The host explained that the elderly woman had broken her leg.

“When they brought the woman in, she really couldn’t stand on her own,” John, a member of the Southeastern team, said. “She could barely sit up on her own.”

John and David, another member of the Southeastern team, had been sharing the gospel in a slum in the city of Mumbai, India. *Deepak and *Charan, two national pastors, were accompanying them. The team had already led one man to Christ when another man approached and asked them to visit his home, a small 5-foot by 6-foot room.

When they arrived in the home, Deepak began to share the Gospel. But, the host had other things on his mind. He called to someone in the back of the home. Several people appeared carrying an elderly woman. She seemed to be his mother or grandmother.

The man asked for prayer for the woman. The group laid hands on her and prayed and then proceeded with the Gospel presentation.

After a few minutes, John began to notice a change in the woman.

“I looked at her, and she kind of had a puzzled look on her face. And she started feeling her shin as if she didn’t know what was going on,” John said. “So then, all of a sudden, she stands up and runs to the back room.”

She returned a few minutes later, standing up straight, looking healthy and chipper. She began serving the group tea and biscuits.

“It’s just like what happened to Peter’s mother-in –law, she was healed, got up and started serving the guests in her house!” John said.

Then, a third man, a rickshaw driver, popped his head through the front door. It was only a few minutes before he too had made a profession of faith.

Within a 30-minute time frame, three heads of households prayed to receive Christ. But the story doesn’t stop there. Another woman appeared from the back room. She had been listening the entire time to the events that unfolded in the front room. She too, needed healing, and after seeing what happened, was convinced she was in the right place. It was her lower back, she said, that was giving her trouble. The Southeastern students, Deepak and Charan prayed over her.

“Wow, the pain’s gone,” she said. She too was healed.

The New Testament is coming to life on the streets of Mumbai. Households are coming to know the Lord. People are being healed. A demon has been cast out. This isn’t stuff from the yellowed, tattered pages of history books.

It’s happening right now.

*names changed