God has rescued me from dangerous situations more than a few times. I\u2019ll be sharing three of these harrowing experiences\u00a0in the next three entries.<\/p>\n
Part of my purpose in sharing these events is to focus on one thing I’ve learned by trial and error\u2014no two methods of deliverance will be exactly alike.\u00a0Trust me\u2014I’ve\u00a0tried<\/em> to use the method you’ll read about in the following account as my go-to \u201cdeliverance-from-danger\u201d formula, but God wasn\u2019t having it. More on that tomorrow.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the main thing I’ve learned. When you are confronted with impending trouble or disaster, you must lean heavily upon the Spirit of God. He always has a way of escape for you; your job is to stay hooked up with Him in childlike trust to find out what\u2014if anything\u2014He wants you to do. When you are facing sudden danger, you must let Him lead<\/em>.<\/p>\n Tale One: Deliverance from a creepy guy in a corduroy shirt <\/strong><\/p>\n Many years ago, I was handing out tracts with a group of friends outside of Busch Stadium, home\u00a0to the\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0Cardinals. In front of the Stan “the Man” Musial statue, my friend Cat and I were attempting to share the gospel with a scraggly young man. He stood, facing us, his back to the curb, with something obviously hidden under his maroon corduroy shirt. A strange look came over his face as he leaned in toward us and snarled, “Have you ever considered that you\u00a0might be martyred for your faith?”<\/p>\n Without a thought, up from my insides Scripture thundered. I spoke the words I heard: “At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:11 and 12 just\u00a0rocketed up from my spirit and flowed out of my mouth! The sword of the Spirit was in operation.<\/p>\n But the next thing that happened left Cat and me with dropped jaws. The man, leaning into us and threatening one minute, collapsed backward the next, falling onto the hood of the car parked behind him at the curb. Just then, some of the guys in our group approached us and asked if we wanted them to take over. Cat and I, who were punching each other in the thighs, both\u00a0in shock, both thinking\u2014that really<\/em> happened<\/em>?\u2014left the fallen man to the guys.<\/p>\n Tale Two tomorrow.<\/p>\n Until then,<\/p>\n Dorothy<\/p>\n …the word of God \u2026 performs its work in you who believe.<\/em> 1 Thessalonians 2:13b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God has rescued me from dangerous situations more than a few times. I\u2019ll be sharing three of these harrowing experiences\u00a0in the next three entries. Part of my purpose in sharing these events is to focus on one thing I’ve learned by trial and error\u2014no two methods of deliverance will be exactly alike.\u00a0Trust me\u2014I’ve\u00a0tried to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-spirit-leading","category-sword-of-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}