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A prayer to have faith in difficult moments

by Victoria Rielano, read by Lea Martin.

By faith, Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance,

obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

Hebrews 11-8

The lights started to flicker.

Before long, the slight flickering turned into a multi-county power outage.

On a chilly day in January, what started off as a small snowstorm turned into a family emergency.

The first day with no power and cell services down, our heat source was uncomfortable to say the least.

That night, my family bundled in layers and prayed that we would soon get relief from the 30-degree house.

Yet, with the estimated time for power restoration being a week, and downed trees covering the streets,

it was certain we needed to find a place of refuge quickly.

The next day, with the help of many neighbors, we managed to get our 13 passenger van out of our icy snow-trapped home.

With no family in sight and all our friends in the same predicament, we knew we had to go, but certainly didn't know where.

All we knew was that the Lord prompted us to leave quickly to keep everyone from getting very sick.

With little money and no hotel in sight, we simply drove away and trusted in the Lord.

As we traveled for hours in traffic and icy roads, I was reminded of the story of Abraham.

In Genesis 12, Lord speaks to Abraham and says,

Leave your land and go to a place I will show you.

I can only imagine how unsettling it was to pick up and suddenly go, leaving his place of comfort and having no real direction,

Abraham had to trust God with every aspect of his journey.

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