Still Small Voice?

[jjpreborn]

Two years ago, my wife got a telephone call out of the blue from our close relative, and we were asked to pray for another relative (V) who was said to be ill and had just been placed in the hospital. When asked the cause, she was told that they did not want to disclose it, but prayers were very much appreciated. We both prayed for V, but how long can you pray for someone when you do not even know what the problem is? Afterwards, I forgot about it, and much later I went off to bed.

In the very middle of the night, I woke up and I was thinking of V and about her illness. My dogs wanted to be let out, and so while I was waiting for them to return...and I was half asleep, I like got this message. Now it was not out loud, but it was more like thoughts that were coming to me. This is what I was told:
V has tried to take her own life. It doesn't have to be this way. This is what I was to do, I was to call back the relative who had called earlier about V, and ask if it were not due to a suicide attempt, and after this was confirmed I was to get three people to pray for V's physical healing and they were also to pray that the enemy be cast out of her.
I had never heard such things in my thoughts or dreams before, but I heard and I understood what I was supposed to do. Also, when I went back to sleep, I dreamed and there was this man, sitting and looking at me, and he told me that V had indeed tried to take her own life. That was all.

In the morning first thing, I told my wife what had happened and she told me that from what she had been told the night before by our relative, that she did not think that it was a suicide attempt, but then she stopped, and said that she guessed it had to be something like that. So we called the relative back, and asked if it were a suicide attempt, and she seemed shocked that we asked, but she would not deny it.
We took this as an affirmation, and we asked three people to pray for V, as I had been told. Some time later we were told that V had been rescued after trying to kill herself, and this had happened before we were asked to pray, in an unlikely way.

It has now been two years and V has not tried it again, and seems to thank the Lord for her rescue, and her new life.

We were all amazed, that the Lord had seen fit to use even us to help someone in trouble.

All thanks to Jesus!!!

[mattfivefour]

I remember reading the printed testimony of a police officer who, distraught over the breakup of his marriage, drove out to the country with his service revolver and after crying out in his misery put it to his head and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. He put it to his head again and pulled the trigger a second time. It did not fire. Long story short, he cried out to God and threw himself on Him. He drove back to the city and went to a church to talk with a pastor. He was helped and went on to serve the Lord. The thing is, though, that when tested later, his pistol worked perfectly!

God often moves in miraculous ways to work His mercy among us. I have no doubt that what happend in the case of V was an instance of this mercy being worked by Him. Indeed, He most often "speaks" not by thunder and lightening but by that still small voice in the heart of another Christian. I praise God for your faithfulness in listening to that voice. You were willing to be thought a fool in order to obey what you believed He had showed you. May God bless you for that faithful obedience.

[mikhen7]

Two years ago, my wife got a telephone call out of the blue from our close relative, and we were asked to pray for another relative (V) who was said to be ill and had just been placed in the hospital. When asked the cause, she was told that they did not want to disclose it, but prayers were very much appreciated. We both prayed for V, but how long can you pray for someone when you do not even know what the problem is? Afterwards, I forgot about it, and much later I went off to bed.

In the very middle of the night, I woke up and I was thinking of V and about her illness. My dogs wanted to be let out, and so while I was waiting for them to return...and I was half asleep, I like got this message. Now it was not out loud, but it was more like thoughts that were coming to me. This is what I was told:
V had tried to take her own life. This is what I was to do, I was to call back the relative who had called earlier about V, and ask if it were not due to a suicide attempt, and after this was confirmed I was to get three people to pray for V's physical healing and they were also to pray that the enemy be cast out of her.
I had never heard such things in my thoughts or dreams before, but I heard and I understood what I was supposed to do. Also, when I went back to sleep, I dreamed and there was this man, sitting and looking at me, and he told me that V had indeed tried to take her own life. That was all.

In the morning first thing, I told my wife what had happened and she told me that from what she had been told the night before by our relative, that she did not think that it was a suicide attempt, but then she stopped, and said that she guessed it had to be something like that. So we called the relative back, and asked if it were a suicide attempt, and she seemed shocked that we asked, but she would not deny it.
We took this as an affirmation, and we asked three people to pray for V, as I had been told. Some time later we were told that V had been rescued after trying to kill herself, and this had happened before we were asked to pray, in an unlikely way.

It has now been two years and V has not tried it again, and seems to thank the Lord for her rescue, and her new life.

We were all amazed, that the Lord had seen fit to use even us to help someone in trouble.

All thanks to Jesus!!!

I believe that is awesome. It is amazing how the Lord works. He is sovereign and reserves the right to communicate with us as He chooses. I have no reason to doubt and I am blessed just by hearing that everything worked out. Have you shared Christ with her?

[seank6]

great testimony!!weird coincidence as i was reading it the song "the voice of truth"by casting crowns ..gave a chill up my spine!!just shows how great our God is!!

[jjpreborn]

We saw V only once since this all happened. Our daughter told her what happened, I think very similar to this post, and she is a person already moving in faith.

I didn't really have much choice about obeying what I had been told to do...because I had been healed a few years ago, when doctors thought I was dying of a type of aneurysm, and I learned that when He tells us to do something...WE HAVE TO DO IT. He is really there, and He saves us so to thank Him we have to do it. I do not think He will ever ask us to do anything contrary to scripture. One man in scripture was told to sacrifice his son, but this was a test, and he was not allowed to carry it out. Is this not true?

[mattfivefour]

[LivnForChrist]

God is awesome! Encouraging testimony.

[Meg]

Cool testimony, very cool. And very encouraging too.

[anath]

Thanks for sharing this with us. Your obedience to the Lord is commendable, brother.
Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth I Samuel 3:9