So going into our team time today, none of us really knew what to expect. The task seemed pretty simple, ask God to give us an opportunity to ask for supernatural healing in someone’s life. Why is that so hard to do?…
Going into it all I could think about were the times in my life that I questioned God and His goodness towards me. The times where questions like “Why are you doing this?” or “Why aren’t you doing this?” seemed to be my only questions for Him. The selfish times when all I wanted from God were things to satisfy my flesh and not things that would fulfill His will. In those moments are when I get the “Job answers”. What’s a “Job answer”? Read the last chapters of Job and see the response God laid out to Job when He finally answered him. God basically asks Job if he is God and can do all the things He can do and know all the things He knows.
How does that relate to what happened today? I did not want to get a “Job answer” to our requests for healing. I didn’t want to create our own will for a situation outside of God’s. But as we walked around and discussed as a team our feelings about the exercise, something happened that put things in good perspective for me. We got hit with a sign….
Payden was making the comment that he wanted us to be put in an embarrassing situation that God would use to push us out of our comfort zones and into deeper faith in Him. Not even a minute later, Payden walks face first into a street sign and draws the attention of several people. Some people were laughing at him and some were asking if he was ok in Serbian. A gentleman from the other side of a column who saw the whole thing began talking to us in a drunken slur. At first we thought he was commenting on what had just happened with Payden, but then we realized he was just talking about the Beatles and how he likes to sing “Hey Jude” in the town square.
We began to track with his scattered thoughts and soon realized he had a friend sitting a few feet away on some planters with a broken leg. We all looked at each other and knew this was it…. Ian, Bethany, Shannon, and Payden all knelt down to pray with the man who had a broken leg and me and Ashley kept the rambling drunk man occupied while they prayed. Come to find out the man was grieving the loss of a best friend and that I believe was the fuel for his alcoholism. As the others prayed over the mans broken leg, me and ashley prayed over the other mans grief.
We didn’t see any miraculous healing today, but the man told us he was set to have surgery in five days. Maybe when he gets there he won’t need it and his faith will be strengthened through this encounter. As I begin to settle in and process the day God gives me a word that I wasn’t quite expecting…. a “Job answer”. He reminds me that He is God and knows all things and can do all things. Asking Him to love on one of His children is not bad nor going to change the course of history beyond what He has planned. Sometimes the best signs are literally signs and sometimes the best answers are “Job answers”.
