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HELEN SANDERS
12-26-2021
GOD’S GPS
When we go out of town and are unsure of the exact location we are going to, we often turn on the GPS on our car or on our phone. Sometimes it is very accurate, but other times it takes us to places that don’t exist. When we make a turn that it wrong, it often will say “reroute.” Often it brings a biT of irritation. If you have ever used it, you can understand and sympathize with me.
There is another type of GPS. You could call it “God’s GPS.” I call it this because it guides me and directs me when I am unsure of “which way to go” spiritually. God’s GPS is that internal voice of the Holy Spirit. We are told in John 16:13 that “he will guide you into all truth.” We can always depend upon Holy Spirit’s accuracy because He has all knowledge, just like the Father and Jesus.
If we tune into this kind of GPS by listening with our spirit ears, we often get that little “reroute” signal when we are going the wrong way. I can attest to this leading. Here is a brief story of how God used this one day to save a person’s life.
I was in business on the West Coast of Florida, and I needed to get some things for our store. There were many one-way streets and when I left the supply store, I usually went one direction to save some time. This particular day I felt Holy Spirit tell me to go a different way. I listened to that nudge and went the way He directed. Directly in front of me lay a motorcycle turned on its side, and on the sidewalk lay a man that obviously had been on that motorcycle. To my right was a truck with a trailer behind it with lawn mowing equipment on it. The man was unconscious, and Holy Spirit told me to stop and go pray for him.
I did just that. I know very little about first aid, but I do know how to pray. He had blood coming out of his head. I knew that you applied pressure to a wound to stop the bleeding. As was about to do this, a woman behind me said, “Don’t apply pressure. I am a nurse.” I listened to her and prayed for the man instead. The bleeding stopped as I prayed. Then I heard the same woman speak, “He hit us. We didn’t hit him.”
There had been quite an impact because this man’s boots were blown off his feet and were laying in the street. I did not see the accident happen but thought it strange that the same voice said what they did. The police showed up, and I told them I did not see the accident, but that I had stopped to pray. I then got up because help was there and proceeded to leave. I looked back at the man, and what I saw was quite unsettling. Part of his scalp was laying on the ground. This is where the bleeding had come from that stopped when I prayed.
When I got back to my business, I told some friends that ran an autobody shop behind me what happened. I described the man to them, and they immediately knew it was a friend that they called “Moose.” Well, a year later a young man walked into my business. He was using a cane and I did not know who he was. He came up to my counter and told me that he was the man that had been in the motorcycle accident. He had been in the hospital for months but was now out and could walk with a cane. Then he told me that the people in the truck and trailer had hit him. I realized then that this woman that spoke to me wanted this young man to die so they would not be charged with hitting him.
I know that he may have died if I hadn’t listened to the GPS voice of the Holy Spirit. I was at the right place at the right time to pray because I heeded that voice. I truly believe it may have saved his life by being there.
What about you? Are you listening to God? He often speaks in a whisper. He may nudge you in the spirit not to do something. He also may nudge you to speak to someone as a witness for Jesus. Don’t ignore those nudges my friends. They just might save a life. Thank goodness for the GPS of the Holy Spirit.
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