A Glimpse of
Answered Prayer From GOD
(a personal story of answered prayer) by Carolyn Jo Gower
On
September 24, 2007, our son, Luke, calls to say “Mom, I feel in my heart that
all the prayers you and dad have prayed for my safety are being
answered”. “Especially last Thursday night {September 20, 2007}; I was
working in Little Rock at the ER. A woman came in with a gunshot
wound. She was brought in along with her child and mother. A
shooting took place in public and this woman was hurt but not life threatening.
People that came in her room kept telling her how ‘lucky’ she was and her
mother would say “Oh, no – not lucky – it is a God thing – the Lord Jesus
protected us”. Luke said “As I was taking care of them, I saw it was
time for me to get off work, 11:00pm, but I thought no these people need me,
I’ll stay to finish helping them.”
Luke
continues: “As I was driving home,
everything was fine until I reached Cabot; there the interstate was completely
blocked on one side. I got off the interstate on to a service / side
road. As I drove by I saw how bad it was. It was a head-on wreck; two
people were being flown out and two were sent in an ambulance. I didn’t
think too much about it until the next day, when I got to work. I found out that the person that caused the
wreck was on a ramp, one-way but the wrong way getting on the interstate as he
was leaving Searcy. He was going 80 miles an hour and hit the other
person going the right way on the ramp trying to exit. They hit head-on. That person was going
about 70 or 75.
If I had gotten off work at my
scheduled time I very well could have been the car in the head-on
collision. I believe God rescued me for a purpose; it could have been my
time to die but because of prayers for safety, God snatched me out of harm’s
way. Mom, don’t stop praying for my safety.”
As a “Mom”, I
never stop being amazed at how great our God, Lord Jesus Christ is, and how he
shows us the way. After Luke called and told me what had happened I
thought – I’ll write this down for family history and for testimony too.
As I’m writing I look at the calendar to see the date Luke is referring to – it
is September 20th – which is the day Hugh and I were traveling home
from a Bible lectureship. That day was an all day drive to make it home and I
had a book that I like to use often to pray for my children and their
families. It is “Praying God’s Will for My Son” scripture book and used it most of
the day as a prayer guide for Luke and Paul and their families. So as we
rode in the car I was praying many of those scriptures and marked each one with
that September 20th date! To me that is a glimpse from God or
a “wink” from God saying keep on praying I’m listening and it does make a
difference.
Dear Father
in heaven, I pray thanking you for answering my prayers for Luke on that
September 20th specifically! I prayed many prayers as we
journeyed home from Abilene Texas, ACU Lectures that day. Thank you Lord
that you are answering all of them! Praise you – you alone are worthy to
be praised! Amen
Carolyn Jo
Gower
