Great Faith

This week Caitlin and I had the honor of visiting a women named Philile. She is a single mother of 4 children and is a woman of great faith. We sat in her nice two room concrete home and she told us how the Lord has moved in her life. It was a story of sickness, pain and loss. Yet it was also a story of hope, protection and provision. Though she has suffered through TB, the loss of a 2-month-old child and the inability to provide for her 4 children as a single mom, she sat on the floor with us a praised the name of the Lord for the protection and provision that he has given her. She has been so blessed through the pain.

There were so many places through her story where it was obviously the Lord working for good. Places where she was able to make it to a hospital or was provided a home or was able to be treated for TB. As we left her home I was simply in amazement of the faith that is possessed by the poor. Philile is only poor by the world’s standards. Spiritually she is one of the riches people I have ever met. She is an incredibly blessed woman. Philile is now a volunteer at the carepoint where she helps prepare and serve the children food. She is a pure joy.

Before we left we prayed with her and asked her for prayer requests. She wanted us to pray for continued strength to preserver. She did not want life to necessarily get easier, but for her and her children to have the strength to make it through and to trust the Lord. That is a powerful prayer from someone who has already suffered so much. I am challenged by Philile to praise the Lord no matter what everyday. To measure life based on heavens scale and not the earths. May we all have strength that is completely dependent on the Lord, never mistaking it for our own. May our trust like Philile’s be in the Lord and the Lord alone for he is so good. Praise the Lord.

“I have heard all about you, Lord, and I am filled with awe by the amazing things you have done. In this time of our great need, begin again to help us, as you did in the years gone by. Show us your power and save us, and in your anger remember your mercy.”

Habakkuk 3:2