**Update below original blog**
Tonight, I was prepared to watch a woman die.
Instead, I watched God HEAL a woman.
That's correct. H-E-A-L-E-D.
GOD HEALED HER and to His name be ALL the glory. FOREVER. AMEN.
During our month in Kenya, my team and I have been staying at a local church. We are living upstairs in a private room. There's a gate and a private guard on duty 24/7 and, usually, there are people milling about the property but after about 6pm, it dies down.
Tonight, at around 9:45pm, the girls and I were joking around about Liam Neeson and his new movie. There was a pause in the laughter and conversation. In that split second, we heard a scream that was followed by a few more blood curdling screams. We all made eye contact and jumped up.
We ran to the bathroom window and gazed out towards the gate. A black figure can hobbling in, followed by a tall man in an orange sweater that we didn't recognize. At first glance, we thought the black figure was a man. But one of us happened to catch a glimpse of something that made us realize it was a woman.
In that instant, three of us went running down the stairs to pray for her.
At this point, we had no idea what we were walking into.
When we arrived at the gatehouse, we found the woman sprawled out on the floor. The man in the orange went on to explain that she had just been robbed by three men, and that they had stabbed her. At first, I thought perhaps in the arm or what not because I didn't see gushing blood anywhere. But I was wrong.
They had stabbed her right in the heart.
It was a perfect puncture to her heart.
Katie and Tatum were both already on their knees, seeing how they could help, and praying for her. I went to grab a first aid kit and get as much gauze as possible to help seal up the wound until help came.
When I arrived back, Katie was trying to get the woman's attention but she wasn't responding. I knelt beside her and held her hand. I started praying, hard.
Her skin was as cold as ice, and her eyes were rolled back in her head. Her hand was limp, and her breathing scarce and heavy. She started skipping breaths and had a slight foaming at the corners of her mouth.
She was dying.
We were finally able to arrange transport to the hospital and helped get her into the cab. I ended up sitting in the back with her and refused to give up hope. During the car ride to the hospital, I never stopped praying. At one point, God told me to squeeze her hand, so I did. She squeezed back and then went completely limp.
I was certain (and still am) that death was trying to take her.
I prayed against it. All of us girls were standing at the throne of God, begging for His mercy and grace to be bestowed on this woman.
We arrived at the hospital and were instantly discouraged about the treatment of care she would be getting. We realized that only God could step in now.
Katie felt the urge to pray healing over her. Within a few minutes, the woman started becoming coherent. She started to respond and interact. She became stable and God filled all of us with His peace and comfort.
By the time she left the hospital with her sister, she was smiling!
It was a miracle!
God intervened, stopped the internal bleeding, and brought the woman back from the grips of death.
God is a God of the miraculous.
It didn't involve any fancy dancing or chants.
It was a simple prayer of faith, and He responded with HIS will.
He is ALMIGHTY, ALL POWERFUL.
Please keep this woman in your prayers.
Her name is Florence.
She will have quite a journey of emotional healing to walk through.
Pray for wisdom, discernment, and realization in her life.
Pray for a quick recovery for the superficial wounds.
And pray for her family.
Thanks! 🙂
<3tasha.
***UPDATE***
I received a call this afternoon from Florence's sister.
She said that when the doctors did the x-ray,
they confirmed that the knife went straight through to her heart.
When they opened her up for surgery, they saw the tear on the heart but there was NO BLEEDING.
Her heart was pumping normally and they didn't understand why she wasn't bleeding through the tear.
They said she should still be bleeding internally.
That she shouldn't be alive.
They said that she should have died within an hour of being stabbed.
But she didn't.
They sewed up the tear on her heart,
and are keeping her for a few days to keep an eye on her
but she's completely stable.
GOD stopped up the tear in her heart and kept it from bleeding.
The doctors were stunned, but I wasn't.
I serve a God who HEALS.
And He healed in a way that gives HIM the glory.
Amen. <3
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