Every week pretty much every church in town holds a healing service. People come from all over to attend these services. People that have hardly anything pay to ride the taxi to come. Very sick people leave their homes only once a week to attend these services. People that can not walk are carried by their family or friends for miles so they can attend these services. I always heard these stories but I experienced it for the first time last Wednesday.
I had never attended these services because, honestly, they made me nervous. I don’t like big crowds of people (sometimes 600 people will cram into a little church), I don’t always enjoy church services here (that is a whole other blog in itself I will write later) so why would I want to attend a second service a week?
But Donna (a friend from the USA that is here serving with BCI for two weeks) was scheduled to preach and pray for people at Zion’s healing service. So I went with a few other missionaries and I am very glad that I did. Donna, Mussie, and I sat on the front row which means that when Donna went to preach Mussie went with her to translate I was sitting all alone on the front row. Donna gave a very powerful message about God’s healing powers and then she started walking around the church laying hands on everyone and praying for them.
Shortly after she left the podium to walk around the room chaos erupted. I believe that people can be demon-possessed but I have never seen it nor do I know anything about it. I believed it was possible because the Bible says it is but now I believe it is possible because I have seen it. I am not going to go into all the details of what I saw but basically by the end of the service there were about 6 people that came to the front that I believe to be demon-possessed. I have never seen bodies move in that way. I have never heard such loud or scary screams. I have never seen a woman that can’t weigh more than 110lbs throw four big men off of her like they were rag dolls.
It was a very scary experience because I was sitting on the very front row about 10ft from these people. But mainly it was scary because I didn’t know what was going on. This is an area of darkness that I have never witnessed before. Demon-possession is rarely talked about in the United States. I am not sure why. Why does it seem that some countries are more susceptible to demon-possession than others? Do you think we have it in the USA but it is hidden? I have decided that I need to read and study about this topic. It is very prevalent here so I need to be educated. If you have any resources that may help me I would greatly appreciate it.
I would like to attend future healing services-not to witness more demon-possessed people, but because I want to see God’s miracles. I was so caught up in the drama of what was unfolding in front of me that I didn’t pay attention to the people that were there needing other healing. It was a very powerful experience. It is hard to write this blog because my thoughts are so scattered and unsure. I don’t really know how to end this so I will just post a few pictures.
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