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That drop light was about to hit the water. The man tripped over the extension cord and pulled it out of the wall. This story has never been told. Nobody knows what I'm telling you. It's the first time it's ever been told. I was thinking about it today in my room, and I thought I wanted. Oh, my goodness. I wanted to tell this story tonight. Jerry never told it. The very second. The very second it was going to hit the water, the man tripped over that extension cord and pulled it out of the wall. And he was apologizing. I'm so sorry. Let me go plug it in again. Jerry said, carolyn, I was shaking like a leaf. Shaking like a leaf. There was no amount of money that was worth me going down in that pit again. He said, I told my boss, my foreman, I said, I'm gone. I'm going home. Do you know what? Jerry got in the car driving that 40 miles home. He said, carol and I had to pull off on the side of the road at least three times and just shake. He said, I just sit on the side of the road in My car. And I just shake and shake and shake. Guess what? He never went back to that job. He never went back to that job. But guess what delivered him was the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus. The name of Jesus. Oh, my God. The name of Jesus. Let me find this scripture again. I want you to see this. He who dwells in the secret place, the secret place of the Most High. That's what Patty was talking about. She dwells in the secret place. The secret place. Patty stays in the secret place of the Most High God. She calls me every day. Every day. We talk or we text each other. Every single day. She stays in the secret place of the Most High God. You shall remain stable and fixed. I want you to get this stable and fixed. Stable and fixed. Stable and fixed. Under the shadow of the Almighty God. Just what we experienced yesterday with Charlie Kirk being assassinated. I love that young man. I have loved that young man for years and years and years. My grandson was in an airport somewhere yesterday flying to Oregon. And he called me or text me. He said, grandmother Abby and I are in the airport flying to her brothers in Oregon. And he said, I've listened to him since I was 14 years old. He said, he made a difference. And in impact in my life. He said, this is not right. He said, mimi. And I said to him, I said, dylan, I said, charlie Kirk's life, it's a seed. It's a seed. It's gone. But God's going to raise up 10,000 more just like him. Just like him. 10,000 more just like him. And I sent a video to Morgan today or a picture, and I said, would you please show that? They don't have to show it, but I want you to know Texas A and M and all these universities around the United States today, there were tens of thousands in these universities that were singing praises to God and worshiping God today because they are not going to let what that man did die. That's not gonna die. I'm telling you. God's raising up tens of thousands that will take his place. That will take his place. Glory to God. So all of us, God's raising us up. He's raising us up. We need to abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Look at this again. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed. It doesn't matter what comes down the road. Like you just said, it's praise. It's praise. And it's staying in the presence of the Lord. In the presence of the Lord. One night Jerry and I were coming back from Oklahoma City. It was late at night, and this has been many, many years ago. Probably close to 48 years ago, maybe, because we've been in ministry. 55. It could have been 50 years ago. And we're coming back from Oklahoma City late at night, and all of a sudden we hit something in the road. And we began to watch our fuel tank just begin to just go from full to empty, just like that. And we were out in the boonies, just rural area on I35. And back in the now there's homes everywhere, but back then there were not homes like the subdivisions they are now 55 years later. And all of a sudden he said to me, he said, carolyn. He said, this is too far out. He said, I can't walk somewhere and leave you and the girls in the car. They were asleep in the backseat. He said, we're just going to have to sit in the car. And so we joined hands and began to believe God for help. God send help, please. We're stuck out here. We need help. All of a sudden we began to see some lights come from the back, from the rear end. And all of a sudden these lights began to get closer and closer and closer. And this pickup truck pulled right up beside us and pulled right in front of us. And the man got out of the pickup truck and walked up to the car, and Jerry rolled his window down. And the man said, can I help you? And he said, yes, I think I hit something in the road and I have no more fuel in my car. I need help to be towed to the next exit so I can find a service station and get help. And the man said, well, that's what I was sent for. And so he backs his truck up, hooks us up, pulls us down