Day 1 in Lesotho. What a day. We got here around midnight, so I couldn’t clearly see what was around our home. But this morning I woke up and walked out to Heaven. I’ve never seen anything as beautiful. We are surrounded by ranges and ranges of mountains. We live on a base for an organization called Africa 4 Jesus. It has a church, preschool, and the host’s home. In between all of these buildings, there is so much life. So many plants!! We didn’t see much of that in Swazi, I missed it. I was also kindly greeted by 2 African dogs named Goofy and Lewis. Super cute. Also nice to be able to pet dogs and not be worried that they will bite me.
Around 9 am, we took a walk to the market side of the Malealea village. I had some awesome pastries called Makoenyas. Like super sweet dough balls, yummmm. We also went to the village Lodge which is a really nice hostel/hang out/adventure place. We enjoyed our visit and were heading back home and it started to rain. We were waiting for a car to take us back, and I’m going to try and recall all that happened, although it’s mostly a blur. We saw a spark on the fence behind us and the loudest thunder clap I’ve ever heard. One of our leaders, we call her “B,” jumped away from the fence in shock. We asked many questions to see if she was okay and she responded with nodding. Then not even 15 seconds later, she completely fainted to the ground with a thud. There was panic, and from this I’ve learned I don’t deal with shock well because I just stood there and watched while they tried to wake her up. Now I want you to count how many times you see the Holy Spirit moving here, it’s insane.
Only a minute passed and our ride showed up. We were able to pick her up and drive her to the closest clinic (which by the way was right down the road). We piled into the bed of the truck and it began to hail. My brain finally realized what is going on, and I began to cry. I was so scared of everything that just happened, and the fact that it happened so fast had my mind racing. In the bed of that truck, through the hailing rain, we began to cry out to God for help. We prayed over that truck, the whole situation, and the health of our poor friend B. We arrived and one of us threw out the idea that we should pray over her before going inside. Me, being a practical person, was like, “Shouldn’t we rush her inside?? She could be seriously injured.” I pushed that aside and joined them as they lifted her up and we all held her in prayer. Daniella, on team Eliora that my team is doing ministry with this month, has an amazing gift of healing from God. These past few months, spiritual healing have been a tough subject for me. I don’t have a Christian background of it, but I’ve seen healings everywhere on my race, and I still doubted God on this. As we were all praying over B, Daniella began to speak over her. She prayed that all her muscles would relax and she would wake up in Jesus’ name. As soon as she spoke this over B, she immediately opened her eyes and all of her muscles relaxed. She was able to stand up. Shock set into me again, the good kind this time. I just stood there as they walked her into the clinic, amazed and fearing God in harmony. I cried and cried while we waited for B. In awe of what I just witnessed and mad at myself that I ever doubted the Creator. 15 minutes later, and she came out okay, ready to go home. We just talked about God the whole way back. When we got back, I was still feeling a little traumatized about the whole thing. My team prayed that fear out of me and then we sat in a circle and just prayed thankfulness and for any after trauma B might receive.
I felt amazing about the whole situation and my God. I’m sitting outside, marveling at His beautiful landscape here. And I began to read Psalm 46 & 47 which begins with removing any doubts.
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way.”
This is the truth, and Psalm 47 talks about rejoicing in that.
“Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.”
And I just think that’s truly beautiful that He gave me that in my time of need. Confirming that in my heart.
