What angel experiences have you encountered?
In 1950, my father unexpectedly dropped dead from a heart attack the day after Christmas after shoveling a light dusting of snow from in front of the bank where he worked. Just before someone came to our house to tell us the sad news, my sister was awakened by what sounded like an angelic choir singing the most beautiful music she had ever heard -- "There's another meeting place somewhere in Heaven."
One night in Dayton, Ohio, when she went to her car after her night job of teaching at a business college, she discovered she had a flat tire. Father did not let either of us girls drive until we first learned to change a flat tire, so that presented no problem. However, her car was parked in a very undesirable section of town. She started to change the tire when a big man walked up and said he would change it for her. She felt very safe and comfortable in his presence, although he was a stranger. Out of politeness, she tried to start a conversation with him, but he was extremely reticent in talking. He refused her proffered payment and walked down the street and around the corner. She left the same way, in her car, and was going to roll down her window as she passed him and thank him again. But when she turned the corner, no one was in sight, and there was no place he could have gone! She always felt that was an angel, and who's to say it wasn't?
Some years later I taught night school at the same business college and was driving home alone. When it was dark, I always stayed on the main roads rather than take the short cut through the little-traveled back road. I also had to cross a one-way bridge on that back road. I don't know if I fell asleep at the wheel one night, or what. But when I "came to" -- I know no other way to express it, I was on that solitary back road and had crossed that one-way bridge without realizing it. Had an angel been guarding me, possibly even driving my car?
One winter night when I lived near Buffalo, New York, I was coming off the thru way on an icy, slippery road and had to make a 90-degree left-hand turn at the bottom of the downhill ramp. The car went out of control and there was no way I could stop it; I was headed for the field across the road and another car that had already crashed the fence. I didn't even have time to plead the Blood. I simply took my feet off both brake and accelerator, lifted my hands off the steering wheel and said, "Jesus!" Immediately the car righted itself and made the neatest left-hand turn you ever saw.
Angels? Yes. There's no doubt in my mind they exist and intercede on our behalf more than we realize.
Thank God for your guardian angels!
Preacher's Kid
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I came upon your post from a Google Alert I set up on the phrase "plead the blood". I do this every day for my family and believe God showed me something about this which I wrote about in my blog in 2006. You might be interested in reading it at: http://roadrevelations.org/?p=50.
ReplyDeleteI also would like to share a "angel story". My wife and I were driving back to our former town to close the loan on a house. It was cold and had rained that morning but the roads just appeared to be wet. As we rounded a turn on a divided highway, we saw several cars on the roadway sideways, wrecked, or stopped. We could not stop to avoid a collision. One car was stopped in our way but it began sliding sideways toward the median. I knew if I braked, we would begin sliding so all I could do was keep coasting. As we got to the scene, the car had slid far enough for us to pass the only opening with inches to spare. I believe an angel pushed that car out of our way and let us pass!
Be blessed!
Bill