Will Jesus Heal My Daddy Too?

Afril - Healed of neck lump & Back Pain - His Daddy, healed of back pain



Will Jesus Heal My Daddy Too?

 

We walked down the shadowed narrow crooked track and found a small open fronted store that would make and sell coffee. There is room for about 6 people standing in the unlit space at the back and a bench for two people to squeeze on to at the front. That’s where Jo & I sat. Many people have followed us here because of the message and the miracles they heard and saw at the last stop. So, now the small entrance to the this small family store is jammed to packed with inquiring faces . The owners of the store look a bit bewildered at this new and unusual activity. Meanwhile Jo, Jun & I try to look normal as we wait for the very sweet coffee they serve here. There are several youth there already, late teens, early twenties. One asks why we are there, we share the message of Christ and His cross and soon heads are bowed and they are receiving Jesus as their personal saviour.

Surprisingly, later that night, right across the mountain at our evening outreach several of these young people travelled through the mud and the dark to be there and hardly wanted to leave at the end. They asked if we could come and see them again. One has since text several times to say she can’t stop reading the bible, doesn’t know what’s happened to her. Her life suddenly seems wonderful.

 

While we are there a young boy called Afril, 14 years old, spends his day lifting 80lb loads up and down the mountain for 50p/75c a trip, one of the team spoke to him along the way. He had a huge lump on his neck, Vennie prayed with him and it immediately shrunk by about 50% then he ran off.

 

This Mark Laurence - He trained me to stroke his head
while he dips the bread roll we gave him in my coffee
Whatever crowd is round about us this little fella will push
through and adopt me as his granddad and wants to left
everyone know that he enjoys that status and they don't.

He now pressed through the crowd at the door of our coffee shop and asked “Can my dad be healed too”? I found that very moving that this young lad would run home to get his daddy knowing that they both shared the same gruelling lifestyle and same back pain and injuries.  The dad had put down his load and came to where we were in the hope that Jesus could help also.

 

 

I followed Afril back out through the people on to the street and there was the humble bowed man, the boys father, shaking him by the hand. I asked the wizened man, how old he was “54” was the reply, I felt broken as I’m a year older than this man yet our lives are very different. Mine is so blessed and fulfilled his is backbreaking everyday just so they can earn enough to eat. I asked through the interpreter what was wrong and as expected several chronic back injuries, Jun spoke with Him explaining that Jesus wanted to lift the burden of guilt and sin. He nodded enthusiastically then prayed with Jun to accept Christ as His personal saviour. Then we prayed asking Jesus to heal his back, in a moment a broad smile crossed his face as he reported feeling warm and all the pain left Him. Jesus was right there on this dirty street, healing this man so as his life could be a bit more bearable.

 

I truly praise God for all the miracle healings we see in the city in the churches, but there is something profoundly humbling when you see Jesus touch them right in the midst of their suffering. What a gracious God we serve.