Lion Attacks & Car Accidents

My brother in law and I are not particularly close. So when I had the same dream, three times in the same week, I knew I had to pray for him. In the dream, he was looking straight into my eyes with a look of determined desperation, shaking me by the shoulders, saying, "You must pray for me! Please, pray for me!" He is not a believer. I prayed. The following week, he was walking in the bush, and he was attacked by a lion. There was someone with him who shouldn't really have been there - and, had it not been for that person being there at the time, he would have been killed. This assures me that God uses the believers in a family to keep the others protected, which means he cares about them and wants them to be saved, displaying his love and his heart.

A few years back, I felt I should pray for my husband - but it was not a very urgent feeling, just a nudging, and I didn't pay close attention to it, thinking maybe it was just me being over-anxious, because he was away from home, visiting his sister in another town. I did pray, but not as urgently as I should have. The call came at 2am. He had been in a car accident so bad, the person who found him thought he was dead. He still has the scars from two gashes across his head, he had broken ribs, lumbar fractures, dislocated knees, a broken elbow, and we dug shards of glass out of his back for weeks afterwards. When I saw him in that hospital, bandaged like a zombie literally from head to toe, I felt so joyful - because he was alive. I thought how kind God was, that even though I didn't pray urgently, he still answered that prayer. At the same time, I felt guilty, knowing that if I had prayed harder, his condition would not be so bad. This taught me to not ignore the smallest nudge, and not to worry about, 'maybe it's just me' - we could have a lot to lose by not praying, and nothing to lose if we do pray.