On Assignment

June 5
On Assignment by Mike Evans

One day, several years ago, when I went to the Lord in prayer, God spoke to me; God gave me an assignment to go to what was then the most dangerous place on the planet—Lebanon. I had the opportunity to minister to Palestinians who hated Jews. I took them food and medicine. I was warned by Israeli intelligence not to go because of a threatened terrorist attack.

I also had a trunk full of Gideon Bibles to give to the Marines who were stationed in Beirut. The next morning, I heard the explosion as a Hezbollah terrorist blew up the Marine barracks and killed more than 240 of our brave, young men.

I was driving a rented car with Israeli license plates in the middle of a war zone. In trying to get out of the country and back to Israel, I got lost. I ended up turned around and heading toward Damascus.

We ran out of gas, and the two other members of my team said, "We're dead!"

I said, "No we're not—you're still talking."

A young Arab who looked to be around 18 or 19 stuck his head into the window of the car. My first thought was, "He's going to shoot us." He smiled and held up a can of gasoline. After he put it in the car, he pointed at the door lock. I unlocked the door, and he got in.

For 32 minutes, he never said a single word. He pointed to where we needed to go. Just as we arrived at the border, he put his hand up. We stopped the car, and he got out.

The colonel at the border checkpoint told me he had informed the Prime Minister's office that my team and I had been killed in Lebanon. They thought there was no way I could survive. He said, "How did you make it?"

I started to point toward our guide, but he was gone. I believe it was an angel of the Lord who delivered us from death that day.

We need our angels to be active because we are part of a crucial and mighty battle. Our Jesus will neither fail nor forsake us as we fight the enemy in our daily lives—wherever the Lord may take us in our daily lives.