Experiencing God
Today I sat at the back of a rundown house in the slums that
is being used as a church for Tree of Life ministries. I sat there and I watched people come in and
take a seat in the hot, wooden building. I watched the Pastor speak to people with a smile and a joy that I have
rarely seen in the states. I was given
the opportunity to pray for a woman who came to Phnom Penh
because of stomach problems and was told she has a mass in between her stomach
lining and must have surgery. I met a
man who is blind in the physical but he sees through the eyes of Jesus. I sat there and started to cry. Why? Why God would you take an average 26 year old woman out of her mundane
life and place her right here, in the middle of this? Why, Lord, why would you bless me in this
way?
I am both honored and blessed that the Lord would pick me to
be here. I have completely fallen in
love with the Khmer people and with their culture. I have fallen in love with the children and
with the way they express their love. I
have fallen in love with the adults and how respectful they are to one
another.
As I said earlier, I was given the opportunity to pray for a
woman who has medical problems with her stomach. As my team mate and I laid hand on her and
began to pray, I began asking for a miracle. I began to prayfully lay down my request for a supernatural
healing. Why was this any different than
previous prayers? Let me explain.
When we pray for people with illnesses or ailments I always ask God for His
will and for His healing, I have prayed for supernatural healings, usually in
the sense of a spiritual or emotional healing. I always believe God for His healing and have been on both ends of it,
receiving His healing and seeing His healing. But today was different, today I was speaking out of a boldness that was
not from me. My spirit was stirred and
it was speaking clearly. I clearly
continued to ask God for a miracle and for Him to show up in the supernatural
ways. I prayed God was removing the mass
right then and there. I prayed the
doctors would need to do another ultrasound and when they did there would be
nothing there. I boldly requested
miracles and supernatural today and as I did a gentle breeze came by and the
peace of the Lord came upon me and His still, soft voice said, “She is
healed”.
I do know is that I faithfully believe what the Lord said to me today. She is healed. I believe completely that God has relieved
the pain she was experiencing and that there will no longer be hardness around
the area the mass was once at.
I am learning that there is so much more to God and I desire
the eyes of a child to
be able to see.
