In case you were un sure Haiti is probably the hottest place on earth. Everyone here says it has a distinct smell but my nose doesn’t work so it smells fine to me. Naturally our first day of ministry would involve being out in the heat all day. I was excited. We were doing prayer walks. I really wanted my team to be totally led by the spirit so I took some time before we went out to pray and ask the Lord about the day. He gave me a vision of a house with a blue sheet in the front of it.
We started walking and I asked them what way they felt God leading us. They said left. I asked again. They said straight. I asked again. Straight. Again. Straight. All of a sudden on our left was a house with a blue sheet in front. We walked up and a young girl came and ignored us the whole time. We asked her if there was anyone else home we could talk with and her mom came out. They both didn’t talk much and seemed really dismissive. The mom told us she had been having back problems so we prayed for her but nothing happened. The whole team left feeling pretty discouraged. But as soon as we stepped back into the street the very pregnant woman next door grabbed us and asked us to come inside.
She immediately began to tell us her story. She had grown up in a family that practiced Voodoo and had a child with a man who wasn’t her husband. This was thirteen years ago. Eventually he left her and took their son with him. She married her current husband a year after and moved away from her family. She said since then she didn’t practice Voodoo but wasn’t a Christian. She has been unable to become pregnant for thirteen years. Two weeks after the earthquake she had a dream. In the dream she had a rope tied around her belly and then six white missionaries came up to her and prayed for her and the rope fell off. Within a week of having the dream she became pregnant.
She said when she saw us she knew we were the ones who had prayed for her in the dream. We asked if she had accepted Christ and we were able to share the Gospel with her. We gave her a bible and our translator invited her to his church.
I didn’t see her the rest of the week but I’m confident that God is working in her life. God is really awesome and even though we might not always see it or feel it he’s working in so many ways, that are way bigger than any of us. I have faith that God healed the first woman even though we might not have seen the immediate effects of it. I’ve seen him do it before and I know that he brought us to the first woman just as much as he did the second woman. Pray for the seed that was planted.
