The Power Of Prayer

God is good and He is good all the time. He answers prayers so long as we are in a close relationship with him.  Last month when my sister was to join me for a visit to Taipeh, two things happened.

She lives in Kuala Lumpur while I live across the South China Sea. Just as I was going to fetch her from the airport, she texted that she had missed her flight!  My heart sank! We were to fly out to Taipeh very early the next morning. Would she be able to get here in time?

Apparently, the airlines had changed the boarding gate. She wasn’t aware of this and she said she never heard any announcement either.

Anyway, her luggage had been off loaded. She asked for the next flight but all flights were fully booked! She could wait on standby but because that was a long weekend ( Labor Day weekend ), chances of anyone getting off a flight were dim. 

She prayed to God to give her a flight to my place. I also prayed for her to come in so that we could go together to Taipeh. Eventually, she found a flight which had only ONE seat left, so she grabbed that seat. 

Then she looked for her luggage and made her way to the other terminal from where the flight would take off. Praise the Lord my sister got in after 11 p.m. that night. By the time we got home it was past midnight. 

Our flight was at 6:10 a.m. so we had to be at the airport by 4 a.m. It was a sleepless night for us as we were afraid that we would not be able to wake up in time.

The next morning, we arrived at the airport, checked in our luggage and proceeded to clear Immigration so that we could board our flight.

Horror of horrors!! The immigration officer declared that my sister could not leave the state. Why? 

We were shocked! She had forgotten to bring along the slip of paper given by Immigration when she entered the state. All non-residents were given a slip of paper upon entry and had to relinquish it on departure.

So we asked what we had to do in order to board our flight? The immigration officer said we had to make a police report. I panicked! We would never get to a police station in time to make a report as the flight was due to take off within half an hour. 

Where’s the police station, we asked? He said there was a police base at the other end of the building. So, we took to our heels and ran all the way to the other end of the building, praying all the while to our Lord.

When we reached the end of the building, it was dark! The Customs office was locked and in darkness.  It was 5:30 a.m. so they wouldn’t be on duty. Then I saw the office which had the word “Police” above the door! But the office was in darkness!!

Desperate, I banged on the door and shook the handles.

“Anyone in there? Hello, hello, anyone in there?” 

Then, praise the Lord, a sleepy policeman came to the door and opened it.  We rushed in and said we needed to make a police report so that we could catch our flight.

He calmly asked us, “What time is your flight?”

We told him. We prayed to God to let us have the police report in time so that we could catch our flight.

The police officer was very kind and he rushed the report for us. We thanked him and ran all the way back to the Immigration counter. 

My sister submitted the report and was allowed to go through.  We found all the ladies in our group waiting for us. They told us that they were waiting for us to arrive before boarding. They were confident we would be able to make the flight. Indeed, we did, by the skin of our teeth as everyone else had already boarded. 

God is so good! He had answered our prayers.   

So long as we have a close relationship with God, so long as we have Him in our lives and communicate with Him regularly through prayer, He will never fail us. Without His Hand in waking up the police officer, getting him to quickly write the report for us, we would never have made the flight! 

Thank you Lord, thank you, for making our trip possible. This was a very precious week for my sister and I as we live so far away from each other and this trip was meant for us to have time together.

My sister and I

Entrance of Jui Fen Old Street

Waiting for the train to Hua Lian

Waiting for our coach to take us back to the hotel

 Both of us will never forget this trip and how eventful it was for my sister, first missing her plane and then, nearly couldn’t board for our flight to Taipeh.

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