A Miracle in Africa!
While we were in Tanzania we visited and prayed for a man name Nestory several times. Nestory was a member of the church we attended, loved the Lord and spent much of his time serving him.
The first time we came to his house he needed help getting out of bed. He hadn’t eaten anything in weeks or even drank any water in over a week. He was too weak to speak and as we were there he sat with his face looking to the ground, not lifting his head to even acknowledge any of us. When I put my hand on his shoulder I could feel every bone sticking out of this man who had withered away to nothing. We asked our pastor what was wrong with him and he said that he refused to eat and several weeks ago when the pastor asked him why he said it was because God told him to fast. When we heard that we knew he was being spiritually oppressed and hearing lies. All of the joy had been sucked out of his life and he was on the verge of death.
The first time we visited, we all prayed for Nestory and left seeing no improvement but feeling hopeful nonetheless. A few days later we came back to pray again. This time Nestory was in bed and would not get out. We came into his room and prayed for him-for his freedom and for his spirit and for life to come back into him. We left and again there was no apparent change in his condition. One of the last nights we were in Tanzania, we went again to pray for him. This time he walked out of his room on his own, sat down on the couch, looked us all in the eyes as we sat around him and even spoke to the pastor. We prayed for him and upon leaving he shook each of our hands and thanked us for coming. He was still weak, but had began eating again and we left feeling hopeful that God had already freed him and was going to continue until his joy was restored and his life was back to normal.
A few days ago I received an email from Yusuph, our translator while we were in Tanzaina, saying that he went to our church last Sunday and when we arrived he saw Nestory there! In his email he said that Nestory was, “completely healed, jumping and running around the church, crying while giving his testimony of what God had done for him.” This is the man who several weeks prior to this refused to eat or drink and was so weak that he couldn’t get up out of bed or even speak.
This story gives me even more reason to believe that God’s love for us desires for us to be completely healed and to live a full life of abundance and joy.
God is a God of life, healing, freedom & miracles!
