Two such occasions this past week:
Jesus led J.J. and I both to pray for Rebecca who is the mother of three. She owns a vitamin shop beside the Cerleno market. Rebecca's mother asked us to pray for her ankle which was swollen and painful. We commanded her ankle to be healed in the Name of Jesus. Jesus took all the pain from her ankle! She then asked us if we could buy her reading glasses. We asked if we could just pray for her eyes to be healed? I shared with her that I had worn glasses and/or contacts from sixth grade until a year ago. My friends in Night Elevate prayed for my eyes and now I don't have to wear glasses. I told her that I had faith Jesus wanted to heal her eyes like He did mine. I placed my hands over her eyes and prayed. J.J. said the woman's eyes were twitching while we prayed. When we finished, we told Rebecca's mother to try and read the calendar across the shop that she had not been able to read before. She said now her eyes were ok! She laughed and smiled and shook our hands. We enthusiastically looked her in the eyes and shared: "Jesus has healed you! He loves you so much."
The Holy Spirit led us further down the road to the "residential area" of Cereleno which consists of cement circular huts called bondas roofed with dry grass. Along the roadside was a woman standing alone (very uncommon in Ugandan culture). We introduced ourselves and quickly discovered Stella had once known Jesus but she had "failed in her friendship with God" (her words - not mine). We asked if we could pray that she would know God as a friend again. She agreed and invited us into her one room home to pray with her. J.J. began talking about how much Jesus wanted a relationship with her again. After awhile, I asked Stella what she was feeling in her heart as J.J. was sharing. Stella's response: "I want to be saved."
My instant association was Acts 2:37, "When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, 'Brothers, what shall we do?'"
Stella prayed to give her life to Jesus again. After she recommitted her life to Jesus, Stella said that many of her neighbors would be saved too. We encouraged her that she could share this message with them the way we had with her. She argued that she was not perfect and did not know the Word of God well enough. We assured her that we were imperfect too and Jesus still uses us. Next week J.J. and I will begin meeting with Stella and her neighbors to study the Bible together. We asked Jesus if He wanted to speak anything to her. J.J. and I shared what we had heard God say. We asked Stella what she had heard from the Father. She reported: "I am His accepted child forever."
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