Prayer is powerful. This is something our team has come to realize more and more with each passing day. We now spend a lot of time together praying about … well, everything. We have seen how much you really can do through praying. We have seen our teammates emotionally healed from past pain and regrets; we have seen eleven men come to Jesus in the same hour all because we prayed for it; and little boys cured of malaria.
Every week we visit the regional referral hospital. During that time, we find out what some of the patients have been struggling with, for how long, and if they know why it was caused/how to fix it. After talking to the patients, we pray for them.
Laying your hands on a little girl with a swollen stomach or an older man whose broken leg won’t heal is sometimes kind of terrifying. I get worried that maybe the person I’m praying over will never be healed. Lately, I haven’t worried about that at all, though, because I believe that the people we have visited in the hospital have been healed.
Our team has been asking that God give us healing hands as an at-least-temporary spiritual gift. I think He has delivered us a wonderful package.
Last week, before going to the hospital, I prayed that God would heal each person we prayed over. As I stood at the besides of numerous people, I felt the Holy Spirit moving through my hands and into the bodies of the sick and injured. As I said, “In Jesus’ name,” I felt something was accomplished. As I looked at the faces of my teammates, I saw joy, and in the faces of the patients I saw peace.
Because the hospital is so large, we will not get to visit the same wards this week or the next, and we might not get to hear the stories of how someone bedridden for two years got up a day later and left the hospital, and this makes me sad. But, despite not getting to hear the stories, I do not doubt that God was moving last week.
Prayer is more powerful than anything we ourselves could do, and when all God wants you to do is ask, He gives it to you. J
