Testimony of Healing September 3, 2012 Issue

Safe from fire

Jack Train

Early in 2011, I received a frantic call from my daughter, “Dad, there is a huge fire headed for my house.” Her tone of voice was almost hysterical, and I was tempted to be thrown off stride. However, I had heard of that particular fire in Boulder, Colorado, where my daughter lived, and had already begun some protective prayerful work. I had not confined my prayer to my daughter, but included the entire community. 

I quickly shared with my daughter something that had come to me from the Bible. It was when God was speaking to a fearful Elijah: “And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice” (I Kings 19:11, 12). 

In my prayers, I affirmed that God does not make “natural” disasters, and, therefore, we don’t have to fear them or feel powerless before them. I asked my daughter if she was in a safe place, and she said that she was not at home, but returning to Boulder from Denver, and that all her news was coming from the radio. I suggested that she needed to get her news from a more reliable source—from God, who would never make it possible for her to (finally) buy her first home and then allow its destruction. 

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