Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Wow, What An Awesome God We Serve!!
Daylan Sanders, the founder and director of Samaritan Children's Home in Sri Lanka, gave credit to God for sparing his life and the lives of the twenty-eight orphans with him from the tsunami that devastated many:
"...there are no words in human speech to describe what we saw. It was a 30-foot wall of sea, just bearing down on us like an angry monster. And it was coming at us at such speed, I knew that there was no place on ground where we could be safe. So I knew -- there was something in me that told me that instantly ... we've got to get on top of this wave if... to stay safe.
So I came out, I called out for the children. They all came. We rushed. We had just 10 seconds to get into the boat ... you know, [the wave] had rushed in ... just demolished everything that stood in its path. It came with such force. It just hit both of the garages. The garages just splintered in every direction. It lifted up my Toyota pickup vehicle, my Mitsubishi L-300. We had a three-wheeler, a motor bike. Everything -- it just pulverized.
... when we got into the boat, it was just a few I would say about 15 feet away, and we were eyeball to eyeball with the wave. And immediately, a Scripture popped into my mind. It said, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against it."
And I know from there I got the courage. I just stood up in the small boat, and I lifted both my hands and I said, 'I command you in the name of Jesus Christ, on the strength of the Scriptures, that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against him. I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to stand still.'
And I thought I was imagining at the time that the massive wall of water, it stood. It I'm not one given to exaggeration we saw, as if something holding back, some invisible force or hand. It just stood.
[Survivors] said, 'When it got on your land, at one point, it stood still. It just slowed down. And that gave you the chance. What made it? Was it the density of the trees or the buildings?' I said, 'There was no power on Earth that could have held it back but the power of God' I said, 'I called upon God, and I commanded it in the name of Jesus, who 2,000 years ago commanded the waves, and they obeyed. He commanded the sea, and they obeyed. And this is the very same God did the same to us and gave us those precious few seconds that we needed ...'"
Source: Mark Cahill
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"...there are no words in human speech to describe what we saw. It was a 30-foot wall of sea, just bearing down on us like an angry monster. And it was coming at us at such speed, I knew that there was no place on ground where we could be safe. So I knew -- there was something in me that told me that instantly ... we've got to get on top of this wave if... to stay safe.
So I came out, I called out for the children. They all came. We rushed. We had just 10 seconds to get into the boat ... you know, [the wave] had rushed in ... just demolished everything that stood in its path. It came with such force. It just hit both of the garages. The garages just splintered in every direction. It lifted up my Toyota pickup vehicle, my Mitsubishi L-300. We had a three-wheeler, a motor bike. Everything -- it just pulverized.
... when we got into the boat, it was just a few I would say about 15 feet away, and we were eyeball to eyeball with the wave. And immediately, a Scripture popped into my mind. It said, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against it."
And I know from there I got the courage. I just stood up in the small boat, and I lifted both my hands and I said, 'I command you in the name of Jesus Christ, on the strength of the Scriptures, that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against him. I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to stand still.'
And I thought I was imagining at the time that the massive wall of water, it stood. It I'm not one given to exaggeration we saw, as if something holding back, some invisible force or hand. It just stood.
[Survivors] said, 'When it got on your land, at one point, it stood still. It just slowed down. And that gave you the chance. What made it? Was it the density of the trees or the buildings?' I said, 'There was no power on Earth that could have held it back but the power of God' I said, 'I called upon God, and I commanded it in the name of Jesus, who 2,000 years ago commanded the waves, and they obeyed. He commanded the sea, and they obeyed. And this is the very same God did the same to us and gave us those precious few seconds that we needed ...'"
Source: Mark Cahill
