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Monday night at the Gathering the women of Fellowship North had an incredible time of prayer for healing over two month old Baby Scarlet. Her parents Rosa and Adolfo are members of Iglesia Bautista Betel, the Hispanic church meeting in our church building. They shared their testimony of hearing God calling them in their lives, but not taking those steps toward Him, of making promises to God, but not fulfilling them. Eventually, God blessed them with a pregnancy after three years of trying to conceive, but their sweet baby was born with lots of medical problems.
This child brought them to their knees begging God for mercy and healing. With God's shower of blessings and answers to prayer in His own time, came salvation, forgiveness, redemption, freedom from guilt and shame, hope, strength, and dependence on prayer. We listened in two languages, but we heard with one heart, the one Christ united us in. All glory be to Him!
Rob took the picture above, and I was moved by it. It looks like heaven. We all surrounded this sweet family from El Salvador who had just told us of the wonderful things God had done (Psalm 103), and we became one in prayer. Became. ONE. Before the throne. Black. White. Hispanic. Wheelchair. Newborn. In-between. Mature. I had chills in my heart. The ironic thing is that right after we prayed for this young baby, we kept standing in the gap for another sister well known in our church family, Debbie Nelson. Those prayers also ascended to heaven. It was ironic because as one life has come with great difficulty into this world, we struggle with another, a mature life struggling as they may be leaving this world. But we were one in prayer, and the miracles continue to happen as we bend our knees. The greatest miracle is that we are changed when we pray and trust a good, loving, and beautiful God. one in Christ at FN, ~Ines |
