One thing Leland and I learned about the Holy Spirit (before we even learned very much) was to pray during storms.
Last week, I kept hearing thunder and cracks of lightening. The Holy Spirit prompted me, so I confessed something like, “No severe weather, no thunder boomers, no lightening strikes, no severe wind, no tornados (if weather forecasters/guessers predicted them), no power outages, etc.”
The weather would quit. Then it would start up again. I kept speaking to it, then added, “Our houses and properties (landlord’s and son’s) are covered by God’s Umbrella of Favor* (which includes protection). The Umbrella covers all our property, border to border. Nothing can penetrate that Umbrella.**”
At one point, when I got up to go to the bathroom, it started thunder growling and I confessed the usual, then I suddenly opened my mouth and said, “NO hail. NO hail damage.” Then I wondered why I said that because it wasn’t cold and wasn’t forecasted to hail.
Right after that, the bad weather just quit. At one point it sounded like ice was tapping on the window but I remember sleepily thinking, “It couldn’t be hail. It’s not cold.
The next morning my landlord sent me a few pictures of people’s yards in the next town over. He was showing all the trees and limbs down. Some had landed on cars. Then his last picture I didn’t know why he sent it. It was just a yard.
Then he said, “Didn’t you hear the loud banging on your door this morning? It sounded like knocking? Enlarge that picture.” The yard had 1-2″ size balls of hail. He said it was so loud coming down that it sounded like someone was knocking on the door.
It made me wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t obeyed the prompting to pray. The Holy Spirit never has us pray for no reason. Sometimes we won’t know until we get to heaven. Sometimes we know right away
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*https://youtu.be/RNLZ6dHQRII?si=7wpTImtS26p6yuA0
(Terri Savelle Foy about God’s Umbrella of Favor).
**One meaning of biblical word “shield” is Umbrella