When God Miraculously Delivered Us
from Death and Our Vehicle from Ruin
It
was probably the first year of our marriage and we were in a home prayer
meeting in Sue’s hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick when something remarkable
and supernatural happened. People were kneeling at chairs and the sofa all
around the room when a woman on the opposite of the room from Sue and me began
praying in the Spirit—in other tongues.
Such a phenomenon occurs when the Holy Spirit moves on someone to pray about things they know nothing about in their minds (Romans 8:26-27). This is why it is called "prayer in the Spirit" and Paul discusses it in I Corinthians 14.
As she prayed, it
seemed as though her prayer was coming across the room in an arc and lighting
on me. It powerfully affected me and I began to weep. My heart was melted and I knew on the inside that the prayer was somehow related to me.
Later, as we were having
refreshments and fellowship, I said to this woman, “I felt you were praying for
me tonight when you prayed in the Spirit.” She replied, “Yes, I felt that I was
praying for you and Sue.”
We left the prayer
meeting and stopped for a visit with Sue’s parents before proceeding to our
apartment around midnight. I was driving our little VW Bug and as we crossed a 4-lane
thoroughfare that ran through the city, I heard Sue exclaiming, “Look out! Look
out!”
As I looked to my
right, I saw the nose of an 18-wheeler filling the passenger side window of our
little Bug, and then the crash. Thankfully, he
hit us in the right rear, instead of broadside, knocking us into another
vehicle. Sue had some bruises on her leg and hip, but no one was hospitalized.
The rear right
side of the little VW was crumpled all around the engine, and the insurance company eventually wrote it off as a total loss. If we had been moving just slightly slower, the
truck would have hit us broadside and left us seriously injured or dead.
There is no question
in my mind that “prayer in the Spirit” that night preserved our lives. The
devil wanted to end our lives before we could get started, but someone was
sensitive to the Holy Spirit and bold enough to let the river of Spirit-empowered prayer flow out of their heart (see Romans 8:26-27).
But that is not
the end of this story. After the police and everyone left, I tried to start our
little Bug, but to no avail. Finally, I discovered that if I continually pumped
the gas pedal it would run, but if I ever stopped pumping the gas pedal it
would die.
So, we made it to
our apartment with the little Bug sputtering and jerking as I frantically
pumped the gas pedal. That was our only means of transportation, so it was an
everyday experience – until one day God intervened through another woman’s
prayer.
Sue and I had stopped
in one evening at a Christian coffee shop and upon leaving we gave a ride home to
a little old white-haired lady known as “Sister Manetta.” She sat in the front
with me as we went along sputtering and jerking as I frantically pumped the gas
pedal. Sister Manetta exclaimed, “What is wrong with your car!”
I said, “O, Sister
Manetta, this car needs prayer." She immediately laid her hand on the dash and
began praying for the vehicle and pleading the blood of Jesus over it. God and
Sue are my witnesses. The engine stopped sputtering and jerking. From that time,
I no longer had to pump the gas pedal, and it ran as clean and smoothly as ever.
Shortly thereafter, we drove the car to Texas
with the rear end crumpled around the engine. I still remember how straight and
smooth it ran down the interstate highways. In Texas, my brother, who was a
mechanic took that engine, because it ran so well, and put it in another VW with
a good body.
What an awesome God
we serve! I can never thank Him enough for His goodness and faithfulness to us through the years.
Yes, as we
approach our 50th wedding anniversary on May 17, I am writing
this series of articles remembering and reminiscing about God’s faithfulness
through the years. And as I said before, if there is one testimony we would
leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been
faithful!
Drs. Eddie and Sue Hyatt are still active in ministry and their numerous books are available on Amazon and their websites at http://eddiehyatt.com and http://godswordtowomen.org. Of particular significance at this moment in history is Eddie's book, America's Reawakening, and Sue's book, In the Spirit We're Equal, which contains a message that "has the power to begin a mass movement from Islam to Christianity, beginning with the women."
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