36 Days til God shatters my expectations again! This may be my 4th year, but God has never failed to surprise me and leave me in awe of Him and what he can do with a group of gringos going to a foreign place for a week! Today I wanted to share the biggest expectation shattering story I have from 2012 and my first ever trip to El Salvador.
It was the last night of our trip, and we were headed to a small church service.
It was a church service I was definitely not prepared for. I remember we sung Revelation Song in English and Spanish and just worshiped the Lord saying HOLY HOLY HOLY or SANTO SANTO SANTO. It felt like the song went on forever in the best way. After worship was finished, we went into a time of prayer, and the Pastor came up to the front and the Spirit had given him knowledge of a need of someone in the audience. The pastor said “God is telling me that He wants to heal someone with back pain.” Of course I just stood there in my seat assuming he was talking to someone else. We had seen so many healings over the past week, and I was excited to see what God was going to do next. Then the pastor got more specific- “Someone with pain in the lumbar region.” Ok- now that is a little weird... At this point my wife is nudging me to go forward, but I still just stood there, after all, God would have healed me 8 years prior if it was meant to be right? Then he said “I am getting specifically it is a ruptured disc in the 3rd vertebrae...” No more denying it- with my wife shoving me I went to the front and was surrounded by a group of men and women I didn't even know and they began to pray over me in the Spirit. After praying, I didn't really feel any different, but the Pastor asked on the microphone, is there anything you can do that you couldn't do before- so I tried to touch my toes, which hasn't happened since I was 16, and I reached so far to the ground I was able to touch my wrists to the floor- I could do nothing else but fall to my knees and praise our Father for His love! 3 years later I am still free of that pain!
God has taught me a lot from that- I would have rather been healed at 16- but God’s timing is not our own- and He healed me then for a reason. It has been nearly three years and I am so glad to be able to share that experience with you and just give all the glory to God! The last few years in sharing this story with the people of Mexico, God did receive all the glory! I would finish my story, and they would call people forward to come and have us pray over them for healing. One particular woman really stands out for me. She came up to me and a few others and wanted us to pray over her. She had not been able to pick up her young daughter due to severe pain in her shoulder and back. Much like my story, our group just prayed over her, for God to move, for His Spirit to work and repair the damage. And much like my story, we asked her when we were through, “is there anything you can do that you couldn't before?” She turned and looked for her daughter, and ran to pick her up, and returned with tears in her eyes, because the pain had gone away! Glory a Dios! God did the work, but He used my story to draw her to Him! The true miracle here is that God sent His only Son to die for our sins and through that sacrifice, we can have an eternal relationship with our Creator!
What has God done in your life that you are thankful for? From the ordinary, to the extraordinary, we should not be afraid to share with people what He has done in our lives!
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| Ministry at a Special Needs Home in El Salvador |
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