So during our group’s time in Thailand we had the amazing priviledge to be served by a woman name Rapi. She and her husband(Pastor) are Christian evangelists to the mountain Karen villages. After spending some time with her and listening to some of her stories about how God has come through for them, God spoke to my heart. There are so many people back in the States who honestly believe that God no longer speaks, or works. And whats sadder is that a lot of those people claim to be Christians. Now I could talk or type forever about how God speaks and moves, but I figured I would give you all a treat. I asked Rapi to share a couple of her favorite stories with me. So she told me two stories, both are times when God spoke to her and showed His love to her. So enjoy the story of a woman who walks side by side with a loving God:
“When I go to start to evangelize in
the mountains, they didn’t have any Christians. In two weeks [the
village] have one family come to Christian. In two more months there
were 5 families that came to Christianity. For 2 years we had to
walk 11 kilometers 4 times a week [to the village]. After 2 years I
got very sick(typhoid). I go to hospital, I stay in hospital 1 week.
Everyday I had to take 15 shots, and 40 pills. And then I had an
allergy to the medicine. Medicine cannot help me. One day doctor he
told me, “Sorry, I don’t have any more medicine for you.” I have
to move Mae Sariang and go to Chang Mai hospital. And when I heard
this from the doctor it made me worry, because I know I have to pay a
lot for medicine. And I know I don’t have the money to pay for
medicine. My husband is sick at the same time as me with malaria,
but he got better. So when I heard about all this from the doctor I
worried and had questions to God. I say “God, now I am living to
you, I work to you. And now I am very sick. You send me to this
village. Why do you not take care of me? Why do you not come heal
me? You know that I don’t have money. I don’t have people’s
support. So now what can I do?” And God had a question to me
back, “When you’re sick how many times have you called out to me?”
And [I realized that I never prayed to God]. I said, ” Oh God I am
sorry [I] never prayed to you.” When I know I did not pray to God
before, I started praying to God. And God showed me in the Bible and
get me to read Psalm 23, the whole thing. And Psalm 121, and Psalm
91 and 91 is what I remember in my heart. So my husband helped me
read Psalms 23 and 121, but Psalm 91 I read. So when I finished
reading, and I prayed one more time and I prayed that God would heal
me and clean me from things in my life that are not good to God. And
when I prayed I cried a lot because I need God to come help me and I
was hungry to God and want to see God come to help heal me. And when
I finished praying I put the Bible to my chest and fell asleep. At
midnight I saw somebody come to me, and he had a white shirt but the
shirt was long and flowing. And he had long, curly, brown hair a
little past the shoulder. And he come to me and he give small bottle
of water to me. And he said you can drink this water, so when he
told me and I looked at the water I say, “oh, not just water. But
this blood, and I [can] not drink [blood].” But he said, “You
can drink now.” And I said “No, I will not drink because this is
blood not water.” And he said, “Do you want to be healed?” I
say “Oh yes!”. So I grabbed the bottle real quick. And I opened
it and drank the whole bottle. And I give back bottle to him, but I
cannot see him again. I do not see him again, but I am healed! And
I get up, and I began singing ‘Thank you Jesus, for showing love to
me’. I sang to god and gave glory to God because he gave new life to
me. When my nurse saw me get up and sing she thought I had a high
fever. I had many people come to me. I told them I am OK, Jesus
came to heal me. Because I don’t have a fever, doctor came to check
me and everything is gone. This made me believe that Jesus blood
healed me.”
That is the first of 2 stories. I figured they were both kind of long to make into one long blog. But make a sandwich and come back and read “An Interview with an Evangelist Part 2” and read about how God is a God that speaks and moves in our lives.
