It's All About Relationship #23

It is all about relationship!!!! Relationship is what we should all be doing. In every deed and word we speak it should be about relationship. Relationship is why I'm learning thoroughly Matthew 6:25-34. People are what cause me to be uneasy, anxious or worry. I'm not saying that it's right just that it is. And thruth be told I'm sure I have or do cause some people to be uneasy, anxious or worried and maybe worse. It is not usually my intent so I come by it naturally. I don't even have to work at it in either case of causing it or living in it. Anyway the following is why Ann Marie and I do our part at Onething Prayer Center.

Good News! There was a miracle at One Thing just now on Sat. night.

Thought you might like to know about it. 8-)I'll try to make the story as short and to the point as possible but: We already basically closed up and ready to leave when God told Beth to go over to the kids room/lobby and look outside. She walked over and saw a drunk woman staggering down the hallway there. So then Beth went and got Andrea (20 yrs. old) and said: "Lets go pray for that woman" Andrea was shocked to suddenly recognize the girl as a friend she had known a couple years back...but never seen her like this. When Beth engaged her the girl was in desperate shape...covered in urine and crying and begging Beth for help. She kept saying over and over "Please Help Me!" At first we thought she was saying Po-lice, or call the police. We did not know if she had been attacked or what. They got her safely into the prayer center and everyone began to pray for her. We got towels for her to sit on and a bucket in case she threw up. She was an emotional wreck, just freaking out and totally desperate. Some of our folks were tearing up while praying. Very traumatic. She would cling to Beth desperately for a couple minutes, then suddenly try to claw her or punch her, then cling to her again. One of our ladies, Elsa, knew the girl's mother Colleen and called her up to let her know we had found her daughter. Little did we know, Colleen had been at home praying with another Christian woman AT THAT MOMENT that God would send her daughter to a place where she could be protected by the right people. Colleen knew that something was urgently wrong because her daughter had found out her her boy friend in Iraq had rejected her and then she had disappeared that night. At the same time, I was just outside the church front door to stand guard for this girl. A couple of our men did the same. There were a couple bad looking young men who kept passing by the door looking for a girl, with beer in their hands and partially drunk. I think they may have spotted her earlier and had plans of their own. So good thing Beth & Andrea had thought to get her into the safety of the church. I even closed the blinds, which we usually leave open when the lights are on. The girl's family live off of Valrico Road. Why did she happen to choose this bar to drink at, wander down the back of the strip center all the way to us and cross up through our hallway, and Beth happen to look out the glass doors at just the right time? And as her family are praying intensely for her, she falls into our lap, where our ladies know of her and know how to reach her family by cell.

We happened to be having church Saturday night, and seem to be sitting around a little late that night before going home. The odds are amazing, except for God. He brought her right to us when she could have gone up a different hall, at a different time, and we would never have known. We still shudder to think of the danger she was in and how close she came to something really bad happening to her. Many of us just had to wonder, what if this was our daughter out in the world like this, in this condition, all by herself? I have left out many many more details...but God was certainly working this one out. What are the odds??? Just thought you might like to know that your prayer center became a pretty important place two nights ago for a particular young girl and her family. Because you planted roots there and established a physical place for God, we were able to be Jesus' hands, face and feet; to be there at the most crucial moment for this family. Her dark, lonely & desperate night could have turned a lot darker except that God was watching over and used your sanctuary as just that -- a safe place -- as a safe haven of love and protection during her dark hour.

APPLICATION - Give God some praise and pick any onetime benefit you would like for use today!