TBN Testimony #2
Abduction of a Local Weatherman

ere is another testimony I just heard off of TBN that is definitely worth passing on. This one has a major lesson for all of us to really grab a hold of.

This one happened several years ago in a city in South Carolina. One of the local weathermen on one of the major news channels was on his way back home to his apartment building at about 1:30 am.

As he got out of his car and started to walk to the front of his apartment building, he saw two teenagers meandering around about 50 feet in front of his apartment entrance. He could actually see them from his car as he got out.

When he first saw them, he started to get butterflies in his stomach and a very uneasy feeling about walking past them to get to his apartment. However, he overruled what he thought were just his emotions that may have been malfunctioning on him and decided to rely on his own natural logic and reasoning and continue to walk toward his apartment.

As he walked past the two teenagers, one of them called out to him. He turned around to see what they wanted. As he turned around, one of them had a gun and told him to move toward his car. As he got to his car, they told him to climb into his own trunk and give him the keys.

The two teenagers then drove for about 30 minutes to another location. As they were driving to this location, the weatherman started to pray to God to protect and deliver him from this situation that he now found himself caught in. He admitted to God his total helplessness to do much to get himself out of this situation and asked for God's direct help in the matter.

When they got to this other location and he started to climb out of the trunk, he said he felt an incredible sense of peace come over him. He felt the sense of peace was definitely coming from the Lord and that everything was going to be all right.

When he climbed out of the trunk, he saw a third man standing by the side of his car with a steel pipe in his hands. This man asked him for his money. He gave them what he had in his wallet, but apparently this was not enough to satisfy them.

He then started to try and reason with them. He told them he could get them more money if they would drive him to his local ATM machine. They agreed to do it.

On the way to the ATM machine, one of the teenagers asked him why he was being so nice to them since they were abducting and robbing him of his money. He then proceeds to tell the boys that he was a Christian and preceded to lightly witness to them.

They drive up to the ATM machine, he takes out $600.00 to give to them and they then let him go without physically harming him.

When he got home, he immediately reported the abduction and robbery to the local police. About a month or two later, they caught all three of the boys. The police then told this weatherman that these same boys had been responsible for abducting and robbing two other men.

The only difference between what had happened to him and the other two men is that these boys had severely beat up the other two men that they had robbed leaving them with serious injuries. For whatever reason, they did not lay a hand on the weatherman. The police told the weatherman that he was lucky that they had not beat him up like they had with the other two victims.

The weatherman knew, without any shadow of a doubt, that it was God who protected him from suffering any type of physical harm from these three teenagers. He believed that when he first got out of his trunk after being abducted and facing the third individual with the steel pipe in his hands - that he would have been beat with that pipe had God not run interference and protected him.

Lessons

1. Warnings From the Holy Spirit

The first mistake this man made was not heeding and listening to the warnings that the Holy Spirit was trying to give to him when he first saw the two teenagers meandering in front of his apartment building. He said when he first saw them from his car - that he started to get butterflies and a very uneasy feeling in his stomach.

Your human spirit is located in your belly area - your gut! The Holy Spirit lives in your human spirit. There thus will be times that the Holy Spirit will communicate directly to your spirit in your belly area - in your gut. That is why the man started to get "butterflies" in his stomach area.

He had no reason to believe that he was going to be abducted, so the only logical explanation for the butterflies in his stomach was that it had to be a warning being given to him by God through the Holy Spirit. Only God can see into the future - we cannot. God obviously saw what was about to happen and was trying to warn this man ahead of time.

Since this man obviously did not know about the supernatural workings of the Holy Spirit and how He operates, he did not know that this supernatural warning was coming directly from the Lord. He then used his own natural reasoning and logic to tell himself there is no logical reason he should be having this uneasy feeling and that he should simply override it and walk toward his apartment.

The Bible says that God's people will perish for having lack of knowledge. Because this man lacked the working knowledge of how God can supernaturally communicate to him through the Holy Spirit, he had to end up going through this traumatic ordeal.

As I have said numerous times in my other articles, the Bible calls the Holy Spirit our "Helper." The Holy Spirit will help us out across the board on anything that we will need His help on in this life. However, we have to learn how to pick up and read His leadings and movements in order to be guided by Him.

I don't know how many times I have heard this same story over and over again in reference to people being mugged, robbed or raped. They all say they get the butterflies in their stomach area and a very uneasy feeling about going around a corner, or about entering into a house or building, or about walking past a certain individual or group of men, or entering into a car with a particular individual.

