In Straight Paths
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Brother Hayner's testimony brings back memories of how the Lord fixed our old car once when we were going to Hobe Sound Camp meeting in Florida. (The following was taken from my book, Trials and Triumphs.)
Sometimes in our travels, the car would start to act up and we would claim God's promise and somehow the old car would straighten out and we would be on our way. I remember once we were going to Hobe Sound Camp and had only traveled about seventy-five miles with over nine hundred more to go when the car started missing and losing speed. I had been up since three thirty a.m. so was dozing in the back seat, when I was aroused by my husband and son discussing the car's condition. As I listened, I could hear it making a peculiar noise. From the human standpoint, it looked as if we would be stranded before daybreak, but by the grace of God, I was not at all alarmed as God had given me a promise years ago for our travels that He would preserve our going out and coming in from henceforth and forever more. So I just simply looked up to Him and prayed, "Now, Lord, You remember the promise You gave me years ago that You would preserve our going out and our coming in. I stand on Thy promise, Lord, and trust Thy Word for Thou art a God that cannot lie. I'm asking You to touch this car in Jesus' Name, stop the missing and let us be on our way." Just a simple prayer but prayed in complete faith in the promise of God. "What happened?" you might ask. God touched the car, it stopped missing and we did not have another minute's trouble on the whole trip. I might say here that faith will not work unless all of our prayer channels are clear. If our channels are clogged up with unconfessed sin, we will be unable to claim God's promises in times like these, for He tells us in Psalm 66:18, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." But when we know that all is clear between us and God, we have a perfect right to take Him at His Word and trust Him to answer prayer. Praise His Name.
Georgia D. McCain
"I Will Send My Angel--To Keep Thee-and To Bring Thee Into the Place Which I Have Prepared"
The following is an experience of Ina (Shreve) McVey, a personal friend of the author. She and her husband, Harry Shreve (now deceased), were missionaries to China for many years. Here she tells of God's intervention at a very crucial time in their lives while in China.