Day 12

 

Editors note: this blog is extremely raw, and real. I warned you…

 

Today was supposed to be a normal day. Go into ministry at the orphanage, take some pictures, clean the room, normal stuff. 

 

Boy oh boy did GOD have a different plan for us…

 

When we arrived we did our usual, hug the school children who were being sent off to school, then head upstairs to the immobile girls room that we are assigned to. I walked in the room and noticed 2 of my teammates talking about something quietly, I heard one word and immediately my spirit picked up on what they were talking about…

 

Spiritual warfare, demonic oppression…

 

So I butted into the conversation not really knowing what I was getting myself into, and confirmed what had been spoked to my team leader about one of our children. She was indeed demonically oppressed…

 

Dealing with physical and mental sickness can be tricky. I have always thought about the stories of JESUS healing a person who had certain symptoms being compared to present day diagnosis's such as epilepsy, and forms of mental retardation. Don't get me wrong i am not saying that every person who has a seizure is demon possessed, BUT I strongly believe that sometimes what doctors diagnose as a sickness, are actually demons, or spirits oppressing a person. 

 

The LORD had heavily placed it on her heart for us to pray for this particular 

Iittle girl… She spoke it out, GOD confirmed it through me…

 

We were involved now…

 

I want you to take note that all week we had noticed this little girl growl, foam at the mouth, bang her head on the wall, and just act overall tormented. With so many other children around it was easy for me to just disregard her, but as I looked at her today I saw her that was no longer acceptable. I saw that there was clearly a battle going on for her soul, for her peace, for her future, and at that moment my team and I had been called to stand in the gap for her, to war in the spirit in prayer and petition for her as if she were our own child.

 

So we prayed…

 

Have you ever seen someone pray for healing? The usual is that after 5 or 10 minutes if nothing has taken place we politely hug them, tell them to keep trusting GOD and send them on their way. After about 15 minutes in the heat of the day i was done praying, well at least my flesh was, but GOD had other plans.

 

All I could hear in my spirit every time I got weary was, will you go the extra mile for me, for her? Will you press past your flesh into a place of sacrifice for this precious child? We declared life over her, praised the LORD for her deliverance, her healing, read scripture after scripture over her body, laid hands, and proclaimed with as much boldness as we could muster that this child was free indeed.  About halfway through something was laid on my heart. 

 

Remember that thing I said in my previous blog about these children being thrown away because they were considered a curse? And remember that thing GOD said in the bible about the power of life and death being in the tongue? Well he meant that! And this child's beginning of natural life was most like the words you are a curse, cursed, worthless! So we reversed those words! And GOD began to speak through me to this child that she was blessed, and a blessing, NOT a curse! 

 

And we prayed for 4 hours…

 

And in that time i saw GOD do some of the most amazing things. I saw Him unite my team as we all came together, some on our knees, others standing up, some shouting, others meditation, and we all waged a war in the spirit. We also noticed halfway through that she would try to vomit up something, and then swallow it back down. GOD spoke to several of us, and to me In particularly with authority and said that needs to come up! 

 

So we kept praying, and believing GOD! I must admit there were times where we had to pray over ourselves to rebuke unbelief, and continue to press in the spirit as long as GOD required. At one point one of the Aiyas (caretakers) came and literally took the child away from us, not understanding our loud Prayers over her. I stopped, wanting to give up at that moment, but GOD sharply spoke to me again and said go get her! So i did. I brought her back in the room, and we kept praying. 

 

And suddenly, when we all grew so weary we thought we couldn't go on, GOD moved and she threw up.

 

But you want to know the crazier part? Laughter, and joy immediately followed! And as this little girl danced and laughed to the worship music we had playing in the room, GOD cleaned her spirit, and brought up the nastiness, because there was no longer room in her for it! We prayed for her legs and even saw her walk a little with the help of my teammate. 

 

It was nothing short of amazing…

 

With deeper thought I realized that GOD did all of that for us as well. Some of us needed to learn to endure in prayer, others needed their faith stretched, some needed to see just how fruitful obedience can be, but we ALL gained a new level of freedom in Christ today!

 

If you have read this I ask once again that you pray for us, and the children we minister to this month. It is not a game the level that GOD wants deliverance in that place! And it will happen all for HIS glory!

It is day 12 of this journey, and we have already seen the supernatural power of GOD, bring healing, the same power that got each of us to that place, and that particular time for that moment…