Is anybody sick?

What a strange week!

For most of this morning's session we were jokingly wondering if God had healed everybody's sicknesses. People were stopping and asking for prayer, but none of them were sick! Today seemed to be about praying for people who need work - which is probably more than 50% of the population of Kibera.

Towards the end of the time we got a few people who were sick, and after we'd packed up and returned to our centre we had three people over the next two hours come and find us and ask if they were too late for prayer, so we prayed for their illnesses. One had damage to his eyesight, and another had growths in her stomach. The third was really coming to report a healing from the previous week's prayer, but also needed prayer for another condition.

So it was a strange week. As humans we like to rationalise things, and come up with explanations and reasons. During this week's HotS I was doing that, and trying to think of why it was different this week, and where all the sick people were. But then I started to see what I was doing, and realised the futility of it. We don't serve a rational God - at least, not rational in human terms. So why should there be a rational reason for why one week is so completely different to the next.

What will next week hold? Only God knows the answer to that question, and I probably don't want to know, and certainly don't need to. We'll make ourselves available to the Holy Spirit, and see who He brings our way. We'll pray for them, and see what He does.

The lady who came to report her healing today also told us that she now has faith and is praying for her friends!