It’s now our fourth week to ministry and God has been doing so many incredible things. We are so blessed to be His vessels and to bring Him all the glory and I want this blog to do just that, bring glory to His name because He did it all. This is the Lord’s story of a man named Mwongi who was lost but now is found. Every Friday our team has traveled to a near town to do door to door ministry. The first Friday, June 12th, every home we visited was a home of believers until the last one. Lee, Joelle, two translators and myself made up our group for this ministry. We walked into the house of a man names Mwongi and were immediately greeted with joy. Mwongi is in his 70’s (we never received the actually age) and he lives mostly by himself with occasional visits from one of his daughters with grandchildren. He had two wives (which is very common in Kenya for none believers) but the last one passed away 15 years ago. He shared with us his loneliness and how not many people ever come around. Two of us shared our testimonies and we asked if he knew the Lord. He said that he thinks there is a God but he doesn’t have a relationship with Him and does not know who Jesus Christ is. We asked if we could pray for him and he said yes. He asked us to pray for his ears and eyes because he has a hard time seeing and hearing. After we prayed he was so happy, his smile was so bright and he was so thankful that people even cared to come talk to him. We encouraged him to go to church on Sunday and said goodbye. Our group knew that the Lord was doing something in this man and we needed to come back.
The following Friday we were looking forward to going back but the Pastor who we were working with had to go to a funeral so he cancelled on us to come back. However, that morning when Lee, Joelle, and myself woke up we felt the Lord was still calling us to go back to the town where Mwongi lives. In order for us to go back we needed a ride and a translator, so we prayed for God’s will to be done. After lunch that day, God opened the door for Lee, Joelle and myself to go back to this town to visit Mwongi again. As we were in the taxi on the way over, we just kept praying that he would be at his house when we got there. We also decided to bring him some flour and rice not really sure if he needed it or not. We walked into his gate and we initially did not see him so we kept praying and we heard a noise from behind the shed and we walked around and sure enough, Mwongi was there! His face lit up in joy and he welcomed us. He said he remembered us from the week before and he was so happy we came again. We gave him the food and he said that he was so thankful because he didn’t have any and didn’t know what he was going to eat for dinner. Praise Jesus! After some small talk we asked him if he attended church on Sunday and he said “it is better not to lie than to lie so no I did not go”. He is a very honest man and we really appreciate that. As we were talking to him, we were filled with the spirit and filled with words to say. God was having a conversation with Mwongi through us. When one of us didn’t have words, the other did and it was truly amazing. Lee looked down into a chicken who was near us and he looked into the chicken’s eye. He saw a silhouette of the cross in the chicken’s eye and it was a confirmation from the Lord. Mwongi welcomed the good news because he said “I will listen because you came back. People come to tell me about this God and leave and I never see them again”which meant so much to us. As the Gospel was being shared he would stop and think before he would respond. You could see the Lord moving in his eyes. By the end of the conversation he came to the revelation that we were sent by God. He was so thankful for us, just to have a conversation with other people made his week. The glory of God fell upon us. It was ALL Him. We prayed again for Mwongi’s hearing and sight and told him, if the Lord wills we will be back next week.
All week we prayed for Mwongi and Friday we had the door opened for us to go back to the town where he lives. We walked into his gate and he was standing there farming and when he saw us he was so happy and so joyful. He could not stop smiling. We asked him how his ears and eyes were. He said that the pain from his ears is gone but he is still struggling to hear and see. We asked if he went to church on Sunday and he said no because if he went he would not be able to see and hear. He said he prayed to God all week but did not feel anything. We then felt God telling us to show him the “bridge illustration” which illustrates Romans 6:23 in picture form so that he could understand more of who Jesus is. When we were done, we watched him as he was thinking and it suddenly clicked for him. You could again see the Lord working inside him. He began to say things such as ” even thieves and satan know who God and I will no longer be confused, God is real and so is Jesus”. We were blown away and we asked him if he wanted to be in relationship with Jesus Christ his savior and he said YES! We prayed with him and he began to cry. The Holy Spirit was moving through him and us. We also prayed for his hearing and sight again. Afterwards he said “its okay if I die now” and we were almost speechless if it wasn’t for God being there. We encouraged him to continue praying and to go to church on Sunday. He said, “I will tell everyone about God and Jesus!” We bought him a Bible in his language and plan on bringing it to him this week. Praise the Lord for His love and grace for all of His children! Pray for Mwongi that the Lord will continue to captivate his heart and if it is in the Lord’s will for him to be healed.
– sara healy
