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"It should not surprise us when a Supernatural God performs Supernatural Miracles."

 God will literally part the clouds for you! 

 Go to God in Prayer daily. "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Matthew 21:22

It was in the fall of 1995 when I was visiting the beautiful black Hills of South Dakota during the last few days of October, which was over a thousand miles away from my home back in Southern California. I was there just a couple of days when on a Monday of October 30, my spirit became very heavy and I had to urgently get back home to California. My friends and family had all told me that it was impossible for me to fly back at this time, since all of the flights at the airport were not only delayed but that they were all canceled today due to the very bad weather that was caused by the snow, rain and fog.

(Picture above taken Friday August 4, 2007 as I walked out of a supermarket in Covina, CA. Parents were taken their children out of their parked vehicles to show them this magnificent sight from God that my little camera could not do justice)

I have learned firsthand from all the countless past experiences that we each have to go through what we call "Our life," that there are no such thing as a accident or coincidence that happens to each one of us in our lives. And that there is no greater meaning to this truth than those times that requires each of us to have great faith.

God has a way of shaping each of our precious lives, so that we will faithfully turn to Him and put our total trust in Him no matter how overwhelming our circumstances may seem to us. And for me, this day was no different.

I knew I had to put all my faith and courage in a supernatural God and the supernatural blessings that He has promised each one of us, even though I could not visibly see them at first.

I knew not to put my faith based on the fears and doubts from what others could visibly see and believe in the physical and natural world around us.

I prayed with a heavy heart and a faithful spirit and asked God to make it possible for me to go back home this day.

I knew in order for me to please God that I had to not only believe with unwavering faith but that I had to act on what I believe.

 So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. You must also do good to prove that you have it. Faith that doesn't show itself by good works is no faith at all-it is dead and useless." James 2:17

The good Lord has always taught me that if you're going to pray for rain, then you better act on it and carry a umbrella with you everywhere you go. And never worry about what the faithless think about your behavior, just worry about what God thinks.

So I ignored what anyone else would do who did not want their behavior to appear crazy and irrational with what seemed like blizzard conditions outside.

I called for a taxi cab to take me to the airport.

I'm sure the taxi service thought that it was very unusual for anyone to call them, hoping that they were going to catch a flight out today.

 But I was not dealing with the natural realm of man, but in the supernatural realm of God.

I wondered as I got into the taxi cab, would things have been different for me if I would have been a 90 year old man trying to get into a taxi cab under these conditions. Would my family or friends have tried to restrain me or call a psychiatrist to evaluate me for the next 24 hours? 

The drive to the airport was so bizarre not seeing any traffic.

I thanked the taxi driver for dropping me off at the airport. It was freezing and miserable outside so I quickly started walking towards the welcoming and warm embrace inside the airport terminal.

Even though it was normal to see so much vastness of open space at an commercial airport. I only noticed just an handful of people there. They seemed so quiet in their demeanor and conversation. Like we were at a public library and it was rude to talk out loud. It looked so eerie to see and experience so much emptiness of the sound of people everywhere I looked. 

It looked like a barren wasteland seeing all the parked commercial airplanes outside and the absence of human life inside. It seemed strange not hearing the normal crowds of people talking, laughing, and crying as they normally would be welcoming their loved ones coming in or seeing their loved ones off. 

The place was so quiet that it seemed like you were visually walking through a huge empty vacuum void of any sound or life.

It was surreal.

I could not help thinking about the very few people that I could see and how this scene looked like something that came straight out of the movie "Left Behind.".

It made me start wondering if these people were faith based and were also here praying and hoping to see their loved one's walk through the terminal gates any minute even though their were no planes visibly landing or taking off.  

Or were they going to be like the faithless people in the dramatic movie "Left Behind" where all the people who did not believe in God were tragically left behind everywhere and every place including at the airports when our Lord and Savior returned. Where they just cannot believe what just happened to them as most of their loved one's disappeared to heaven to be with God. So they just stand waiting, hoping for a second chance at redemption.

I knew that no matter what our present circumstances were or no matter what spiritual level that we presently were at in our faith walk with God, that God has a way of shaping each one of our lives so that each one of us would faithfully turn to Him.

That we may all fulfill one of our sacred purposes in our lives by glorifying God to all others by reassuring them that He is always close to those who are crushed in spirit and He will mend their broken hearts.

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18 NLT

I started to look for someone who worked at the airport who could give me any updated information on the current weather conditions. I wanted to see if God had already answered my prayer of going back home to California today.

I found one of the very few people that were still standing behind one of the airline counters and without asking me what flight or airline I was on, she kindly told me that all the flights were canceled today due to the bad weather.

I decided to start walking to the very large room where all the current flight schedules and information were posted on the monitors above our heads for all to see. I was hoping that the kind lady behind the airline counter had made a mistake because God was going to give me a ride home today.

As I walked into the area that gives everyone the current status on every airplane that was coming in or taking off, every monitor everywhere I looked echoed the same message only confirming what the airport employee had already said.

At first it was a little disturbing to see the repeated message of "Flight canceled" on every monitor as I looked up.

 I knew that I needed to find a place to pray and everywhere I looked there were rows of empty seats.

It was so effortless for me to physically find an isolated spot with a beautiful view looking through the huge window where you could stare off at the lonely and strange unison of all the parked and unmoving airplanes outside on this very cold and unforgiving October day.

Again Satan's voice of doubt was trying to peck away at my armor of faith by reminding me why all the flights were canceled and why no airplanes were taking off today.

I knew that God always answers our prayers, and many times the answer is not a no, but for us to faithfully have the patience to wait.

So I sat down and I started to pray the prayer of faith. Then I told God that He knew the heaviness of my heart for me to go back home to California, not tomorrow but today.

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Romans 1:17

I told God that I am not going to listen to anyone who thinks that I am acting foolish that I must be blind for not seeing the bad weather conditions that was in front of my eyes.

I told God that if He wanted me to stay or leave that I would be obedient to His divine Will either way. 

 In my faith walk with God, I have discovered just how important it is to give all the glory to the Miracle Worker Jesus for the miracles that He blesses us with and not give all the praise just to the miracle itself...

The one thing that separates a parent from a child is that a parent will be accountable for their choices and they will ask themselves the question; what if? before they do something.

It is no different for God to expect a person of faith to ask the same question to themselves. He wants us to understand that our destiny is blessed by the choices that we make today...

What if I did not act on my faith to call for a taxi cab to take me to the airport that fateful day?

What if I would have given into the intense peer pressure from everyone else that was saying that I would be foolish and blind to go to the airport when all the flights were canceled that day...

Would my faith and my praise to God be as strong as it is today?

How many times has God faithfully blessed us by opening the clouds in each one of our lives and we never showed up to receive them? 

"When I, the Messiah, return, how many will I find who have faith?" Luke 18:8

"It should not surprise us when a Supernatural God performs Supernatural Miracles"

Reverend Michael Cartwright

It is not important at this time to explain why my heart was heavy and why I had to get back home that day. I will explain about the very dramatic reason that is in my book that will be finished soon.

Years later as I was reflecting back on that fateful day, I could only recall about the times and event's while I was at the airport and not much before or after I was there.  I decided to cruise the Internet hoping to see if I could find any more information. I was delighted when I found one of the Weather Internet sites that kept records of past weather conditions. It posted that day as having the lowest visibility of the entire month of October.

In fact it showed that there was more than twice as less visibility as the average day for that month due to the snow, rain and fog. I give all the glory to God and praise Him that He doesn't listen to our weather forecast of doubt but that He listens instead to our heartfelt prayers of faith.

God believes in you

Reverend Michael Cartwright

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