REBUKING THE STORM,  SECOND DAY REFLECTIONS

By now, I have gotten your attention.  The story on the first page of this section, about the fifty-foot tree falling on the trailer, and nothing happening to me or it, is amazing enough. 

Looking at the older picture of the trailer park, you can get some measurements.  My pickup is about twenty feet long, and you can use it to measure with, to scale with.

The top of the tree that fell rested about fifty feet above the ground.  Again scaling, about twenty feet up, the tree broke.  About the top thirty feet of the tree fell across the roof of the trailer.  Seems my first night estimation of what had happened, was pretty accurate.  Carpenters do a lot of measuring.

Since the accident, a couple of things have happened. One of them is a sense of unbelief, that it happened at all.  There seems to be no way the events talked about herein could have happened at all. However, the pictures do not lie.

THE NIGHT ALL THIS HAPPENED

The wind effect at the level of the trailer was immense.  We have talked about the tree falling, and not hurting the trailer.   We have not talked about the fact that  NOTHING AT ALL ON THE TRAILER WAS HARMED, NOR ANYTHING I OWNED, NOR DID ANYTHING OF MINE BLOW AWAY. 

He got me on that one. You can see by the pictures that the storm was raging in an unholy manner about the house, but God, from his Holy and Mighty and Magnificent Throne was holding me together.

In another sense, I was not "together."  All that wind-and-raging-and-tree-breaking happened in the first thirty seconds. As soon as it did the Lord said to get outside and call Bob and pray against the storm.

I did, and we did, Bob and I immediately prayed.  Actually, he did most of the praying, and I most of the agreeing.  My job was to stand out in the midst of the raging winds and rebuke them, in Jesus name.  The Bible says we are a peculiar people.  As I weigh something over three hundred pounds, I was not really worrying about blowing away.

Still, the whole story is amazing.  I felt that my brother in the LORD and I, were taking up arms.  The Bible says our weapons are not carnal, but mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds.

The second I called Bob, who lives some twenty or thirty miles from here, the winds hit Bob's house.  As far as I know nothing was harmed there.  We may never know what would have happened if we had  not prayed together, in Jesus' name.

I called several people that night, to check on  them, and they were all right.  Everyone I talked to, for some forty miles around here, had been in the wind, and all were all right.  We may never know what might have happened if our prayers had not gone up before the throne of God.

One might think I should be pretty proud of myself, going out there and rebuking the storm, and all. Well, forget that.  I don't think  I knew what was happening.  It  did not seem like a good idea to stay in the trailer, after the tree fell on it, and outside was not much better.  At one point during the prayer, the winds started up again, and the trees violently swaying, and I backed up away from them. 

There was at one a sense of foreboding of evil, and a greater sense that Jesus was and is LORD over all the Earth. 

You know what, there seems to be nothing more to say.  That is all for now.

Paul