Allow me to share with you an entry in my journal that tells a story about my sister in Christ, Sdudla. I learned so much through this experience about our amazing, loving, and miracle working God.
Today I was able to take the day off from ministry and go to Nisela (a small cafe that has the only accessible WiFi for miles) to turn in my finance report. I walked in and found a table and put my stuff down. I then went to buy a cup of coffee and a three hour WIFI voucher. While I was walking back to my table I noticed a lady drying off clean coffee mugs, her name was Sdudla.
I turned and said “Hi, how are you doing today?”
She smiled and responded with “Hi, I’m okay.”
“Just okay?” I asked.
“Yeah, my back hurts really bad.”
I thought oh…okay! Let’s go God! Do yo thang!
“Hmm,” I exclaimed, as I tried to figure out how I was going to ask her if I could pray over her. Little did I know that the big man upstairs had it all planned out.
“What? You have something to help me?” She asked.
“It’s not medicine or anything, but I would love to pray for you if that’s okay?”
Her face lit up and she jumped at the idea of me praying for her. She told me she was a believer too but nobody had ever offered to pray over her back pain before. I told her that in a few minutes the rest of my group would return to our table and we could all pray for her. When I told her that she got very excited. When the rest of my group was back at the table I told them what had happened and that we were going to pray for Sdudla.
I caught her glancing over at us so I waved her over, as she walked towards us you could tell her back we as causing significant pain for her. We all asked if we could place hands on her and she agreed. We just all just started full on Swazi praying (everyone in a group of people pray at once) in the middle of Nisela over our new friend’s back. After boldly asking the maker of the universe to heal Sdudla’s back for a few minutes, the prayer fizzled out and we asked her if she felt any ease of pain. She seemed shocked and none of us knew how to respond to it so i just offered to pray again. She nodded no and quickly walked away. I didn’t know if we did something wrong or really what was going on. I tried to go about my business and trust the Lord was working through it all.
I ordered food, finished my finance report, and talked to my family on the phone for a little bit. A few hours passed and It was now time for us to start packing things up to get ready to go. I hadn’t been able to talk to Sdudla again since praying earlier. I was now sitting on the couches next to the door with Caelum and I see Sdudla peek out from in the kitchen. She quickly came over to us and she seemed so happy!
“Hey Sdudla! We are just about to leave. I’m so glad i got to see you before we did. Did you end up feeling any ease of pain after we prayed for you earlier?”
She grinned and exclaimed “Yes! I did! As soon as you guys stopped praying and I walked away from you guys, I felt like they’re was an ice cube melting over my whole body and then when the cold went away. All of the back pain went away. I wanted to tell you sooner but I was just too busy to come over before! I need to get back to work now but I’m so glad I got to tell you!”
We hugged and both went our separate ways. She returned to work with a healed back. I headed back to the compound with an amazing testimony and the joyous news of God’s healing power.
