While being powerfully moved upon by the Holy Spirit during our devotions this (Thursday, September 12) morning, Andrea and I received a text message from a dear friend and retired minister who lives in Kentwood, Louisiana. He had called us the day before because hurricane Francine was barreling toward his state and projections had its most damaging center traveling right over his community. He is elderly and lives alone on a small acreage and asked us to pray for God's protection. We prayed with him and assured him we would continue to pray that God would spare him. I reminded him of pictures of tornado-devastated areas where everything was flattened except one or two houses in the middle that were left intact. I told him I was praying that when the storm hit that would happen for him. But Andrea had a better idea. She began praying that God would turn the storm 90° away from the path it was on and he would be safe.
So, as I said at the beginning, this morning Andrea and I were being touched by a very powerful move of the Holy Spirit during our morning devotions, and right in the middle we got the text notification. Seeing it was from our brother in Louisiana, we stopped our worship, opened the message, and as we read its contents we began shouting with joy, declaring the glory of God!
It began with the words: "Thanks for your prayers!!!
They were answered 
.” And it contained a map of the hurricane's track. The track showed the hurricane barreling north and heading straight for Kentwood. Then, about 40 miles south of Kentwood, it made an abrupt 90° turn to the east, traveled east for about 40 or 50 miles and then turned north again, resuming it's original direction! Glory to God!!! He answered all of our prayers for our brother in Christ.
Kentwood only got some peripheral high winds and rain that brought down some tree limbs; but that was all. The main fury of the storm literally changed course so as to miss the town. That, my friends, can only be described as a miracle, especially since such an event had been prayed for.
Personally, when Andrea began praying for the storm to make a 90° turn to the right, I was skeptical; I thought that was asking too much. But I was wrong. The storm did exactly what Andrea had prayed for.
I've learned a fresh lesson from this: never, ever limit your prayers through human thinking ... because God cannot be limited. We may think a prayer is ridiculous, or too far out there. But we forget just who God is. When we pray, He can --and will-- do exceedingly abundantly beyond what we can even hope or think! But if we do not ask, we will not receive. So, remember-- we serve a big God; and therefore when we ask we should ask BIG. Glory to His Name!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
So, as I said at the beginning, this morning Andrea and I were being touched by a very powerful move of the Holy Spirit during our morning devotions, and right in the middle we got the text notification. Seeing it was from our brother in Louisiana, we stopped our worship, opened the message, and as we read its contents we began shouting with joy, declaring the glory of God!
It began with the words: "Thanks for your prayers!!!
They were answered .” And it contained a map of the hurricane's track. The track showed the hurricane barreling north and heading straight for Kentwood. Then, about 40 miles south of Kentwood, it made an abrupt 90° turn to the east, traveled east for about 40 or 50 miles and then turned north again, resuming it's original direction! Glory to God!!! He answered all of our prayers for our brother in Christ. Kentwood only got some peripheral high winds and rain that brought down some tree limbs; but that was all. The main fury of the storm literally changed course so as to miss the town. That, my friends, can only be described as a miracle, especially since such an event had been prayed for.
Personally, when Andrea began praying for the storm to make a 90° turn to the right, I was skeptical; I thought that was asking too much. But I was wrong. The storm did exactly what Andrea had prayed for.
I've learned a fresh lesson from this: never, ever limit your prayers through human thinking ... because God cannot be limited. We may think a prayer is ridiculous, or too far out there. But we forget just who God is. When we pray, He can --and will-- do exceedingly abundantly beyond what we can even hope or think! But if we do not ask, we will not receive. So, remember-- we serve a big God; and therefore when we ask we should ask BIG. Glory to His Name!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
