Today our team split up for the first time, and headed out into different regions …I am with a group visiting orphanages near Lake Victoria in Kenya (more specifics to follow, of course) … anyway today after a very bumpy ride, we reached the top of a mountain area and looked down on the green valleys and fields below … it was so incredibly beautiful … one of those scenes that simply can’t be captured, reminiscent of landscapes in the movie Cry, the Beloved Country, or some similar film. We drove up to the orphanage and all the children ran out to meet us, assembled and began singing a welcome song to greet us. Can you imagine the moment? The whole scene was breathtaking and really quite indescribable. Later we met to begin our presentation, but we found there was much more music in store. The students sang several songs of worship and praise to God, and we were blown away and totally at a loss … in the face of such beauty how could we even think of following it up with a normal lesson? … Then our leader stood up, thanked them for their music, and asked them if they could sing one more song. They sang and sang, and then something happened that had to be seen to be believed. God’s presence filled the room and touched down so strongly that the children dropped to the floor and the singing transformed into beautiful angelic tongues. As the tongues began to morph into singing once again, our leader brought in her keyboard and began to accompany the children on some of the songs. Then through the keyboard she eased a transition into the lesson, which happened quite spontaneously and was basically bringing the children into an experience of heaven. This was the perfect follow up, it seemed, as we began to share our experiences of heaven, and some of the group explained God’s vision for Africa they saw in heaven. Once again, almost impossible to capture the moment, but I hope you can at least catch a whiff of it by these few words. Then we broke up into a ministry time, which, as is our custom here, involves prophetic prayer over every child in the place. I was partnered with Tyson, a friend from New Joy Church, but it was hard for us to give prophetic words to all the children in our group with only one translator. He had the translator, so I just prayed soaking prayers over the children near me, occasionally speaking out the Father’s heart in English … and as I was praying I noticed some of the students responding, despite the language barrier, to the soaking prayers, at times even physically, the power there was quite evident. Quickly, however, we combined groups, and found ourselves in a larger building with another member of our team, Elaina. Tyson was all set to begin praying prophetically over the children, but then I asked the translator to ask the children if any of them were sick or in pain or had any physical problems. Four children raised their hands, so I thought I would pray for them for healing first and then join Tyson in the prophetic prayer ministry time. However, when the translator asked for all the students who needed prayer for physical healing to come over to one side, 30 children came over! Elaina and I set to work talking to the children and asking what their needs were. At the beginning Elaina prayed prophetically over the children and I prayed for their healing. The first child we prayed for had a headache, and was completely healed. Then I looked at the rest of the group … it seemed so large and the sun was beginning to set, I knew we would never have enough time to pray for all of them, so I asked, “Who else has come over for prayer because of a bad headache?” Then the boy who had his headache healed prayed for another boy with a headache and he received healing as well. Then the two of them prayed for the next boy with a headache, and he got healed as well, and so on with the other conditions … once a child received healing, they began to pray in Jesus’ name for the other children with the same condition. And every child that received prayer was completely healed, a significant portion of which we never even prayed for! Sorry I have to head to bed now, but this is just a taste of our adventures at the moment!
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