Miracles

Tonight is Devin and Ali's five year wedding anniversary. Ali, writes the blog for HSE2 and has been here in Poland for a couple weeks now. Devin rode on the bus with us up to LAX. He shared with several of us who were wondering who this non-hse student on our bus was his story of why he was there, hoping that although he didn't have any money to spend on a ticket, he might be able to make his way to Poland to be with his wife for their anniversary. He was on that bus to LAX on faith that he would find a way, if it would be God's will. The bus drove off and left him at LAX with us, and that was the last most of us saw of him, having no idea of whether he had found a way or not. Many prayers were lifted up for Devin, both as a group and by individuals who felt a burden of prayer, and we were very encouraged when we arrived at our third layover and there was Devin sitting in the terminal waiting for our same connecting flight. He found his entire way to Poland without paying for a ticket--he handed one of the flight attendants an itinerary to see how much it would cost, and the computer came back saying it was paid for already. Miracles happen. Ali got to spend her anniversary tonight with her husband, and we couldn't have been more excited to see her reaction when she saw Devin step out of the bus in Visla to surprise her. In the teampoland blog, Ali posted a picture from that night, but I know some of you may not have gotten to hear the beautiful story behind the picture.

A second miracle happened last night. A prayer meeting for the festival of life was held at the conference center here and included several of the local pastors. Eva felt a call from the Lord to pray for a specific woman who attended the prayer meeting. She was obedient to the calling and God worked. She shared her own testimony of how God had corrected her blindness and asked if the woman if she would like the Lord Jesus to heal her. She suggested that the Lord could fix her finances, but the Lord suggested through Eva, "how about the Lord heal your body instead?" and pointed toward her baby-bearing parts, having had a vision from God of the cause of the woman's problems. Eva was able to share what the Lord had told her, that the problem had been there since she was much younger, and had fallen over a chair. As if to signify Jesus's healing touch, when Eva layed her hand on the woman praying in the name of Jesus, she fell back in her chair and was healed on the spot. She cried, the holy spirit having come upon her, filling her with the reality of how much Jesus loves her. Miracles Happen.