We were just home from a 10-day trip, and it seemed that everything had to be done at once: unpacking, laundry, watering wilted flowers, picking up mail and buying groceries. I had been busy all morning, and now it was noon. Since there was nothing in the fridge, we decided to get lunch in town before grocery shopping.
We had just placed our order when the lights blinked in the restaurant. We were given our drinks and I had picked up straws and napkins when everything went dark! Power outage! We were the last customers to be served, as everyone else was turned away. Someone in the next booth said his wife texted that the power was off in Walmart. The town was in a virtual shut-down as groceries were left in carts and people advised to go home.
"Maybe we should go to Stillwater to buy groceries," my husband ventured, but then we realized we had no refrigeration at home. It was probably a good thing we didn't go, since we heard the power was out all the way to Winfield, Kansas, some 50 miles away. There was nothing to do but go home, sit on the porch and read our accumulated mail. At one point, I went inside for something, and something was different. Cool air hit my face and a dim glow was coming from the kitchen. The power was on!
In Bible study last night, we were discussing growing our faith, referencing Jude 1:20, which says, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." I had always wondered about the scripture that says, "For whosoever hath, to him it shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath," Matthew 13:12.
I concluded that it must mean understanding, because I Corinthians 2:8, tells us, "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." This is referring to the preceding verse which says, "But it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (I had always interpreted that to mean what awaits us in heaven, but from the context it means the revealing of the deep things of God.) Since He reveals things by His Spirit, it is when we pray in the Spirit that he reveals things to us and our faith is built!
A friend and wife of our former pastor shared a riveting, heartrending account on Facebook of her child's near-fatal accident a few days ago. The three-year-old had fallen into the pool, being submerged for two to three minutes. When her mother pulled her out, she was gray, and in her words, "a dead child." Frantic 911 calls, chest compressions (she had only recently learned CPR), and "prayers in words I can't recall" culminated in the child's blinking just as the EMTs arrived.
After an overnight hospital stay of tests and observation, the little girl was pronounced sound, to the doctor's and medical staff's amazement. No one denies it was a miracle! She ate her breakfast heartily, despite teeth lacerations to the tongue from the seizures she suffered during CPR.
I have no doubt her survival was not only due to her mother's resuscitation skills, but from the Holy Ghost power in the prayers of this Spirit-filled woman. No electrical failure can destroy that Power!
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