I spent the month of November in Mpumalonga, South Africa. It was an all-squad month, meaning all 40 of us in one place doing the same ministry. We stayed at Africa School of Missions, and ministry looked like door to door evangelism, after school programs, helping at children’s homes/orphanages, and serving feeding programs. It was an amazing time full of ministry we were busy all day almost every day! South Africa was something so new, so refreshing, and so full of God.
On my first day of ministry a small group of us went to pray for a woman who had diabetes. Her diabetes was so bad to the point that she was losing her vision and ability to walk. She lived with constant headaches and migraines from her eyes. We walked to her home that was on the beautiful mountainside overlooking a whole village. She brought a chair out, sat down, and asked us to intercede for her in prayer.
We laid hands on her eyes, head, and feet thanking God for the access to healing that we have through the death of Jesus Christ. I remember as I prayed looking over the edge of the mountainside and the beauty of this city. You could see Swaziland far off in the distance.
I remembered they story of God opening the eyes of Elijah’s servant to the angel armies around them. I remembered praying myself for God to open my heart to His spiritual kingdom around me. As I prayed for this woman’s sight to be restored I asked God to open her eyes to the physical beauty of the breathtaking mountain she lives on, as well as opening her eyes to the spiritual army of protection that you have covering that same mountainside.
We left and continued to pray for more people along that road, and a few hours later the woman called us. She expressed how her vision was being restored, and rejoicing in how she can walk and feel her legs again. God opened her eyes that day, and I pray that He opens our eyes too. I pray that you and I slow down and open our eyes to the beauty that God created. What joy will overcome us when we begin living in the knowledge that Christ is with us, and that He wants to open our eyes?
