One of my friends and his wife was here in the US for a visit in November 2008 and I was their New York City ‘guide’. One evening after we got out of The Metropolitan Museum and while I was on the way to drop them off to a Broadway show, I suddenly realized that I had lost my wallet.
I don’t care if I lost my shoes, but losing the wallet is a hassle. I’ll have to call the debit and credit card companies, have my driver’s license reissued etc etc – it was something that I did not want to go through. Plus, I had a little more than 300 dollars in it. For the first few moments, I let my emotions try to control me. But I quickly said, “No, I will receive my wallet in the Name of Jesus!” I decided that my friends should not change their plans and they took a cab to Broadway before I borrowed some money from them. I went back to the Museum and reported the incident to the Security and after that I retraced my steps in the Museum, but there was no unattended wallet to be found anywhere. I sat at the lobby and spoke to Jesus. I said, “Jesus, it is easy for me to say that You are a miracle-working God, when everything is going okay. But I want to experience Your miracle-working Power now! I refuse to let this happen to me, since I am a carrier of Jesus Christ, the Creator of the Universe. There is NOTHING impossible for my Christ Jesus. I’m calling on your Name, Jesus, to help me for I see no other way. The chances to get a lost wallet back in Manhattan is slim to none, in the natural, but I’m believing in YOUR miracle working power. Thank You Jesus for my wallet”.
And I was led to speak to the wallet. I said, “Wallet, in the Name of Jesus, I command you to come to me.” Followed by, “In the name of Jesus, Angels, I command you to shield the wallet from thieves and bring it to me.”
I was not planning on speaking to the wallet or to the angels. I was merely following the inner promptings. Before leaving the museum, I checked one last time with the Security if they received my wallet. But there was no sign of my wallet yet. They said they will call me if they find my wallet. No matter what, I knew that somehow I will get that wallet back. I knew that my Jesus will never leave me nor forsake me. I met my friends that night after the show. They were very upset for me and they insisted on calling the debit and credit card companies to cancel the current cards and issue a fresh set. I told them, “I have already received my wallet”.
Negative thoughts tried to bother me occasionally, till I slept, but I refused to invite them to my heart. I refused to even address the enemy (Satan), because why should I waste my time talking with someone who is already defeated, disarmed and is under my feet? He was really a non-issue. I slept very peacefully that night.
The very next morning, I got a phone from a total stranger. He said that he is calling from a taxicab and that he has found my wallet in that cab. I went that afternoon to his hotel lobby to pick up my wallet. Everything in it was there as it was before, and not one cent was gone.
To the “intellectual” mind, this might be just a ‘coincidence’, but I know, without a shadow of doubt, that it was the hand of Jesus at work! And I know if I had chose to worry that night over this issue, I would probably have delayed or not have received the answer that I was looking for. I am learning that it is the absolute trust in Jesus that yields results. When we believe in Him, He fills us with the perfect soul rest. My friend said that he was impressed with my faith. But I did not and cannot take credit for “my faith”, because my faith had holes. I was initially perplexed when I realized that I lost my wallet. If I had depended on ‘my faith’, I’m sure I would not have received my wallet back. Instead, I depended on the Author and Finisher of Faith (Hebrews 12:2) who dwells in me. My faith was in Him. I was dependent on His faith – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20).
Jesus is Lord!
I don’t care if I lost my shoes, but losing the wallet is a hassle. I’ll have to call the debit and credit card companies, have my driver’s license reissued etc etc – it was something that I did not want to go through. Plus, I had a little more than 300 dollars in it. For the first few moments, I let my emotions try to control me. But I quickly said, “No, I will receive my wallet in the Name of Jesus!” I decided that my friends should not change their plans and they took a cab to Broadway before I borrowed some money from them. I went back to the Museum and reported the incident to the Security and after that I retraced my steps in the Museum, but there was no unattended wallet to be found anywhere. I sat at the lobby and spoke to Jesus. I said, “Jesus, it is easy for me to say that You are a miracle-working God, when everything is going okay. But I want to experience Your miracle-working Power now! I refuse to let this happen to me, since I am a carrier of Jesus Christ, the Creator of the Universe. There is NOTHING impossible for my Christ Jesus. I’m calling on your Name, Jesus, to help me for I see no other way. The chances to get a lost wallet back in Manhattan is slim to none, in the natural, but I’m believing in YOUR miracle working power. Thank You Jesus for my wallet”.
And I was led to speak to the wallet. I said, “Wallet, in the Name of Jesus, I command you to come to me.” Followed by, “In the name of Jesus, Angels, I command you to shield the wallet from thieves and bring it to me.”
I was not planning on speaking to the wallet or to the angels. I was merely following the inner promptings. Before leaving the museum, I checked one last time with the Security if they received my wallet. But there was no sign of my wallet yet. They said they will call me if they find my wallet. No matter what, I knew that somehow I will get that wallet back. I knew that my Jesus will never leave me nor forsake me. I met my friends that night after the show. They were very upset for me and they insisted on calling the debit and credit card companies to cancel the current cards and issue a fresh set. I told them, “I have already received my wallet”.
Negative thoughts tried to bother me occasionally, till I slept, but I refused to invite them to my heart. I refused to even address the enemy (Satan), because why should I waste my time talking with someone who is already defeated, disarmed and is under my feet? He was really a non-issue. I slept very peacefully that night.
The very next morning, I got a phone from a total stranger. He said that he is calling from a taxicab and that he has found my wallet in that cab. I went that afternoon to his hotel lobby to pick up my wallet. Everything in it was there as it was before, and not one cent was gone.
To the “intellectual” mind, this might be just a ‘coincidence’, but I know, without a shadow of doubt, that it was the hand of Jesus at work! And I know if I had chose to worry that night over this issue, I would probably have delayed or not have received the answer that I was looking for. I am learning that it is the absolute trust in Jesus that yields results. When we believe in Him, He fills us with the perfect soul rest. My friend said that he was impressed with my faith. But I did not and cannot take credit for “my faith”, because my faith had holes. I was initially perplexed when I realized that I lost my wallet. If I had depended on ‘my faith’, I’m sure I would not have received my wallet back. Instead, I depended on the Author and Finisher of Faith (Hebrews 12:2) who dwells in me. My faith was in Him. I was dependent on His faith – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20).
Jesus is Lord!
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