I don’t know how many of y’all have seen or experienced a miraculous healing, but I have experienced a good amount of them in my life. However, in the past week and a half, I have witnessed and experienced healing. Before I go on, let me
just brag on my God for a second. He is such a good God, and there is never a moment when He isn’t good. If you don’t see His goodness in a certain situation then you just have to wait a little bit because you will see it at some point if
not in the moment.
So with my ministry here in Guatemala, we do this thing called house visits in the mornings. These house visits consist of exactly what it sounds like, we walk around the same town we teach kids English in, knock on doors, and visit with
people. We listen to their stories, talk with them a bit, explain what our ministry is so that they will send their children to us in the afternoons, and we pray for them. So far, we’ve house visited everyday and it’s been really good, we’ve
heard some amazing testimonies and have had a few chances to pray for some so that they have an amazing testimony. There’s this one lady we visited last Friday who has an injured foot and hasn’t been able to walk on it for 3 months. It was
casted, numb, swollen, and infected. When we walked up to her house on our first Friday of ministry she was sitting on a couch outside, with her foot propped up and she didn’t look like she felt super great. So we sat down and listened to her
while she told us what was wrong (she was speaking in Spanish however, so I didn’t really catch exactly what happened). So we layed our hands on her and prayed for her once, and then asked how it felt. She told us it felt a little bit better
but not a lot, so we layed hands on her again and prayed for her again. Once again, we asked her how it felt and she said it was a little better. Can you guess what came next? Yep! We prayed for her again! We asked her how it felt, yet again,
and she told us that she could feel it and it hurt. We all got super happy because she originally couldn’t feel it at all. So after hearing that it wasn’t numb anymore we stopped praying for her and told her and ourselves that we would come
back another day. So, fast forward a bit to the next Wednesday. We went back to her house. We walked up and didn’t see the couch she was on the last time we were there, in fact the couch was gone. We sat down and out she comes, WALKING to us!
We were all so happy already and hadn’t even heard from her on how her foot was yet. Apparently it’s been getting better a little bit everyday and the swelling we could see went down a lot, also she told us that it was like almost not infected
anymore. Originally the infection went all the way up to her knee and the doctor told her they would have to cut her leg off from the knee down. However, now the infection is only at a small part on the inside of her foot, praise God!
The following Friday, September 20, 2019, my team, ministry hosts and I all brought her a walker so she can walk around easier. It made us all so happy to give it to her and to hear how much better she is doing already! Her family was also
there and they were telling us how happy they were that she was doing better and they thanked us for coming and praying for her to get better! It made my heart so happy to see her doing better and to hear how much of an emotional impact
it had on her and her family! God is so good!! I’m excited to continue to visit her and see the fruit of our prayers!
On the same note as healing, God has healed me. Before I tell more I need to explain something. I’ve been allergic to gluten for about 13 years, so all I’ve ever known is gluten free food and supposedly how gross it is compared to gluten
things. Also more recently, I’ve become allergic to dairy. Dairy has been maybe the past 3 or so years. I felt like God told me that He was going to heal me and I never really told anyone because I had so much peace I guess and knew it would
happen kind of thing. So, come launch, when my parents are there and they heard a testimony from a girl that went on the World Race and got healed of her gluten allergy. They told me they had heard her testimony, as if to say, “Maybe you will
get healed too!” I told them that it was awesome and kept quiet. I have no idea why I didn’t tell them right then and there what God had already told me He would do.
I’ve been in Guatemala almost 2 weeks now and I’ve been declaring for myself that I am healed already, and that I just need to wait for God’s timing. Of course, I had no idea when it was time to try some gluten to see, and I was afraid.
I knew the consequence of eating gluten if I wasn’t healed yet so I was hesitant and doubting a bit even though I had been declaring it over myself, knowing how much power my words have.
On Tuesday night, September 17, 2019, my team and I got to talking about how I am already healed and I just need to eat gluten. Confessing that I was scared to try, yet knowing I was healed, they prayed over me. Then, like the good friends they
are, ran and grabbed a piece of bread for me to eat right then and there. I put some Nutella on it (which before would have been a double whammy for me because, dairy and gluten), folded it, and ate it. Knowing, that before, it only took 30
minutes to an hour for me to feel bad and get rid of the gluten in my body, I went and distracted myself by playing cards with some friends. 2 hours later, I look at the clock and think, “Oh my goodness, I haven’t felt bad or gotten sick at all!”
I was healed and I was so happy!! I told my entire team and we all were so happy together!! Ever since then, I’ve eaten some form of gluten, every single day and have been perfectly fine! Praise God! He is so good! The word good doesn’t even
describe how good He is! I don’t have the words to describe my feelings! Every time, however, I eat something with gluten in it I stop and say, “God is so good!” I cannot stop saying it either! He really is so good!
So, to say the least, because I chose to obey God and step into this big unknown (the World Race Gap Year, where I go away for 9 months), He is rewarding me. If you didn’t already know, I’m a home body. I love the comfort of my house in the States,
I don’t step out and do many new things very often. So, the World Race Gap Year is not something I would have done on my own. I’m glad I’m here though, God’s going to do amazing things! He already has in the first 2 weeks so I can’t wait to
see what else He has!
