This week
I’ve been able to go to Bhobogazi (the care point that I’ve had trouble getting
started at) with our new translator who lives in our house. It’s been such a
HUGE blessing to go with a translator because now I can figure out what is
going on…like why the women haven’t been there to cook everyday, and if they
do come it’s only in the afternoons and not in the mornings. It’s because they
didn’t have water, so we got that sorted out and had their tank filled. Last
week when I was out at Bhobogazi I asked the kids if anyone had any scrapes or
cuts they wanted me to look at and a little boy came up to me with a pretty
deep cut on the bottom of his foot. He had no shoes on and no bandage, just
walking around barefoot in the dirt. So I did the best I could to clean it up
(using gloves… for those concerned) and bandage it up. He told our translator
that he didn’t own a pair of shoes. So the next week I came with a pair of flip
flops praying that his foot would be protected for that week because I knew he wasn’t
going to keep the bandage on for very long. So we went to his homestead and
when I looked at the bottom of his foot… the cut was almost completely
healed! It was so incredible… I couldn’t believe that this was the same boy.
God is so amazing. So I just cleaned it up once more, put a band aid on it, and
gave him the shoes. Which he loved and was so grateful to receive.
Recently God has continued to put
someone on my heart. Every time I’m praying I always feel like praying for this
certain person. It’s come to the point where I even feel very burdened with
this person. I’ve even found myself crying for them very often and just feeling
very passionate about their life and relationship with Him. I often find myself
praying things for this person that I never really would have thought of
praying for them unless the holy spirit was leading me. I’ve also felt like the
Lord really wants me to be steadfast in praying for this person, being their
prayer warrior. I talked to one of my team mates about this and she explained
to me that this is intercessory prayer. I’ve definitely heard about intercessory and even learned about it but never really known what it is or how
it works. It’s been great so far and I plan to continue to fight for this
person in prayer. I think sometimes we tend to get so caught up in praying for
ourselves. When we do come to God, we come and just unload on Him, just vent.
Tell Him about all our problems, what’s wrong and how, and ask Him to fix it.
Let me be the first to tell you that I am more than guilty of this. I think
it’s okay sometimes, I mean He’s a huge God and can definitely handle our
complaints and everything we think is such a big deal. But if we’re really in
this thing for the relationship, we have to communicate. Which consists of both
participants talking and listening. We can’t forget to be quiet sometimes when
we’re with Him. Be still and know that He is God. Listen to Him, ask Him if He
has anything He’d like you to pray back to Him.
I want to start doing something for
those back home. Every week I’m going to give you a new Siswati word of phrase.
This
week: GREETINGS
(All
vowels are the same as Spanish vowels)
Hello to
one person – Sawobona (saw
oh bone ah)
Hello to
more than one – Sani bonani
Response
to both greetings – Yebo (Yay bo)
