We have been in Lira for one week, and God is already moving in powerful ways. It’s been so neat to see the team just going for it all the way, and to see each of us challenge each other to go even deeper with God. People are getting plugged into ministry, whether that be hut to hut evangelism, preaching via radio waves, teaching at the school, or preaching at noon prayer. God is teaching us and growing us in so many ways it’s phenomenal.
Tuesday I had an interesting opportunity of traveling to a remote village that was the site of a former IDP camp during the war, and also the site of an LRA massacre. It was kind of a surreal feeling standing on the ground where 121 bodies were layed in a mass grave because some of them were burned in their huts and couldn’t be recognized. I did a lot of research on the war prior to coming to Uganda, but none of that prepared me for standing on the ground here in northern Uganda on the spots where it actually took place just so short a time ago. Very different from an American civil war battle field or something historic like that. This massacre happened 6 years ago.
On a happier note, that same day Travis and I prayed for a lame man in town. Through a translator we found out he had leg and hip problems from malaria as a child and one leg was shorter than the other. Though much was lost in translation, we were eventually able to pray for him, and his leg was healed from the pain.. I want to say I know he was 100 % healed, but we don’t know for sure. He told us that when we prayed for him he could feel the power of God shooting through his leg, and his demeanor physically changed after we prayed for him! There was a new found light in his face, and when he walked he didn’t limp any more! He walked around, all smiles, saying that all his pain was gone. We couldn’t get him to take off his brace, but i believe with all my heart that God healed him.
Yesterday at lunch hour at Victory Outreach Ministries, I was given the opportunity of evangelizing and preaching for the very first time. I preached the gospel, and it was such an amazing experience. God totally spoke through me the things that HE wanted to say. It was short, but the Spirit quit speaking, so I quit speaking too. It was such a powerful and amazing experience and completely shattered my comfort zone of living the “safe” life. Praise God for shattered comfort zones; because when our expectations go is when we get to see God really move.
Blessings in Christ
