Yesterday I woke up, and I felt as though a car had hit my body or I had done a huge workout the day before (which we know I haven't worked out since debrief started). My body ached and I had so much pain. I was freezing and had on three blankets but yet my body was sweating. On the race there is never a good time to be sick or do we ever have much time to get sick. My team immediately starting praying over me as something was definitely going on within my body. They prayed over my body one at a time and nothing happened. I took my temperature and it was 102.8 and if it is 103 we have to go to the hospital. I prayed that it would not be 103 and it wasn't. I laid in bed the entire day long taking medicine, hydrating and my amazing squadmates bringing me snacks. Multiple people came in and prayed over me and nothing happened. I thought "God I know you heal and I can't understand why you aren't doing so now". I was getting so frustrated with him as I lay there and everyone else was going out and doing fun things in the city I was still in my bed. I also knew there was so much to do before we leave to head to Vietnam and sickness just wasn't in the plans of things to do at debrief but if I got sick at all I would rather it be at debrief then during ministry. As a teammate spoke over me and I begin to realize this sickness was a lesson not just a sick day.
I am the type of person to go go go and never give myself time to relax or have those days of just being lazy. God begin to speak to me about healing. Why doesn't he heal everyone as we pray for it? Why is it something we have only heard about and not seen as much? Why do people refer to it as a old testament thing? I am here to tell you it is so real. In Mark 7: 31-35 God healed a deaf and mute man, in Mark chapter 8 verses 22-26 God heals a blind man, in Matthew 8: 1-4 God heals a man with Leprosy and in Mark 2:1-12 a man cuts a hole in the ceiling in order to get to God to be healed because the crowds were too large for him to get through. Imagine that kind of faith, that we would continue to pray, ask and seek for healing. Step out in faith even though healing don't happen when we think it should or in our timing. Healings can happen, all we need to do is step out in faith and ask him for it. Yesterday God wanted me to sit with him, to sit alone and get with him instead of going out and being a social butterfly. He wanted me to realize that healing is a here and now thing! Healings are as real today as they were then, we just have to have faith to ask for them.
Today I woke up with no fever, no aches and completely healthy. Yesterday my fever went down consistenly each hour. What other thing could take down a 102.8 fever in a span of a couple hours then my God? Sickness doesn't usually last 24 hours but as my team stepped out in faith and asked for it, God showed up. I have experienced his healing power and I cannot wait to see the power he brings in Vietnam. He has spoken to me that Vietnam is going to be a month of power, when we have nothing else that could make something happen the holy spirit has to show up and do something big! I cannot wait to see this power in my teammates and in my God. I am putting away the thoughts of healing don't happen today, people being raised from the dead isn't for 2013, and demons being cast out is a myth. My God has every power and more than I could ever think or ask. I will pray those big prayers and ask for more and Vietnam will be a month of miracles! Month 3 here we go!