Those butterflies in the stomach area - that uneasy feeling that all of sudden overcomes you are "warning manifestations" coming from the Holy Spirit. He is telling you to stop where you are at and not to go around that corner, not to enter that building, not to get into that car with that particular individual.

Most people, when they initially receive these warning manifestations in their belly area from the Holy Spirit, shake them off and tell themselves that their emotions are just malfunctioning and that there is no logical reason they should be having them. They look at the corner they are getting ready to go around and not seeing anything there - they assume it is perfectly safe - not realizing that God can see around that corner and what is waiting for them if they round it!

There were numerous testimonies from Christians who got warning signals - warning manifestations from the Holy Spirit on the 9/11 attack. One woman in particular I had heard on TBN said she was getting ready to get back into the elevator to go back to the floor that got hit by the planes when she received warnings from the Holy Spirit on the inside that she was not to get back on that elevator to go back up to her office building.

This woman was a Spirit-filled Christian who had some working knowledge of the Holy Spirit and how He can supernaturally communicate and guide you. Since she was able to recognize the inside warnings as coming directly from the Holy Spirit - she immediately warned the other people she was with and was able to persuade the rest of them not to get back on the elevator to go back up. They immediately all started to go down the stairs and all of them were able to safely get out of the building just in the nick of time.

She not only saved her life, but quite a few other people's lives as well - all because she had the working knowledge on how the Holy Spirit could supernaturally communicate directly to her.

These warnings from the Holy Spirit can cover you in all types of situations - rapes, robberies, abductions, car accidents, plane accidents, train accidents, etc.

If any of you should ever receive these types of "belly warnings" from the Holy Spirit - it would be my extremely strong recommendation that you heed and abide by them and not continue to go in the direction you are heading. It is much better to be safe than sorry on all of this.

Had this weatherman heeded the warnings from the Holy Spirit and got back into his car and come back home later - he could have prevented himself from being abducted and robbed of $600.00.

These warnings can come in on you as you are getting ready to get on a plane, in a car or on a train. I have also heard testimonies from some who have miraculously survived plane crashes that they had those belly warning signals before they actually got on the plane. Looking back with hindsight, they all said they wished they had listened to those "belly warnings" instead of overriding them with natural logic and reason.

I wonder how many people have gone home too early in the Lord due to their lack of knowledge on how God can supernaturally communicate to them through the Holy Spirit.

About 4-5 years ago, I recall one of my friends was up on vacation in Toronto, Canada. Her and her friend were getting ready to get on a trolley type train car. Right before they were getting ready to board the train, she said she got a very uneasy and queasy feeling about getting on this train. Knowing that this could be a direct warning from the Holy Spirit, she chose to listen to it and decided not to board the train.

When they got home about 4-5 hours later, they turned on the TV and saw that the train they would have gotten on had been involved in a wreck on the tracks that were up in the air. Apparently, the train somehow had derailed and had partially come off of the tracks. It took 3-4 hours to finally rescue all of the people who were still on board. Several people were killed in the accident.

Had my friend not listened to the uneasy feeling that the Holy Spirit was conveying to her, she would have at the least been stranded on that derailed train for 3-4 hours, not to mention the possibility of being seriously injured or even killed.

2. If Caught - Start Praying!

Even though this man missed the initial warnings that God was trying to give him to avoid this traumatic ordeal, at least he was smart enough to start praying once he got caught.

He said once he was thrown into the trunk of his car, he immediately started to pray to God, admitting that he was totally helpless and asking God to deliver him from this predicament. I believe the strong sense of peace he felt as he was climbing out of the trunk of his car was a manifestation coming direct from the Holy Spirit letting him know that God had heard his prayer and that God would now handle the situation and safely deliver him out of it.

I wonder how many Christians either forget or don't think to try and pray to God if caught in some type of trap or snare. God can pull anyone out of anything if the person will only pray it through to God the Father while in the middle of the dilemma. This story is another dramatic example showing that God will answer your prayers - no matter how serious or how hopeless the predicament may be that you have just found yourself caught in.

The Lord is our deliverer - but only if we pray and specifically ask for His deliverance.

I wonder what would have happened to this man had he not prayed to God while in the trunk of his car. The above testimony is just another powerful example showing how active God can really get for those who are open to receiving it and are willing to seek after it.

 

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