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God is showing many miracles and wonders in Mozambique

Recently a graduate of the StreetCry School of Ministry Sveta Moroz (left in the photo) went on a mission trip to Mozambique, where she worked with Heidi Baker’s Iris Ministries. Iris plants churches in some of the most remote parts of the Earth and helps to shelter and educate thousands of children who became orphans due to poverty, natural calamities, civil war and the AIDS situation in the country. Here is Sveta’s exciting report:

“As the airplane approached Maputu airport I looked out of the window and saw the parched thirsty land crying out for water. It proved to be true both in the physical and in the spiritual realm. I soon found the people of Mozambique to be so spiritually hungry that my words fail to describe it adequately. During the whole trip, not one person rejected us when we approached them with the Gospel, nor declined an offer to pray for them and their needy situations.

The atmosphere in the country is bleak. Very many are sick with AIDS. Many children die from malnutrition before they reach the age of five. Crime is rampant – it is dangerous to go out after dark. I often woke up at night and could smell the spirits of witchcraft, murder, poverty, alcoholism, prostitution… which drove me to intercede with tears, pouring out my heart in prayer for the people.

And God was pouring out so much love on me and through me – I never experienced anything like this in my life. I was astounded by what God was doing in this country and every day I learned something new about His ways and His heart for the poor and needy, orphans, widows, etc. The Lord broke my heart and taught me to simply trust Him day by day, every minute and I saw His miracles of healing and salvation of souls.

Practically upon arrival, before I had time to unpack I was offered a chance to go out for street evangelism and joyfully agreed. One of the main goals of Iris Ministries is to train the children and young adults they shelter to become pastors, evangelists, and ministers who would win their own country for Jesus. And they are very successful in doing that. The street evangelism team I joined consisted mainly of 14-year-old teenagers. But they turned out to be already experienced on fire evangelists, filled with boldness and care for the people they ministered to!

Street evangelism, going out to evangelize in remote villages, and visiting public hospitals to pray for the sick was my main activity during the whole trip.

Iris Ministries has a church at the site of a large garbage dump – the poorest district of Maputu. The stench of decomposing food and other garbage is unbearable, except for the grace and love of God. Nevertheless, many people live and scrounge there, in the midst of the mountains of waste delivered from the capital and the surroundings in search of something to eat or sell.

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Before the church service, the teams go out to talk to people about Jesus and to call them in. I joined one of these teams. We met many wonderful people who were willing to hear the Gospel. They wept as they received prayer and later shared that they experienced the presence of God and His loving touch. I especially remember one woman who had back pain and a disabled leg. As we began praying for her, she immediately felt the pain was relieved and started moving her leg. Very soon, she was walking around freely moving all her body, rejoicing and praising God for the miracle!

Later on during the service, an older lady came up and shared that she was blind in one eye. We laid hands on her and started praying and suddenly she said, “Oh, I can see your hand!” Her sight was restored partially but we knew it was just the beginning and encouraged her to continue to come to Jesus and believe for the complete healing of her eye.

Next time we went to the garbage dump, we met a woman who could hardly walk – her leg was wounded, swollen and badly inflamed. It looked like it needed the urgent attention of a surgeon but the woman did not have money to even pay for a medical check up much less an operation. But she had faith that God could heal her. We prayed for her. A week later we met her again - she was shining as she thanked us for prayer. She could walk now and her leg was healed, we could see only scars from the previous wound. Together we praised Jesus for the miracle!

We also went to the public hospital. One woman there suffered from a bite of a poisonous insect that resulted in her face being badly swollen. For three days, she could not open her eyes. As we prayed for her, the swelling went down in front of our eyes and the woman wept for joy – she could open her eyes again! God’s presence was so strong in the room that we wept with her in gratitude for the miracle Jesus did for this woman!

The next time in the public hospital, we were only able to enter one room but God did so much! It was a big room – 10 beds housing 10 men suffering from different illnesses. We prayed for the healing of each – one by one and the atmosphere of hopelessness and despair was replaced with the sweet presence of the Love of God. Then I started talking about Jesus, His cross, redemption and salvation and offered to all to accept Jesus who had never done it before. Four men decided to. After we prayed with them, another man approached me. He did not speak English or Portuguese or the local Shanga language – he was from a remote area where they had their own dialect but somehow he understood what I was talking about. By gestures and a few words in Shanga we prayed with him the sinner’s prayer, too. Then we encouraged them all to join the closest Iris Ministries church. They were saying goodbye to us with tears of rejoicing in their eyes.

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Another case of divine healing happened when we went to evangelize in villages. A girl came up to us with a displaced thumb that was out of joint due to an injury. We laid hands on her and after prayer, her thumb returned to the proper position and the girl was able to move it with no pain!

In fact, healings were so many! Practically every day as we shared the Gospel with people God was confirming His Word with signs and wonders. I was so thrilled to be an eyewitness of His glory and power! God is Almighty! He really loves people and desires to set them free from the bondages of sin and sickness!"

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[12/12/2009]

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