We just finished day two of Moldova, and our host invited us to a ‘leadership’ meeting he was hosting at the church. My teammate Monica and I sat down in a room with about twenty Moldavians and shared about how God led us to join The World Race, and what we were discovering along the way. Afterwards, the pastor invited us to pray for individuals within the meeting, and one by one, different people would sit down in a chair in the center of the room, and we would pray for them with our translator standing beside us interpreting.
As I prayed, it was fun to hear words and verses that God put on my heart for individuals to hear. After about an hour, there was a woman in her late fifties who sat down in the chair. I put my hand on her shoulder and began to pray for the Holy Spirit to speak. As I was busy asking God to speak, I felt my arm start getting really hot, and the word “healing” came to my mind. I thought, “What? What does this mean? Spiritual? Literal?” and I heard it again, in reference to something in this woman that needed physical healing. At this point, my whole hand all the way up to my shoulder was hot.
Sheepishly, I finally gathered the courage to ask the woman if there was something physical she needed healing from. After the translator spoke, she briskly nodded her head up and down.
“What is it that you are suffering from?” I asked her.
“I have a tumor in my breast,” she said. “I haven’t gone to the doctor because I am waiting for God to heal it.”
At that point, I knew God had been speaking to me about His desire to heal this woman in this moment. She began sharing about how she has had the tumor for multiple years now. As I prayed for her, I felt this authority and power in my words that I knew were not coming from me. I prayed for healing to happen in that moment, and in that place – in the name of Jesus Christ. She said she was feeling light – like a weight was being lifted off of her. When we finished the prayer, she had tears in her eyes. “There is no pain. I just feel so much joy inside of me,” she said.
God is in the business of healing not only broken hearts, but tumors. What a joy and a privilege it is for me to be part of the Divine work that He is doing around the world. I am thankful to be a carrier of His mighty power, and just to be a little finger as part of the great hand of God!
