It’s been a while since the Lord has brought me to tears just about his goodness. But I’m writing this in the van after buying all of our groceries in 40 minutes( normally takes a few hours).
My squad + G squad ( the 2 month long world race group) had the opportunity to go across the country of Swazi to the city of Manzini to partner with all of the AIM staff here and have a day of prayer.
We got in groups of 5 Swazis, and 2-3 racers and went off praying over as many people as we can in the city.
My group was 2 of my racers Charley, and Jaydin with 5 Swazi woman. We went off and I wasn’t quite sure what the vibe would be since it was one of the first times my racers would be street evangelizing and praying. But I immediately asked the Lord to give me directions, vision, or clarity on what my day would look like. The first thing I heard was “ young girl with head pain” and I really didn’t want to speak up about it unless I was SURE it was from God. So I asked “ God is this from you, or did I make this up?” And I felt “ you know my voice” so I said LIT and I told my group,that I would need to find this girl with head pain. We saw a young woman right after and so I asked,” do you have head pain” which she replied “ No, I am well” . We prayed for her, but I knew the Lord still had someone for me! Following that interaction, I saw another girl and asked again. She said “ yes my head hurts every day for as long as I can think of”. Wow. I prayed a hand of healing over her and when I asked if the pain went away. But even without the immediate healing, I believe healing is coming for her. We continued on and prayed for so many people. One of the Swazi woman named Patience was my main tag team woman! She would find someone and call me over and say what they need prayer for! Imagine that, I would be walking, and praying and then get a shout from Patience that she has already met someone, asked what they need, and started to pray! I was in awe.
When a few people in my group were praying over a woman , Charley and I started talking. Charley was sharing with me how his time in Swazi was going . He started to share with me the highs and lows and then he told me that when processing with his good friend Ezra , that everything he has experienced in Swazi so far is what I had prophesied over him in our last days of training camp. During our final worship we prayed a commissioning over all of the races and I had felt like the Lord told me some personal things that Charley would experience, so I told him. Now 4 weeks later I find out that I heard from the Lord correctly! Wow, won’t He do it. Hearing Charley testify was so uplifting to my spirit. I then came across a woman who was preaching on the street corner about God. I was interested so I started to ask her questions about what she believed. She shared with me scripture that she felt supported the fact that there was a mother God AND a father God. Interesting…. Essentially she was pointing that the “ bride of Christ” was a woman God. Walking away from that conversation honestly my heart was broken that she was preaching false truths about who God is! As I went back to our home base I was talking to a man named Shane who is a Swazi who works in the church. We shared testimony of our days and when I was talking about this woman teaching false things he told me “ don’t let that make you weary for she will be saved in Gods timing” another WOW. He is not worried for he trusts Gods timing for all salvations that will come. I have countless friends and family that aren’t believers, and to be told that God will save them in his time really hit me deep.
My group alone prayed for 47 people within 3 hours. Another group got to pray for 109 people and over all there were about 15 teams. I believe God is blessing Manzini today!
Another lesson I learned today was as much as I want to pour out onto others it is important for me to receive prayer! All 5 of our Swazi partners asked me to pray over them. I was so impressed with their humility to ask for prayer and boldness to step out in faith and ask me ! Definitely could learn from that.
All of us then went to the store to buy personal snacks , but I divided our very large grocery list into 8 different people who had carts full of supplies! (I want to note that this grocery store run is a luxury for the women on my squad since they only have access to a small corner store for their snacks or personal food.)It was stressful in the moment, but it is a necessary,  for us to buy our groceries in Manzini because where we live across the country only has stores with half the supply!
Overall this day was long. But wow the encounters I had today I hope I never forget.
Just a reminder I am still $1,948 short for my fundraising goal. Your donations help me serve the nations and spread the word of Jesus until all have heard!
