I had a conversation with one of our Squad leaders yesterday morning and told her I was feeling discouraged because all the other teams were seeing healings and I wasn’t. I told her I felt like there was something wrong with me or I didn’t have enough faith or something but that I had been praying since before we left that I would see miracles. She reminded me that if we ask we will receive and that if I kept asking he would be faithful. I tried my best to believe her, but I was still unsure if I was ever going to get to see those prayers I was asking for, show up.
A couple hours later we headed out with our ministry hosts to spend the day in the homes of the people in our ministry town San Lorenzo, Guatemala. We built relationships, prayed, shared snacks and really just got to know the people and their struggles. We saw a lot of faithfulness and love for the Lord from the families we met with, but there was one woman in particular that truly changed my life.
Her house was not part of the route we were making but she called my team and I into her house to sit down and talk with her. She started out by explaining that she worked in the dump near by, which we later found out is where she finds some meals for her and her family. Immediately after she told us that she got teary as she expressed how God was so good and faithful to her family. I felt tears come to my eyes when I listened to how grateful she was for the way the Lord provided for her and her family even when they didn’t have beds to sleep in or clean meals to eat.
When she finished telling us her story we asked if she needed any prayer and she said that she couldn’t see very well and it was getting worse quickly. We asked her to read a t-shirt from about two feet away and she couldn’t read a single word. My team and ministry hosts laid hands on her and cried out to the Lord for healing and restoration of sight in her eyes. She opened her eyes and we asked her to read the shirt again, and this time she could see it about five feet away, but still not perfectly. So. We prayed again. Asking from the Lord for nothing less than perfect clarity. She opened her eyes and could see everything with no blurriness. The Lord had completely healed her.
I can honestly say that yesterday was one of the best days of my life because I got to watch Jesus perform a miracle through the hands of my teammates and I. It was almost as if he rubbed the mud on her eyes and asked her to see right in front of me, and I will never forget that.
