Is the Power of Jesus the Same Here as it is There?

Being 'called' to full time ministry changes your life.
A person might think that it's going to be great and smell like roses and I am sure there are many days that this is true.

But, the enemy wants to come in, push you off track, cause distractions, bring fear, confusion and the list can go on. John 10:10 says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy..."

Those very things have been attempting to sneak in to my life but the Lord is here. I just need to call on His name and in a moment, the enemy is silenced and defeated!

March 21: It was less than 24 hours and I was scheduled to jump on a plane when I called my mother. I was running last minute errands for my trip back to Guatemala to finalize some details of a mission trip I would be leading in June as well as preparing for an extended stay in Guatemala sometime in the future. I was so excited to share with her that her granddaughter had officially received her driver's license. How exciting! Another milstone for a parent.

But the next few words out of my mother's mouth were ones I thought I would have NEVER heard from her..."I just found out that I have a brain tumor and they are sending me to the hospital right now. Call your sisters and tell them."

Shock, silences, disbelief, defeat, fear...processing, processing and processing...Over the next several hours of sitting in the hospital talking to doctors, viewing an MRI, watching the emotions of my parents and trying to hold it all together for them, I was fighting a spiritual battle inside.

At first I felt defeated. I was helpless and hopeless because of all the words I was hearing from the doctors.

The thought came to me, "What would I do and how would I respond if I were in Guatemala and heard this same news of someone there?" I would pray over them. I would call on the name of Jesus for healing, for peace, for victory, for joy, for health... I would fight for them against the enemy..."

My mother's situation was no different.

My Jesus has the same power here (in the U.S.) as He does there (in Guatemala) so Fight!

She said she wants to fight & believes in healing and that is exactly when I went to true battle for her, laying hands on her, praying for her and believing for her personal victory.

In Guatemala, I have personally seen a baby, literally, on her death bed, taking her lasts breaths and after some of my mission team members prayed over her, the next day she was in perfect health - that's the power of my God! On that same trip one of our team members was involved in a work accident and was blind in one eye. In third-world countries, hospitals, clinics and doctors are not on every street corner, they are very few and far between. All my teammate had was God, his sons and a teenage boy who prayed over him and believed that Jesus could heal him. He didn't stop praying for him until he saw victory! The very next day...his eye sight was perfect - that's my God!

Ephesians 6:10-20. There is victory in the name of Jesus (en el nombre Jesus - I recently learned this spanish phrase and use it when I can)!

Are you willing to put on the armor of God and fight?

The rest of John 10:10 says, "...I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the full."

So as I know that I and the rest of my family are praying, join us in the fight against the enemy and for my mother...believing and praying for complete and total healing, joy, no side effects from chemo and radiation, energy, good appetite, no hair loss, curly hair (mom wants curly hair and God is a God of details and wants to hear specifics from us too haha), peace, to receive encouragement from others and the enemy to be silent and defeated for good.

April 18: Thank you Jesus for being patient with me and reminding me that you have the same power 'here' as you do 'there'. Thank you for the continued healing, no side effects, joy, energy, laughter, encouragement and all that YOU are doing in and through my mother!!!

In Him and 4Him,

Suzanne

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