How my Prayer Walk became my PRAISE!

Since Mothers Day, Arby (my dog) and I have been walking for at least a mile each day.  This has been a great time for me to pray and reconnect with God during the stillness of the morning.  The Lord gave me an assignment to not only cover my family in prayer,  but to extend it to a small group who wanted me to touch and agree with them for something from God.  Each day, even when I don't feel like it, the assignment to pray for others keeps me going.

So this morning was just like all the others....I cooked breakfast, my husband left to take the boys to school and Arby and I began our walk/run.  I always do a slow lap, close to home, just to warm my body up before I begin the jogging portion, which is a little farther from the house.  As we were finishing up the warm-up lap, we were alongside a major street, where cars can travel about 35 mph.  We were walking south, while cars traveled north.  Nothing unusual, right?  NOT!  All of a sudden,  I heard a loud noise.  One of the cars (slightly raggedy) hit a bump in the road and I noticed a cylinder shaped object break loose from under the car.  I thought it was the hubcap coming towards us but it was slightly smaller.   I was trying to decide in this split second, if I should turn around and run, stand still and hope that it would go around me or trudge ahead moving past it.  I FROZE, because I realized that it was traveling diagonally and directly towards us!  As the object hit the curb, it changed trajectory and popped up behind us, finally landed in the grass.  WHAT???!!!!

After my heart left my throat and settled back into my chest, I continued walking and thanking God.  Since I thought that the enemy was trying to discourage me and prevent me from my assignment, I was determined to finish this walk and to pray a little more fervently.  Arby and I entered the jogging phase and before I knew it, the mile was done.  I had completed my mile and I could have gone back to the house, but curiosity was getting the best of me.  I had to go back to the original lap to see if I could find out what that flying object was.  I couldn't see it from the sidewalk, so I had to go up on the next landing to find it.  When I found the object, I took a picture of it but I couldn't stop there.  I had to pick it up and hold it in my hand.  Once I picked it up, I realized that it weighed about 5 lbs.

The 5-lb. disc

My view of the street from where the disc landed. Imagine we're at the cone.

Let's calculate this thing..... a 5-lb disc, traveling at speeds of 35 mph or greater possibly striking me or the dog........where would I be right now?  Not sitting here typing this, that's for sure.  It was at that point that I began shouting out THANKYA  and HALLELUJAH!
My prayers became my praise! 

Now I know what Daddy is talking about when he prays, "Thank you for keeping us from dangers, seen and unseen".  I saw it, but couldn't move out of fear.  But God!  He created a protective shield around Arby and I, preventing any harm from coming to us.  You better believed I skipped back to the house, singing God's praises!!!

What did I learn from this?

1. Don't allow the enemy to take you off of your assignment and course.  (When it happened, my knees were shaking and I could have gone back to the house and just stopped praying.  But I believe that because I stayed and prayed, the names that I called out before God will be blessed today because of MY prayers.)
2. God is a keeper!  (When I don't see Him, He's there! When I don't feel Him, He's there! When it looks like it's the end, God is still right there!  So I must trust and believe that He's going to take care of me.)
3. You can do a praise dance in the middle of the street, with cars passing and a dog on the leash.  ( I don't need an organ, a praise team or a choir....I am the instrument of praise!

Be blessed today and if God places you on assignment, don't be fearful...........walk it out!.............