Remembering God's saving power to me and ascribing to the Lord glory

This is part of a conversation chat Jessica and I had this morning. Figured I'd share. 

this morning God was so funny

Luke has a book called 3:16

and what the author does is take every instance of 3:16 in the Bible  (and where it would've been if the bible book was longer)

and preach the gospel through those verses

So there we were in Ephesians

and luke decides to get the book

and he's reding along and suddenly I say, "Ah, glory!"

Because I was thinking of the verse ascribe to the lord glory and strength. Sp apropos of nothing mind you..

I suddenly interrupt him to say "Ah glory"

And the next line in the book is "What is glory?"

we praised and gave glory and remembered all the things God had done in our lives

finally managed to do a great night ofpraise and ascribing

hadn't done it in a while

Don't know if I eve r told you about the time luke biked across the country and was in Kansas

with a flat tire  ..he bicycled across the country when he was 17...and he arrived at this little shop that had accidentally gotten

the wrong bicycle tube

and the guy had been meaning to return it for six months

but suddenly luke turns up and it was the perfect inner tube for that bicycle..a very rare one

 , and the guy had forgotten he had it or something...and there it was as if waiting for my soon-to-be boyfriend

then there was the time luke was walking kin the woods as a kid

and suddenly leaves spontaneously burst into flames before him. Then died down

Then we talked about the time God saved me from falling off the cliff

and the time God saved me from a knife on my bed and the time God saved me from fire

 God's intervention is amazing; I am so glad for that

 and the time God protected Gabe and Logan from accidents

Gabe used to get lost a lot

YES!

It was so good to remember

it gave me hope for the operation

Tomorrow this time i shall be either beng cut or recuperating

Then there was the time I was lying on my left side and talking to my sister or something

and I started getting ready to lie flat on my tummy

Then suddenly for no reason i stopped

yes, that one. Caren

And I was on my left side then turning to my stomahc and I suddenly stopped

And i thought that was weird..and when i looked down

a sharp steak knife

was perched at a 45 degree angle

the tip of the knife in my skin.just touching it

and if i had moved anymore

the knife would've pierced into me

I hadn't felt it resting on me but there it was

Then there was the time I was praying for something i dont know what

but i was praying to a voodoo saint

Erzulie

casuse i was dumb and my haitian friend was telling me

and each saint in the catholic hierarchy has a voodoo equivalent

so i put her pcitre on a table and a aluminum pan and a candle inside the aluminim pie can

plate

and i .

no, maybe it was a list of the prayer request ounder the pie pan

anyway that night the entire table went up in flames

cause the wax from the candle flowed and burned through the pie pan

and we were sleeping in the bedroom

then our dog Resin woke us up

and when i went into the kitchen there was the entire flame leaping up from the kitchen talbe to the ceiling

so God saved us then

Then ther ewas the time I was on Bear Mountain

which is THE place folks from Brooklyn go to

and there we were with my mother and my sister and i were playing and dashign about anwhither which way

and I dashed nd dashed in a particular direction and then suddenly stopped

and the weirdness of taht sudden stopping well it was so weird

i was 13 or so but it felt so odd to me

And so after I asked myself why i had stopped for no good reason

i continued walking in the direction where i'd been running

and two stopfootsteps later

there was a sheer drop over a cliff

God had saved me

And then there was the time when my mother and her friends were taking their babies to get vaccines

But something always stopped my mother

So her friend got annoyed and decided to go without my mother

And her friend's daughter died. I lived. Turned out the vaccine had something wrong with it

So yes, i was protected so often

  see, this is the reason we Christians know about God's faithfulness