ONE HOUSE STANDING:
Tuscaloosa, ALA.
At Mardi Gras, I met a guy who told me how he rebukes the storm and it obeys. So, a few Wednesdays ago, I felt this terrible anxiousness in my heart and spirit. I kept praying against it and it wouldn’t go away. A few hours later, I talked to John, my friend from Albama (the guy who rebukes the storm…) He says, Oh! My sister lives in Tuscaloosa and a tornado is headed that way---let’s pray! So, we prayed. He rebuked the storm…. We kept praying….(even after we hung up the phone from our conversation.) Later that evening, we chatted. John said, Hey did I tell ya about my sister? (I’m waiting with baited breath.) No! What happened? Well, she had to walk home from work the destruction was so bad that she couldn’t get within two miles of her house. As she walked, the elementary school was down, and the strip mall was down (“flat on the ground”.) Every house in her neighborhood was down, except one. One house standing---Lisa’s house was standing alone, unscathed in a totally destroyed neighborhood. God had mercy. Of course, I’m hooting at this point, “Glory to God! Praise God! He heard your prayer!”
The next day, after talking to his sister, John said, Hey…did I tell ya? Lisa’s husband was in the basement when the storm hit! He was an unbeliever! (I’m thinking..not anymore! He saw the hand of God! How can you deny that…that God spared him, that God saved him?!) How can you NOT believe when terror strikes a whole town and yours is the only house standing?! God is amazing—obviously powerful. And He is alive! He hears the prayer of the righteous man. He heeds the cry of His children. And He IS wonderfully, merciful and loving, God. Here is account of Jesus, the Son of God and His great power, and how His followers stand in awe of Him:
“LET US PASS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE”
Mar 4:35 And evening having come, He said to them on that day, Let us pass over to the other side.
Mar 4:36 And when they had sent away the crowd, they took Him with them as He was in the boat. And there were also other little boats with Him.
Mar 4:37 And there arose a windstorm, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was now full.
Mar 4:38 And He was in the stern of the boat, asleep on a headrest. And they awakened Him and said to Him, Master, do You not care that we perish?
Mar 4:39 And He awakened and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mar 4:40 And He said to them, Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?
Mar 4:41 And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?
Pro 10:25 As the storm passes, so the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Psa 107:29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
(Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…2 Corin 5:1)
