God’s love expressed in tangible ways…
On our outreaches, it is such a joy to see God’s love for people manifested in tangible ways. Whether it is a prophetic word of encouragement, a miracle or healing, or simply someone taking the time to listen and pray for the needs of a broken heart, God loves to express His love to people. It has been our honor to partner with Him in this throughout the week.
Wednesday Night at the Highland Oak Apartments in Abilene, TX God displayed His awesome love in many ways:
Relationship – A couple of students took the time during the outreach to sit and talk with some Nepalese refugees. They took time to get to know these people and hear their heart. As relationship was built the people became interested in the Jesus we love and serve. By the end of the night several of these people had received Christ & were connected with the international student Life Group in our College Ministry!
Healing – Before the outreach even started, as the team was praying, worshiping, and setting up, two of our girls met a 12 year old girl who was walking by. The young girl was severely crippled and walked with a limp because her leg was crooked. As they talked with her, they discovered that she had been in a car accident that had caused these serious injuries. She had metal rods in her back that caused constant back pain. The two students laid hands on her and began to pray for her healing. After three prayers with little improvement, they decided to pray a fourth time. Immediately when they began to pray the fourth time, the Holy Spirit came upon this 12-year old girl and she fell to the floor. The two girls praying for her were shocked at what was going on because they weren’t expecting it at all! They continued to minister to the little girl for several more minutes as she laid on the ground. When she came to, she had joy & peace unspeakable in her heart…and her back pain was totally gone & her limp was dramatically improved! Yea God!!!!
Loving on children – we have had a great opportunity to love on children through this week at the outreaches. Students have ministered to hundreds of children by loving them, playing with them, painting their faces, telling them about Jesus, and leading them to Jesus!
