IT HAPPENED TO ME: Prayer Note # 44

         

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Dutch Sheets tells us, "I actually happened to me once, although I didn't make the kind of noise I'd heard others make.

(Those I had heard sounded a lot like my wife when she was in labor.)

I was probably 9 or 10 years old and it occurred while praying for an unsaved aunt.

One night as I lay in bed, I felt a strong burden to pray for her salvation.

I remembering getting out of my bed, onto my knees and weeping uncontrollable, asking God to save her

I was so young and it was so long ago that I can’t remember how long it lasted—probably 30 minutes to an hour.

Finally, the burden lifted and I went to sleep.

My aunt lived about an hour and a half away from us.

For some ‘unknown’ reason, however, she called us later that week and said she wanted to come to our church that Sunday morning.

We did not know at the time that she was actually coming to the service planning to give her life to Christ, and did.

I was amazed. I had travailed for her, and that very same week she drove the long distance to give her heart to the Lord.

I didn’t question the concept—I knew that would be irreverent.

God forbid that anyone would have questions about something so spiritual!

The things we couldn’t explain, we treated as too holy to question.

We were supposed to act as if the questions weren’t there—admitting them might be to disrespectful. So we didn’t let God or anyone else know we had them.”

Prayer Note # 43 IT HAPPENED TO ME! - Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (pgs. 111, 112)

"And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." Joel 2:28 NKJV


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