India ended with a mind-blowing experience; a beautiful display of God’s power. India ended with a mind-blowing experience; a beautiful display of God’s power.
India ended with a beautiful display of God’s power!
It was a typical day of street evangelism;
roaming the streets of Kamanahali looking for people to talk to and pray for.
roaming the streets of Kamanahali looking for people to talk to and pray for.
We had just had a conversation with an American man who asked us rudely if our short-term missions in each country was really making a difference. I was a little discouraged and really frustrated especially since this was a month when I, myself, was asking similar questions some days.
The reality is, though, that our short-term missions work was making a difference.
We had seen God work in powerful ways in the first 3 month and this month was no different,
especially not today.
We had seen God work in powerful ways in the first 3 month and this month was no different,
especially not today.
We walked away from the American man, and I was wrestling with God about the encounter we had just had.
Shortly after we came upon an older man, leaning up against a wall near a pharmacy, looking sad and lonely.
We stopped to talk to him and quickly realized he could not hear.
Our translator kept trying to communicate with him but the man just kept pointing to his ears and eyes without any sort of verbal communication.
We motioned to him, with our hands grasped in the prayer position and pointing to the sky, trying to convey that we wanted to pray for him.
We started praying for him,
claiming restoration and healing of his ears and eyes.
Then it happened, mid-prayer, he turned his head sharply to the left in response to a person talking loudly at the pharmacy counter.
Looking back at us, he just pointed to his left ear.
He could hear, with his left ear at this point.
We talked to him, and asked him to say the name of Jesus while we prayed for him. We told him that God wanted to heal him completely and we were going to continue praying until it happened.
So we prayed again,
this time he joined us repeating the name of Jesus.
Mid-prayer, a car on the street hit something making a subtle crashing sound, and he startled a little looking around in every direction for the source of the sound.
Hearing was restored.
HE COULD HEAR.
We told him, “Jesus loves you.”
Upon hearing this his face beamed with a wide smile and joy.
So was short-term missions making a difference?
Yes.
Yes it was.
We may not always be making huge long-term differences in the communities we work with and countries we visit but we have, on many many occasions, made differences in individuals we meet.
That how it begins though and that’s how countries will be changed:
First individuals are changed and brought into the kingdom of God,
then they get to bring God to their communities,
and eventually whole countries will be changed.
It was a typical day of street evangelism; roaming the streets of Kamanahali looking for people to talk to and pray for.
We had just had a conversation with an American man who asked us rudely if our short-term missions in each country was really making a difference.
I was a little discouraged and really frustrated especially since this was a month when I, myself, was asking similar questions some days.
The reality is, though, that our short-term missions work was making a difference. We had seen God work in powerful ways in the first 3 month and this month was no different, especially not today.
We walked away from the American man, and I was wrestling with God about the encounter we had just had.
Shortly after we came upon an older man, leaning up against a wall near a pharmacy, looking sad and lonely.
We stopped to talk to him and quickly realized he could not hear.
Our translator kept trying to communicate with him but the man just kept pointing to his ears and eyes without any sort of verbal communication.
We motioned to him, with our hands grasped in the prayer position and pointing to the sky, trying to convey that we wanted to pray for him.
We started praying for him,
claiming restoration and healing of his ears and eyes.
Then it happened, mid-prayer, he turned his head sharply to the left in response to a person talking loudly at the pharmacy counter.
Looking back at us, he just pointed to his left ear.
He could hear, with his left ear at this point.
We talked to him, and asked him to say the name of Jesus while we prayed for him. We told him that God wanted to heal him completely and we were going to continue praying until it happened.
So we prayed again,
this time he joined us repeating the name of Jesus.
Mid-prayer, a car on the street hit something making a subtle crashing sound, and he startled a little looking around in every direction for the source of the sound.
Hearing was restored.
HE COULD HEAR.
We told him, “Jesus loves you.”
Upon hearing this his face beamed with a wide smile and joy.
So was short-term missions making a difference?
Yes.
Yes it was.
We may not always be making huge long-term differences in the communities we work with and countries we visit but we have, on many many occasions, made differences in individuals we meet.
That how it begins though and that’s how countries will be changed:
first individuals are changed and brought into the kingdom of God,
then they get to bring God to their communities,
and eventually whole countries will be changed.
