Surprises

The scriptures teach us that God goes before us, that He is preparing away for us. Often when troubled times hit it’s hard to see, believe or understand that. This last Tuesday (Jan. 11th) following our Freedom For Life recovery ministry two men in attendance asked if they could pray for me. The man that I barely knew said, “I came into the building tonight, and God impressed on me that I was to pray for you. God is telling me you have sometimes ahead, an attack is coming and we should pray for you.”
So Nate and Jose laid hands on me and prayed. What was unique about this was, Jose prayed in a spiritual language I could not understand (tongues it is called in the Bible), while Nate simply prayed in english. After several minutes I thanked the men, gave them each hugs and that was it. (By the I’ll take all the pray I can get!)

Thursday afternoon I received a phone call from my brother-in-law. Cyndi’s mother was back in the hospital with “congestive heart failure and kidney failure.” Wow... pretty serious stuff. Later that afternoon, Cyndi and called her brother back, got more details and began adjusting our plans for the weekend. Plans that were going to be exciting, fun, family times. Now we had to tell our kids about grandma, have Cyndi pack and leave for Iowa this morning (Friday, Jan. 14th).

I shared with Cyndi the story of how Nate and Jose had prayed for me on Tuesday, With tears in both of our eyes we knew that God used these two me to help emotionally and spiritually prepare us for this phone call and the unknown future for Cyndi’s mother.
There was a peace that only God can provide that came over Cyndi and I as we finalized our new weekend plans.

Once again, we can see that God is 100% true to his word. We may not like or enjoy what situations we face in life, but God is there with us. God is actually going before us, clearing away for us to make it through the highs and lows of live. “I will never leave you or forsake you”, Jesus said.

Thank you God for going before us always.