“Las cosas que pasan en nuestros vidas…”

“Piensoque las cosas que pasan en nuestras vidas ne ayudan crescer en nuestra fe…” this means: ” I think that whatever happens in our lives help us grow in our faith…” were the words of one of our Mexican friend, Martha.

This lady, who is 48, is such a cheerful lady every time we go see her. She is a believer for about 12 years, the only one though in her family. Even though she trusts God, believes Him and in Him, she still never had to do anything with other believers, never attended church. She says that she met the Lord when her daughter got paralized at the age of 11. She shared with us how she cried out to our Father on the side of her daughter, Alejandra’s bed, asking God to heal her, with the hope of maybe one day she will get another kiss from her. Promised Him in the same time that if He does heal Alejandra, then she will change, surrendering her life completely to Him.

Tears rolled down on my face as she was telling us that in that same moment when she was crying out to God, her no longer paralized daughter got up and blew a kiss to her. I have tears in my eyes even now as I am sharing this with you, thinking about how our Lord touched Martha in such a special, but personal way. Isn’t this so awesome?!!

 Martha’s parents, husband, daughter and son, their families don’t know the Lord, are not even interested in getting to know Him. In spite of all these she is in such good spirits all the timeJ

Today though,-well, we have not seen her for about a month-we could tell that something was wrong. Not that people have to smile all the time, oh not at allJ But you know how Prov. 15:13 says that a happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit…

Guys!!! I don’t even know how it happened, but all glory and praise to our Loving Father, for Martha just started pouring out her heart to us. A heart that actually was filled with lots of aching, pain, sadness, trying to recall those times when the Lord has shown Himself real and faithful to her in a personal way.

She said that what she was about to share with us has been a huge burden on her heart for four months now, but could not talk to  anyone about it. For some reason she felt comfortable sharing her burden with us, that I believe with all my heart happened because of Jesus’s presence among us.

For two whole houres Martha told us about her shame and pain because of what her father did back in December, that made her loose all her confidence and trust in him, ruin everything that has been built up over the many years. She never said what he did, and we did not think it was appropriate to ask her yet. But it is obviously a very sad and painful thing for her, something that gives such a hard time to Martha now to even look at her father, to talk to him. She never told anybody about this. She does not want her family to suffer and brake up because of it, and does not want her father to experience the same attitude from other family members that he is experiencing from her. Seeing her crying crying and crying as she was telling us this, the Holy Spirit moved me to step closer to her, put my arms around her and to pray for her. It was one of those “God moments”J, but this time one that I have never ever experienced before.

 I am so thankful to Him for this. And one of the reasons I have shared this with you so detailed is because I thank you too for your prayers that make this ministry be so blessed. Please pray for Martha that through this all she would come out saying not only that ” I think whatever happens in our lives help us grow in our faith…” but that ” I BELIVE that whatever happens…..”