Lichinga, MozambiqueMonday, December 14, 2009
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Salvation and Healing at the Hospital
Today I had the opportunity to accompany some friends and fellow IRIS missionaries to the hospital in Lichinga to do some ministry. My friend Tyren started this ministry a while back here in Lichinga and let me tell you, it is an awesome ministry. Tyren, Victo, Melissa, Chanito, Peter and I all headed to the hospital at around 3:30 pm today, praying as we drove through Lichinga to get there.
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We all went together into various hospital rooms where Mozambican men, women and children were staying, many of them with the look of fear or desperation in their faces. Our purpose in going? To share the love of Jesus, to pray for the sick and to bring the hope of the gospel of Christ to them. Most of them I had the chance to pray for were professing Muslims, yet their children who were sick had witchcraft from the witch doctors tied around their necks. I was able to talk to them in Portuguese, explaining to them that we were believers in Jesus, and that Jesus has the power to heal their children, but that the witchcraft around the necks of their children displeases God and will actually hinder them from being healed. Both sets of families actually were very open to cut the witchcraft off of their children and have us pray for them. I had Peter and Chanito explain the gospel of Christ in more detail. Not only did the families forsake the witchcraft and have us pray for their children to recover, but they all received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. It was amazing!
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We also prayed for others, many of them children. Others also prayed to receive Christ. So significant was the fact that we were able to share the love of Christ with them all, through a touch, or a smile. Tyren even gave a brand new Portuguese Bible to one of the nurses there, praying and prophesying over her. I truly believe that this is where Jesus wants us to be…among the sick and the hurting…bringing hope to the hopeless. Jesus hung out around sick people all the time when He walked the earth…and the people were healed. Jesus said that “greater things than these” we WILL do and that “these signs WILL follow those who believe…they WILL lay hands on the sick and they WILL recover.” His will is that we do His will. “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” In heaven there is no sickness or pain. We simply want to invite the Kingdom of heaven and the will of God to invade this earth realm. I pray that wherever you are right now, that God would stir your hearts to lay hands on sick people and watch the Kingdom of God take place through you.
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Christian Young
We all went together into various hospital rooms where Mozambican men, women and children were staying, many of them with the look of fear or desperation in their faces. Our purpose in going? To share the love of Jesus, to pray for the sick and to bring the hope of the gospel of Christ to them. Most of them I had the chance to pray for were professing Muslims, yet their children who were sick had witchcraft from the witch doctors tied around their necks. I was able to talk to them in Portuguese, explaining to them that we were believers in Jesus, and that Jesus has the power to heal their children, but that the witchcraft around the necks of their children displeases God and will actually hinder them from being healed. Both sets of families actually were very open to cut the witchcraft off of their children and have us pray for them. I had Peter and Chanito explain the gospel of Christ in more detail. Not only did the families forsake the witchcraft and have us pray for their children to recover, but they all received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. It was amazing!
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We also prayed for others, many of them children. Others also prayed to receive Christ. So significant was the fact that we were able to share the love of Christ with them all, through a touch, or a smile. Tyren even gave a brand new Portuguese Bible to one of the nurses there, praying and prophesying over her. I truly believe that this is where Jesus wants us to be…among the sick and the hurting…bringing hope to the hopeless. Jesus hung out around sick people all the time when He walked the earth…and the people were healed. Jesus said that “greater things than these” we WILL do and that “these signs WILL follow those who believe…they WILL lay hands on the sick and they WILL recover.” His will is that we do His will. “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” In heaven there is no sickness or pain. We simply want to invite the Kingdom of heaven and the will of God to invade this earth realm. I pray that wherever you are right now, that God would stir your hearts to lay hands on sick people and watch the Kingdom of God take place through you.
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Christian Young
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