Tiffany: God has been giving me situations to be faithful in.
That doesn’t just mean doing what He says to do, it means trusting that
He is who He says He is.. and that He DOES care about the “small
things”. It’s easier sometimes for me to believe He cares about the big
issues, but not the small, unimportant ones. Boy was I wrong. And this
is how He showed me that not only is He a BIG God, but He’s a little
God too.. in the sense that.. nothing is insignificant to Him if it has
to do with His kids.
As
she was showing me her finger, God told me VERY clearly, “Amanda, pray for her
because I want to heal her”. Now, I do NOT see myself as someone who is
capable of praying healing over someone. I told God to find someone else.
He kept gently reminding me that he wanted ME to do it. I kept putting it
out of my mind.
A
few days later (yes, I really argued for a few days), God told me AGAIN to go
pray healing over her because he wanted to heal her. My
opportunity slipped away. I decided to make a deal with God. I told
him that if he created another opportunity that day that I would do it.
Well, another
opportunity never presented itself, so I thought I was off the hook. Ha
Ha Ha.
Somehow I knew what God was saying to Amanda. I don’t know how… I just knew.
When Amanda came and sat by me, God told me that He was going to use her to heal my finger. So I believed it. With everything in me. I was ready to be healed, and I saw her battling. So I didn’t give her a choice. With my finger in her face, she had no other choice but to have faith. And neither did I.
I know Amanda says nothing happened, but SO much was
happening. I knew God wanted to heal me. But right after I rinsed off
in the ocean, God told me that physical healing was not going to come
until the healing of the mind did. Renewal of the body would follow renewal of the mind. What needed to be renewed? Our idea of faith.
I
couldn’t understand it. I KNEW that God told me he wanted to heal her.
I KNEW he told me to pray for her. So why didn’t he heal her? I
started looking in the Bible for healing stories. I noticed that many
times when Jesus healed – it was in response to the faith of the person asking
for healing. I knew she had faith but I wondered about mine.
For
days – God would prompt Amanda to pray for me and she would walk in obedience. My finger actually got worse.Everyone began to wonder if I should
start taking medicine or something. I was losing feeling in my finger.
I saw nervousness in Amanda every time she’d pray for
me. I couldn’t figure it out. We are close friends, there is no need to
be nervous. Soon I realized it was a battle that went beyond
friendship… God was showing her that He found her WORTHY to be used,
and loved both of us too much to leave us in the condition we were in.
Once
I started praying from my heart, God really started moving.
Within a day
and a half, her finger had gone back to normal. She was healed.
Wow.
God is so rad. He is still showing me that He cares
about the things I care about, no matter how small. I am learning not
to limit God to the big things, but to have faith… to trust that His
love is big enough for the small things. And my finger is healed!
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Wow, this post is an answer to prayers about how God works in our lives. He has brought me many women this week and how often did I ask the question, what do I do? I am not a minister, but women are feeling isolated and alone. What do I do????? Follow me my Bride and trust the words that I put into your mouth and hands. Declare the word, break the chains, love simply, forgive quickly, and trust me deeply! Thank you ladies and Seth! God is great and His Wind is in our sails and the ocean is wide open!!!!!
Compliments of the Season Seth. Thanks a million for sharing this story. It’s a wake up call. It’s true I hardly want to “bother” God about “little issues”. It’s obvious HE cares about every mundane issue. Guess the icing on the cake for me is this excerpt
“…God told me that physical healing was not going to come until the healing of the mind did. Renewal of the body would follow renewal of the mind…”
Thanks to Amanda and Tiffany for opening mine eyes as well in this area.
Love this post… gives me much to ponder. I am often like Amanda in my self-talk – and the Lord is telling me much the same thing. Pray from the heart, don’t worry about the words, just do what He asks… perhaps I need to get ready to look ridiculous in the process, eh? 🙂
I remember hearing Beth Moore tell a story about being in the airport and seeing an older man with unkempt hair in a wheelchair – God moved her to go over and brush the man’s hair – and she said, “God, seriously? are you kidding me?” But she did. They had a nice conversation as she did it and she blessed him tremendously … just a small thing. No healing involved except perhaps to bring a healing touch to his heart …. But a big step of obedience to the Lord’s voice.
Thank you for obeying God’s prompting to share Tiffany and Amanda’s faithwalk. I have been encouraged reading this!