Day 248 ~ Tuesday

I know I have said this before... but I LOVE Tuesdays...  But today happened to be exceptionally amazing :O)

I asked a friend of mine to pick my kids up from school today for me because I had an extra client who I wanted to squeeze in.  When I came to pick up my kids somehow we got into this deep discussion about God and how He works in our lives.  Hmmmmmm, imagine that ( said with a rather smirky look on my face )... I got into a discussion with someone about God in my life!

Anyway, we spent a couple hours talking about the times we missed what God was doing ( which for me happens to be a lot ), talking about the amazing things that had happened and we got to participate in.  She shared her testimony with me... which in and of itself makes me stand in awe of the God we serve!

To top it all off, we got to see God's healing power in action right there in her dining room!  I know, it does not really get much better!  Her little boy who is almost 4 years old was walking around saying his low back hurt.  For all of the neurotic parents out there, I will not mention that he was jumping on the trampoline just prior to his back hurting.  Oooops!  I just did!  Sorry kids! 

I asked him to place his hand where it hurt and we prayed for God to heal him.  It didn't work.  He said his back still hurt.  I am believing someday that it will start working the first time!  So we prayed a second time... it still did not work.  I picked him up and set him in the chair I was sitting in with his back flush to the back of the chair.  As he sat with his legs in front of him, it was obvious that his legs were not the same length.  Even his knee caps were visibly at different lengths.  His mom just looked at his little legs with a look of shock when we both realized how far off they were. 

We held his little legs out in front of us and just asked God to straighten his alignment in his back and to grow his legs out to the proper length and to take all the pain in his back away.  I did not even finish praying before his legs were the same length and his knees appeared balanced.  When he got up from the chair, I asked him if his back still hurt and he just grinned at me and hid his face in his mom's legs.

Now I know it is really awesome and amazing every single time I see God heal someone no matter what they get healed from.  What was really cool about today though was that just before this happened, his mom and I were talking about and sharing the different times that we had missed doing what we should have.  I had shared with her about this blog and how the first quarter of the year was so amazing.  I would see people to pray with almost every single day, and most of the time I would have the boldness to go up and pray with them.  A lot of them were healed pretty quickly, others were not.  I began sharing with people about the people I was getting to pray with and it started to draw attention.  I freaked out and felt like it was turning into the "Cara-show" and I didn't like it. 

I know in essence that sounds like a good thing... and ideally it is.  In reality though it was false humility.  I thought I was taking glory or credit from God so I said, "God I don't want this."  That hindered God's ability to use me for His glory.  It took me a long time to recognize what the problem was... and those of you who have read this from the beginning probably noticed the spans of several days at a time where I saw almost no miracles happen.  That has been extremely difficult.  I am really grateful though that God took the time to open my eyes up today to see where the difficulty in this project started so that I can move forward.  I know it is His will for me to see thousands of people healed, set free, delivered and saved and I cannot wait to continue on this journey with Him!