the road. I don't know how far we went, maybe 10 miles, 15 miles, 20 miles. I don't know how far we went, but to the next exit we exited, we went across the bridge and we pulled into a service station that was closed, the lights were off and everything. The man got out of the pickup truck, walked up to the car, opens the. The door to the service station, flips on all of the lights, and then opens the. The overhead garage door. And so they push our car, and the man puts it on a lift, flips on all the lights, puts it on a lift, lifts it up there, repairs whatever, you know, we hit in the road and made the gas in the gas tank. He repaired it. The man came back out, and they pushed our car over to the Gas tanks and filled our car up with gas, filled our car up with gas. And Jerry tried to pay the man. He said, no, nope, you can't pay me. It's what I was sent for. The man went back in, flipped all the lights off, lowered the doors, did all of that. Jerry and I got in our car and drove back to Fort Worth. And before we left, he said, now be sure when you get home to get your car repaired. We got to Fort Worth the next day. Jerry took the car, put it in the shop and got the gas tank repaired. Well, Jerry was going back up to Oklahoma City in about three weeks. So when we left there, he said, carolyn, write down the name of this station. And there was a little 50s diner next door. He said, write that down. I wrote everything down. I wrote the exit number and everything off of i35. I wrote it all down. So I had it on a piece of paper. So two or three weeks later, Jerry was going back up there. And so he asked me for the paper and all the information on it. I gave it to him. Jerry drove up i35, gets to that exit, goes to that station, and it's completely closed. There's nobody there. So Jerry goes to the diner next door, and he said, can you tell me about the service station next door? It seems to be locked and closed. He said, I was just here three weeks ago, and I got gas out of the pumps, and the man repaired my car, sent me on my way. The person at the diner said, no, sir, it could not have been here. That station's been closed for 25 or 30 years. He said, there's no gas in those tanks, and there's been no electricity in that building for that many years. He said, it could not have been that service station. It could not have been those gas tanks. He said, yes, sir, it was. He said, I wrote the name of your diner down, and I wrote the exit number down. It was that service station, and it was those gas pumps. We were entertained by an angel. We were taken care of by an angel. God, these are the last days. And whatever it is that you have need of your God will supply it for you. He will give it to you. He will supply it for you. Just like the story I told you all about the memorial stones of the tire rolling down the interstate to us when we prayed and believed God for a tire, for tires. And it flipped off that Goodyear truck and came rolling right towards us. Rolled right over in the ditch. Jerry pulled the car up, opened the trunk, got the tire, put it in our car. And it was the very size tire we needed for our old ratty rattle trap car. This is the God we serve. I'm telling you, we are living in perilous times. We are living in perilous times. And I'm telling you, the angels of God want to be sent on assignments to take care of you in these perilous times. You told a story last night about Ed saying There were 100 angels that were assigned, and now there are 50 with you. Assigned. God has assigned angels to each and every one of us. We need to get them out there on their assignments to bring in the things that we have need of. We're just lollygagging around. We're just playing church. We're just. Just playing games. God wants us to do business, and he wants to put the angels to work to do business for us. For us. Oh, the protection of almighty God is for us. For us. The name of Jesus, the angels. One time, when we had the first little house we bought in Fort Worth, Texas, the neighbor across the street had a teenage son. And he had this 55 Chevy that he worked diligently on day and night, day and night. And that was his prize and Joy, this 55 Chevy that he had. And Jerry just loved this young man because that was Jerry's. That's our era. 55, 56, 57. 1957 is our favorite year because that's the year Jerry and I met. I was 9, he was 11. Fell in love with him. In 1957, Elvis came on the scene. Elvis was our everything. You know, by the way, Elvis flirted with this lady right here. Sorry, happy. But she wouldn't go out with him because he liked her girlfriend. And Jeannie was a loyal friend. So the angels of God. Oh, my goodness. I think I'm getting in trouble up here. How did I get off on all that? 1957, my favorite year. That our God. Anyway, the 1957 Chevy, my neighbor, him working on his little. And Jerry loved that and all the little cars and everything. I was backing out of the driveway one day, and he had his car parked right where you would back out. And I was going to hit his car, right?