The Woman in the Green Sari

Our good friend Daniel Ra is a pastor and missionary based out of Los Angeles.  We are so blessed that he will be sharing some of his incredible stories of how he’s witnessed, first hand, God showing His love and working miracles around the world.

My friend and I were in Dharmapurri, India, approximately 4 1/2 hours south of Bangalore.

We were invited to minister among the street people - destitute, hungry, outcasts. We shared a message of God’s love and prayed for the sick and discouraged. We distributed delicious rice and chicken curry made by the women from the local church. Many people filled their plates and took it back to their loved ones hidden in the shadows.

There was a woman in a green sari who approached me with twinkling eyes and a youthful smile. She was mute, a leper, but a beautiful woman in her 70s. There was an instant connection. At one point she grabbed my head with her crooked hands and kissed me on both cheeks. I was moved by this generous act of love lived out by this humble mother.

The next morning, our team sponsored an outreach to widows. We pooled together about $200 which afforded us 5 kg of rice for 150 widows registered with the ministry. After the worship service, we divided the group in half, my traveling partner taking one side while I took the other. Praying for 75 widows was physically exhausting, but spiritually rewarding. I prayed for protection, provision, and the power of God’s love over each person. It just so happened the woman in the green sari was in my section, and I prayed over her…[click “Read More” below to continue]

After a hearty lunch of chicken and rice, she approached me beaming and gleaming with excitement. She was rotating her right arm around like how Popeye would before swinging a mighty punch.

She then enthusiastically pointed to me, then pointed to her shoulder, rotated her arm a few times with vigor, and nodded like a bobble-head. Through a translator I asked, “Did God heal your shoulder?” She again nodded with excitement.

I looked at the local pastor with amazement, but he was not fazed. He simply smiled and said this happens all the time. I can’t take any credit, especially as I wasn’t even praying for healing! God moved in a sweet way. Praise God.

I learned that day, that when God heals, He does it from a place of deep compassion and love for His people.

¹⁶This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ¹⁷If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? ¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  - 1 John 3:16-18