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Me:\u00a0 You and Romans are looking good!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Thank you!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 It is good to dress nice sometimes.<\/p>\n

This is from the book\u00a0 Where Angels Walk by Joan Wester Anderson<\/p>\n

Louis Torres, a youth minister who now works in Mexico, was the director of a Teen Challenge Center in Philadelphia.\u00a0 He spoke to Betty’s church congregation one morning and further confirmed the Biblical perception of angels as strong soldiers who sometimes remains invisible except to those who need to see them in order to be convinced.\u00a0 Betty reports this story about a young woman named Myra, which Torres told her congregation:\u00a0 Myra worked for Teen Challenge at the time Torres did.\u00a0 Since it was located in a rough part of the inner city, she was concerned for the teens who had shown interest in receiving Christian counsel.\u00a0 It was difficult for them to visit the center because on the streets just outside, a group from one of the local gangs repeatedly harassed them.\u00a0 For a short while each evening, Myra was alone at the Center, and the gang bothered her as well, banging on the door and shouting obscenities.<\/p>\n

One night when the gang appeared, Myra suddenly felt inspired to tell them about Jesus.\u00a0 Knowing the danger, she first prayed for guidance.\u00a0 Yes, she felt sure she had heard the Lord correctly.\u00a0 She opened the door and walked outside.<\/p>\n

The gang moved around her and, keeping her voice steady, she spoke to them about Jesus.<\/p>\n

Instead of listening to her, however, the gang shouted threats of drowning her in the nearby river.\u00a0 Trying to appear calm, Myra walked back through the door of the Center and shut it.\u00a0 They didn’t follow her.<\/p>\n

The next evening the thugs were back, once again banging on the door, and threatening her life.\u00a0 Still believing she should try and reach out to them, Myra breathe a prayer to Jesus.\u00a0 “Lord, let your angels come with me and protect me,”\u00a0 she murmured.<\/p>\n

Then she opened the door and was about to speak when the gang members suddenly stopped their shouting, turned to look at one another and left silently and quickly.\u00a0 Myra was surprised.\u00a0 Why had they gone?<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 gang did not return for several days.\u00a0 Then one afternoon, to the surprise of everyone, they entered the Center in an orderly fashion.\u00a0 Much later, after a relationship of trust had been built with them, Louis Torres asked them what had made them drop their threats against Myra and leave so peacefully that night.<\/p>\n

One young man spoke up.\u00a0 “We wouldn’t dare touch her after her boyfriend showed up.\u00a0 That dude had to be seven feet tall.”<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know Myra had a boyfriend,”\u00a0 replied Louis thoughtfully.\u00a0 “But at any rate, she was alone here that night.”<\/p>\n

“No, we saw him,” insisted another gang member.\u00a0 “He was right behind her.<\/p>\n

“He was big as life in his classy white suit.”<\/p>\n

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fished of the sea shall declare unto thee.\u00a0 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?<\/p>\n

Job 12:8-9<\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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