Martin Journal Entry: Shaken and Stirred

By E. Scott Martin

We are back in the U.S. now. I received an email today while I was working at our office in Panera Bread (I can’t send from my laptop at the Chi Alpha office!). It was from one of our precious Muslim students in Kyrgyzstan. She served as one of our interpreters for the summer Little League and she lived with all of our students for two months. Her mother is very ill and needs to go to the hospital for her kidneys. Her father, sister and brother are all out of the country now and she is there alone with her mother. She is scared.

She emailed Crystal and me and asked us to pray. Let me tell you why. This summer she had a profuse nosebleed while out on the baseball field. It was bad enough that they considered taking her to the hospital. They brought it to my attention and by simple faith I went to her, laid hands on her and commanded the blood to stop in Jesus name and the blood flow stopped. It really freaked her out and she kept going back to that all summer long when she was conflicted. That is why she was asking us to pray. I will be back in Kyrgyzstan on September 20th and told her I will personally lay hands on her mother to pray for her.

While I was emailing her, the Spirit of the Lord fell on me right in Panera Bread. I began to shake and to weep. Oh, I miss them all. I can’t wait to get home and pray for them. I had to rush out. I believe God is going to do something great.