We were in Papua New Guinea, about halfway through our mission trip. At our team meeting that morning, everyone was tired but, when we prayed, we felt like we were supposed to go to the local hospital. We had been to the hospital before but, that morning during prayer we had the thought, why don’t we pray for people before they go into the hospital? As we were praying, one of our team, Chase, saw a picture in his mind’s eye of a portal opening in the waiting room and what looked like smoke coming out of it.
We went to the hospital, which is about a 20 minute walk. It was another hot day in PNG. The heat was sapping our strength and our expectancy was honestly not very high.
Once we got to the waiting room, we started praying for people. While we were praying for one lady, a commotion started happening on the other side of the room. Chase was praying for a woman who could not move her neck, and then she could! After that it seemed like the floodgates opened. Everyone started asking us to pray for them!
We started praying as a team, not as individuals anymore. One of the guys was deaf in one ear, and then he could hear! A lady who was old and had pain in her back was suddenly pain free. She was so excited as she exclaimed that she was healed.
We realized God was doing something, and it didn’t matter how we prayed. We could just go, “Yeah God, do your thing” and people got healed. God was just moving, it really was not something we had to make happen through our own effort.
One guy was there with a cane, helped by his wife. His right arm and leg were limp. We prayed once and nothing happened. Daniel, one of our team, was leading out prayer for him. When Daniel prayed a second time, he stepped back a few feet and asked the guy to try walk toward us without his cane. The guy tried, and he could do it! He wasn’t fully healed so we prayed for a third time. Then he said, “I’m fine” and he left, walking normally with his wife holding the cane. At the end we counted the people we remembered and there were about sixteen who got healed!
Ben & Serena Fontaine