HI!! It’s been a minute since I’ve talked to you guys! I’ve been so busy, this month has been a whirlwind. I plan on writing a little more frequently but today I have a story about the Lord’s voice.
This story was written from the point of view of me and two of my teammates, Han and Mel lived this story with me today!
So were sitting in our bed room as a team praying for the Lord to give us a person or a place to go where we can minister. We sat there for a few minutes until Renee asked us if we know a place where there are “stairs.” Melina remembered the stairs we stopped at a few weeks ago during ATL, so we decided to go there and see what happens. Avery said she saw a old lady who she wanted to pray for. As we were walking out of the gate of our house, Hannah and I turned to Mel and told her what we saw but were too afraid to speak up about. Hannah told us she saw a walking cane, and I saw a woman wearing a purple shirt. The three of us decided to keep those things quiet because we tend to be the most reserved on our team about speaking out. We were still hopeful as we were walking to the steps and were joking about anything we saw that was purple. We all kind of wrote it off as something that wasn’t from God, but just a coincidence. As we were walking through the park, we began to get discouraged that what we heard from the Lord wasn’t actually from him. After stopping to pray for a few people, our team decided to pray again together before moving on. As we were praying, Melina saw the word “taco.”
“I hesitated a lot to say it out loud because thats such a random thing to see and like what If I just saw that because I was hungry and wanted tacos?”- Melina.
However, we remembered that there is a tacobar in momentum, a shopping center right around the corner. We walked to momentum and sat down at the taco bar and prayed again for the Lord to give us someone to minister to. No one really said anything for a while and Renee asked Melina what she was thinking. She told her that she felt like something definitely was going to happen, but it needed to be all of us working together instead of just one of us seeing something. Renee had the idea to start walking again so melina, avery, elyse, and abby started walking around momentum looking for someone to talk to. Mel saw an old lady and her daughter get out of a car right in front of them. The lady had a purple umbrella and was using it as a cane. Quickly, she turned to Renee and told her about mine and Hannah’s visions and then chased after the lady and her daughter. She asked if they could pray for them and they said yes. The lady said she needed healing in her knee and her daughter said she was actually having surgery in a few days and prayers were very much needed right now. They prayed for them and then decided to go back to us at the tacobar and get ready to go home. At that point I was feeling pretty discouraged because I felt like we hadn’t really done anything “big” for anyone. Right when we got back to the tacobar Renee said “look” and immediately Melina turned to Hannah and I and said “TURN AROUND” and literally there is a lady wearing ALL purple (including eye shadow) with her husband who has a cane walking up a bunch of stairs into McDonalds across the parking lot. Immediately I jumped up and ran over to the people and I just go (in very ~broken~ Spanish) “hola! Puedo orar para tu.” The lady laughs a little and says (in english) “oh! you want to pray for us?” We asked if they had any thing specific they wanted prayers for and they said for health, specifically in the man’s lower back. They told us their names were Victor and Sonya. I prayed over them for healing and rejuvenation in their minds, bodies, and hearts. After we finished praying we asked Victor if we could lay hands on his back and pray for more specific healing. As Hannah and Renee prayed silently, Victor told me and Melina that he was already, sincerely, starting to feel better as the pain was being taken out of his back. They were so gracious for our prayers especially since 5 minutes before, Victor was complaining to Sonya about his back pain. We told them that the Lord gave us a vision of a lady in purple and a man with a cane and how crazy it was that He brought us right to them. They were so amazed and thankful for us reaching out to them and being obedient to the Lord’s call.
This whole situation was so impactful for three of us (we’re still shook). The little things that all aligned were so perfectly placed by the Lord. There were several things that had to happen in order for this to come to pass. We were all insecure in what we heard and only shared with each other. If Hannah and I had told someone other than Melina what we saw, Melina wouldn’t have said anything to Renee, and Renee wouldn’t have pointed out the two people across the parking lot that the Lord was so evidently bringing us to. This was a huge wake up call for the three of us, as we realized we need to be fully obedient to the Lord’s voice when we hear Him. Admittedly we were all silently becoming discouraged and doubting that we heard God’s voice in our visions. We were about to walk back home and the Lord was making us wait for his perfect timing so that he could reveal his faithfulness to us. We have been so pumped about this and we know for a fact that God is going to use this experience to remind us to Trust his voice and not to keep quiet when we Hear him. AND this morning Doug was praying over me and he spoke over me the importance of not hesitating when God is sending me somewhere. He talked about the fact that when we hesitate we are literally withholding the good news of the Lord from others. Were all still learning what this looks like, but RUNNING after a man and woman at mcdonalds sure seems like a start!
