I am so thrilled to be able to share with you the tremendous things that the Lord has done on this last trip to the villages of the Shishinahua River. It started with a direct healing for Maria, the Shawi woman that has been traveling with me since last March. When she, her brother and their nephew arrived in Yurimaguas from their village (about 8 hours away by boat) the day before we were to leave she was terribly sick with a burning fever and headache. I wasn't sure she would be able to travel but she insisted that she was going to make the trip with us and so before we parted we prayed together for her healing and sure enough the next day when we met to leave she was completely healed!
Later that day we had our evening meeting and the daughter of the main village leader and her husband came with their 12-day-old baby. I didn´t know that their son was sick but Asunción knew and told the father to ask for prayer since the Lord just healed his daughter. So Tito came up and explained that their son was feverish and was not taking his mother´s milk. It would be cause for concern if this happened in the States but out here it can be fatal if a baby is sick like this. Once again we prayed and once again I could tell that the Lord was already touching this precious child with His healing hand as we petitioned for his health. I was able to tell Tito after we prayed that the baby will start taking his mother´s milk now because the Lord has healed him.
We continued with our meeting, adjured and turned in for the night. The next day when I saw Tito I asked him how his baby was and he told me that he no longer had a fever and that he had started taking his mother´s milk! His response, like Asunción´s, was so mild that I felt that I had to get excited enough for the both of us. I later told him that the Lord had done this for him to show His great love for him and his family and to prove to him that He is with them and will take care of them as they trusted in Him. Tito and his wife prayed to accept the Lord the night we prayed for their son and now, the next day he was very eager to learn more about his new found faith.
The healing of his daughter and Tito's son so impacted Asunción that although he had prayed to accept the Lord with us before, now he said that he wanted to live only for Him. He even got the rest of the village to agree to build a church building to hold our meetings instead of the school where we normally met. He pointed out that when school is in session we don't have use of the building for the morning and afternoon meetings (which apparently he wants to continue) so a church building would accommodate this need. He and the others even picked out a place where they want to build and so together we are moving forward to build the first Christian church in Santa Clara.
This is nothing short of a miracle from God and clear evidence of His mighty hand moving on the hearts of the people that He has sent us to minister to. We all have a wonderful and incredible part of this manifestation of God´s saving grace and it is changing the lives of the people that we have together labored for. I want to thank you so much for all that so many of you have done for this work in seeing the Kingdom of God established in this area. May God mightily bless you in all that you are doing for Him.
We will be traveling again to these communities to continue with the ministry of the Lord on Monday, March 18 through Tuesday, March 26. Can we be in prayer agreement for the following points of concern so that the Lord can carry on His awesome work among these villages?
The next miracle happened in the village of Santa Clara. One of the village leaders´ 1 1/2 year-old-daughter was sick with diarrhea and so he asked me if I had any medicine that could help her. I said that I did not but I did have faith to believe for her healing and so he allowed me to pray for her. It was one of those times when I could tell that the Lord was already answering our prayer and healing the child as we spoke.
The next day when I asked Asunsción how his daughter was he said she was fine and had no more diarrhea. His response to what God had done for him was so mild that I had to remember that the Shawi culture does not allow for over expression when things like this happen. He did however, share with Maria privately and in their Shawi language he said that he was really, really surprised that his daughter was healed and that it now made sense to him what we had been saying about the Lord all this time. He understood that the Lord, and not coincidence, had healed his daughter. Praise God!Later that day we had our evening meeting and the daughter of the main village leader and her husband came with their 12-day-old baby. I didn´t know that their son was sick but Asunción knew and told the father to ask for prayer since the Lord just healed his daughter. So Tito came up and explained that their son was feverish and was not taking his mother´s milk. It would be cause for concern if this happened in the States but out here it can be fatal if a baby is sick like this. Once again we prayed and once again I could tell that the Lord was already touching this precious child with His healing hand as we petitioned for his health. I was able to tell Tito after we prayed that the baby will start taking his mother´s milk now because the Lord has healed him.
We continued with our meeting, adjured and turned in for the night. The next day when I saw Tito I asked him how his baby was and he told me that he no longer had a fever and that he had started taking his mother´s milk! His response, like Asunción´s, was so mild that I felt that I had to get excited enough for the both of us. I later told him that the Lord had done this for him to show His great love for him and his family and to prove to him that He is with them and will take care of them as they trusted in Him. Tito and his wife prayed to accept the Lord the night we prayed for their son and now, the next day he was very eager to learn more about his new found faith.
The healing of his daughter and Tito's son so impacted Asunción that although he had prayed to accept the Lord with us before, now he said that he wanted to live only for Him. He even got the rest of the village to agree to build a church building to hold our meetings instead of the school where we normally met. He pointed out that when school is in session we don't have use of the building for the morning and afternoon meetings (which apparently he wants to continue) so a church building would accommodate this need. He and the others even picked out a place where they want to build and so together we are moving forward to build the first Christian church in Santa Clara.
- Safety as we travel against boating accidents, sickness and environmental hazards such as snakes, ticks or malaria carrying mosquitoes.
- Divine wisdom to know how to articulate the Bible lessons that instruct who God is, what He´s done and how to walk faithfully before Him.
- Passion for the things of God for all the believers so that they can apply what they are learning to their daily lives.
- Faith and discernment to believe for greater things than these to happen in the Name of the Lord.
- Anything else that the Lord shows you.
Thank you again so much for all the ways you have joined with me in this work and may He direct you to continue mightily in Him.
Your Co-laborer in the Faith,
Sharon Malcolm
