Tornado
I guess I just got the call.
Some little boy called me on the phone and when I said hello, there was
a quiet moment, then he said the word, tornado.
Then he hung up the phone. I had
the phone number on my phone so I returned the call in case they were trying to
reach someone else and to also let the parents know if they had any questions
they could call me. After that call, I stopped to think. "Why the word
tornado?", perhaps he was giving me
the word of the day, or he was giving a weather prediction, or he was asking
for prayer or was He playing a prank or was it simply the wrong number? Anyway I thought it was unusual since I've
had many strange things happen concerning
tornadoes. Soon I noticed gloomy
dark clouds starting to cover the sky as the sound of thunder broke the
silence. I thought this little boy
might be at a lake somewhere and was frightened in the corner because He
thought there was going to be a tornado and all that could pass through his lips was
the frightening word tornado. I thought
this because last year my daughters and I were hunkered down under a mattress
while vacationing at a lake.
My husband and son in-law were at the nearest Wal-Mart buying ice cream and other supplies. My daughters and I played board games under a
mattress with a flashlight, because the power was off, even though the storm
whipped violently by, we were still able to have fun. I learned a long time ago don't sit around
worrying unless you have to. Do what's
necessary to keep safe, then ride out the storm. Then if something happens deal with it
then. So we prayed for safety for
ourselves and the surrounding area and played board games until the storm
passed by.
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When my husband was asked to preach at a revival meeting in
Oklahoma, we were greeted with what my husband called the welcoming
committee. Violent storms were preparing
to come through and we were informed that there were several tomatoes surrounding
us. There was a tornado in the town in front of us and there was a tornado in the
town behind us and one small tornado developing above our rental van. We knew
this because when we looked out of the window we could see the finger of the
tornado reaching downward that had a slight rotation. We were not
sure what we should do because our only shelter was our rental van. I spied over the land to see what we could do
in case a tornado were to hit. Then
asked my husband, "should we hit the ditch on the side of the road if there was
no safety nearby?" He didn't know so we
prayed and kept going forward until we were safely through the storm.
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When we arrived into the town, where my husband was going to
preach, on the second night of the revival meeting, the meeting was interrupted
by sirens that filled the small community.
The church full of people and our family went to the basement but the
surprising thing was the men still went outside to watch the storm, so my
husband and I went with them. There was
the hugest monster like cloud filling the sky and hailstones the size of
quarters hit the ground. It was the
first time I saw a storm so close I could almost reach out and touch it. Soon the storm past by and my husband preached
and that night God spoke to the heart of
a young man who received Christ for salvation.
Who knows maybe God used that
very storm to prepare that young man's heart, after all God can use even the
storms of life to make good things happen.
Started July 15th - July 17th
Susan Y Nikitenko
Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
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