This month we are staying in a village and there our 22 people in this one house. There’s our ministry host, his wife and two kids, and then there are 10 orphan boys. This whole family has been so welcoming and loving especially the 10 boys.
It is illegal to evangelize here and some of the pastors have been beaten and even killed because of evangelizing.
Our ministry this month has been to travel to different villages to share our testimonies, the gospel and to just pray for people.
Each of the villages we have traveled to have had different spiritual atmospheres. One of the villages we went to everyone there was so joyful and attentive to what we had to share. Another village we traveled to was dark and and some of my teammates had a feeling of deep spiritual warfare taking place in this village. After the “meeting” we were asked to go pray for this lady’s husband. We asked what was wrong with him and he said in perfect English that he has had a fever for 6 months. After we prayed for him we asked if he felt better and he said no so we prayed again and he had an Indian accent. One of my teammates is very good at discerning the spiritual atmosphere and sensed this man was possessed by a demon. The most recent village we visited we got the church to dance with us while we sang a worship song. After the “meeting” we prayed for all of the people there and then ate dinner. After dinner the pastor took us to several homes to pray for these families. The final home we visited was very spiritually dark. We prayed over a man who lost his ability to walk, we prayed over another one of his family members who was possessed by a demon, and the last person we prayed for in that house wanted to accept Jesus into his heart. Each prayer in that house was so powerful and I could feel the Holy Spirit there covering that place. So far we haven’t seen the end result of our prayers. We don’t know if anyone we have prayed for has actually been healed because we seem to always be on a time crunch, but we know that the power of prayer makes a bigger difference than we could ever explain.
After each meeting we pray for each person individually and I always seem to be praying for children and they usually request I pray for their studies.
The Lord has already taken me out of my comfort zone by placing me in a completely new country where all we eat is rice and some form of curry; living with 6 other people who were strangers just a few months ago. He is growing me in boldness. He wants me to be bold. Most of you know that I’m so shy at first but once you get to know me I can be loud and obnoxious. I feel like while I’ve been in India for the first week and a half I have been withdrawn due to being so out of my comfort zone but I’m learning to find my identity in Christ and not in the comfort of distraction (mainly wifi). I have spent more time with the Lord while being here and I know he’s making changes even when it doesn’t feel like it.The Lord is doing so much here in India!
Thank you for all of your prayers!
