One of the main places that we work at is a government orphanage. In my opinion this is one of my very favorite places to go. The kids are very much in need of God and his love. There are around 300 children living there and that is just a guess.
There was one that always stuck out to me. I never knew his name because he couldn’t tell me it he was mute. But more than that there was something else wrong with him. Now at this point in my life I was staff at the base. My team had just left. When my team was here we had, on several occasions, talked about fasting and praying for the boy.
You have to understand the culture to understand what this poor boy really went through. No one ever looked after him. In Buddhist culture if you are mute, deaf, born with aids, or what ever is wrong with you, you deserve it. You did something wrong in your past life. You don’t deserve any special treatment. You actually deserve the opposite. So this boy always had sores that were infected and he was very malnourished. On top of that we thought he either was possessed or had a severe mental problem. One minute he was fine holding our hands the next he would be biting us. When we would leave he would hurt himself by smacking his head against the door so hard his head would bleed.
After my team left I wasn’t sure what to do about him. Shortly after that we got our first visiting team at the base. Some how I got put in charge of taking them to the government hospital which, at the time, I thought was odd because I hadn’t been there in months. But the person in charge of teams thought I was supposed to go. After I showed them around, they got talking about the other ministries. One of the girls started to talk about the mute boy and how she felt that she should be praying for him. One of the other girls said that while she was at the orphanage she got the verse in Matthew about the demon that could only come out though prayer and fasting. She felt the scripture applied to that same boy. I told them about my DTS and how we had planned to do the same thing but had never done it. We all decided to do it together. We picked a time and prayed and fasted for the boy for three days. At the end of the three days we were going to go and pray over him in person. When we started two others on the team joined us so there were 5 of us praying every mealtime for this precious little boy. God started to open our eyes, not only to the hurts of the little boy, but of the orphanage. He didn’t just spiritually open our eyes but physically. This was a time when the base was just starting and God showed us what was really going on at that orphanage. We saw abuse physical and sexual. As much as you don’t want to see that stuff, God wanted us to know, so we would understand what we were really up against and how we could really help. The team was doing a Bible study at the orphanage at the time. I had the privilege of going with them. They gave the salvation message and asked if anyone wanted to accept Jesus. Another girl and I brought the ones that said yes to a different area. I explained more and asked them again if they wanted to accept Jesus. That day 11 little souls were saved. I asked them to shout I love Jesus, because there is a party in heaven for them and they should be a part of it. I have never heard kids scream so loud. I can still, to this day, remember the joy on their faces. The next day we had our morning breakfast fasting time. We prayed extra hard knowing that right after we’d be heading to the orphanage to pray over the mute boy. When the Holy Spirit gave us peace we knew we were ready and we went on our way. When we got there we immediately noticed a difference. We walk up to the mute boy, I smiled at him and he smiled back. He had never really smiled before. I talked to his caregiver she said that this morning he started convulsing and fell off the porch and he has been this way ever since. We all sat down around him and I leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek and he kissed me back. He was a changed boy he had such a sense of peace around him also. We stayed and prayed for him for around three hours the whole time he sat there holding one of our bibles just flipping through it. God is so good! God just did all the work we just sat there and prayed a little and then we played a little with him. He was so happy. He wasn’t the angry boy that would hold your hand and then glare at you. He still wasn’t talking but he was happy. We sensed he still had a bit to go so we decided to continue our prayers.
God is so powerful he had done so many things those three days. The way he brought us together in the first place, the way he opened our eyes to what’s really going on in the orphanage, the salvation of 11 souls, and healing of the anger within the mute boy, all in 3 days. God is good.
