Twenty-Six Guards
(Author Unknown)
The following story was reported by a medical missionary at his home church in
Michigan:
"While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, I traveled every two weeks by
bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This required camping overnight
half way. On one of these trips, I saw two men fighting in the city. One was seriously
injured, so I treated him and witnessed to him of the Lord Jesus Christ. I then returned
home without incident."
"Upon arriving in the city several weeks later, I was approached by the man I had
treated earlier. He told me he had known that I carried money and medicine. He said, 'Some
friends and I followed you into the jungle knowing you would camp overnight. We waited for
you to go to sleep and planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. Just as we were
about to move into your campsite, we saw that you were surrounded by twenty-six armed
guards.'"
"I laughed at this and said I was certainly all alone out in that jungle
campsite. The young man pressed the point, 'No, sir, I was not the only one to see the
guards. My friends also saw them and we all counted them. It was because of those guards
that we were afraid and left you alone.'"
At this point in the church presentation in Michigan, one of the men in the church
jumped up and interrupted the missionary, and asked, "Can you tell me the exact date
when this happened"? The missionary thought for a while and recalled the date. The
man in the congregation told this side of the story:
"On that night in Africa it was morning here. I was preparing to play golf. As I
put my bag in the car, I felt the Lord leading me to pray for you. In fact, the urging was
so strong that I called the men of this church together to pray for you. Will all of those
men who met with me that day please stand?"
The men who had met that day to pray together stood . . . all TWENTY-SIX them!
And all God's people say: "AMEN!"
"The effective prayer of a righteous man can
accomplish much." James 5:16b (NAS)
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Children will not always do
what they're told,
but they will do
what they see!
"Be an example to them of good deeds of
every kind.
Let everything you do reflect your love of the truth."
Titus 2:7 (TLB)
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