Auntie Grace was abruptly awakened by a knife at her throat early one morning.* The burglar demanded money or he would end her life.

A medical journal reported a scientific experiment done by three cardiologists in San Francisco. These physicians divided patients who were admitted to the ICU into two groups.

Tamara nearly dropped the glass in her hand when sudden sharp knives of pain attacked her chest. This isn't supposed to happen to young women, her mind cried.

Many of the Psalms were originally written as prayers, and when we read them as prayers, we discover that they draw us into God's presence. One lady says each week she selects a Psalm and then daily takes a few moments to pray through it. She tries to live with it, returning to it each day, praying it as if it were her own prayer--whispering its pleas for help or joining in its praise and worship. Slowly the Psalm becomes her prayer.

When Marion Price discovered that E. M. Bounds, the famous author of nine books on prayer, was buried less than three hours from where he lived, he determined to visit that cemetery. But when he visited the cemetery in Washington, Georgia, he could not find Bounds' resting place.

My husband had a patient who, in the midst of extreme pain, saw God's goodness. Julie (not her real name) was working alone as a volunteer in an art gallery when a man came in, raped her, hit her head with a hammer (she still has dents in her head), and then began stabbing her with a knife.