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How the wrong turn lead to the right address

I was on a casual walk, on my way home when I saw a turn-off which seemed to be a short-cut home. I decided to take it. Merely 50 steps down the road, I realised it was going to be a little longer. Sometimes when that happens (smile) I would normally just say to the Lord: "Lord this is going to give me a little extra time, and I give myself over to Your leading, to use me to pray for the people living here." So I just walked on and prayed as I felt the Lord laid on my heart for each house that I was passing. Ohhh, you can think of the shock I got when I passed one particular home and the Lord prompted me to pray for some specific things for the people in there - and added to that, He prompted me to go and knock on the door and tell them I am praying for them and for those specific things. I thought I'd just continue ... but the Holy Spirit convicted me in a gentle manner to turn around. What a surprise I got when the owner of that house turned out to be the director of a