UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE MOST HIGH. KEEP OUT!: Prayer Note # 37

    

 Sheets was on a journey in Guatemala, on a mission trip to build a combination clinic and outreach station on the river…

We had arranged months earlier for the Guatemalan airlines to fly us the following day into the jungle (after a trip down the Passion River in the Peten jungle.

On our arrival at the airport Saturday afternoon, we were informed that they had changed their plans and would fly us to our destination not that day but the next.

     Feeling an urgency to go as scheduled due to the limited amount of time to accomplish our mission, our leaders pressed the airlines for three hours to honor their original agreement. ‘No,’ the manager said in his broken English, ‘we take you tomorrow.’

            And so it went for three hours, in and out of offices, meeting with one official, then another. Finally, in exasperation, one of them threw up his hands and said, ‘Okay, we take you now! Get on that plane—quickly!’

            That night, while we were 250 miles away, an earthquake hit Guatemala city and killed 30k000 people in 34 seconds!

Had we stayed in the city one more night—as the airlines wanted us to—some of our team would have been killed and others injured…an intercessor from our home church back in Ohio had received a strong burden to pray for us on the second day of our journey.

For three hours she was in intense intercession for us.

Can you guess which three hours? Yes. The three hours that our leaders were negotiating with the airline officials…There isn’t a doubt in my mind that she helped create the protection and intervention we experienced.”

Prayer Note # 35 - UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE MOST HIGH. KEEP OUT!: Prayer Note # 37  Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer  (pgs. 88-90)  (5/8/12)

            “How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.”  Ps. 36:7  (NKJV)

            “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by.”  Ps. 57:1 (NKJV)

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