August 3, 2009
Nicaragua…People are People!
A few weeks ago I had the honor in participating in an overseas mission trip and it was life changing! The 12 of us from my church and 13 from Las Vegas/Rhode Island and a couple from San Diego area (Papi and Debra) all got to go to several different places in order to spread the gospel. These places include Managua (where we flew into from Houston), Bluefields (which took us 5 hours in a bus and 2 hours in a river boat to get to), Kukra Hill (for us)/ Sandy Beach (for the Las Vegas team), and finally, Corn Island (one of the single most beautiful beaches I’ve ever seen….the Caribbean). Every place has an amazing story and by request i can post them, but a couple of major highlights for me included children and healing.
The highlights involves a young man and a child named Oscar. Sunday night myself and the interns were praying for people for healing or whatever they needed and first this young man about 19 came up for prayer becasue his heart was hurting…his physical heart and asked for prayer, so I prayer for his heart and believing that God was going to heal it, He did!!! This is the first time that God had used me in that area, but best of all that young man’s heart (through him telling me) was feeling a lot better from before! Praise God!
But this kid Oscar was waiting for prayer and he was about 7 or 8 years old. I could not understand what he asked for so I got a translator and she told me he wanted prayer for he dad because his dad left the house/family (wife and 4 kids, including him) with another woman and Oscar wanted his dad to come home. I froze. That really touched my heart because I did not know what to do! What do I say? So, I told him that I’ll pray for his dad, but I was going to pray for him first. After telling him testamony about my dad (which was not completely the same, but hadd the same princple) I began to pray for many different things that he needed to hear like not being bitter, being strong relying on God, and even continuing to love his dad (that was hard to say because it is hard to looking at the circumstances). After I prayed with him I gave him a hug and left, but I felt God tugging on me saying, “Tell him that he needs to CONSTANTLY for his dad”, which did not cross my mind to tell him. So, I ask how to say it in spanish and went back and told Oscar this and he gave me the biggest hug that he initiated and my heart feel to the ground because this 7 or 8 year old boy was having to mature so early and I was proud of his faith in God to come up in an “adult” service and ask for such a big prayer.
Well, these are just a couple of experiences that I got to experience and that’s why the title is called: Nicaragua…People are People! and I love it!!!!
