This morning my mother called to tell me that my daughter's car had stalled on her way to work, right in the traffic lane on the freeway. The car's battery was dead. Heavy snow was impairing both visibility and traction, and cars were passing her on both sides, without slowing down much. We were praying for her, and soon a man stopped to help her, while my mother called 911 to get a tow truck there for her. They towed her to her place of employment, Sam's Club, where she purchased a new battery to replace the dead one. We are so thankful to God for keeping her safe.

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The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever.

It is wonderful to read these testimonies. Definitely a place I would want to refer others to!

I was just thinking how miraculous is the fact that I am writing this note today. I should be dead many times over! But I'm still here! How does God do it?

Well, one little way happened recently when I was, as a subcontractor, hurting for want of more work. I did like Sarah in her above post, and prayed that morning. I got in my van and drove the 12 km into town, and I didn't tell anyone at the time...but I didn't have work to go to and also, I had only enough gas in the van to get to town; but not enough to come back; and I had not one red cent to buy more gas. I didn't een know how I would get home!

Well, as I was driving into town, my cell phone rang, and before the day was out; I had a nice wad of cash in my pocket! So I ate that night! Praise God!

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"We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets; Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone!" (Eph.2:20).

Your brother in Christ

David T. Battler

God continually answers our prayers, and I have been noticing this more and more lately. We need, of course, to remember our prayers in order to see the answers we receive to them, but that only helps and enables us to continually keep Christ in our thoughts because if we focus on looking for the answers, we are focusing on who we asked!

My husband, Markell, and I decided that even though we don't have much while he's in school, that we need to give more in offerings. So, we made the decision to increase our offerings to 5% of my gross wage and put the matter in God's hands. Markell prayed "Lord, we are giving back to you and trusting in Your promise to provide for us. As you challenge us to in Malachi, we are testing you in this."

The next day was payday and, as usual, I went to the bank to withdraw our tithe and offerings. I was shocked to discover that we were more than $100 short for our rent this month. It worried me, and I almost didn't tell my husband because he worries a lot, but God impressed upon me that I had to because what kind of a test would it be if Markell didn't know the whole story? Markell surprised me and was very calm, although he suggested we take the money from his student loan. I said, "No, we won't need to" then he asked where we would get the money and I reminded him that God would provide, were we not testing Him in this matter?

Sabbath morning we put our offering in the plate and placed it in God's hands. After Sabbath was over, I telephoned my sister who told me that Markell had received an envelope from an old employer (Markell hadn't worked for this company for 8 or 9 months!). The envelope had come through the mail unsealed, so she had sealed it and set it aside for us. Her youngest son, however, had gotten ahold of the envelope and opened it, spilling the contents and she said it looked like a cheque! I said "WHAT?" and asked her to look for me. Sure enough, she came back to the phone and said it was a "Payroll Refund" and was for more than $200.00 - enough to pay tithe & offerings with and still cover our rent deficit!

God is SOOOOO amazing! I ran to tell Markell and we could not help but jump and shout for joy and praise God! My sister didn't know when she could bring it to us, but I placed that in God's hands as well. Surprise, surprise, late Sunday evening, my sister shows up at the door. While I don't usually thank God for ear infections, her oldest son had an ear ache, so they brought him into the hospital to get it checked out and decided that since they were in town they would stop to see us and drop off the cheque at the same time!

Praises be to God!

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Sarah Moss
*Prayer Changes Things!*

I believe prayer does change things.
A few weeks ago my older brother who is living with us in a shed near our home spent some time in hospital. He gave me a list of things he wanted brought into him on my next visit. One item was very important, his medical records (he has an ulcer on his leg, for over 20 years, reason for hositalization)
I had searched everywhere for them but to no avail. I had the kids search, but when irt was time to go they had still not been found. I said to the kids lets pray, within 2 mins. I found them where I had looked many times before. The question I asked myself was why, and the answer I believe was to show the kids that our Lord hears our prayer and if His name can be glorified then the answer will come back to us. When bro. Ray came home I told him the story, he not being a Christian found it hard to comprehend but was still glad to get his records.

Then one Friday as we were going out the gate
I said to my young boy of 8 years that it is about time we prayed as we had not had a sale of vegies all day. He prayed and when we got back home 5 callers had come in and at 6.30pm after taking the unsold produce in cars were still coming in. Again the Lord's name was glorified to my young boy.
We can say God does answer prayer.

Clive