Y’ALL! I AM SO EXCITED! So this month we have the opportunity to be working in an orphanage for people that were abandoned as children due to special needs or disabilities. If they do have the ability to speak then they all speak in Spanish, but very few in our house actually are verbal. I have really been struggling this month with not being able to communicate primarily because my Spanish is limited to the basics.
Now that you have the background of where I am coming from with this story let me get to the part where the Holy Spirit takes over.
So, I have been praying a ton this past year for the ability to speak in tongues because I think it is just so rad. However, unfortunately I haven’t been able to. BUT! Yesterday we went to the house as we normally do Monday through Friday and we were just dancing and singing worship songs with some of our new friends.
One of my team mates put on the Spanish version of some popular worship songs, so they could understand what we were actually singing, but then got pulled into a different room. So there I was… singing these worship songs in English as they played out loud in Spanish.
I began to get so frustrated because I felt useless. All I wanted to do was be able to share Jesus with them in a way they would understand, in a way that they could comprehend. So I began to do what I have now become wired to do in these situations, I began praying. “Lord, please let Stephanie (one of the girls at the orphanage) know how loved she is by you, how adored, how valued, how precious, how beautiful she is. God, help her understand that you are fighting for her, that you are always there and that you love her more than she can even comprehend. Lord wrap her up in your arms and give her an embrace of a parent, of a father.” And I kid you not, she began to smile so BIG as I was praying that for her. (You guys, I don’t think you understand, I have never seen her smile yet. She is in a constant state of staring at the ground or looking fed up with life. She flinches if you even get close to her and does not look at you directly.) But in this moment, she smiled at me. She looked at me. She laughed with me. She even gave me a high five. Then I heard God whisper to me, “Karlie, she gets it. She can comprehend.” WOW! That shook my world! I have been trying to break through to her with the mentality of what can I do? How can I talk to her? (Emphasize on the “I”) When the reality of it is that I may not be able to do anything but the Lord knows just what she needs.
I’m not done… it gets crazier! So after this lovely moment I continued to pray that I can communicate in a way they will comprehend. Then this song came on… I had never heard it before and I knew none of the words, especially because it was pure Spanish. I continued, “Lord, please, speak through me.” Then, I opened my mouth to sing my own song to the Lord, seeing as I knew nothing, and I began singing in Spanish. SPANISH! I sang an entire song in Spanish, word for word, and trust me when I say I have no idea what I was even singing! Goodness gracious! I even shocked myself! I had no idea what was coming out of my mouth, but I do know that this is just the beginning of the Lord showing up in miracles ways.
