This story is of power and truth!
“For we walk with faith, not by sight” — 2 Corinthians 5:7
There is a power that I am finally learning, it is the power
of Christ and the authority that we have in Him. My mouth can only proclaim His
victory in this story-nothing more and nothing less. He is a God who saves, who
cleanses, who conforms the dark into light! He is God!
January 24, 2008- A new LEAP
for me, in my walk in Christ, my faith with Christ.
I am learning that for a while
now, I have placed the Lord in a box…conforming Him into what I wanted Him to
be like, and not letting Him be the God that He wants to be in all of us! He
wasn’t the one in the box- I had a lot and still do messed up in my brain!
There are moments in time that
God will show Himself clearly to you, that can be everyday, but foolishly we do
not press into Him. That is what I am sick of…not having God moment’s everyday
of my life. I yearn for this!
Thursday, I really stepped out
into what the Lord is teaching me: boldness in Him.
A new morning, just like any
other day of the year, I would assume. As I got up, it was ‘muy caliente’
:>)- I bet you like that Spanish! We were going to sing to the Lord as a
team and I was stoked… I love to sing to the Lord and be with my fellow brother
and sisters! Well, my buddy Matt Peters had made a prior arrangement the day
before with the Pastor of Los Jardinas to dig two 6ft holes and I had told him
that I would help. I really wasn’t happy, but I was choosing the Joy of the
Lord. So, I felt led to help and miss out on worship.
We arrived by 9 a.m. and we
just started digging right away! It was nuts! Literally from 9 till 1:15 we
were digging, it was hot- I was sweating badly (what is new) and I was really
just trying to praise the Lord in my own way through the heat of the day! As I
was, joy came to me and I felt it for sure! Then, I was convicted about my
decision early not to go to Tambo De Mora to help out, my flesh told me that it
was okay not to go… I had done enough work! God really had a new plan for me
that day!
So, Kelton and I decided to go
ahead and go with the crew to our village. Nate Evans and Matt Snyder were on
the bus as well. My primary reason why I decided to go was to tell a family why
we didn’t come to tarp their house, which was because we ran out of materials
and were waiting for the store to get more in. As I stepped off the bus,
Lourdes’s family came to my heart and I didn’t know what to think about that.
Not 3 minutes later, Nate tells me that he is going to go and pray for them
because the day before Daisy (Lourdes’s sister) was struggling with anger,
depression, etc. So, there begins our journey to the house…Nate Evans, Matt
Snyder, and Myself and soon after, Kelton would join us.
We entered the house, which
was full of darkness, gloom, and much anger. I didn’t really know what would
soon take place, but I was there and ready to share from my heart! Kelton then
entered the house and would be with us. God was bringing us all together for an
incredible reason! We all sat down and start asking what is happening with her.
She then starts talking about her anger, and confusion of why the Lord would do
such a thing- first, the earthquake, and now…taking her sister while leaving 2
beautiful girls behind, and she was still single and healthy- it didn’t make
sense to her. I sat there and felt sad, but something was starting to stir
within me.
Four o’clock was approaching
quickly and Nate was going to speak and bring the word to the children for
V.B.S. Ha, only we thought! Daisy starts speaking and saying that when she
closes her eyes she sees a “beast”- automatically I start questioning her; how
long, do you know why, does this “beast” speak to you? All these questions
coming out of me and I had no clue why- She said that since the earthquake it
had begin and that it was starting to tell her to follow her and believe him.
She had been raised in the church, sang in the choir, but then had stopped
going because a lot of people were ‘hypocrites’ —they were acting one way in
Church and another when they stepped out of Church. She was just angry with the
Lord.
So, I felt that we needed to
get this ‘demonic spirit’ out of her and that it could no longer be there. I
just couldn’t bare the thought of leaving this house and this in her… NO WAY!
So we just began. We walked over, laid
our hands on her, and started to just pray in the Holy Spirit that this
‘demonic spirit’ would leave her in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST! Wow…the intensity
level went through the roof! The Lord spoke to me and told me never to close my
eyes, to keep looking at her, to keep being authoritative and never let down
until it was gone and that she didn’t really need to know everything we had to
say, because this was on a level that was spiritual—not man.
Well, here we are- 4 guys who
are just average ‘Joes’ to say the least, who had never done this and now it
was time…we came together with the Lord and while we were praying for this to
get out, Daisy just sat there with her eyes shut the whole time. Then, we
started telling her to open her eyes and there would be freedom, the release of
this spirit- the Lord was obviously telling us to do so, because we were all
agreeing together. As we were doing this, her eyes were moving so fast you
could see the eyebrows moving fast, I can’t even imitate it. Then as we were
speaking life into her (which is the Truth in Christ), we were telling her to
open the eyes, and she would start ‘twitching’ and shaking her head NO! We
didn’t give up because we knew that it wouldn’t be gone until she opened the
eyes. Then all of a sudden she opened up her eyes and it was gone! We could see
it, so much happiness, singing and shouting to the Lord. GOD IS AMAZING! Light
was so prevalent now in her life, the house was even lighter. I loved it! Then
Daisy asked if we could pray for her mother. I have known them for 2 ½ weeks
now and never had seen her mother smile. So, a prayer was to be joyful and that
she would break through that sadness and receive joy and smile…she did in the
end and then couldn’t stop it! God blew me away yesterday!
We all have this in us. We have His power to do such things. I
challenge you to pray dangerous prayers that will stretch you to the limit like
this and that you will be used in mighty ways! We are His feet, His hands, His
mouth, His smile, His touch, His legs, His arms – HIS! There is nothing that we
can’t do through Him and Praise Be To God for that! I hope that this is an
encouragement for you as it was to me, though I did experience this, I hope
that you can see and feel Christ through this story and that you can see that
God is so alive and active (Hebrews 4:12).
Do not ever under estimate the
power of Christ…it is our strength and gives us life!
“For God has not given us a
spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
2nd Timothy 1:7
The Lord is so good!
Robby
