HE PROTECTS AND GUIDES US

Thursday - August 19, 2021

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“It was the LORD our God himself who brought us and our fathers up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.” – Joshua 24:17
 
In May 2011, a devastating EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.
Days later, Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplain Pam Rhodes was fortunate to hear Cheryl’s gripping story and pray for her family.
Cheryl had picked up her two daughters who were out celebrating high school graduation and she was driving away from the storm. Only her compass was backward and she was actually driving square into it.
A half-mile from home, the rain was a deluge, coming down so hard, as if she was in a car wash, and Cheryl felt the Lord telling her to pull over.
There could be no other explanation for the magnitude of winds and rain bearing down. Cheryl realized she was in the midst of a massive tornado.
The windows blew out and Cheryl pushed her daughters down and began to pray.
As Cheryl describes it, there was an unexplainable force keeping all three of their heads down and it saved them from a multitude of chards that punctured the van.
Suddenly there was a peace that passed over.
Cheryl and her two daughters were now in the vortex and she could hear the Lord telling her “your daughters are going to be safe.”
A split second later, the winds and rain picked up and in the blink of an eye, the van was whipped up into the twister, landing on the top of a roof that had been torn off a building.
Smashed in a van, covered by debris and wrapped in power lines, Cheryl believed she encountered an angel.
“A man came up and had no debris on him at all and she felt this presence, this peace,” Cheryl said. “He came and said he was going to help them get out of the car. He said, you don’t have to be afraid and he rescued them.”
And as quickly as he appeared, he vanished.
“It was really just the hand of God who saved them,” Rhodes said. “God is going to use that.”
 
The Lord protects and guides us through all of the events in our lives. Today in prayer, praise Jesus that He protects you from all types of harm.
 
“The moment we begin to tread upon the thin ice of our own abilities, we have traveled beyond the realm of God’s promised protection and provision.” – Bart J. Leger
 
God’s Protection: “Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings” – Psalm 17:8