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The Hitchhiker

   

Late one evening, a missionary asked the Lord to help him stay awake 
as he drove through the night to speak at the next church. Just then 
he saw a hitchhiker walking in the rain and picked him up. As they 
talked, he discovered that the stranger was a believer and that they 
actually had many of the same friends. They laughed together, shared 
stories and, before they knew it, dawn was breaking and the hitchhiker
was saying, "Here's where I get out."

Before they parted, they had a cup of coffee together at a road side 
cafe and promised to pray for each other.

By now the rain had stopped and it was daybreak. A few minutes down 
the road, the missionary suddenly realized that he hadn't got the man's 
phone number, so he returned to the cafe hoping to catch him. But 
there was no sign of him. When he asked the waitress which way he had 
gone, she looked puzzled and said, "Who? you came in here alone!

I wondered why you ordered two cups of coffee". The missionary glanced 
at the table where they'd sat and, sure enough, the hitchhikers cup was 
still full to the brim and cold. Then suddenly he remembered that when 
he'd picked him up the night before in the pouring rain - he wasn't even wet!


SOMETIMES YOU SEE THEM - GENERALLY YOU DON'T. BUT JUST WHEN YOU NEED 
THEM THE MOST, " HE ORDERED HIS ANGEL'S TO PROTECT YOU WHEREVER YOU GO" 
(psalm 91:11)

 

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