Jesus is Powerful

I saw a girl almost die today. I was turning a corner onto a small street and a girl was laying on the road because she had just fallen off of her bike with her husband bending over her. I was in the car with my good friend, Curry, and we parked the car and ran out to her side.

In my whole life I will never forget her face.

I have never seen anyone is more intense and unspeakable pain as this girl was. Her entire body was convulsing and curling up and from her head to her toes, she was turning blue. Her eyes were rolling back in her head.

I will never forget her blue lips. I will never forget her eyes.

Before the ambulance came and I think she may have died. I am not sure if she just went unconscious, but to me it looked like she died, especially because when the ambulance came they put the shocking pads on her to revive her.

Curry and I prayed. Hard. We didn’t know what else to do. So we prayed. Prayed to bring her back. Prayed to have mercy on her. Just talked to Daddy. And He definitely answered. After a while she was breathing on her own and then soon she could even tell them what her name was.

I don’t know if she died during any of that, but I know that she almost did. There is no doubt in my mind about that.

The crazy thing is that literally two minutes before this happened, they past me on their bikes. I saw them. I remember seeing them. I thought thoughts about them. They were quickly pointed out in conversation as the people on bikes. And then they turned the corner and she almost died…. We see people every single day and they could very literally turn a corner and die a horrible, painful death two minutes after we saw them. That blows my mind. It scares me! It overwhelms me! How can this be? How can we let this be, that people are passing by us and we are not giving them more than a thought. More than a slight mention in our ‘busy’ days. God wants us to love them!! This overwhelms me too! How can I love everyone? How can I possibly reach everyone??

Another thing that God showed me tonight is His incredible timing. As Curry and I were leaving the Hastings parking lot, we saw a friend, Sean. We talked with Sean for about five minutes, and then left. If we would have left one minute earlier, we wouldn’t have been able to pray. We wouldn’t have been able to call others to pray. We wouldn’t have been able to comfort her husband. God had us there at the exact right time! Also the nurse that was passing by, she told us after that she and her husband were just going to get a movie from Hastings. She past just in time to give this girl CPR. God is incredible. There is not one ounce of doubt in my mind that God orchestrated the people that were there. Why didn’t He stop her from falling? I don’t know. But He did not let her fall alone.

And He will not let us fall alone either. Just as she dying on the ground, so are we! But THANK THE LORD that He did not just leave us there. He has revived us! And He did not stop at just reviving us! He has given us a name and a place as His children!!