeping His promise. We prayed that The Father would overwhelm her with his love and that peace would come over her and that over all, she would feel the immense love The Father has for her. After we finished praying with her, we talked and she asked if we would come back again tomorrow and be her prayer friends. Of course we said yes, and it was such an amazing thing to know that The Father was there in that moment.
We left her house and started walking back to our house when we got caught in the pouring rain. When I say pouring I mean the floodgates of heaven opened up. The street were flooding, we were absolutely soaked, but it was hilarious and funny and it was great. As we were running home in the rain, I stopped for a moment and noticed a rainbow was across the sky and the end was on the ground right in front of me. Seriously….how much cooler does it get!? To me, a rainbow is a reminder that God is faithful in keeping His promises and He was incredibly faithful in keeping His promises to me yesterday.
I’ve been struggling lately with feeling God’s presence and being sensitive to His voice. Yesterday I heard His voice, and even though I wasn’t sure it was His at the time, I know that I was His and He was with me all day. He was with me when I was praying for Him to show Himself, He was with me at the funeral, He was with us when we were walking through San Pedro, He was with us when we helped and prayed with that woman, and He was with me when He showed me the rainbow.
Since I’ve been here, I’ve been praying that God would show me amazing things and that He would reveal to me new aspects of Him that I’ve never experience before. I’ve been frustrated lately because I haven’t felt any answers to those prayers. I’ve been coming to God expectant for Him to move and I’ve just been disappointed every time. Little did I know, He was just telling me to be patient.
The Father is real and He is alive and He is moving and working in me and in the lives around me. This is just the start of an amazing journey with my Father and I know that He will continue to amaze me, for He is wonderful and He is good.
