While celebrating Mother’s Day yesterday, the significance of the day in contemporary Christian History came to mind, a history some may actually not be aware of: It was at a Mother’s Day service a few decades back when Lonnie Frisbee gave his testimony at Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda (which met in the High School Gym at Canyon High School in Yorba Linda) and then invited the Holy Spirit to come and move amongst the congregation. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit that followed started a revival that went out to the nations.
Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda at Canyon High School.
John Wimber leads worship at Canyon High School.
Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda experienced a full blown revival following that outpouring. It would later became a Vineyard Church and pastor John Wimber, who had experienced his first Power Encounter on that Mother’s Day, so impacted by it all, began teaching and ministering on the power of God. The ministry and revival birthed that day would go out to the nations. This revival subsequently became known as “The Third Wave” a name coined by Fuller Seminary Missiologist Peter Wagner. Praise God that power and fire is still moving! I personally got baptized in the Holy Spirit back then in the Canyon High School Gym at Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda where the outpouring of the Holy Spirit became a regular thing.
Bryan is prayed for by Lonnie Frisbee and Jill Austin.
I wrote a piece on this outpouring and my own experience some time back and have included some links here to that article for more reading, as well as links to other articles and videos we’ve done regarding this subject.
Blessings to you!
Article from the Anniversary of the Mother’s Day Outpouring:
Ephesians 1:18-20: "I pray that...you may know the hope to
which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance...and His
incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the
mighty strength which He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated
him at His right hand in the heavenly realms..."
Praise God! Jesus rose from the grave! He rose having paid
the price for sin, once for all! He went to the cross willingly, having offered
Himself up as God’s perfect sacrifice for our transgressions. The wages of sin
is death but the gift of God is eternal life! (1) Christ has given eternal life
to us who believe upon Him and received Him as savior. It is by grace you have been
saved through faith, it is gift of God, not by works, lest any man should
boast! (2) He came unto His own but His own did not receive Him, yet to as many
as did receive Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God. (3)
We are thankful every time we think of what grace and mercy
God has given us, that through faith in Christ we have redemption and eternal
life. We who have believed upon Christ and received Him as Savior have been
made children of God. His resurrection power also lives in us through the Holy
Spirit!
We were blessed to see that resurrection power moving so
gloriously as the Holy Spirit poured out over the meetings we just did in
Canada as we ministered in Victoria and Vancouver.
We did meetings at Salvation House and Miracle Café, as well
as home meetings, and the Spirit of God filled and empowered many people as
well as brining healing and deliverance. We saw that the Holy Spirit was
breaking chains over people’s lives and setting them free and healing them. The
Lord was also equipping people to “do the stuff” as John Wimber used to put it,
equipping people to minister the works of Christ!
We felt blessed to be ministering there once again and
rejoice that Christ’s resurrection power continues to move with such strength
and grace! Hallelujah!
We’ve been ministering in Canada, doing some meetings in Victoria
and Vancouver, and have been blessed to be experiencing the Holy Spirit moving
powerfully! It is always such a huge blessing to experience the Lord pour out
His presence in such a way!!
Irish History
Well, a little Irish history here for St Patrick's day: The
Irish city of Dublin was actually named by the Vikings who during their invasions
called it Dubhlind meaning “black pool” due to that dark-looking water with
all the peat moss runoff in it. The Romans had avoided going north to Ireland in
their day and had labeled Ireland Hybernia,
which means “land of endless winter.” Well, it does rain an awful lot, so they weren't
that far off! Anyways, Ireland didn't have the defenses built by Roman infrastructure
of the past like many other parts of Europe, and it made it more vulnerable to
invasion.
The British Isles’ history is quite intertwined with the
Vikings. The Vikings’ first invasions began in Lindisfarne, aka Holy Island, which
was an outpost of Celtic monks in Northumberland, in AD 793, and thus began the
Viking age. The Vikings soon after began to invade Ireland.
Some of the Celtic monks were being taken captive back to Scandinavia.
As the Scriptures say: “The weakness of God is greater than man’s strength.” (1
Cor 1: 25) Like their great spiritual ancestor Patrick, however, they relied on
God in their position of weakness and eventually spiritually overcame their
captors by leading many of the Vikings to Christ in a land few missionaries
dared to go. As captives amongst the dreaded Norsemen, they overcame in their
weakness by relying on the power of the Holy Spirit.
Using some airline miles we were able to start our last trip
off by going first to the East Coast of the US for just a small extra
fee—“you’re using miles we must charge you something.”
I kept thinking, “I can't believe we got all the way across
the country for just 15 bucks, wow, not a bad deal!"
So we were able to stop in New England and see some
historical places along the way as we started on our latest mission trip to
Europe before we ministered in Scandinavia, England, and France.
One place we visited was in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where
the Pilgrims from the Mayflower ship landed in 1620 and started the first
sustaining colony in the New World.
A couple of other colonies had been attempted, one in
Jamestown that ended with most of the colonists starving or freezing to death
and the colony folding. There was also another attempt at a colony by the French actually, at a Protestant
colony called Fort Caroline in what would later become the area of Florida.
That French colony was planted and financed by an
influential French Protestant Huguenot sympathizer. However, rabid Spanish Catholic
fanatics got wind of it, and led by Don Pedro Menendez De Aviles, they went in
and put to the sword and massacred every last person, including women and
children.
