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This morning (July 5), I was exhausted from yesterday's fireworks show that my husband and I put on. (I have sore places in my body that I didn't know existed and all I wanted to do was lay completly still). But, it was my Daddy's birthday, so with my car still loaded down from yesterday, I drove all the way to Gainesville to his party. When I left the party was driving home, I ran into stand-still traffic on 129N at Bells Mill Bridge. A woman that came by told me that a 14 year old boy had drowned and the bridge would be shut down for a while because they were searching for the body. As I sat there, I felt led to go and try to help.
Now, I am a nurse, but I had no knowledge of what I was getting into, but I just knew I needed to go and try to help in some way. I parked my car, left my kids and walked down to the bridge. There, as I looked over the bridge I could see the divers boat in the water and the police over on the other side of the lake, but on the side of the lake where I was, there was a lady and a boy waist deep in the whailing and crying out the boys name.
There was one lady police officer that was there, all of the rest were on the other side of the lake. She was trying to persuade them to come out of the water, she called up to me and asked for towels. I found some and took them down. It had been over an hour since the boy had went under and this family was in the dead sun, hot and crying. They were cotton mouthed and obviously in need of fluids.
I had a cooler full of cold drinks still in my trunk, so I was able to give them all something to drink.
Over the next hour I witnessed the most astounding faith I could imagine. This lady, had watched her son go under the water and not come back up. She was devistated, she prayed aloud and cried out to God. Now, she spoke only Spanish and I know very little of the language, but I could understand that she was praying.
At one point, she looked into my eyes and said the only english words I heard from her "My son, He Is okay?" My heart might as well have been torn from my chest, all I could answer her was he is with our Father. I felt so helpless.
Even though she was wrought with sadness, she never quit praying. In her prayers, she was thanking God. I couldn't understand all of what she said, but I could understand that.
She fainted several times, and when she would regain consiousness, she would resume praying. I heard this lady commit her son to the father and thank him.
After they had found the childs body and I had gotten her and her other son into the hands of the Paramedics so they could be transported to the hospital and seen about for their shock and devistation, the lady police officer thanked me and with tears in her eyes told me what an angel I'd been.
All I could say to her was that I'd been blessed to be there.
I know that old saying "God works in mysterious ways", and I don't understand why I was there. And, my heart is hurting because of what I have witnessed. But, I do know, that any other time, I would have unloaded my car and I wouldn't have had those much needed supplies. and, I usually don't get out at scenes of accidents if there are police and firetrucks there, because I don't want to interfere with their work, but today I felt compelled to for some reason. And, I'm not certain that I even did any good other than giving them my drinks. But, I do know that I feel that I was blessed to be there.
So, I guess that sometimes blessings can be a little painful?
Psalm 10:17:
17 Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless.
Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
Psalm 23:4:
4 Even when I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will not be afraid,
for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.
Isaiah 49:13: 13 Sing for joy, O heavens!
Rejoice, O earth!
Burst into song, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted his people
and will have compassion on them in their suffering. Isaiah 40
1 “Comfort, comfort my people,”
says your God.
Matthew 5:4:
4 God blesses those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
2 Corinthians 1:3:
3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.
Please, join me in praying for this family.
Thank You:
Dear Heavenly Father: I ask that you continue to surround this family with your awesome presence. I pray that you'll comfort them and bring them peace. Father, we don't always understand why things happen, and the death of a young child is hard. I can't imagine the devistation this mother is feeling, but you know. You watched your son die a horrible death just so we could be saved from our sins and one day come to be with you in Heaven.
Father please bring her peace in her heart. Allow her spirit to rest assured that her son is now with you. Father, I pray that you'll give her strength as they go through the burial process and that they'll all find comfort in you. I thank you for your presence with us today there at the lake, for I know you were hearing our prayers. I know it was you who held that mother in your arms as she lay there mourning the loss of her son. I thank you and I praise you. Father, bless them financially, that they will be able to pay for the funeral expenses witout difficulty. Thank you for all you do.
In Jesus Name I Pray;
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| July 05, 2008 |
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May God bless you and we are here to pray for you free and at any time as you requested .
May God bless you..amen.
Evangelist JPK
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| July 05, 2008 |
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Brandi, I joined you in prayer for this family. I also ask God to comfort you. I stopped for an accident several years ago where 4 teenagers were in a car accident. 2 pairs of siblings on their way to high school. One from each family died at the scene of the accident. I prayed with all of those children. When I went to the funeral home, I went to the Mother and told her that I prayed that God would raise her beautiful daughter as He did Lazarus and she started crying and took me to her Aunt. Her Aunt who was a minister said at the time of her death, the Lord spoke to her and said He had sent someone to pray with her and they had prayed about Lazarus. She said, I thought you were a man, but I should have know the Lord would send a woman. This young girl had just prayed for salvation the year before with her Aunt. That accident scene still haunts me at times. We just can't understand somethings. Be blessed and thank you for being obedient to the Lord. I know you answered a prayer and you gave that drink as to the Lord. Evangelist Shellie Polk |
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| July 06, 2008 |
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Brandi,
What angel you are! God used you in such a special way yesterday and you will be trully blessed for your efforts. You say you don't know why you were there of if you even made a difference....God put you there and you did make a difference in that woman's life and in yours. Not only were you a comfort to her in her time of need, God showed you that He is God no matter what the language barrier is. That woman knew you were a Godly woman and you knew that she cried out to God too. You helped her very much. She will never forget you!
Dear Father God, I also come to you asking for your Grace and Mercy on this family that has lost a child. Father, I know you will comfort that mother in her time of grief. Wrap her in your arms around her again during all she must endure in the coming days. Let her feel you presence all around her. Send sweet peace to her mind and reassure her of a grand Home Coming oneday. Father, bless her and her family financially. Let this loss not be a burden to them. Bless them in all areas of their life. May they have favor everywhere they go. Lift them up and surround them with family and friends that will encourage them and help them walk through this loss and come out on the other side, more blessed in all the things of You, Lord. For all these things I ask in Jesus Name, AMEN and AMEN! |
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| July 06, 2008 |
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Brandi,
My heart is so full of appreciation and thankfulness To our Heavenly Father for all He is doing in your life. I look at you and see God, I read your prayers and I'm comforted by a woman I know has been with God. I am so very very proud of you and the growth and maturity I see as you go after God with all your heart. Thanks for the encourgement this morning. Only God knows how much I needed the words you spoke over me. Your obedience inspires me and I want you to know that God sees your heart and He smiles!! I am so blessed to know you....Thank you my friend for being such an obedient servant of our precious Lord. He has great things in store for our church body and I prophecy now to you that He is preparing you for a greater work that your mind can not right now comprehend. Keep seeking Him and He will lead you with each step of faith you take. God Bless you my dear dear friend. Karen Camp |
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