Violent Gust Of Wind...And The Presence Of God e-bog

This book was written to tell of an extraordinary experience of divine intervention prior to, during, and post-Hurricane Maria's impact on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. It is excerpt from a man's daily diary detailing the display of the power of God and how His presence was experienced on a day-to-day basis, over a twenty-seven-day time frame. The narrative provides the details of this man's efforts to get to St. Croix to be with his mother and sister to help them make adequate preparations for the pending storms. What began as a humanitarian endeavor expected to last eight days turned into a twenty-seven-day life-changing experience of the presence of God"e;"e;experienced through very specific and timely answers to prayer, especially when the social, banking, and commercial infrastructures were impaired. The daily survival vigil common post-hurricane events were transformed from an effort to "e;make ends meet"e; to a test of what God could perform in answer to prayer. Ordinary lives undergoing extraordinary change as two people became living witnesses of God's ability in response to mere human pleas for intervention and help. He details how their days were lived, how needs were met, what they did, and the impact of what they saw on their lives. This true story lends hope to the hopeless and encouragement to the discouraged, heralding that what the prophet Jeremiah wrote is true: "e;Call unto Me and I will answer you, and will show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."e;