“Who are you?” asked many of the pagans who were gathered at the river.
“We’re just a gospel team going to preach the gospel,” one of the team members answered.
“Where are you going?” they asked.
“We’re going to the other side of the river, and the Lord has told us to cross the river now!” a team member replied. “Don’t do it. If you cross now, you’ll give your life to serve the Lord, because you’ll surely drown,” a pagan said.
Even some of the Christians who were watching the team said, “The Lord said you’re to be as wise as the serpent. Now use your mind and stay here on the bank.” “If you cross the river now and you die, then who will serve the Lord? It’s better for you to wait two or three days. When the floods go down, we can help you across,” the pagans continued.
The Decision to Obey God
“No, the Lord told us to cross now,” the team members told the crowd. But even the team got to where they were wavering a little. Just then one of the cousins said, “The Lord is really moving in my heart. Team, if you want to hear the counsel of men, you just follow them. You can stay here for two or three days, but I want to follow the Lord and obey the Lord right now.
The Lord said for us to cross now, and we’re supposed to do it. Now! We’re not supposed to do it another time…” The others were still waiting because they were afraid and they didn’t know what to do. But my cousin said, “You can stay here, but I’m going now.” He stepped into the water.
“Oh, no, don’t do it. You’ll die,” the people screamed. “But if I die, you can tell the people all over the world that I didn’t die because I was stupid; I died because I obeyed the Lord,” he said.
The Miracle in the River
With the first step the water came between his ankle and knee. The second step, it was the same place. The third, fourth, fifth and with the sixth – the water never came above his knee. When he came to the middle of the river where it was supposed to be 30 feet deep, the water never came higher than his knee. As my cousin was standing in the middle of the river, he called back to the team
“You had better come now; the water is not deep.”
“Are you standing on the bottom or the top of the water?” they yelled back to him. “I don’t know,” he said, “but I feel the bottom. The bottom is just under my feet.” Yet everyone knew the water was 20 to 30 feet deep. As they watched him, it looked like he was standing on top of the water. “You had better come, I’m telling you!” he said again.
The team talked it over and decided, “We’d better go, because God is in action now, and if we delay, afterward we’ll want to go and won’t be able to. That will be terrible.” The entire team did what the first man had done, and stepped right in. They experienced the same feeling of touching the bottom of the river.
Witnessing the Power of God
When the rest of them saw this happen (pagans and Christians alike) they jumped in, thinking it wouldn’t be deep. When they put their first foot in the water, they almost drowned. So the people all realized that a miracle had taken place. Then the Lord gave them the verse in Isaiah that says, “When you shall cross the river, it shall not overflow you” (Isa. 43:2).
Miraculous Monday: 15th August 2022
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