This past month I served with my team in a little village in south Nepal. We would walk to villages to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and pray for people. Some days I really wondered if anyone was getting healed or not when we would pray. I have to admit to you I doubted a lot. I wanted to believe and I believed for sure that it could happen. I just doubted it was happening where we were.
Well one day after church my world changed. We were in the service and towards the end a large group of women came in, and then were shoo'd out. We had no idea what was happening. So the service ended and we were told to go and pray for the sick in the school yard next door. It was unexpected and to be honest we weren't excited for it. Most of the women had come for blankets because they heard we handed some out the week before. So we walk over with our contact Uncle and one Brother from the church. They line up some of the women and ask whats ailing them and tell us to pray. So we get down and pray for the women. It seemed like nothing happened when we finished. And then BOOM! God grabbed my heart. He wasn't finished with a simple pray for a back or stomach pain. We had no idea what to do after we finished praying and so we just stood there. Then God had me line up my team mates and tell them to kneel and pray over ALL the women and pray how the Spirit leads them. We prayed like that for maybe a minute or two. Again we stood and didn't really know what to do. Uncle was busy talking to people about blankets I guess. I really don't know what was happening. I knew there was more coming though so I started to follow Uncle around and ask him what was going on. Kinda like a pit bull with a bone. Without much response as to what was happening with the women sitting on the ground, I just sat down and told Uncle I had something to tell them. Uncle is a great man who loves God and loved us well. He smiled and got down to the ground with me to translate. I shared the simple gospel of Jesus and how He loves them and wants to be their friend. I asked Uncle to ask the women again if they were healed or needed prayer.
What happened next was so crazy in it's simplicity. We all started to pray over different women. We prayed for healing and they were getting HEALED! Right there their pain was going away. Our prayer was this, Father let them feel Your love for them, let them feel their worth in You. That simple prayer opened the flood gates of Heaven to bring healing to those women. God knew what was going to happen. I didn't. I just followed His lead and kinda felt like a pit bull.
It was an such a neat day and I know that when we walk in obedience to His Spirit cool things will happen.
