Awesome faith

Posted on July 17, 2008
Filed Under Faith, mission |

I spent this morning at Mae Tao Clinic. My pastoral care ministry there is still in its early days. But, if ever I needed confirmation that this is an important ministry and something I am being called to do, I got it today.

I went with a team from Mt. View Baptist Church. who are visiting Mae Sot this week. We’d visited the clinic on Monday morning and prayed for a whole load of people and shared the Gospel with many more. The team wanted to visit the clinic again and follow up with some of the patients we’d meet. Among them was a Burmese man, who wanted a Bible and after tracking down a Burmese Bible, we wanted to drop it off.

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see several of the people we had wanted to visit – included the man we got the Bible for. But, we still got to share with several other people and had the chance to pray for an elderly Karen Christian couple.

Then, with time getting on and since the team had another appointment, Brad, who is showing them around, suggested we should leave.

But, as we were getting up to leave, my attention was drawn to a Burmese woman who indicated we should follow her. Our translator said she wanted us to pray for her, so despite Brad’s grumbling we went with her to meet her family.

We sat with her and her husband and their three kids under a corrugated iron lean-to in the clinic’s car park and encouraged them. And, as we talked, several other people sitting in the shade started asking us questions, so we shared with them the Gospel and handed out some tracts.

Even, though we were both glancing at our watches, we ended up leading several people in the Salvation prayer.

But, before we left, I was reminded of the story of the woman who was so desperate for Jesus’ healing touch, that she was convinced, if she just touched the hem of his robe she would be healed of the bleeding she had suffered from for 12 years (Matthew 9: 20-23) and was determined to pray for the woman who had sought us out.

So, I prayed for healing for her husband and a blessing upon the whole family.

We had gone there to encourage others, but this woman’s faith was a powerful encouragement to me. Just think giving up that little bit of time to sit and

Praying for a family at Mae Tao Clinic