At a wake last week I was catching up with a sister in Christ whom I had not seen in a while. She was asking how I lost so much weight, from 105kg at one point to 83kg. I was sharing with her my new change in lifestyle, diet and exercise. She was also curious about my faith journey.
I shared with her just how amazing it has been journeying as a student of Encounter School of Ministry. How I had been bolder in praying for people, healing and ministering to them through our Lord. But as I was speaking I confessed that I was not as zealous as I had been in the first three quarters of school. This last quarter on inner healing and deliverance inadvertently zapped away the fire somehow. But after our long talk, I offered to pray over her. After which I asked how she felt. She shared that her heart was pounding as I uttered the prayer for our Lord’s love to pour out and fill her heart. Praise the Lord!
Then on Thursday 8 June I met Brother Jake a visiting Professor in Theology from the Philippines for lunch together with my daughter. It was a wonderful opportunity to share my adventure in the Lord with this very humble servant of the Lord. The fire in my heart was rekindled and so while attending the 2nd day of the triduum leading up to St Anthony’s feast day, the lord highlighted an elderly Indian lady dressed in a beautiful Sari. She was limping in pain to a seat in a pew a few rows in front of me. I went up and sat beside her and told her that the Lord put in on my heart to pray for her and if she was OK with it. I then proceeded to pray for the Lord to fill her with His peace and the healing of her leg. She was touched that a stranger would come up and pray for her.
Then at mass on the last day of the triduum the Lord led me to pray for four fellow sisters and brothers in Christ. For one brother, He put in my heart fifteen minutes before mass was to start, to buy a loaf of bread and give it to him. I ran about 80m to the supermarket across the road to buy two loaves one for him and one for my family. There was a blessing of the bread, and so after mass I sought that elderly brother out. Prayed over him and presented the loaf for him to bring home to his family. The Lord truly makes all things new! For had the Lord not put it my heart to buy the loaf for that brother I would not have gone out there and then as I wanted to finish the devotional pray to our Patron Saint. Praise the Lord.
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