I have been doing a Bible Study using John Brevere's book entitled EXTRAORDINARY. I would like to recommend this book to you for starters. One of the concepts in this book is that we get to grace through faith. Not too new! However, another concept in this book is very empowering. If we can pray without doubt for what we need...that means no doubt in our hearts, that we will receive it because we believed we would.
I just wanted to give you a background of where I am coming from in this writing. I have had a hard time with it because I am always plagued with the idea that God will answer my prayer if it is in His will. And this is true as well. Still it is necessary for me to believe with no doubt in my heart that he will grant what I pray for...a kind of conundrum for me because I always wonder how to bar doubt from said heart.
Anyway, that being said, I want to share a story of what happened to me last Friday as I was driving my husband to San Francisco airport to catch a flight to England. My chauffeur part of his trip took place during rush hour on a Friday afternoon in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I was headed for the airport I said a quick prayer with all the built-in, doubt removed, believed that it would be answered. "Heavenly Father, you know that I'm under a lot of stress about tomorrow's yard sale. I still have things to do to be completely ready, and I need to get home quickly. Father, I ask you to let this night be a night of easy traffic and a quick return to Livermore. Father I thank you in advance for what you will do about this, and I love you. Amen."
With this I became a relaxed person, drove to the airport, had nice conversation with my husband, and kissed him goodbye at the door of United Airlines. I headed back to live more fully confident that it would not take 2 hours. After all, I had prayed. I was all set, and I would be home in Livermore by 6 PM.
I was right on track and only 3 exits from Livermore when the unexpected happened. The traffic was not moving at speed limit, and the cars were pretty close to each other, but still traffic was moving in a reasonable speed. I had already thank God several times for his answer to my prayer. Suddenly, the unexpected happened. The traffic in front of me, and the driver right in front of me had slammed on her brakes because the truck in front of her had slammed on his brakes. I slammed on my brakes as well and smacked right into that car, pushing her into the truck in front of her.
I have had a little fender bender a couple of weeks ago in that very same car. It was scheduled to go for repair on the following Monday, to the tune of 600+ dollars. As I sat there in the seconds before I would have to do something. I was wondering how could I possibly tell my husband in England that I have had yet another accident. Then I had to get out of the car. You have to realize that we were in the lane next to the fast Lane and were standing on the freeway trying to figure out what to do. Each of us was saying are you okay; are you hurt? Everyone seemed to be fine, and we all decided that we needed to cross the fast Lane to get into the area near the freeway divider before we all ended up dead. So we signaled and crossed the fast Lane with no further consequences.
In that area we would be protected by our cars...if only no one hit our cars and pushed them into us. As God would have it, nobody got crushed.
However, God had more for the 3 of us. When we get out of our cars the 2nd time there were more questions asking if everyone was okay, and we were! I, of course, was heartsick worrying about having to tell him stuff her about yet another accident. The truck driver, 1st in line, looked at his truck and saw no damage. The middle car, which should have had damage on the front and the back, had no damage. My front end ALSO HAD NOT DAMAGE!!! I am sure that I hit that car going at least 5 to 10 miles an hour.. enough to push her into the truck. All 3 cars had no damage. We all laugh each other once again, are you okay; did you hurt yourself ? Everyone was okay. We did not exchange any information about who we were, or are licenses, or anything. We climbed into our cars and drove away. I will never see this man on this woman again, but I will pray for them whenever they come to my mind.
I had prayed for a quick trip home. I wanted to get there quickly and I had asked God for that. God knew that the traffic of rush hour would not be a problem, so it is my belief that God applied my prayer to the place where the real problem would be. We all should have had terrible damage to our vehicles, but none of them had any damage. That was God's answer to my prayer, He just applied it to win than the really was.
A bona fide miracle of God!!!
With this I became a relaxed person, drove to the airport, had nice conversation with my husband, and kissed him goodbye at the door of United Airlines. I headed back to live more fully confident that it would not take 2 hours. After all, I had prayed. I was all set, and I would be home in Livermore by 6 PM.
I was right on track and only 3 exits from Livermore when the unexpected happened. The traffic was not moving at speed limit, and the cars were pretty close to each other, but still traffic was moving in a reasonable speed. I had already thank God several times for his answer to my prayer. Suddenly, the unexpected happened. The traffic in front of me, and the driver right in front of me had slammed on her brakes because the truck in front of her had slammed on his brakes. I slammed on my brakes as well and smacked right into that car, pushing her into the truck in front of her.
I have had a little fender bender a couple of weeks ago in that very same car. It was scheduled to go for repair on the following Monday, to the tune of 600+ dollars. As I sat there in the seconds before I would have to do something. I was wondering how could I possibly tell my husband in England that I have had yet another accident. Then I had to get out of the car. You have to realize that we were in the lane next to the fast Lane and were standing on the freeway trying to figure out what to do. Each of us was saying are you okay; are you hurt? Everyone seemed to be fine, and we all decided that we needed to cross the fast Lane to get into the area near the freeway divider before we all ended up dead. So we signaled and crossed the fast Lane with no further consequences.
In that area we would be protected by our cars...if only no one hit our cars and pushed them into us. As God would have it, nobody got crushed.
However, God had more for the 3 of us. When we get out of our cars the 2nd time there were more questions asking if everyone was okay, and we were! I, of course, was heartsick worrying about having to tell him stuff her about yet another accident. The truck driver, 1st in line, looked at his truck and saw no damage. The middle car, which should have had damage on the front and the back, had no damage. My front end ALSO HAD NOT DAMAGE!!! I am sure that I hit that car going at least 5 to 10 miles an hour.. enough to push her into the truck. All 3 cars had no damage. We all laugh each other once again, are you okay; did you hurt yourself ? Everyone was okay. We did not exchange any information about who we were, or are licenses, or anything. We climbed into our cars and drove away. I will never see this man on this woman again, but I will pray for them whenever they come to my mind.
I had prayed for a quick trip home. I wanted to get there quickly and I had asked God for that. God knew that the traffic of rush hour would not be a problem, so it is my belief that God applied my prayer to the place where the real problem would be. We all should have had terrible damage to our vehicles, but none of them had any damage. That was God's answer to my prayer, He just applied it to win than the really was.
A bona fide miracle of God!!!
What could've been...and what was!!!!!!!
A TRUE AND BONA FIDE MIRACLE OF GOD
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