Urgent update: Impact to the left temple

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men… 1 Timothy 2:1

You have a massive prayer assignment. It is because of this that God has armed you with secret weapons to accomplish your task. Praying without ceasing (see 1 Thessalonians 5:17), praying in the Holy Spirit (see Jude 20), and staying alert in prayer (see Colossians 4:2) can work together within you, whether you are in your prayer closet or just going about your daily routine. As you move through your day, you can pray quietly within yourself, whether in the Holy Spirit or your own language, trusting that God will toggle your understanding when necessary with important and urgent updates in the Spirit about this man or that woman, this nation or that situation. As you allow yourself to participate in the process, you recognize that God wants you to be available and ready so He can give you His insight for the purpose of prayer. This empowers you to do your part in praying for all men.

I encountered one of God’s urgent updates in 1997. As I was driving home one night after a meeting at church, I experienced an unnerving sense of impact to my left temple as if I was about to be struck by gunfire. I found the nearest semi-truck and drove right next to it for cover against flying bullets!  Thankfully, as I precariously hugged that truck, I realized the Lord was giving me an intercessory assignment for someone. I entered into prayer as I pulled back from the semi, entreating God for safety for myself, my relatives, my friends, my colleagues, and anyone else in danger of impact. The sense of danger lingered, so I continued praying both in the Holy Spirit and with my understanding until it lifted.

When I arrived home I called my friends from a neighboring church, John and Janet, who had joined us earlier that evening. No one answered, so I left a message.

The next day John called and told me that he and Janet were involved in a head-on collision on their way home from the meeting. He was fine and Janet would be released from the hospital that day. John explained that upon impact, Janet, who was not wearing a seatbelt, flew over him and shattered the windshield with the left side of her head. She fractured her wrist upon impact in an attempt to protect herself, but her head was unharmed. In fact, for the next few days as she combed her hair, she pulled out clumps of it along with fragments of windshield, leaving an unscratched, quarter-sized bald spot on her left temple! Fifteen years later, she and John are alive and well and very involved in effective street outreach and missionary work. (From my book First of All Pray, copyright 2013.)

Praise God for the urgent updates from the Holy Ghost! Help us, Lord, to heed them.

Dorothy

UPDATE: Now 19 years after the accident, John and Janet are still going strong in the Lord, serving Him in remote regions of Alaska for months at time among the Inuit people.