I recently returned from a missions trip to India and have been asked to share some stories of my time there on here… So I’ll be posting a bunch of different testimonies and experiences from my trip over the next month or so (I hope). Here’s just one of the many:
She stood in the corner, wrapped up tightly in her worn out canary colored sari, and watched as we prayed for her niece. The old woman wasn’t as welcoming to my team member, Paul, and I as her niece had been. The woman was stoic and never let her gaze drift from the scene playing out in her niece’s two-room home. After we had finished praying for her niece, the old woman began speaking with our translator. Shortly after their conversation our translator turned to us and shared that the old woman was being very rude to us, but she had requested prayer. Apparently the stoic woman let the translator know that if we prayed for her, and her body was healed, then she would accept Jesus as her savior and leave other gods behind. Now regardless of your theology as to if God still heals or how or when or what circumstances need to be met, when a poor, old hurting woman standing on a dirt floor basically says “I want to be well” and “I want to believe,” I say that’s a great time to watch God move! So, we nodded our heads and said we’d pray.
We placed our hands on the old woman and prayed that God would heal her body and that He would soften her heart. After a very short time, we had the translator ask the woman if her pain was gone – and it was! (Yeah God!) In the short time we prayed, the woman’s expression turned from stoic to grateful. She then let our translator know that she wanted to have Jesus in her life. (Praise God!) We then led her in accepting the Lord Jesus as her savior and blessed her. Once again, she turned to our translator and with tears in her eyes, expressed her amazement that children of God would come to her home and pray for her and touch her. Apparently the old woman was an “untouchable” – a member of one of the lowest castes in all of India. No one wants to touch an untouchable over there. No one, but Jesus.
When we are Jesus’ hands and feet we have the opportunity to share the love of the Father with those who are the untouchables of society – not only in India, but in all walks of life. So my encouragement to you today is to minister to the untouchables – the hurt ones, the outcasts, the insecure, the ones who think they’re unlovable, the ones who wouldn’t believe a child of God would come and love on them.
Be so blessed and loved today.
(More India testimonies coming soon…)
