The blind see

In our time of preparation this morning, we felt God tell us He would be healing eyes, asthma, stomach & leg problems. Little did we know...

Fred was our third visitor. He was more intrigued than stopping with purpose, but during chatting we discovered he had stomach pain, and for the past 10 years hadn't seen out of his right eye. Something (I'm not sure what) to do with the milk from a poisonous plant had happened 10 years ago that had caused the sight loss. We offered to pray for healing, but before he would allow us, Fred told us that he wasn't a Christian, and that before we could pray for healing he needed to accept Christ! Eunice wanted to call Pastor over from his team, but I said no, he was needed there, so Eunice led Fred to the Lord. Then we prayed for his stomach and his eye. The sense of the Holy Spirit was ridiculously strong - you could almost see Him all over Fred, it was wonderful. After prayer, we asked Fred how he was feeling. His stomach was better, he said, and he could see a little from his eye. We prayed some more, and he could see a lot more. One more time we prayed, and he could see our faces, and the watch on my wrist. Whilst the healing on his eye wasn't complete, we felt that maybe God would continue that over time, and that our prayer was finished. Fred is one of those people who does not exhibit emotions much, and he left fairly straight-faced, despite the fact that he'd just become a Christian, his stomach was better, and his eye was beginning to see!

Monica and Florence were walking past. Florence didn't want to accept our invitation to come and sit, but Monica did which meant Florence had little choice. They had been walking quite slowly, and Monica told us how all her joints were causing her pain throughout her whole body. After prayer, she told us that the pain had gone. She started to stretch out her arms and legs testing her healing, and told us that the only place where there was still pain was in her neck. We said we'd pray for her again, after we'd prayed for her friend, Florence, who needed prayer for peace in her family. Once we'd prayed for Florence, we turned back to Monica, who told us that now, her neck was completely fine. She had a big smile on her face, and got up with her friend. They asked lots of questions about the church we were representing, and promised to come on Sunday. As they walked off, Monica was almost kicking her legs out sideways and dancing as she tested out her healing - great fun to watch!

About half an hour later Fred came back. He told us that his stomach really was completely better, and lifted up his shirt to show us. We weren't sure how it had looked before, but took his word and his genuine excitement as proof that yes, God really had healed him. We asked about his right eye, and he told us that although he could see it was dark, and not clear. We prayed some more, and when he opened his eye he said it was as if the light had been switched on, and he could count how many fingers Eunice was holding up!

That's just two of today's visitors - there were 16 in all, and many went away instantly healed or touched by God. Others had come on behalf of friends or family, and we trust they will be healed. All in all we prayed for 3 people with eyesight problems, 4 others with asthma, and 1 with a stomach problem - so we heard God corectly about the illnesses He'd bring our way.

However, keeping us nice and humble is the fact that we thought we'd pray for Joyce, Peter Karanja, Elias, Jane & Mary - only one of those was right. So we still have a long way to go in discerning correctly God's voice from the other voices in our heads.