Praying for the Queen

Oh yes - it's good to be back!

This morning we welcomed Ashley onto the team. She's visiting from the UK where she's a Children's Pastor, and it was great to have her with us. And it was a welcome return to the team for Emily, back from the UK & India.

Even just setting up this morning,we had such a sense of anticipation at what God was going to do - it was so exciting. Actually, setting up sounds a bit grand - it's really just erecting our sign and placing a few stools on the ground to sit on.

After prayer to claim the time, the ground, and the people God wanted to send to us, we sat and waited. Some weeks we have to wait a while before anybody stops, and today it was about 30 minutes, but once the first had stopped, we hardly had a minute without both teams having someone to pray for.

As on previous occasions, some people were interested passers-by, others had come specifically. One lady walked past and saw the sign, went home and brought her teenage son back with her. He had been experiencing pain and weakness in his arms since the start of the year. Today he wasn't at school because of the pain. After we'd prayed for him he said the pain was less, so we prayed some more until he could say the pain was completely gone. We feel confident that God will restore his strength too, but the relief of pain was immediate.

There was also a lady who came with a rash on her arm, and pain in her arm. She was instantly healed too. And another lady with pain in her ankles whenever she stood up. She sat down, we prayed, and she stood up pain-free!

We prayed for people with back pain, colds, bleeding, stomach pain, gynae problems, TB, and a broken leg. We prayed for people who are out of work and desperately trying to find jobs so they can care for their family. We prayed for healing & freedom for a couple of men who are alcoholics, and who have lost their families because of their alcoholism.

One of the lady's we prayed for introduced herself as Queen Elizabeth - no joke! She was born in 1952 and was named by her parents after the Queen. She went away healed.

Once again we witnessed the love that God has for the people of Kibera in action, and felt privileged to be a part. Roll on next Monday!