BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

****** ADVERTISEMENT ****** “I’m so grateful to be a Partner with KCM. I’m grateful for their teaching on Psalm 91 and for teaching us how to live by faith.” Join David and Donna. Partner with KCM today! kcm.org/partner 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) ********************************** A Thousand-Year Flood It was 5 a.m. and rain was still hitting their house like machine-gun fire. Certain that angels were on guard, David fell into an exhausted sleep. The next morning when they turned on the news, Governor Nikki Haley was urging everyone to stay inside. “This isn’t a hundred-year rain,” she explained. “It’s a thousand-year rain! That means it’s been an estimated thousand years since we’ve had this kind of rain. The city is flooding and roads have been washed away. Stay inside!” “When we got up Sunday morning, we realized that the Broad River had been flooding during the night but we hadn’t known it at the time,” Donna remembers. “There were two major streets into our neighborhood and both of them were flooded. One of the roads had collapsed and two trucks had fallen into the sinkhole. There was no way in or out of our neighborhood. “None of this made sense to us. Our house is a two- to four-minute walk or a one- to two-minute bike ride to the Broad River. That river had flooded in every direction except ours! We should have been underwater, but not a single house on our street was flooded. “Looking out our back window, it looked like Niagara Falls cresting over the upper part of our yard. The gushing water should have flooded the back of our house. But it was as though Moses was standing there with his rod lifted, because the water parted and gushed down either side of our home to the street. What we were watching wasn’t possible in the natural! “The downtown area where Ashley lived had been hit hard. If she’d stayed home, she would have been trapped, alone with no way out. Yet we were right next to the river and not a single house on our street flooded. Two to three days later, people would walk down to the river and scratch their heads—it had flooded in every direction except toward us.” The Power of the Blood The situation was so dangerous, the city issued a curfew. Some who ventured out drowned. People who left home and weren’t back inside by 7 p.m. were ticketed or sent to jail. The Jenkins weren’t able to get out of their neighborhood for three days. True to the word of knowledge given to David Jenkins—something had been coming. He and his congregation were prayed up and stocked up, ready to ride out the storm of a millennium. “It reminded me of the children of Israel when they put the blood of the lamb over their doorposts,” David says. “When the death angel passed over, every living thing died except those protected by the blood. I’m so grateful to be a Partner with KCM. I’m grateful for their teaching on Psalm 91 and for teaching us how to live by faith. I’m grateful for the power of prayer that dispatched angels to our door, right when our city was hit with trillions of gallons of rain.” David and Donna Jenkins are convinced that the Broad River was forbidden to flood their street because the hand of God was set against it. Those angels and that hand were reminiscent of the story of Elisha in 2 Kings 6:14-17: "So [the Syrian king] sent there horses, chariots, and a great army. They came by night and surrounded the city. When the servant of the man of God rose early and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. Elisha’s servant said to him, Alas, my master! What shall we do? [Elisha] answered, Fear not; for those with us are more than those with them. Then Elisha prayed, Lord, I pray You, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha" ("The Amplified Bible, Classic Edition," emphasis added). The thing about angels is this: Whether you see them or not, they are there, ministering to you, surrounding you and protecting you. In uncertain times, God’s Word is certain. V 14 : BVOV

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