The kids at an aftercare centre at a primary school in Danville, Pretoria found a pigeon that was very sick. It just sat there in a box. It made no attempt what so ever to try and defend itself or to escape. It couldn’t even eat or drink water. Later the afternoon, nothing changed. All the kids’ wanting to touch the pigeon scared it even more. Some even did it on purpose. I managed to get them to sit in a circle around the dove and not try and scare it to death. What a challenge! Then I challenged them to start praying for the pigeon. After they repeatedly prayed the Lord’s Prayer, nothing happened. I prayed and nothing happened. Some kids even took the challenge of asking Jesus to heal the bird (something they are shy to do! They only know the rhyme prayers.). After a couple of minutes (felt like a hour!) of prayer, there was movement from the pigeon. We made the circle around the box bigger with an opening wide enough for it to escape. The pigeon saw this gap and jumped out of the box running to the nearest piece of bread that laid a few meters away. It ate and then walked off. Still couldn’t fly. The kids prayed some more and their prayers turned into cheering the bird to fly away. And surely a bit later, the pigeon was gone!
Our awesome God heals even pigeons! Thank You Jesus!
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