God sighting

Devine experience

Our whole family (with the exception of my husband because he was studying for an exam) went camping this weekend.  The morning we started setting up camp and it was a lovely busy day.   

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon clouds began to rise and heavy thunder began to raw.  Before I could pick up the sail of the Gazebo (not as if it would have help) a Gail force wind of more than 100km / h started blowing.  At that moment my oldest son (7) was at my cousin's camp and I believed he would be safe because they camped in a caravan. 

My 6 year old girl was in our tent with my mother.  When the storm broke, the gazebo flipped over the tent,  at that point I tried to hold the gazebo because the tent was attached to it.  With that, the wind began to pick up speed and the hail began to fall.  The wind blew from the west where the tent's opening was.  All I heard was my baby shouting.  The problem was, as soon as I tried to walk west to reach her, the wind blew my breath away and the wind kept me from moving forward. I turned around just to breathe and pray and ask God to help.  I then tried to walk again to get to her but couldn't and I started hyperventilating and an incredible fear struck me because I realized that this wind had the potential to blow the tent away with my child in it.  At that moment, I turn my back on the wind again to take a breath, looking up to Heaven (in my head at that moment, the section in the Bible where Jesus calms the storm) I asked, "Please God. Calm this storm I can not reach my child '. While I'm still hyperventilating, I could feel an incredible calmness overtook me, all fear left my body and I could not feel the wind and hail on my back anymore.  It was as if God was just there with me and said to me, "No, you can face your fears and do what you need to do to get to your child."  I turned around faced the wind and made my way to the tent's opening.  

When I got there I saw my mother on the mattress and I asked where my child was.  She said that my father pickup her up and took her to the car (there I realized that God had already sorted out what I was most worried about - not by silencing the storm *my way* ,  but my dad was at the right place at the right moment to be able take to take my daughter to the car. *Gods way*.  

I suddenly realized how big the hail is and that I needed to get my mother (who is suffering from severe arthritis) to safety.  After quite a bit of trouble to get her on her feet against the still forceful wind, we were able to make our way to the car as well.   In the safety of the car and knowing that my girl was safe and I calmed her a little,  I wanted to get out to search for my boy.  The wind, at that stage, already started to calm down and I wanted to get out to search for my boy.  Just then my cousin came up with my uncontrollable crying boy in her arms.  As I believed, he was indeed in their caravan all the time, but unfortunately he witnessed my battle with the tent the hail and the wind and was hysterical about me and his sister's safety.  10 seconds after my parents and my two children safely gathered in the car, as if someone were switching off a light, the wind, hail and rain stopped all at once.
 
 

What I've learned with this incredible Divine experience is that even in the midst of your storm and fears, there is a God who has sorted out the most important problems for you.  All you have to do is believe and believe as a child and listen when to God's voice and what He asks you to do - even with fear - because that's what He expects of you.  He keeps you in His hands and all you have to do is apply faith and prayer and take a step in faith to fulfil His will.  The rest is God's responsibility.  

But also that God's outcome in any situation is not necessarily your outcome. I thought the solution was to silence the storm, but if he had calmed the storm before He could reveal His might to me, this would have just been a storm and not a Divine encounter.

We serve a Great and Faithful God and you just have to practice the muscle of faith. 

Total surrender in faith is like doing a handstand, you know how and what to do to balance yourself on your hands, but without exercise you always fall to one side. But with practice you find that sweet spot of balance. Faith is like that, you know you must believe you know what faith is and how it is done but if your faith is not practiced and strengthened, you will fall in faith more often than you will get that sweat spot that gives you faith like a mustard seed.

If you have and God sighting please share it with us.

Please share my blog.

God bless you guys