Hugo.
A man overflowing with a desire to know Jesus. A few weeks ago during our ATL we came across Hugo and his wife at the tienda they work at. We stayed there and talked for a bit and ended up praying for Hugo and his wife. Hugo is blind in one of his eyes and can only see about 70% in his other eye. Before we walked into their tienda I immediately thought of the story in John 9 when Jesus spits in dirt and puts it over the mans eyes and he is healed. We hadn’t even met Hugo yet and knew nothing about his life or the struggles he was going through. But as we continued to pray for him, the vision I had was constantly replaying over in my head but instead of Jesus putting mud on the mans eyes it was me putting mud on Hugo’s eyes. At first I was like what the heck is going on here why is this in my head?! But as we continued to pray, my heart was beating so fast so I knew the Holy Spirit wanted me to speak it over him, but not yet proclaim it. After we prayed, Hugo was left feeling the love of Jesus and feeling his worth and knowing it. It was great.
But the vision was still in my head. I didn’t tell anyone about it for like a week because I thought it was just my imagination but it just kept popping up. So i prayed and asked the Lord what I should do about it. And boy did he tell me. Constantly throughout the next 3 weeks the story of healing the blind man was brought up in multiple teachings and living boldly and doing what Jesus asks us without question.
Then came Thursday. Every Thursday we have activation and ATL. We have activation before ATL and we have a teaching and its also a time to prepare us for the day. Last Thursday Gabe taught. I knew something was going to happen that day when I woke up because when i woke up my heart was rapidly beating and my hands were sweaty and i had that nervous feeling in my stomach (thanks holy spirit). Gabes teaching was good and as it was coming to a close he brought up John 9 of course. And I was just like are you kidding me, thanks Jesus for the sign I guess. So then I knew I needed to act on my vision. So i prayed, i mean really prayed because i was scared.
We left for ATL and headed to my ministry. Before we start, we ask the Lord where he wants us to go and what he wants us to do and immediately I got the vision of me, mac, erika, lucy, and Gabe going to Hugo’s tienda and praying for him. So we went and Alyssa tagged along and it was a great time. As we started walking to his tienda I was praying so hard. I was shaking and I was scared and I had all the nervous feelings because I knew what the Lord was asking me to do. The last time we had seen Hugo was the first time we visited because he hadn’t been home all the other times we went to go visit so I wasn’t sure if he would be there. But we walked up and of course he was just standing there hanging out and i was like gosh dang-it why is he here today of all days.
So we walked in and prayed for him and his wife and then Gabe said “okay mady, time to do what Jesus told you” Immediately i started shaking. I literally thought i was going to projectile vomit everywhere haha.
I told Hugo my vision and then I told him that I wanted to try it because Jesus told me to. So i walked outside and got on my knees and started scraping up the dirt with a rock. I picked it up and I spit in it and then i walked in with my mud and told hugo to close his eyes. I rubbed the dirt on his eyes and declared eyesight over him. I really don’t remember anything I said and I don’t know if that’s because I was so scared or if it was the Holy Spirit, probably both. After i finished praying i had him wash off his eyes and blink a few times. The first time we prayed nothing happened, which was okay we just continued to pray. Something that I’ve noticed since we’ve been here in Guatemala is every time we pray three times, the third time something always happens. So we prayed again and then a third time.
On the third time, i did the same thing I did the first time. I went outside and got some dirt and really covered that sucker in some spit, it was basically mud. As I was making my mud, I just prayed for something to happen. Hugo didn’t have to be completely healed but I just wanted something to happen so he could believe that something would happen. Because if you don’t fully believed that you will be healed and you don’t speak life over yourself, it’s harder for something to happen. As i was preparing to pray again, everyone was hyping me up, especially Lucy and Alyssa. Imagine someone telling you “Mady you’re doing amazing, don’t be scared, you look like Jesus” doesn’t that hype you up just reading that?!
Anyways.
I walked back in, still shaking but not as scared because I knew that whatever would happen would be a part of Gods plan. So I put dirt on his eyes and layed my hands over his eyes and I declared eyesight. I declared in the name of Jesus that he would be able to see more than what he did before, that he would see Jesus and his worth, i declared heaven over this man.
In the end Hugo did not have complete vision. But in his left eye he could see colors and in his right eye he had 70% vision. I wasn’t disheartened or upset at the fact that he wasn’t completely healed because I knew it happened for a reason. But he knows his worth and his identity and Christ and I had the opportunity to live boldly.
