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Hello Lisa,
On my walk this morning before the sunrise, I saw something that stopped me in my tracks. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a man walking up the hill and stopped in front of a park bench. He fell to his knees, folded his hands and began what appeared to be praying in earnest.
That scene took me back to an experience growing up on the potato farm with my dad. As a young boy, I recall he would get up at midnight, drive a truckload of potatoes to the market in Baltimore, and return home in time to milk the cows. As the story goes, one night he fell asleep at the wheel of the ten-ton truck just as he was entering the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. The next thing my dad remembers was coming out of the tunnel miles later.
What woke him up was the change in sound exiting the tunnel. He recalls looking over at the passenger seat seeing a cloud. He pulled over, caught his breath, and then proceeded with the delivery. He came home and didn’t report the incident. However, later that day he stopped for a cup of coffee at the local country store. The Presbyterian pastor, Reverend Giles, came up to him and asked repeatedly how dad was doing. After several prods, the pastor said that he woke up during the night and sensed the Holy Spirit telling him to “pray for brother David King.” So, he crawled out of bed, got on his knees and asked God to “put a hedge of protection on brother David.”
I grew up with that story confident that our God is an awesome God who knows no boundaries. God uses many people to fulfill God’s kingdom work. May we in MDS commit anew to prayer without ceasing. And to the unknown man praying this morning: Thank you for your testimony. I pray that God’s will be done in your life.
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