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Conference yukon::christian_v7

Title:	The CHRISTIAN Notesfile
Notice:	Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165
Moderator:	ICTHUS::YUILLEON

Created:	Tue Feb 16 1993
Last Modified:	Fri May 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	962
Total number of notes:	42902

413.0. "Valentine's Day Fire" by AKOCOA::JEEVES () Mon Feb 21 1994 16:49

Over the past few months I've only been a reader of this notesfile, but I'd
now like to share my recent experience.

This past Monday night, Valentines Days, my two young children, my wife
and I, narrowly escaped our house fire with our lives.  I'd like to thank 
the Lord for sparing our lives and showing us His love and support from
His people around the Salem NH area.

Around 11:30 PM on Monday night my wife, by some miracle smelled smoke from
our first floor, when we went down to investigate we found that the main wall
between our family room and our living was on fire.  We quickly called the fire
dept and dragged our children out of bed and into the freezing night.  As
we sat in the ambulance and watched everything we owned go up in flames I
said lets turn our lives over to the Lord and let him protect us and direct us
from this point on.  The four of us joined hands and prayed for direction
and thanked Him for saving our lives.  We latter learned that if we had
stayed in the house for only another 3 minutes we would not have made it out.

The next few days were not easy, but with the help of our Church family
from the Windham Presbyterian Church (WPC) we are doing fine.  The real
point of this note is that I wanted to share with you the Love of the Lord 
that my family and I have felt from our neighborhood, and especially the 
members of the WPC.  We have been attending the WPC for about two years now 
and knew some of the members, but everyone has been helping us with meals, 
words of support, and on this past Saturday they all came over and helped us 
clean everything out of the house.  I've never felt so uplifted and loved in 
my life.  There is nothing left of our old house, but as we rebuild the new
home it will be built on a foundation of Loving the Lord.

I've rambled on enough, but I just wanted to thank Jesus for saving my life
and opening my eyes to His love.

    					
Praise the Lord !!!!!!!

Bill Jeeves

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
413.1		CSLALL::HENDERSON	Acts 4:12	`Mon Feb 21 1994 16:54`	16
	Praise God, Bill....glad you are all safe and cared for. Stop in and say hello next time you're in Andover! Jim
413.2		JULIET::MORALES_NA	Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze	`Mon Feb 21 1994 17:26`	15
	Bill, Thanks so much for taking the time to share this with us in CHRISTIAN. God is good and while the loss of home and personal belongs is tramatic, the comfort and grace of God is so evident. I am reminded however, of the many who suffer and die in similar situations and wonder what grace and comfort there is for those that are left to question why. I am so thankful to know you and your family do not fall into this category. I know He is sufficient in either case. Praising God with you! Nancy
413.3		ICTHUS::YUILLE	Thou God seest me	`Tue Feb 22 1994 06:01`	10
	Thanks for sharing, Bill. Praise the LORD for His goodness in the preservation of life for the whole family! Are you covered for insurance, with continuing provision day-to-day just now? Great to be a part of a fellowhship like that! God bless Andrew
413.4		EVMS::PAULKM::WEISS	Trade freedom for His security-GAIN both	`Tue Feb 22 1994 08:32`	8
	Hi Bill! I didn't know that you worked for Digital, nor that you had been R-onlying this file. Welcome! See you in church :-) Paul
413.5		KAHALA::JOHNSON_L	Leslie Ann Johnson	`Tue Feb 22 1994 10:02`	3
	Thanks for sharing that Bill. Leslie
413.6		LEDS::FIESTER		`Tue Feb 22 1994 12:42`	10
	So glad that you and your family were alerted and able to escape the fire. While I'm sorry to hear that your possessions burned up, I'm delighted to hear of the great response from your local church! Thanks for sharing this testimony...it is really an encouragement to me! In Him, -greta
413.7	Update	AKOCOA::JEEVES		`Wed Feb 23 1994 08:38`	22
	Hi, It's me again (Bill). I want to thank you all for your replys and to let Andrew (reply #3) know that we do have insurance. Even our insurance issues are being handled with the help of the Lord. The day after the fire we called the insurance company and they told me to meet the insurance adjuster at our house. I took my eight year old son with me because he wanted to see his room. I warned him that I was going to have to spend time with the adjuster and he couldn't understand what this man was going to look at our house for. When we arrived at the house to meet the adjuster we learned that the adjuster was my sons Sunday school teacher from the Windham Presbyterian Church. We were both so happy to see a fellow Christian and a friend there to help us with all the insurance issues. It's all these "little" things that continue to keep me in awe at the power and the love that I've seen from the Lord. HE is truly a great GOD!!! Praise the LORD !!!! Bill
413.8		CSLALL::HENDERSON	Friend will you be ready	`Wed Feb 23 1994 08:47`	3
	Amen, Bill....
413.9	Jehova God - my provider	POWDML::MOSSEY		`Wed Feb 23 1994 09:35`	19
	Yes, God care about the details. (parphrase) Consider the lilies of the field, they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon was not arrayed like these. Consider the birds of the air, they worry not about what they will eat. If we ask him for bread, will he give us a stone? Jeheova loves his own. Very encouraging testimony - thanks for sharing! May God continue to bless and comfort you during this trying time! Karen
413.10		ICTHUS::YUILLE	Thou God seest me	`Wed Feb 23 1994 11:17`	3
	Bill, that's just overwhelming! God cares for the details.... Andrew
413.11		BBQ::WOODWARDC	...but words can break my heart	`Tue Oct 10 1995 19:05`	16
	Talk about strange coincidences (I always have to chuckle when I write that ;') Bill, the author of the base-note, is one of my Managers. He in Stow (Ma), me in Sydney (Aust.) The really great thing is that he and I have met a couple of times now (he is in Oz right at this time), and although an astute manager, he is also a wonderful and humble Brother in the Lord. We shared fellowship over coffee yesterday afternoon, and he shared this part of my testimony with me. He said that he points to this incident as to when God 'broke through' to him. Bless You Father God that You saw fit to speak to my Brother's heart, and draw him and his family to You. Thank You too, Lord God, for the Fam'ly that rallied around in the time of need. Praise You lord God.