Expect Life Abundant

Brownsville is an extreme place, like most border towns. I love places like this because that’s where God can do radical things. One night, He took us across the border to the city of Matamoros and into a tiny church. The people looked suspicious of us until the Holy Spirit began to move through the praise music we were playing. During worship, people cried, shook, and lifted their hands to God in surrender. The sermon went out the window. It was a radical time of brokenness before the Lord. Many were shouting at the top of their lungs, and God began to do His thing.

Finally, the pastor took the microphone and began to tell of people who had been cured of sickness and disease as they praised. Then, as an old woman walked up to the microphone, the crowd became suddenly quiet.

She had gone to this church since she was a child. She lost her eyesight as a teenager due to undiagnosed diabetes. She had been blind for decades. Then, she said the Holy Spirit came upon her in an unusual way. She began to see a vision, then realized it wasn’t a vision at all. She could see!

“You know that I am blind,” she said. Then, with God as my witness, she began pointing to people in the crowd. “If I am blind, how can I see you? And you. And you…” We literally saw blind eyes opened through praise and worship! None of us preached, called down healing, or laid a hand on her. No man can take credit for what God has done. Sometimes a special move of God isn’t taught, it’s caught!

Any time I’ve been tempted to doubt God’s healing power, I think back to that night in Matamoros when a woman was healed of blindness by God.

I wonder how many times the devil tried to stop her from going to church that night. If she had played that card, she would still be blind. Instead, she was in the house of God, expecting that something would happen.

That day, it did. What about you?