Posted on 05/29/2011 2:06:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
........Connie is a spiritual person and put the Bible verse from Psalms 121 on the bathroom mirror when Kent first moved into the house. She wanted to remind her son while he was off at college to stay close to God and to remember that God would always be there for him.
"The Lord will protect you from all harm. He will protect your life. The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever more."
"I believe those words with all my heart," Connie says.
Now more than ever.
......They turned on the TV, saw the storm warnings and learned that an enormous funnel cloud was headed right for them. They heard a massive rumbling outside, ran to the door and saw transformers blowing up in the distance.
Rosecrans called his father who instructed them to get into a bathtub and cover themselves with a mattress. And, so, that's what they did. For some reason, they couldn't get the mattress into the bigger bathroom so they crawled into the tub of the smaller bathroom and pulled the mattress on top of themselves..
....The two baseball players could feel their ears popping and hear the walls being ripped away and sucked up around them. The adrenalin kicked in and they held onto that mattress with every morsel of muscle they could muster.
The storm lasted only 20 seconds and it was gone.....
Rosecrans and Kennedy lifted the mattress and were flabbergasted by what they saw.
The house was totally destroyed. The other bathroom and the other tub were nowhere to be found. All that was left was the concrete slab of the house, parts of two walls and their little tub
And the Bible verse. It was still there on the battered mirror.....
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Psalm 121
1.I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them
I would not say the Bible verse saved them. God spared them, and left his Bible verse to remind them who did it.
Wow, that’s an amazing story, thanks for posting it.
So, the ones who died were all unbelievers?
No, they just didn't find the right verse. :)
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The one thing I don't like about stories like this is that, as another poster mentioned, it could be inferred that everyone else who died was not a believer in God and that He was exacting divine retribution among these persons. Surely this is not the case, perhaps there were some very devout believers in God who were killed in the storms.
Jesus teaches us that things like wars and natural disasters are simply signs of us living in a fallen world and proof of His eventual (imminent, but not immediate) return. He told use that Earth would not be a peaceful place where nothing bad ever happens until He does return and makes it as such.
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THX THX.
PRAISE GOD! WHAT A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY.
I expect to see many more such examples in coming months and years.
I expect them to be a daily thing in virtually all regions.
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