Miracles Still Happen

[The following story occured last Summer when I was on a mission trip in Peru.]

The cool, crisp air in Huancayo, Peru should have signaled to me and the others on our mission team that God was about to do something truly special. Yet, no one could imagine just how miraculously He was going to work as we prayed.

You see, the local Peruvians informed us that a “transportation strike” may take place on the day our mission project was scheduled to begin. At best the strike would limit our work, and at worse it could put our team in danger. If the strike took effect, we would have to walk a mile one way to the mission site with potential threats lurking around every corner.

So on the day before it appeared the strike would occur, the men on the mission team decided to walk the streets of Huancayo and ask God for a miracle.

Well, we walked. We prayed. And we waited...

But what happened? The transportation strike did indeed take place across the entire country of Peru except in Huancayo! God demonstrated His power in a miraculous way, and I immediately remembered the story of how the Lord protected His people from one of the plagues sent on the Egyptians (see Exodus 10:20-23). Just as God draped a thick blanket of darkness over all the land of Egypt but shielded His people with light so they could move about freely, He made a way for us to move through Huancayo even though the transportation strike restricted everyone else in the country.

I’ll never forget the miracle in Peru. It’s another clear and constant reminder that God works in truly miraculous ways all over the world as His people seek His face in prayer.