Testimonies
2022-02-27 Prayer, car accident, protection from God, context
I want to share the story of 2022-02-27 how God answered my prayer. I didn’t quite expected such answer, but He sees the benefits or harms of certain things in my life in his own way. Unfortunately, I will have to tell you a lot of context to understand the point. We had a car accident where I fell asleep at the wheel while driving in a wooded area, but it all ended happily because no one else could control everything like that, except God, and that was just one detail of the puzzle. To understand the whole picture you need to delve into the whole.
As soon as I created my testimony website, created a Facebook profile, and when I saw that most of my friends who want to make friends are English-speaking, I decided to translate my testimonies into English as soon as possible. And as soon as I translated some of my testimonies, I started getting messages from people who “offered me their money” because they allegedly had incurable diseases and had no one to leave their money to and did not want to leave to the state. I was amazed at such generosity, but I asked God what to answer them, whether they were sincere, were they from God, or from the “world,” when someone said that their spirit father had instructed them to do so. And God’s answer was very clear to me. Jeremiah 14: 11-15:
“11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people. 12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.” 13 But I said, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.’ ” 14 Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds. 15 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine.” After such an answer, I realized that it was an attempt by the devil to deceive me, to get my some data, documents or account numbers and maybe steal money or hurt me in some way. The evil one tried to stop me, but the attack has been uncovered and I was protected from it.
Almost in parallel, messages from women with offers to make “closer” friends or requests to make friends with Facebook accounts, in which women openly demonstrate their “beauties” and seem to have nothing to do with faith, and it’s just an evil attempt to seduce or then compromise me, and ruin what I started. I thought what to do about this, blocking or just throwing out of friends or not accepting to join, just to have access to my testimonies, because the Bible says that Jesus also did not condemn the woman taken in adultary, that the whole city wanted to kill with stone, if at all, those cases can be compared here. I decided to ask God how I should deal with them. The answer was Isaiah 28: 11-22 “11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people, 12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”; and, “This is the place of repose”— but they would not listen. 13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there— so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured and snared and captured. 14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. 15 You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic. 17 I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it. 19 As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.”The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror. 20 The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you. 21 The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. 22 Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.” I have never taken such women’s suggestions seriously and I have not taken them for granted, but it was like a confirmation that both their image and their intentions, imbued with lies and nothing else can be expected there, only deception or compromise. I looked it up with a list of friends and threw away anyone who looks for the opposite goals than I do.
And in the context of these events, almost a month ago, I received a message from a friend, his name Mantas, at the place of writing: Jeremiah 1: 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” 17“Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. 18 Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall.” Then I realized that with God’s help, I had successfully resisted the evil’s initial attempts to fool me, lie, and probably steal my money or mislead or compromise me somewhere. And that message of a friend sounded truly like from God that he had made me a fortified city, and in this place evil would no longer overcome me, his deceit was revealed and his goals understood.
A few days later another game started with me, people started begging me to put money on them, to support them because they were starving, in poverty and so on. But when I asked God what to do with the first attack, the answer was that I would stick to my goal, my vocation, and not turn left or right. So I realized that the support that people are basically asking for that what won’t help them discover God, so maybe it will help them survive for a few days, but basically it won’t solve anything in their lives, even if they tell the truth. I tried to tell them that only God could solve their problem, basically, because money, teach You nothing about God, only delayed making decisions that would fundamentally change the situation, but they didn’t basically accept my words about God, they just wanted my money. If God hadn’t sent one man into my life who was also asking for my help with money, by manipulating me in every way and coming up with situations he’s getting into and has no way to solve because he’s poor. And I helped him with finances for about 8 months, first more, then less. Finally, seeing that all my financial and spiritual help is leading him nowhere, he still speaks one thing, the other does, and the third thinks, doesn’t believe what I say, but does everything in his own way and expects different results than he have had. I asked God what to do with him and the answer was that I have to leave him to build his own temple that I was just bothering him. Ezra 4:2-5 “2 they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.” 3 But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.” 4 Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building. 5 They bribed officials to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.” Therefore, I realized that I would not climb on the same rake a second time and I would not help anyone with money, my goal, which burns in my heart, is different and I have to deviate from it neither left nor right. And one evening after a hot discussion about money with Africans, I sat down to read the Bible. Then came the reading of Jeremiah 15 from there I left. I was strongly touched by lines 19-21: “19 Therefore this is what the Lord says: “If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. 20 I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you,” declares the Lord. 21 “I will save you from the hands of the wicked
and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.”” So I realized that I only have to talk about what is valuable – about God, not what is not worth – about money, because money cannot save the human soul, nor save from problems, if you do not know how to handle money correctly. One day the money will run out anyway and you will be back where you were, but you will have lost time. I realized that I only had to preach the testimonies that God had given me and not to turn anywhere else. And again, that talk that would make me a bricklayer gave me hope to keep my position without fear of any defeat or bad consequences.
