10 day bush bush

Merry Christmas to everyone!!! God is so good! I feel like I should apologize for my horrible job at keeping this blog up lol. I really did attempt to blog a few more times however the internet was consistently problematic so I ended up giving up for the time being. I thought I would tell one story that would hopefully fan your faith in our amazing Savior! He still heals today and He came to make payment for our sins and take away our disease! I know less then I have ever known in my life. I think in a way I came to figure God out a little better. I have done no such thing but I have received so much in my spirit. He is deeply mysterious and yet is near to each one of us. We will spend eternity discovering Him.

This little story I will take with me for the rest of my life and I hope to see many more like it in my lifetime. I am not sure words can adequately protray the power of the moment. The utter hopelessness of the ssituation turned in one moment to complete life. We were showing the Jesus movie for the last time on our 10 day bush bush outreach. We had already seen God do many things. Many salvations and many healing including a man who was nearly blind who received his sight and left laughing and pointing at the stars...lol...praise God. However this miracle was a baby with malaria. The baby could not have been more than two or three months and when we arrived at the house it felt hopeless and like death. The baby was feverishly hot and his eyes were rolling back in the back of his head. We were a team of five or six and one of the girls took the baby in her arms and we just began to ask Jesus for a miracle. The muslim village stood by watching these strange white people taking such concern with this child. Death is common here. We prayed. I'm priveleged to know and walk with people who have much more faith than me. I was allowing compassion to well up in my spirit and just trying to listen to the Holy Spirit. You feel so helpless when death is so close and there is literally nothing else you can do but call on a mighty God. The mother was crying softly. This was strange in and of itself. Mothers hhere often lose babies. The people are rather stone faced and unaffected in the face of tragedy that would devestate most of us for years. She cryed quietly as we prayed. My friend Heather was holding the baby in her arms and felt the child start to slip away and she commanded the baby to live and not die. We started to worship. We started to sing HOLY HOLY HOLY is the Lord God Almighty! Then in one moment the babys eyes returned to normal..they just popped open and the fever left. Everyone gave out a cry because we all saw it happen at once. My friend Brianna fell to her knees and started weeping. The baby was perfectly fine and we gave him back to his mother and he started to nurse immediately. We all started praising Jesus and thanking and singing. Beauty for ashes. Life instead of death. Just like that I watched the Holy Spirit enter our world and turn it all around. The baby was brought to church the next day with his father completely well. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

I have no idea how healing works. I do not have an answer or a ten step solution...all I know is that baby was about to die and Jesus came and healed him. Thank you Jesus! I was so honored to be a part and to see it with my own eyes. It was just so beautiful. God is so good.

Love you all and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Come...let us adore HIM. He entered our mess to save us and He continues to enter and He continues to save! I love you Jesus. Let my life point to YOU for You are all that matters. Thank you for my beautiful friends and the people you have connected me to over my lifetime who have played a role in shaping me and pointing me to YOU. I am forever grateful. Bless them this Christmas season with faith hope and love. Faith in your goodness, hope that your goodness can and will enter their world in the way they need it most, and love to cover everything. Your love is the best thing I have ever experienced. Let us all experience Your love as we celebrate You this season!