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“An answered prayer is an answer to prayer.

A revelation is something out of the blue that you where not expecting.”

Backstory so you will understand my answer: Shortly before I retired from the Air Force, we had a new baby girl born to our family. We hadn’t been home to Colorado since the mid-80’s, and were thinking of taking a quick trip to visit after my retirement. My family planned a family reunion, and we went to show off the new baby, and let the older kids meet their cousins. We pray for a safe return home before we start every trip.

Leaving, after the visit, was as chaotic as it always is. My extended family is as chaotic as any group I’ve ever seen. Chaotic as my own life has been, it seems placid and orderly compared to theirs. My folks don’t particularly like my wife, and were not particularly pleasant to her. (They want me to get a divorce, and marry a nice Catholic girl.) I was up until 11PM with my dad, visiting his friends, then packed the van, and we left at 6am, headed for Denver, on our way home to Oklahoma. On the uphill side near the pass is a section of highway that has two lanes east, and two west, on separate levels, with a deep gorge to the right as we were going east. It is a no-passing zone. I’m cruising along, getting chewed on for my family’s treatment of my wife, when I suddenly stomp on the accelerator pedal, and zoom past the 4WD pickup pulling a horse trailer in the right lane just ahead of me(I’m in the left). My wife starts to yell at me about passing in the no-passing zone, and we hear this wierd noise. She turns a little further, and I look in the mirror, and see the entire driver’s-side wheel assembly, with tire, rim, brake drum, 4WD hub, and all, go bouncing through the space I just left. Everyone behind me slowed a little when I took off, so it bounces through clear space, hits the side of the mountain, and bounces back across the road through clear space, and goes over the side into the gorge.

Something told me to floor the van. If I had not, that wheel would have gone through the center of my windshield, and taken me, and the baby in the seat behind me, out, and caused a pile up. The traffic was doing 70mph. The cars behind me would have plowed into the wreckage, and completed killing whoever of us was left, and added more deaths.

That is revelation. It is, in fact, answer to prayer. Prophets pray for their revelations, as I did. Mine was only for my family, and Prophets get theirs for the whole church, but there is otherwise little or no difference. If I had failed to act on my revelation, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Old Student would have never registered on FR, because I’d have been dead long before I found it.

Believe it or not, as you prefer, but I testify to you that this is the truth, and I say this in my lord Jesus Christ’s name. Amen. (And again, I thank Jesus and God for being here to say it.)

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