While much of Cambodia, for myself, was spent laying sick on
the floor or in a bed at a hostel, God did do some amazing things while my team
and I were there.
Upon coming to Cambodia we began ministry with local
churches, out in the rural villages. Working alongside of these churches we were asked to walk from home to
home praying for people. As you
may imagine, in being some of the poorest villages in Cambodia, many people
asked for prayer for healing. At
first it seemed that God was not going to answer those prayers in the timing
that we were asking for.
Well, every night since coming on the race, my team and I
meet to talk about the day and anything that we may be working through / what
may be on our hearts. During this
time, while in Cambodia, the questions seemed to stir forth…..”Does God heal
anymore?” “Do our prayers really
make a difference in this area?” “What is the point?”
My team and I began searching and asking God for the answers
to these questions… well God answered!
First we were reminded of Pastor Michael Hindes’ words at
training camp that
He mentioned to us that maybe out of all the people that we
would pray for, we may only get to witness only 10 or 15% get healed in that
moment (if that). However we will
miss 100% of the healings for the people that we don’t pray for.
Second of all… we got to witness this healing first
hand.
In the first village that we went to, my team and I were
privileged to pray over a woman who, for most of her life, was never able to
walk. Upon becoming a Christian
she was able to stand up with the help of another person or stability
source. She was prayed for several
times and as time went by she was able to walk very slowly and for very short
distances with the help of a cane or person.
Well, we prayed for her, and walked away not thinking that
it had really made much difference, except for perhaps encouraging her heart…
well a few days later we went to church and a man came up to share a testimony
of a woman who struggled all of her life with being able to walk / use her
legs. He talked of a team that
came recently to pray for her and now she is able to stand and walk without any
help… later we found out… THAT TEAM WAS US!!!! YAY JESUS
In the last village that we went to, at the end of our three
weeks, we, like many times before, walked through the village stopping from
house to house to pray for people. During this time there was a woman with stomach issues who asked for
prayer. Immediately upon her
asking for prayer for her stomach, I felt Jesus speak to my heart that she
struggled with anxiety. I asked
her if I could lay my hand on her stomach and she said yes. I began to pray and ask God to heal
her, both physically and emotionally.. as we were praying for her… I heard God
say to my spirit ” it is finished”. After we were finished praying, the pastor asked her if she felt any
better physically, and she said that all the pain was gone! PRAISE JESUS
Almost directly after praying for the woman with the stomach
issue we went to a house where there was a little boy, maybe 8 or 10 years of
age. His mother told us that he “had
problems with his brain and couldn’t control his body from time to time”. Almost immediately God spoke to my
heart the word “epilepsy”. I laid
my hand on this little boy’s head and began to pray, along with the rest of my
team, for him to be healed. As we
were praying I heard the words again “it is finished”. The pastor then asked the mother of
this boy how she felt, and she said I feel “peace, warm all over”. Although I will probably never see this
little boy again, I have no doubt in my mind that he has been healed from “epilepsy”..
PRAISE GOD
GOD STILL HEALS… and I don’t have all the answers to the questions
about timing and such, but I’m
standing on this… GOD STILL HEALS AND LONGS TO HEAL!!!
