How Gary E. Stevenson Can #HearHim
When We Follow the Spirit
This video reminds me of the times in my life when I have felt the need to change my course of travel or to make a different choice and have later benefitted by that prompting that was given from the Spirit. One such experience that comes to mind was on a walk with my girlfriend (now wife). We were walking around my neighborhood and we were going to walk through a park. I had the prompting that we shouldn’t walk through the park, so we passed the park on the sidewalk by the street. We continued on with no thought to any dangers we might have faced in the park. On our way back to my house we passed by the park again and there were police officers dealing with something that had happened in the park. I believe this was a warning from the Spirit keeping us safe from any dangers.
When We Don’t Follow the Spirit
Conversely, I received a prompting one day that I ignored and had to pay a heavy price as a result.
A couple of years ago we were visiting my wife’s sister. After our visit, my brother-in-law called and said that I should take a look at my van because I had left a large oil spot in his driveway. It was Sunday so I was going to put checking the van off until after work on Monday. The business of life took over and Monday afternoon came and I forgot about the van.
The following Saturday morning we were on our way for another activity with my wife’s family up at a lake. As we passed a grocery store I had the thought that I should stop and check the oil then I could buy some in the store if I needed to top off the oil. You know the rest of the story, but I’ll still tell it. We were up in the mountains when the car began to act weird then it began to overheat. We stopped and I checked the oil… There wasn’t a drop left. We had to get my wife’s brother to backtrack to come and pick up my wife and kids and they went to enjoy a day at the lake while I had to wait for a tow truck to pick me up. Since we were so far from home the tow truck was going to cost a fortune. To save some money I had the tow truck driver take me back to his city and drop me off at the train station and he took the car back to his shop.
In the end, the van’s engine had seized up and it would have cost more than what the vehicle was worth to replace the engine. We had to sell the van to a guy for parts. If I had listened to prompting instead of telling myself that I would check the engine when we got home…