Wig’s Word of God Today 10-16-2010
“For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say.” Luke 12:12
Ephesians 1:15-23, Psalm 8:2-3ab, 4-5, 6-7 & Luke 12:8-12
The Word of God allows “the eyes of (your) hearts (to) be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to His call, what are the riches of glory in His inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of His great might, which He worked in Christ, raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come.” Ephesians 1:18-21 A Great Might which renews an attitude in you to accomplish the Will of God in all things.
Every Friday morning, I get up at 4 AM and I study the bible allowing the Holy Spirit to fill my soul as the words come from my heart to share with Humanity before I go to a weekly Prayer Muffin with about 100 men where we share stories of faith, hope, charity and love. The Holy Spirit directs me in all things including times when I question myself because God’s Will led me to situations that scared me and made me discouraged. It is when we experience times like this is we should call upon our friends in the Lord and ask them for prayers and then get down on our knees or hold our hands high and just ask the Holy Spirit to guide us. In all circumstances the Holy Spirit will guide you by just letting go and letting God rule your thoughts, your needs and your actions. Yesterday morning at 5:53 AM this exact thing happened to me.
I left my neighborhood on the way to Mass and Prayer Muffin when I changed lanes on a pitch black dark road and out of nowhere I hit a bicyclist going about 45 MPH where his pedal creased my front corner panel and his handle bars took my side view mirror completely off my car with a loud “boom.” I never saw him. As I slammed on breaks I was saying, “Lord please let him be ok” as I picked up the phone and called 911. All I could see in my rearview mirror was a clump on the side of the road. Thoughts of fright entered my mind: “Is he ok? Is he dead? Is he hurt bad?” As my mind wondered in and out of prayer repeating, “Dear God, please let him be Ok.” I was in shock but I thought of a friend in Christ who was going to the Prayer Muffin and I called him at 5:57 AM praying he would answer. “ring, ring, please answer, I need your prayers, ring, hello- Brother, this is Wig, I just hit a bicyclist on a dark road on my way to Muffin, please pray he’s Ok and ask everyone to pray for me.” He said he would and I hung up.
I called upon the Lord repeatedly as I got out of my car and walked back to him to find him walking towards me in the dark, only seeing a small light on his helmet bobbing up and down. “Thank God,” I yelled from a distance, “are you Ok.” He responded with my leg is hurt and I said, “please sit back down an ambulance is on the way.” Before the ambulance arrived I began praying with him as he stated, “I thought you were going to drive away.” Stopping the prayer I was speaking out loud I said, “God would not allow me to do that. Pray with me for your healing, forgiveness and peace of mind.” We began praying out loud to one another as the sirens and blue lights of police cars raced towards us.
The ambulance arrived and the EMT’s gave him a going over with a glowing report of being completely unscathed. There was nothing they could see nor was the man reacting to any of their exam in pain as they rubbed both his legs and looked for cuts or broken bones all over his body. I called upon the Lord as they examined him raising my hands high after making the sign of the Cross all the while a stream of slow moving cars driving by where they could see the shadows of my hands held high from the lights of the ambulance. The man refused to go to the hospital and asked me for a ride home. I agreed and both police cars followed us with his bicycle sticking out my trunk to his house. It turned out he lived in my neighborhood less than 1/2 mile away.
After getting his bike out and before the police gave me my driver’s license back, I again asked him to pray with me. We both prayed together again asking the Lord for healing, forgiveness and peace of mind. The police explained the man should have been wearing a reflective vest, a rear flashing red light and reflectors on his tires and because he wasn’t I would not be charged with anything. I thanked them and said, “May God bless you both in your work and keep you safe.” The Lord’s Will brings us to places of worry, discouragement and second guessing ourselves, but it is through a complete surrender to God that we can overcome anything by calling on His Holy Name.
And so we pray: Heavenly Father, I feel blessed to call on Your Name in times of trials as well as times of feasting. Please give the man continued peace I hit yesterday. I trust in You Lord and I know the Holy Spirit will lead me when I speak of Your Son’s Truth Who saved Humanity from sin. Guide me to acknowledge You to anyone I meet. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
God Bless,
Cruz-Wig
Romans 8:28
Mankind’s Tongue Guided
Cease not in prayers to Him
Cease not to call on His Holy Name
Be exalted in the Author of Life
Where evil spirits are always tamed
Believe in His Surpassing greatness
Acknowledge Him before all you see
Raise your hands high up above
Praise Him for all you can be
He has conquered the grave for humanity’s sin
Shaking the Cross off His back to forever win
Salvation of souls glorified within
Accept His Truth to forever begin
Birth of a New Life of Christ to feel
Life’s joys and sadness captured in zeal
A surrender to a life of love
Protection from Satan’s sinful glove
Speak not ill against the Spirit Who saves
For forgiveness is ruined by the Evil One’s ways
Call upon His Spirit to guide you to see
Mankind’s tongue guided with ease
© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins October 16, 2010 @ 7:11 AM
