I’m still in slight disbelief and very emotional about it.... BUT.... God healed my knee during worship last Sunday night after praying and trusting for 12/13 years. Just spontaneously during worship; No one praying specifically at the time. My physio and I are now in rehab mode as you would be after having an operation. Correcting my weight distribution on my feet and strengthening my knee muscles. Finally I can dance with God again, I can think of holding a tennis racket, I can play soccer with the kids... Or go for a jog. All one step at a time! Today (Sunday) I will be doing a song I recently wrote, as the item in church, and part of the chorus is ‘in victory, I dance and sing’. When I wrote the song, I knew I couldn’t physically dance, but wanted to put it in the song as a spiritual declaration. I had been asking for two weeks already if I could do the song as an item, but each time something else was planned. And NOW I have the opportunity to sing it, NOW that my knee is healed! God overwhelms me with His love and detail, with His hand on my life!

Flu has been going around, and one Tuesday when I woke up, I was completely disorientated and it looked as if flu turned into ear infection. But we had an outreach and I didn’t want my team to have to go out and do it alone. I was praying about it and saying to God that I really don’t have the strength to do this pre-school outreach with all the little children. I knew that my team would technically be able to do it alone, but my controlling didn’t want to let them go alone. I was literally in that moment of making a decision when the Creare base in Bloemfontein sent me a message saying that they’ve prayed for us as a team and experienced “Emma – use your team!” That immediately gave me the peace of mind to send the team alone on this outreach.

Please continue praying for the tour teams and sending us encouraging words – it really means a lot!

I had a back-to-back full day ahead of me and I kept thinking that maybe I over-committed and must learn from this by committing less next time. Towards the end of the day, as I was making my final trip, I had such satisfaction over it being a full, but fun day. I laughed and cried while thanking God for the day that I, in retrospect, enjoyed with Him. As I was on my way to bed that night, I looked at my day word for the first time: “All day, whole day, full day”. Even though I was exhausted at the end of that day, I truly enjoyed it and could see how God knows me all too well.