Day 3 Healing and Words of Knowledge

Day Three Today was another wonderful day. We have been having deep times of praise and worship in the mornings and the evenings. This morning was shorter than normal, but so good. Mwangya Primary School We started the day by heading to Mwangya Primary School. It is a school that does not have so many resources and most of the students are very poor, but it is a special place. We could sense the love the staff had for the students and the love the headmaster had for his pupils. The team was able to perform their song and dance. Pastor Kim played the saxophone for them and the students loved it. Andrew gave his testimony and challenged the students to love God and to love one another. I was able to speak about Joshua and God's promise to never leave or forsake him. Many of the children are from such poor families that they have little hope of being able to go to a good high school or university because they simply cannot pay tuition. When I speak at the school I try to encourage the students to look to God to provide for them.

 While praying in the morning I felt that the Lord was saying there was a student who had severe headaches on a regular basis. While speaking I asked the students if any of them had severe headaches, but they were too shy to respond. No one spoke up though I asked several times. After we finished our program I asked James to inquire of the 7th grade teacher if there were any students with severe headaches as I felt it was a girl in 7th grade. The teacher responded that there were several, but they were too shy to say it in front of everyone. We went to the 7th grade classroom as a team and prayed for one girl who suffered from regular headaches, after pray her headache was gone. I then had a word of knowledge about a painful wrist. A boy student came forward and shared that he fell while playing soccer and he had pain in his wrist. We prayed for him and the pain disappeared. The next word was of someone who had one leg that was shorter than the other by half and inch. I asked the students to check to see if their feet lined up. A boy in the front row had one leg that was about half an inch shorter. We prayed for him and his leg grew out. The next word was of someone who hurt his knee on a rock. Immediately a boy came forward and shared he had injured his knee playing soccer. We prayed over him and we also prayed for a girl who was felt weak on a regular basis. We then finished our time at the school and headed to the next school.

 At Kyamani Seondary School we repeated the same program at this school. The students especially liked the saxophone. This time I felt there was a boy who had injured his back and was unable to play soccer. Once again no one was willing to come forward in front of the crowd. However after our program a first year student with a crippling limp approached. I honestly thought "oh no, I didn't mean a crippled young man" My faith was fairly weak when I saw him limping. I found out that he had injured his toe playing football when he was young. From that injured toe, he developed a limp, eventually his hip came out the socket, and this in turn impacted his back and even weakened arm to the point where his hand would shake when he wrote, and he couldn't throw a stone. My faith was extremely weak but, I decided with would start with what we could. At first I just prayed with Mbondo and another young man Mula. After we prayed, the young man felt a slight improvement. I took that as a positive sign of God's presence. Andrew joined us and we prayed for his legs to line up, because this young man was about 2cm out of alignment. His leg grew out quite quickly. He still had a severe limp and could not bend his right leg. We kept praying and more members of the team joined us. He continued to improve ad we continued to pray. He wasn't walking normally, but there was a distinct improvement. He also had a significant decrease in pain and he was able to throw a stone fairly far. He couldn't remember the last time he threw a stone. We praised the Lord for what he had done and are hoping for complete healing so that he can play soccer agin.

 We visited the property for James' church and saw the foundation for the building. The congregation is quite poor, but they have been working little by little as they can. We spent time in prayer asking God to bless the congregation and to help them complete their church building. From there we stopped back at the house for a quick though very late lunch. We had Ramen which seemed like a feast for the Koreans in our group who have been almost completely without Korean food.

 Our last stop for the day was to pray for an older gentleman who was suffering from severe nosebleeds and becoming very weak. We arrived at the home and a crowd gathered. It isn't very often that visitors from another country come by, and so the neighbors and those around will show up at the home to see what is going on. Though we came to pray for the Grandfather of the home, I felt led to pray for his wife first. The Lord gave some specific words of knowledge that she had a problem with her knees and her vision. It turned out that she and pain in her back from an operation, she had problems with her knees, and pain in her stomach area. As she was explaining to James in her tribal language that she had a problem with her stomach I asked James about the condition of her stomach. Needless to say that was encouraging and raised my expectations that God wanted to heal. I called two of the members to pray for her and after a series of prayers, she found her knees felt good, her back was okay, her stomach was fine and her vision went from misty to clear. While praying for her another word of knowledge came that a woman behind her had a problem with her hip. When asked, the woman confirmed she did indeed have a problem with her kneed and hip. Another word of knowledge was that it happened when she gave birth. The woman again confirmed that the pain began after giving birth to twins through an operation. With our faith boosted from the confirmed words of knowledge we prayed for her complete healing. Again while praying a word of knowledge came that the woman behind the one we were praying for had a problem with a rapid heartbeat. When asked she shared she had back pain, a severe headache, and a sharp pain in her side. We asked her about the rapid heartbeat and she shared that just yesterday she was out for a walk when her heart began beating very rapidly. She told a shopkeeper that she needed to sit down because she was afraid she was going to faint. She shared that her heart was beating very fast at that moment. We prayed for her and the back pain left, the headache left and her heart rate dropped to a normal pace, but the side pain remained. We prayed once again and then the pain left. After this woman, we finally got around to praying for the old man. After we finished praying he said he felt very good. We'll try to find out tomorrow what his condition is.

 Overall the day was one where we had the opportunity to do a lot of ministry. Everyone is quite tired and went to sleep early tonight. It is exciting to see what God is doing and what he is allowing us to experience. Tomorrow we will be visiting homes and then ending with a meeting at Alexander's church. Once again I cant wait to 't see what God will do.