He Stood. He Walked!

Meet my new friend, we will call him, Tony. Tony lives in
the slums. He lived in the house next to one of our Kenyan friends. He has
something wrong with him medically. He has what they call epilepsy, but it
doesn’t seem like that to me. He has really bad tremors all the time and he has
not been able to walk for as long as people can remember. So our mission was to
pray over him. We walked into his house in the slum and started our pray
session. We prayed for healing. And we prayed and we prayed and we prayed.
Someone felt like we needed a bucket of water to wash his feet before he would
be able to walk again. So we got water and prayed while others washed his feet.
We kept praying. He leaned over to me and told me that he was ready to try to
stand. So I told he group he was ready. We moved the bucket of water. Then Tony
felt a ton of pain in this left leg. So we prayed hard over his left leg and
then his right leg. Tony was able to speak on his own. I told him before he
would be able to be healed he needed to believe. He needed to tell God with his
own voice what he needed and that he believed God could heal him. So he did. It
was so sweet to hear him with his own voice praise God. He was able to repeat
after me praises to God! Then he stood. I told him to lift his arms and praise
God because he was being healed. At this point we were still holding him up a
lot. He would still have tremors. But he decided that he wanted to take a step.
With our team holding him up he walked across the room and back to his chair.
He was so tried. It was so good to hear him talk to God. To hear him repeat
after me praises to our glorious God and King.  Tony said he wanted to try to stand on his own. He would place
his hands on the side of his chair but then he would get tremors and his hands
would fall off the sides. We were praying so hard. I knew God would heal him.
Julie being as wise as she is realized that his experience and walking was very
draining to Tony. So we told him to relax to pray for his muscles to be still.
That God would heal him and let him walk when it was in God’s timing. So we
just prayed and praised God together for a while. Taylor had been talking to
Tony’s sister and felt really convicted that there might be an idol in the home
or something. She came to find out as a child Tony’s parents had taken him to a
witch doctor to try to heal him. So he need to repent and for that and truly
believe that God is the only one who would heal him. He did confess all this
and I could tell he truly did believe. As we were getting ready to leave he
gained enough strength but God alone to raise himself out of his chair for a
second before he fell back into his chair.

Tony was not completely healed that day but he was
encouraged. He got up. He Stood! He walked!

The next day we came to find out that Tony that next morning
got out of his chair and walked by himself to the door of his house before he
fell over. He got back up walked to the house next door using the other houses
to prop himself up. God is so good he hears our prayers and our cry’s for
healing. Matthew 9: 28 and John 14:14 were my encouragement and foundation that
day.

Continue to pray that Tony would be healed completely and
that he would stay encouraged in the Lord. What an amazing witness Tony will be
when he walks the streets of his slum without having to lean on the other
houses. I can’t wait to hear the stories of those who come to know Christ
because Tony walks.

P.S. To those who were asking where we are staying we are
about a mile from the Bomas of Kenya.