Picture this:
Mary, me and Hannah walking in a line on a dirt road, Robby (our squad leader) is only 50 yards in front of us waiting. Three men are leaning against the tin wall of a house and as we get closer one starts to walk with us…as he hooks around in front of us, I feel something telling me to wrap the strap of my friends Canon DSLR around my wrist and drop a few steps behind Mary and Hannah to create a barrier.
Just after I move back he bolts through Mary and Hannah, grabs the camera and my hands and we begin a tug-of-war over the camera. And just as quickly as it began, the struggle ends…and as I feel his hands leave mine, the Holy Spirit urges me to run, so I take off with Mary and Hannah beside me and head towards Robby (our squad leader) who wore an expression of confusion, but not worry.
The whole day as we recount the story to others, Hannah keeps adding a fourth girl to our numbers, and it isn't until the end of the day that Mary and I finally correct her and tell her it was only 3 of us. She proceeds to try to convince us that Brandi was there with us the whole time and that she had been the one to push the guy off of me.
It isn't until Brandi's look of confusion when Hannah asks her if she remembers the camera debacle that Hannah is swayed, but she is still 100% positive that there was a fourth person with us…it then dawns on me: Angels!
If the Bible talks about prophesy, tongues, and healing prayer and I have been witness to these things on the World Race…and the Bible also talks about angels, then why wouldn't they be real and why wouldn't we be able to see them?!
When I talk to Robby later, I finally understand why he wasn't concerned about us…he also had seen a group of women (more than 4) walking, but after the boy let go of the camera, he only saw 3 women run towards him — just Mary, Hannah and me.
After this experience, I am certain of these things:
• My Father surrounds me with His guardian angels — literally.
• This situation could have been worse, there could have been a knife…thus, safety is not guaranteed. I am even more aware and cautious of my surroundings after this, but I'm also relying more on the Lord to supply my physical needs as well as my spiritual ones.
• Your prayers are being heard, the Lord is watching over us and we still have a purpose to fulfill.
Going to the nations in a journey that is much like the disciples' and Jesus' in the Bible is not about comfort and safety…it actually requires the opposite. In order to truly do what the Lord has asked of us, we must abandon the comforts we've been accustomed to. That is the process I'm in — identifying what comforts I have come to rely upon and then abandon them, leave them behind and step into the journey and self the Lord has prepared for me.
​Prayer:
• Safety for my squad as we travel to Guatemala on Wednesday, August 1.
• For Zion's Gate, the ministry we have been so blessed to become a part of this month. They have a free month next week and they will gain a lot from the break to recuperate before the next World Race squad comes. Also, a lot of growth is happening in the boys here…please keep them in your prayers.
• For my grandpa, he has been in and out of the hospital for different surgeries — prayer for healing and peace. If you have any information on good heart doctors and gastric doctors in the Atlanta area, please email me on here with their contact info and I will forward it on to my mom.
If you have anything that I can pray for, please let me know, as well. I want to lift you all up just as much as you have been lifting me up! Prayers are heard by our powerful Father, this story is a testament to that!
