The Miracle

They led us into her "house" telling us that she was ill and we needed to pray for her. So we gathered around her in the small mud bricked home, the only light streaming in by the cracks in the walls and the open door, so that we all could fit in. Dirt floors and a small fire burning in the corner. She's sitting on the floor while we are all in wood chairs.

Her name is Mary. She is old. She told us she doesn't know how old she is anymore.With her scared look and sunken in eyes, she introduced herself and told us a little about her. Every Sunday Mary walks the two and a half mile walk to church. Except that the last few months she has been absent because she has a condition in which her legs are double the size they are supposed to be and it is extremely painful. She said she is believer in Christ. She has been to many doctors who say there is nothing they can do, that maybe if she went to a witch doctor, she could be healed, she refused. She told us she has been praying for someone to come and pray with her before she dies, because she believes she will die soon. God immediately brought Psalm 118:17 to my mind. It reads,"I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done." I read this to her knowing that God meant He was going to heal her. We got down on our knees and placed hands on her legs. With complete faith, I prayed that God would heal her so that she could proclaim what He would do. I told God last night that I expect to see her at church tomorrow. He did not disappoint.

Two days later, Sunday, today, I was busy with the kids but I looked up in time to see her walking down that red dirt road on the way to church in her Sunday dress. I ran and hugged her, there was nothing to say, I was just in awe of God. The day we prayed for her, I asked her if she had a Bible and if she could read. She said no to both. But that her grand kids could read to her. I was able to get a Bible to her in Luganda.

These past few months, God has been teaching me how important it is to pray in absolute faith. He was preparing me for this.

He is Healer, He is Redeemer.

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31

Lauren

Mary on the left and Misidiana(her neighbor) on the right