Jesus is Our Protector!!!!

Wow.  I have a rather unusual Praise Report today.... some of you may not believe it... but my heart Believes and I am strengthened because of what has happened.......

Let me start by going back a few weeks ago..... to when someone followed me home from Cracker Barrel...... I was oblivious.... but my parents were following a few car lengths behind me, and grew suspicious when a certain car kept making every turn that I made......so they grew very alarmed when I pulled into our driveway and that car stopped in the road,  in front of a nearby house, and just sat there....and when Mom pulled up behind it, they took off quickly, but paused at the end of our block..... and sat there until Mom and Dad drove up behind them..... then they rounded the corner and CIRCLED back to stop a few feet from our drive..... Mom by this time had called me to get inside the house and lock the door!!!!!!  She and Dad came up behind the strange car again, and they took off again..... and started on quite a chase through the neighborhood..........then finally gave up and left.....

Well, early this morning around dawn..... I was staying at my Grandmother's.... across town..... and I was suddenly awakened from a deep sleep......... I felt the most urgent need to pray for Mom and Dad's safety.... I felt as if someone was outside their house wanting to break in..... so I began to pray and seek the Lord for their protection and safety...... I prayed specific prayers, too!  as in:  " Lord Jesus, if anyone is thinking of breaking in .... make them terrified!  Send Holy Angels of God to chase them from the house!!!! put such fear on them that they tremble in fright!  Let the Angels of God chase them from the neighborhood.... and if they even think about returning to break in and rob and steal...... let terror from You, Lord, cover them!  Keep Mom and Dad and our home safe!  Wake Mom and Dad up and alert them to the danger!  Make them aware of the danger!  Move on them to Pray! In Jesus' Name!"

I felt a real release and peace in my Spirit after praying.... and read my Bible for a while and went back to sleep....... so later during the day, I called Mom and asked her what time she woke up..... and she answered:  "Well, I awoke around dawn..... I just couldn't sleep...... tossed and turned all night and kept waking up, then finally woke and dawn and couldn't go back to sleep...... why?"  So I shared my experience...... we talked a bit..... said goodbye and hung up....... she called back a few minutes later..... and said "You need to let Dad tell you something! You are gonna freak when he tells you what happened"  and then handed the phone to Daddy....... he said:

"Well,  I woke up around dawn this morning, from a bad dream........ in the dream I was lying in the bed next to Mom, and I saw something trying to come into our house...... in the dream, I felt such danger!!!!  I was holding a pistol..... and trying to shoot it!  I woke from the dream.... feeling a real sense of danger and that I needed to pray for our safety and that God would protect us and the house..... so I talked to the Lord for a while......"

As he spoke to me, precious friends....... I felt the power of the Holy Ghost go all over me..... and tears ran down my cheeks.......I thanked God for His goodness and mercy and for keeping them safe....... We have all rejoiced today in thankfulness to Him........ we are convinced that He stopped a break in............it very well could have been the same people that followed me home from Cracker Barrel, returning to carry out their dark intentions... only God knows for sure......... 

You know....... we hear of mighty things happening over on the mission fields of foreign lands..... but we are children of God also; so why can't these things happen in the good old USA??  If we will just stay prayerful and seek God and ask Him to make us sensitive to His dear voice..... He will speak to us!  He will protect us and lead us..........I love Him so much more every day that I live.....too often, (and I am speaking from experience) we allow the cares of this life to drown out His precious voice.......and we ignore the gentle nudging of His Spirit..........

God Help me to listen more to Your voice..... and help me to seek you consistently..............