I didn’t know this woman. I had seen her, but was
not acquainted with her personally.
“A few nights ago I absolutely could not sleep,”
she told me. “I tossed and turned, and finally got up
to pray. ‘God, what is this?’ I asked.
“Get dressed, He answered. I’ve got somewhere I
want you to go.
“It was the middle of the night. I usually don’t do
things like that, but I obeyed the Lord. I got dressed,
and then I asked, ‘Where am I supposed to go?’
“He led me to the hospital, so I went.
“‘I don’t know anybody in this hospital,’ I said.
‘What do I do now, Lord?’
“He didn’t say anything, so I just started praying
in the spirit as I walked down each hall. I don’t know
how many corridors I walked down, but it was several.
I went along quietly just praying in the spirit, listening
for the Lord. Suddenly I stopped right in front of
one room. The Lord said, Go in there.
“I went in and saw that the man in the bed wasn’t
asleep. I walked up to him and said, ‘Sir, I don’t know
you, and you don’t know me. But the Lord wouldn’t let
me sleep tonight. God sent me down here to you. Do
you know Jesus as Lord?’
“He said, ‘You sound like Vinita and Kenneth
Copeland.’
“‘Vinita Copeland is a close personal friend of
mine,’ I told him.
“‘I’ve been trying to call Kenneth for two days,’
he answered. ‘He’s out of town, and I was lying here
praying, God give me somebody. I’m dying. Send me
somebody. I can’t die in this shape. I can’t die like this.
Send me somebody, Lord. Send me somebody.’”
What was happening in that situation? God’s
honor was at work. God was honoring the decision
that man made back in the Baptist church nearly
40 years before. He was honoring my mother’s prayers
and my prayers and our love for that man. God was
honoring all these things.
Thank God for that woman who honored God’s
direction to go to that hospital in the middle of
the night, not even knowing why. She prayed with
him, and he came back to Jesus, praying and rejoicing
in Him.
Then he died.
Actually, he didn’t die. He just stepped out of that
old cancerous body in which he was confined and
went on to be with the Lord.
Think what just one act by a dishonorable
Christian had done. Because of that one shameful
dealing, another man had spent his entire life out
of fellowship with Jesus, his brothers and sisters in
the Lord, and with the Father Himself. But this man
finally recognized the honor of God in the last minute
of the last hour. Thank God for that!
