The Word
of Wisdom may be employed to warn an individual of approaching danger and to
deliver from harm. |
It was in
those terrible days in |
‘I was
counting my week’s takings on a Friday afternoon’, she said, ‘- a matter of
perhaps twelve pounds. Sitting on that chair, I was. A voice plainly said,
‘Put that money away!’ |
‘I looked
round. Nobody in the room. I stepped to the door. Nobody in the street. I
went on counting and making up my little book. |
‘The voice
again, louder. ‘Put that money away!’ I looked round again. No person near.
‘Yes, Lord,’ I said, recognizing His warning Voice, ‘I am just finishing
now’. |
‘Then
louder than ever, ‘Put that money away!’ |
‘I got
afraid and pushed the money quickly under a cushion on that couch, when
immediately two roughs came in at the door. ’Hullo, Auntie!’ said one: ‘We have
come to see you’. ‘You are not my nephews’ I said. |
‘Then one
took me by the throat and, pressing me back into a chair, put a pistol to my
forehead, saying: ‘Where is your money?’ The other man was searching all the
drawers in the room. |
‘I am a child
of God’, I said, ‘and that pistol will never go off!’ |
‘Then the
Spirit of the Lord got hold of me and I shouted, ‘In the Name of the Lord
Jesus I command you to leave this house!’ |
‘Without another
word they both took to their heels and I have never seen or heard of them
from that day to this. What a blessing I didn’t put the money in the drawer!
Whoever would have thought of looking for money under a cushion on that old
couch! Praise the Lord!’ |
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From:
Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit,
Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri, USA, 1975, pages 64-65 |