Sprinting to the Blind

All month I was drawn to this boy, Emmanuel. How much better can it get to have a friend who’s name means “God with us.”  EVERYTIME my teammate Sage and I saw this boy we prayed for him. The last few days we even had his younger brothers come practice laying hands on him to pray.

I knew all month that Emmanuel WAS GOING to be healed. I prayed my guts out for this kid, and I knew in my heart it was DONE! I studied a lot on healing in the Bible, and I knew that it was God’s will to heal EVERYONE. I could picture Emmanuel’s eye changing colors and becoming dark brown just like his right eye. I could barely wait to see him when I was away from him, because I wanted to pray with him again. My faith was rising deep within me, and at some points I felt like I could explode. I knew that I had the authority in Christ to command the blindness and the scabies away.

With all of that said, Emmanuel IS HEALED, but I didn’t get to see the healing. I know its done. Even though I don’t get to see the healing manifest, I know God has healed him. Believe me I wish I could say I saw his eye get healed, but I understand I just have to trust God that he healed him.

Let me take you back to the first couple days in La Cama. After praying one morning, I saw a vision of our team and we were leaving La Cama. It was our last day and we packed up the van and we were driving off. As we were driving away, we passed Emmanuel. At that moment we stopped the van and got out to pray for him. It was then we saw his healing.

I told my team what I saw, and Sage and I discussed it several times these last 25 days. We began to feel like it was going to happen, except instead of seeing Emmanuel we were going to be seeing a blind lady from the church.

Our final day was yesterday, and this is what happened.

Sage and I actually said goodbye to Emmanuel three different times, so we knew we were going to see the blind lady for sure. We got all settled in the van, the back row of all rows, and we took off. We KNEW we were about to stop, so we kept our eye out for this lady. As we started up hill, I yelled “Stop the Van!” Everyone just looked at us and we kept driving. I was somehow able to get out the story of why we needed to stop, and they stopped the van at the top of the hill. Sage and I just took off running down hill to this lady’s house.

When we first saw her from the van, she was standing in her doorway. Someone had to walk her to the doorway and be there at the very moment we drove by (GOD)! When we arrived at her doorway, on foot, we saw her sitting in a chair in the middle of her little courtyard out back. Someone had to have walked her there, and she was waiting for us (GOD)! We prayed for her, just like every time we had seen her. This time, however, she reached out to hug us after.

Just like Emmanuel, we did not get to see this healing manifest, but I know she is healed. God set that whole situation up, and we took the opportunity to pray when that divine appointment came. Every time we prayed for either of these people part of the Kingdom of God was left with them. My leader Jory said it best, “Some people come along and plant seeds and others water those seeds. You and Sage planted and watered faith in those individuals, and God will bring the increase.”

It has taken me awhile to even get words out about how I’m feeling about Emmanuel and this blind lady. I went from frustrated, to angry, to sad, to the point where I Know God has healed them and I just didn’t get to see it. It was a process to get my faith back to where it was when I prayed for them. AND THAT’S OK! The book of Psalms has a whole lot of David’s frustrations and cries to God. One of the many things that I have been encouraged by is the fact that, “I stopped the bus!”

A few months ago, I would not have stopped a bus to go pray for a blind lady. I would have prayed silently from my back row and moved on. But, I’m not the same person. I stopped a bus, and ran to pray! I know I will see miracles, but even if I never see one I would rather DIE TRYING AND BELIEVING than not have faith at all!