And in that context, I said to God this prayer: “God, You made me strong in those areas, as a fortified city or a wall; You explained the deceit of the wicked, and he will not outwit me with these things: thou hast taught me. But there is an important area for me where I am weak, I see that I am weak, please strengthen me in that area so that even there I would be invincible and unbreakable, like a fortified city or a copper wall, because weakness in that area can ruin my service , to abort a vocation and the like, because when I fall into sin I no longer want to talk about your deeds in my life, I pray in Jesus’ name. “Then maybe the next day I prayed again: “God take that weakness of mine and deal with it according to your will, for I do not know how, or those decisions are not acceptable to all. I put that weakness into Your own hands. Heal it, that I may be healed completely.”
I prayed these prayers for 3-4 days before the traffic accident that took place on Sunday night, February 27, 2022, at about 3:30 to 3:45 a.m. We were invited to a 40-year-old party by one relative. It was fun company, good musicians, lots of games and dancing. We decided not to spend the night where the party was going, but to go home so we could attend the Mass in the morning. When we left the party, somehow it didn’t seem to take much sleep, only the yawning took a lot and after more than half a trip I realized that I had fallen asleep for a second or two, disconnected. The machine was set to run at 90km/h on autopilot. I remember only that we were driving on a straight road, asphalt, our lane, and in the next picture I remember that we are already driving on the slope of the ditch of left side of road. I don’t remember how we passed the oncoming lane. Surprisingly, at that time, my wife was sitting next to me and watching the road, she decided to close her eyes and rest and none of us noticed how we crossed the opposite lane and opened our eyes only when the car leaned on the slope. The wife says she thought that is it, we will roll upside down, for some reason there was no panic, no fear in me. I remember when I opened my eyes, we were already driving along the slope and I was just starting to brake. When the speed was reduced to safe driving through the ditch, we continued driving, approached the side road junction with the pavement, it was not steep and through it we easily drove out of the ditch and without any damage, without stopping we continued our way home. We returned without incident. Driving with my wife, we thought about what had just happened here, how it happened here that I fell asleep, and at the same time she closed her eyes, and nothing happened to us or to the car that only God could protect us in this way. Although there were large trees and deep, steeply sloping ditches and high ditches on the roadsides, where you would really roll over if you hit such a ditch, if, for example, 3-4 m. the slope of the high road is. Everything could have ended tragically or at least a small least broken machine. But nothing of that happened. All thanks and praise is only to Our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. In the morning, after Mass, my wife offered to go and see the place of accident. I wouldn’t have driven myself, but when she offered, I thought it would really be good to investigate how things were there, to take pictures, that would strengthen the testimony, because it will really be necessary to testify, such an event. Until we found the scene, we had to drive maybe 5km back from the scene. As we drove, we noticed that the road was full of high slopes, deep ditches, deep drainage ditches, thick roadside trees, but we fell asleep just where it is not, where it is safe. But even after inspecting the accident place itself, we clearly realized that we really couldn’t drive it so perfectly accurately ourselves. Because there are thick trees on the right side of the road, if you hit one, at least the small car will be unrepaired, I’m not talking about health or life of ours anymore. But on the left side I noticed that in the beginning there were shrubs and small trees, but there were big trees still, just like on the right side of the road, only they grow further. But how our car hadn’t rolled around the ditch in some way incomprehensible to me, we would still have hit those thick trees anyway. I calculated that at a speed of 90 km/h it goes at 25m/s, so those thick trees grew really no closer than 35-50m from the road, so if our car had not turned from the trajectory we left the road, I would have woken up on the slope, a second to recover and start braking and we are hitting with trees, maybe not at a maximum speed of 90km/h, but something like that, but for reasons beyond my comprehension, our car, as soon as it drove off the road for about 7-10m, turned to drive along the ditch, and I remember that when I opened my eyes we were already driving along the slope, and according to the traces you can see that we entered the slope at an angle of 20-30 degrees, we had to jump over the ditch and drive straight on to those trees, but someone drove everything perfectly. Only God could do it, there is no one else because I was asleep at the time. When I returned home, next day, I somehow had an idea to measure with navigation what the distance to the that place was, maybe there would be some connections with God. I found that place in the navigation and it turns out that the navigation from that place to home shows a distance of 30 km and a travel time of 31 minutes to get there. I see this as the signature of one God in three persons (3/1). No one else could put it that way. Although I made a mistake, I fell asleep, but God protected both my and my wife’s life and health, but also our property, our car. Thinking about those former prayers of mine, the first conclusion that goes away is that even though I am wrong, God does not allow me, my loved ones, or my property to be harmed or destroyed. I don’t know if that’s the final interpretation of that event and the answer to my prayer that God won’t change anything in that situation, but will protect me from possible harm, whether I need to wait for further details of the puzzle and see what all goes out.
A relationship with God really makes life more interesting, that constant contact and the ability to consult really helps to guard against mistakes. I recommend everyone to try God, ask Him questions, and then wait for answers through the Bible or circumstances. Our God loves to communicate in a variety of ways. Thanks and praise to him for the protection we receive only from Him.
I will post some photos of the event to make the situation clearer.
