“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe; in my name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues, they will pick up serpents with their hands, and iff they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
-Jesus
As many of you may have noticed from my last blog, my life is no longer the same.
I am a different person today than who I was before I left.
Now I write these blogs as a personal testimony, of things that I have witnessed and of the things I have personally experienced.
I am not writing about things I have heard about, or things that I think people should or should not do.
So with that in mind, I tell you the following story.
I woke up ready for a very long day of travel.
At approximately 1 pm, we boarded a bus that became my very uncomfortable home for the next 25 hours.
But I am sure somebody else wrote about that bouncy, smelly, slow bus that leaked when it rained (very nasty rust water, and a LOT of it), or the fact that we stopped in the middle of the night for 4 and a half hours to dance at a discotech with the busdriver’s assistants.
I am writing about what happened between when I woke up and when we boarded the bus.
When we originally arrived in Dondo, Mozambique we were met by many very amazing and passionate pastors who were at the Iris Ministries center for pastoral training.
Two of them, Joy and Lucas, asked us to go with them to pray for a woman who could not walk.
This woman, Sebastiana, had one leg that was terribly swollen, and the other leg suffered from atrophy.
Neither of her legs worked properly.
Due to excruciating pain whenever her legs were moved, she lived her life on her mat in front of her house, for how long I’m not sure.
A group of us accompanied Joy and Lucas and prayed for her.
No results happened, and she remained fairly closed off towards us and the Gospel.
So we left and did not think too much about it.
Please continue on to Sebastiana part II to find out the rest of this miraculous story.
