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A Healthy Start

I tend to always try and negotiate my way out with the Lord when I have to do something like this but obedience to God comes before my own feelings and I'm learning to be okay with sharing more of the things I have not liked sharing before. I live a very private life but when you give your life to Christ, your life stops being really private because God wants us to get out there and help His people

I am so grateful for the time of prayer we had at the beginning of this week. We have times like this every quarter where we come together and pray as women in We Create Wells Network. The testimonies are always astounding. God is faithful.

This was one of the hardest-yet-easy fasts I've ever done. Easy in the sense that I didn't have any cravings or even hunger at all until the end. Hard in the sense that the past few days before the fast were not the easiest for me emotionally. And as if that was not enough, I fell sick 4 days before the fast and had to stay in bed to keep my leg elevated! On top of that, I became so anxious, thinking I would not be able to complete the fast because of all the chaos that was going on. I remember on the Sunday of the beginning of the fast, I was a wreck, crying from the beginning of the service until the end. I went up for prayer after service and I couldn't even tell them why I was there :) and I just continued to cry. But in the end God had mercy on me and the tears stopped. It was crazy :)

Everything started well on the first day and I had so much peace. And on the second day the Lord started to speak. The same thing happened on the third day. I'd always gone to our local hospital, old age homes and hospices to pray for sick people but then I stopped during Covid because there was a lot of admin involved before I was allowed in, so I told the Lord if He still wanted me to continue, He would give me easier access to these places. And He was quiet all this time until now:). When I did this, I was still a teacher, so I did the hospitals almost every week day in the evenings and hospices and old age homes on weekends because they were a bit far from where I lived.

But another thing that happened at that time while I was praying for people, there were those who began idolising the gift and everywhere I went in my home town I got recognised as 'that praying woman'. People stopped me on the street and wanted to be prayed for. They told me about sick people in their homes and some would even bring objects for me to pray over so that they could take them home and get their relatives healed. I knew it was getting out of hand and I thank God because I moved from that town.

I don't blame the people for what they were doing because they obviously had seen God healing people and also, some of them didn't know any better but I was scared of being idolised even though I kept explaining that it was God who was doing the healing and not me. Maybe one day I will share how God makes me see the exact problem that I need to pray for and maybe also share the things I have seen and how it helps me to pray accordingly.

So this is what God says I should be doing again and that is what I will do. Maybe not hospitals and hospices anymore but time will tell. Another thing that He said on day three was that I would need to raise up intercessors. This also was not a surprise but it is something I have not done on this scale. I've always been responsible for and led intercession in my previous church but I'm with a new church community now. The intercessors will form part of my ministry. It is a responsibility I don't take lightly but I also do rely heavily on the Holy Spirit and His leading.

So this is where my faith journey is taking me this season. Receiving a mantle from the Father is always humbling but also a huge responsibility. This is why you must be a woman of prayer so that you don't have to start praying just because you have been given a task. This time, we'll go right into it. If you know you have a heart for intercession and you need guidance or have some questions or just want to be part of a praying community, feel free to reach out so that we can grow together. I'm not a very open person and so I probably may not discuss this any further but I will share about it as it is now part of this ministry.

Please share your testimonies that the Holy Spirit is allowing you to share. Email or WhatsApp me. Next week we will be going back to our series on the most misquoted bible verses and our bible study.