2 days ago, prior to going into the city I prayed and asked God what he wanted us to do and I saw a vision of a white scarf and sensed that I need to talk to a woman with a white scarf. Later that day on the university campus I met a girl wearing a white scarf on her shoulders and we had a really cool conversation. She’s very sweet and actually asked me if I read the Koran. I told her no, shocked by my answer she asked why not. I told her I am a Christian and read the Bible about every day- like she does the Koran. I have plans to meet again with her and drink tea next weekend. I’m excited and I’m trusting God to do big things.
Yesterday on a boat back to the tourist part of the city where we’re staying I saw a girl with a lazy left eye. She was with her mother and younger sister. I immediately felt the Spirit tugging at my heart to go and pray for this girl and specifically for the healing of her eye. I felt like I needed to touch her..it wasn’t enough to pray from my seat. So I asked the mom through “sign language” if I could pray for her…and the mom liked me and didn’t have a problem with me touching her daughter and praying over her. If only the girl was as excited by a foreigner praying over her. The little sister liked me…she’d smile and was so cute…she even voluntarily held my hand. So I prayed for the older sister and asked for healing. Although I did not see any change I know that praying for her is exactly what God wanted me to do and maybe God healed her today.
On Monday I’m going to another city in Turkey and I’ll be there through Friday doing ethnographic research on minority groups in Turkey. I’m very excited about this partnership mostly because I studied anthropology in college and spent much time learning about people groups all over the world through ethnographies.
