May 09, 2009 at 06:29
Power of Prayer
God's 26 Guards
Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and Then just put it on a list and said, 'I'll pray for them later'?
Or has anyone ever called you and said, 'I need you to pray for me, I have this need?'
Read the following story that was sent to me and May it change the way that you may think about prayer and also the way you pray.
You will be blessed by this....
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan .
'While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies.
This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.
On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital.
Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured.
I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord..
I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident..
Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by
the young man I had treated.
He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines.
He said, 'Some friends and I followed you in to the jungle, and knowing you would camp overnight, we planned to kill you and take your money and drugs.
But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards.
At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite.
The young man pressed the point, however, and said, 'No, sir, I was not the only person to see the guards.
My friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone.'
At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened.
The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story:
'On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf.
I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong,
I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you.
Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?'
The men who had met together to pray that day stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with whom they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw.
There were 26.
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February 22, 2009 at 08:15
Giving Thanks
I installed the bird feeder and a container for water in my back yard,
I have been seeing a number of doves, black birds, blue jays, a squirrel and 2 small cardinals visiting daily .
I am amazed as I noticed that when they land on the feeder they lift their head up to the sky, with their beak open for a few seconds, as
if giving thanks to God before commencing to eat.
One of the cardinals, small and dark red, whom we have named 'Jerry' visits sometimes 2 to 3 times daily and everytime we put fresh food out he flies to the screen, about 3 ft from where l sit and hangs on to the screen, fluttering his wings and turning from side to side as if to say thanks for the food..Of all the birds that come and go daily, the cardinal is the only one that does this.
His actions remind me of the account, in Luke 17v 17- 19, where Jesus healed ten lepers and only one came back to Jesus to say thanks and Jesus asked ' where are the nine?'
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