Know that the Lord Will Go Before You and Make a Way!
Let's look at Exodus 13.
21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
So they got out of bed, went into the church, prayed for about an hour, and went back to bed.
The next night, the Brazilian pastor did the same thing. They got up and prayed and went back to bed.
This happened every night. Finally, on the last night, my friend had said to himself, if he wakes me up again tonight, I'm not getting up!
Sure enough, at three o'clock in the morning, the Brazilian pastor woke him up, saying, "Pray! Pray! Pray!" My friend said, "Well this is the last night, so I'll go ahead and pray with the man."
In the church, the Brazilian pastor was just praying away. My friend said he was just half-heartedly praying. He told me, "As we were praying, all of a sudden, the top of the building just 'opened up.' A light out of Heaven came shining down through the roof of that building."
My friend said that the light 'hit' him in the top of the head and went all the way through him, all the way down through his toes. And it totally purged all of the uncleanness out of him. It completely cleansed him! He said, "It was like I was a pure, clean, new person. I could not even believe that I was the person who had done all the evil and had sinned so greatly in the past."
The next morning after that experience, the interpreters were present, so my friend said to the Brazilian pastor, "Please tell me what you know. I know you me up every night for no reason."
The Brazilian pastor told him, "Twenty years ago I was praying, and I saw your face." (Twenty years before that time, my friend hadn't even been saved yet, much less in the ministry and then backslidden!)
The Brazilian pastor continued, "I saw your face in a vision twenty years ago. Then five years ago, it was discovered that I had cancer. Doctors told me I was going to die, but I said 'God, I cannot die, because I have not seen this American, and you told me that I was going to help bring his deliverance.' " God healed this pastor of the cancer.
So you can understand why this Brazilian man was weeping and crying when he first saw my friend. Twenty years before that time, God had already prepared a way! God knew from the beginning of time that my friend was going to serve Him and that he was going to fall into sin. So He prepared a way of deliverance for him, and He found a man down in Brazil at a little ol' country church. Then He brought my friend to Brazil and got him delivered!
Now my friend did die of cancer a couple of years later, but he is in Heaven. He had been gloriously delivered. God went before him and provided a way!
By: Sam carr