Today I want to share with you how the Lord orchestrated some wonderful “co-incidental” meetings for me to help prepare for the Auckland to Invercargill prayer-walk.
This is an amazing story and I give God all the glory for just caring about the detail so much, that He brought some real practical things to help me prepare.
I prepared to go for a 30km prayer-walk as part of my training. I packed my backpack and planned the route. About 3 hours before I left, I was asked to help someone else to get to church, which took me in a different direction and I started the walk in a totally different place from where i planned.
About 10km into this walk, a woman walking with walking poles, and a backpack, stopped and asked me how far it was to the Takapuna camp grounds. And so we started talking about where she was going, and it turned out she was on Day 16 of walking from the north (Cape Reinga) to the south (Invercargill) of New Zealand. Because she was also a keen mountaineer, I wanted to know more about what and how she packed and if she could give me advice.
I also learned that she was diagnosed with cancer (terminal). She said to me: "I can cry myself to sleep every day - OR - i could live my life to the full" ... that touched me.
Anyhow - I am amazed that God would be so interested in the details of my planning, that He would actually orchestrate for me to meet someone who is on the same long walk as what I am planning for ... and for me to have the opportunity to ask her some good questions about planning and packing.
Then something amazing happened ... An older man stepped onto the pavement - from crossing the road. He just started talking to us and walked a bit with us. he reached a place where he would turn off - and I felt the Lord nudge me to stand a bit back and just observe something precious. The next moment the man asked the woman if he could pray for her. She wasn't a christian but said she wouldn't mind a blessing like that. He put his hand on her shoulder and I realised that God wanted me to see how easy it can be to just reach out and pray for a stranger. And how we never know who we come across and how we are instruments - and always need to be ready for use by the Master.
This is an amazing story and I give God all the glory for just caring about the detail so much, that He brought some real practical things to help me prepare.
I prepared to go for a 30km prayer-walk as part of my training. I packed my backpack and planned the route. About 3 hours before I left, I was asked to help someone else to get to church, which took me in a different direction and I started the walk in a totally different place from where i planned.
About 10km into this walk, a woman walking with walking poles, and a backpack, stopped and asked me how far it was to the Takapuna camp grounds. And so we started talking about where she was going, and it turned out she was on Day 16 of walking from the north (Cape Reinga) to the south (Invercargill) of New Zealand. Because she was also a keen mountaineer, I wanted to know more about what and how she packed and if she could give me advice.
I also learned that she was diagnosed with cancer (terminal). She said to me: "I can cry myself to sleep every day - OR - i could live my life to the full" ... that touched me.
Anyhow - I am amazed that God would be so interested in the details of my planning, that He would actually orchestrate for me to meet someone who is on the same long walk as what I am planning for ... and for me to have the opportunity to ask her some good questions about planning and packing.
Then something amazing happened ... An older man stepped onto the pavement - from crossing the road. He just started talking to us and walked a bit with us. he reached a place where he would turn off - and I felt the Lord nudge me to stand a bit back and just observe something precious. The next moment the man asked the woman if he could pray for her. She wasn't a christian but said she wouldn't mind a blessing like that. He put his hand on her shoulder and I realised that God wanted me to see how easy it can be to just reach out and pray for a stranger. And how we never know who we come across and how we are instruments - and always need to be ready for use by the Master.
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