His Fingerprints
When you walk with the Lord you can look back and see his fingerprints in each of your stories. You just need to know to look for them.
I’m posting several I’ve seen in all these years. I hope they will encourage you and prompt you to look in your own stories. If you look, you’ll find them.
I had only started working at the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem a short time when someone invited me to go along with her and some others to a function being put on one evening. So I went and we had a great time.
When it finished, there was a bus waiting to take us back. I was alarmed when I realized the bus was stopping downtown rather than closer to home!!! So we got off and all went their separate ways. That meant I had to walk home alone at night in Jerusalem.
I was terrified. A woman alone? And at night? Well anyway, I started walking. A few steps away there was a corner and a soldier with his rifle on his back came around that corner and walked right in front of me all the way home. I could hardly believe it!
What relief! Only later did I connect the dots, the timing, and I realized God had put him there to protect me. God had put him there going the same way, at the same time of night, to relieve me and let my heart start beating again. Later I realized – I wonder if…
Protection
I was driving my four children home from school and there was a large truck ahead of me and going oh so slow – you know the frustration. So I ventured to the left to see if the way was clear and it was, so I started out to pass him. Suddenly I heard very loudly the word NO! Shocked the daylights out of me, and I pulled back in behind the truck. What I didn’t know was just beyond the truck there was a dip in the road and down in that dip was a car coming my way. It would have been a head-on collision. I feel the jitters just writing and remembering this.
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Angels
It was a frigid cold day but I had some business to attend to in town, so I piled the kids into the car and we went down Main Street. As soon as I parked I felt the car slightly slide, that familiar feel when your car is stuck on ice. My heart beating, I tried very slowly to back out, but it was no use. We were stuck. I just didn’t know what to do. This was before cell phones. I had no way to call anyone. Suddenly, I can see it now just as clearly as on that day – a man all bundled up in winter clothing just came around the corner, picked up the front of my car, and pushed us out. When I turned back to see him, he was gone. And I knew….
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Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Another time – this wasn’t an angel, it was the gift of discernment. I took the kids and we went into the Liquidation Center where groceries and other things were very inexpensive. We went down a couple aisles as I put items into the cart. Suddenly I had a very strong, overwhelmingly strong feeling to get out of there. I tried to ignore it, but I couldn’t. I told the kids, “kids, we’ve got to go.” I put back the items I had had in the cart and we walked toward the exit. As we rounded the corner of the aisle, there was a table totally covered in books on witchcraft. I was so shocked I could hardly believe it. We high-tailed out of there but quick.
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Discernment – A gifts of the Holy Spirit
Another time, on this same subject, the kids were just coming in from school and suddenly I was overwhelmed by that awful feeling that comes from the Lord as a warning. I called all four of them to me and told them one of them had brought something new age or occult into the house. I told them to go look in their things and find it. So they went and a few minutes later one of them came to me and showed me a medal, an astrological sign on it. She said, “Is it this, Mum? Someone gave me this at school.” Yes, that was it. We got rid of it immediately.
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Protection
Another time, this was after my children were grown. I had just moved into an apartment and was putting boxes way in a very dark cubby area under the roof. Once again I was protected. I turned around and saw a iron object in the shape of some kind of demon. It was so dark that it was totally unobservable on the wall between two studs. It melded in so darkly that it would have been impossible to see against that dark wall. I was so shocked I jumped back, shaking. Apparently someone who had lived there before me had left it there. The enemy meant it as an open door into my life in that apartment, but the Lord wouldn’t allow it. I am still amazed wondering how I saw that thing, and of course I knew I had once again been protected.
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Gifts of the Holy Spirit
I came home one day to find my son sitting on the grass, his face bloodied. I asked what on earth happened? Well …he was in a fight and got a fist to his mouth. I immediately took him to the dentist. X-rays showed his front tooth was dead. The dentist said even the root of the tooth was dead. He told me he couldn’t extract the tooth until the swelling went down, and to come back in a few days. So during that time, I was walking downstairs to the laundry room and the Lord spoke to my heart, “go pray over him.” So I went to him and simply said, “I’m going to pray over you concerning your tooth.” “Ok, Mum.” So I prayed. A few days later I took him back to the dentist. A new x-ray showed the tooth was completely healed. No extraction needed. He was healed.
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Gifts of the Holy Spirit
I came home from work to find our cat laying on the grass not moving at all. The kids told me the cat was hit by a car. I picked up the cat and took her to the vet. She had a cracked pelvis. The vet told me he couldn’t do anything for her hip, so he told me to just take her home. He said she would do one of two things, either she would have the strength to hold on and heal, or she would go off somewhere and die. Well …she went and hid behind the piano. I tried calling her out, but she wouldn’t move. I tempted her with tuna fish and with ice cream, she just ignored me. So I told the kids go get the oil. I picked her up and put her on the rug and the kids and I prayed over her. Immediately she stood up on all fours. She was healed.
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Angels
After my father died, my mother went to live with my sister. I stayed behind to settle her house. I had packed up and sent to her what I thought she would want to keep and I ran a garage sale hoping to quickly get rid of the rest. Many people came and took most of it, but there were two items no one wanted. One was my father’s tools including his table saw and lathe. The men who took a look at them all said “no, they’re too old, they’re ancient.” No one wanted them. I couldn’t even give them away. The other thing was some of my mother’s nice tea cups and saucers, and a set of plates with a red design on them. I was heartbroken. Then …this elderly couple came in. The man went and looked at my father’s tools, and the woman went and looked at the tea cups and dishes. The man came to me and said “I’ll take them all,” all of my father’s ancient tools!!! And the woman came to me and said “Ill take these,” the tea cups and plates!!! I was astonished. No one else had any interest in them at all. I asked this lovely couple where they were from. They said, “up north.” And yes, I later thought to myself, I bet they surely WERE from “up north.”
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One of my children was a pathological liar. I’m not going to name the child nor the gender, I’d never do that. Let me just say this child lied about everything. Always. Every thime. So one day when I found this child in another lie, I took the child we sat together on the livingroom couch. I asked why the constant lies. The answer? “Mum, I don’t know.” So I said, “ok, if there’s no reason, if you truly don’t know, then I suspect it might be a lying spirit. I have the authority here and I’m going to command that spirit to leave. Is that ok with you?” “Yes.” So I told that spirit to leave in the name of Jesus. The child gave a huge yawn. And I never, ever in all the years since, have never known that child to lie ever again.
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