A few of us were sitting together one night, talking about God, asking & trying to answer the hard questions. We were having really great conversations, just enjoying the time to be free to share, free to ask. We decided to start praying into what God had for us in these next weeks in Thailand. When we were finished we asked if anyone wanted to share, the son of one of the ladies in our team, spoke up. He said he was reminded of a dream he had of a lady with a green face. He thought she was Asian maybe old, the details however were a blur. We were grateful that he decided to step out in boldness to share, but we weren't sure what would come of "The lady with the green face".
As a group we decided to pray into it, just to see what the Holy Spirit would reveal to us. As we were praying some of us got the word 'witch craft', I personally heard "You will meet her in Fang". So we wrote these things down and kind of left them be. We went to Fang, and for 5 weeks, no green lady, and after all what is the likelihood you are going to meet an old lady with a green face? We thought that maybe it was supposed to be a metaphor for the the spiritual warfare going on in Fang, but nothing prominent came up.
We then traveled from Fang to Tachileik in Myanmar. It was one of our last days of outreach and we were at a children's home for the day, sharing bible stories and teaching English. I glanced out the window and saw an old woman just standing outside looking in. I asked the person next to me who she was but they were as oblivious as I was. We then went outside, where the sun was shining, and then I saw the woman again. The group who had prayed over this were standing together and one said "She has a green face! It's a lady with a green face." We decided we had to find out her story.
It turns out that she was the pastor's mother. She was part of a people group who were abused by the military. The girls who were targeted would tattoo their whole faces and tattoo tribal marks on their legs to scare away the soldiers because the soldiers then thought they were involved with witch craft & filled with evil spirits.
As I was praying over what this meant, how although we had heard an interesting story we hadn't connected with this woman. God then revealed to me that it's purpose was to build & strengthen our faith. A teenager who wasn't even in dts, he had the boldness to step out and to share this picture, and we decided to pray over it. God was honoring our obedience by rewarding us with an incredible story that grew our faith in Him. I am sure the percentage of seeing a lady with a green face after you received a picture and prayed over it is very low and highly unlikely. What an awesome testimony of the reward in obedience!
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