Today the preschool was hard again today. As if it was in question, I now know I do not want to be a preschool teacher. I am more frustrated with the administration than the children. I have gotten to know one of the little girls named ankita, she has an obvious learning disability and does not do well in class which is hard for me to rest with because it is already hard enough for women to get an education in india without a learning disability! One of the teachers said that ankita has a learning problem and will never learn which just made me more mad. In my quiet time with the Lord during lunch, He kept reveling the idea of how He wants us to be both Bold and Prudent: “The path of life leads upwards for the prudent” Proverbs 16:24, “Since we have such hope, we are very bold” 2 Corinthians 3:12. Then during house visits, it was amazing- boldness with the people we were visiting constantly lead to the presence of the lord. The first house we went to was the house I visited the day before, with the boy with the broken arm- they asked us to come back, they even requested the “girl with the dimples” come haha! We visited them for awhile and I asked saresh to ask again if we could pray for them at the risk of being rude. Before he even translated the mother said we could pray for them! The next house we visited one of the girls on our team asked if they had any questions about Jesus- which was so bold! In my head I thought “that is not the way we go about this, and this is not going to go over well”. Well I was wrong, they asked us to pray for them and pray for healing for their family and wanted to hear all about Jesus. They asked to be anointed with oil, which was really cool for me because I have been reading all about that for the past few days. At the third house we visited, the biggest strongest Indian man I had ever seen walked out as we walked in and all I could think about was “I hope he does not beat his wife” and sure enough the woman we visited in the house had a battered face. She asked for us to pray for her and we did, then she said she felt the holy spirit calling her to pray more and to pray for healing of her legs which she couldn’t move. We did and suddenly she collapsed and convulsed on the floor- it was like nothing I had ever seen before and for a minute I even doubted that this could be real. Afterwards she could move her legs and said she felt like a weight had been lifted from her and she wanted to learn more about Jesus. Then another woman walked into her house saying that the Lord had told her to come to this house and be prayed over. So we prayed for her too and all I could think about was how the woman of India were just crying out for the Lord! The hindu gods were not satisfying or healing the people in this slum and they want more. It was a very cool day to say the least.
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