So, one was facing some pretty stiff odds to attempt another
colony: possible starvation, death by freezing, or massacre, none being
attractive prospects. That, along with the dangers of crossing the Atlantic,
surely would give one pause about leaving the homeland to go and found a new
place to live in a wild land across the sea.
Persecution, however, was increasing against those who were
fully embracing the Protestant Reformation in England.
The English Church had made some reforms: First under Henry
the VIII, but especially under his son Edward when he took the throne; however,
when Bloody Mary rose to power, she returned with a literal vengeance back to
Catholicism and had Protestants hunted down and executed. Included in her massacres
was the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, amongst many others.
The country would turn back Protestant under her half sister
Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, but her successor King James from Scotland
was indifferent to reform. Even though he had authorized a new translation of
the Bible into English, King James was no friend of the Puritans and had no
tolerance for them, even though many were beginning to win seats in Parliament.
Those, like the Puritans, who wanted a full reformation,
found themselves on the outs (the word Puritan came from their desire to purify
the church back to New Testament design).
So, in spite of the grim prospects, the Mayflower set off
from England in 1620 after its occupants had tried Holland for a time as a
refuge from persecution. These Puritans, Separatists, and Independents aboard
the Mayflower, were products of the Protestant Reformation and were under
threat as Reform-minded believers in England, who wanted a full Reformation and
not half measures.
They were part of the Reform movement, which was a return to
biblical faith that was going on in Europe in their day, sparked originally by
the influences of people like Martin Luther in Germany. It
is remarkable what a chain of events were set in motion when that little
unknown monk in Germany named Martin Luther found peace with God and set out to
communicate about that. The History Channel recently said in a program on the Reformation
and its worldwide impact “without Martin Luther and the Reformation there
simply would be no America.”
The Reformation’s influence finally came across the channel
to England and grew with William Tyndale, Thomas Cranmer, and others on England’s
soil, when those reformers were touched by the Holy Spirit and given revelation
of the Gospel.
The Puritans had been a revival movement in England that was
sparked by the Reformation. They held to the main principles of the
Reformation: salvation by faith through grace, through Christ alone, the
Scriptures as the sole authority for matter of faith—no pope nor priest had the
right to contradict God’s word.
The Puritans, however, also felt that Christ must touch the
heart; mere head knowledge alone about God was not sufficient in their view.
Mere cerebral acquiescence to a set of doctrines could not substitute for the
reality of experiencing God’s touch in the heart. As stated by historian Sydney
Ahlstrom, they could be seen as some of the early Protestant mystics.
They sought to purify and return the church back to a New
Testament model like in Acts. There were those Puritans that wanted to reform from
within the English Church, and those that wanted to separate (Separatists) or
be completely independent (Independents). All of these Puritans though, sought as they put it, to “avoid the errors of popery in the new world.”
Like most movements and denominations, they did get formal later
in their history; however, early on, they
were vital, alive, and revived!
Those that came across the Atlantic were heavily influenced
by the Puritan preachers in England and their focus on the Great
Commission.They were thus inspired and
willing to face starvation and brutal winters even with the knowledge of how miserably
those before them had suffered and how so many had died.
They were taking quite the huge step of faith. Imagine
leaving everything to go to a desolate wilderness where most before you had either
starved, or frozen to death, or been massacred.
A quick look at the winter Boston experienced last season with
all that snow dumped every few days will give you an idea of just how rough it
really could get. We happened to grab a few waves in Maine, and man, that is
some very cold water and air over on the East Coast of America and that was not
even in winter!
The Puritans came in spite of all the dire prospects, moved
by the Great Commission and the hope for freedom to worship as they desired. Another
large group of Puritans came across later to what would become Boston, as well
as other areas a decade later, making up large parts of the population of the early
colonies.
Thus, the Puritan revival movement and its influence loomed
large in the early colonies. Their influence would continue to be visible in
later revivals through people like Jonathan Edwards in the Great Awakening. Benjamin
Franklin himself would be baptized in a Puritan church in Boston.
Coming across the Atlantic, these Puritan Pilgrims, contrary
to what you may have been taught in school, actually sought to advance the Gospel in
the new world and spread the Christian faith.
In fact their written statement on the Mayflower, which they
called a Compact that they drew up and signed aboard the
Mayflower declared that they were undertaking the new colony: “…for ye glorie of God and advancement of ye
Christian faith…”
“…advancement of ye Christian
faith…” is pretty straightforward. The earliest settlers came here and founded
the first sustaining colony as believers with a prophetic intention that it
would work in God’s design as a place that would advance the Gospel of Jesus
Christ.
That original purpose
and prophetic intention still remains over this land in spite of all the attack
to undermine, and obscure, and blind people, from that truth.
Through the Holy
Spirit’s power we are still to carry that prophetic intention forth and see
this land, that has experienced so much revival in the past, be revived again!
Video: Plymouth's Pilgrims and their Christian Faith Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/xRM3-jqexe0
(We shot this video on location in Plymouth, MA.
It is packed with some good information. Check it out!)
“In most big libraries, books by and about Martin Luther
occupy more shelf room than those concerned with any other human being than
Jesus of Nazareth.” (1)
[Martin Luther] revived the Christian consciousness of
Europe…Religion became again a dominant factor, even in politics, for another
century and a half. Men cared enough for the faith to die for it… If there is
any sense remaining of Christian civilization in the West, this man Luther in
no small measure deserves the credit. (2)
At the turn of the millennium, Time, Life and other
prominent publications listed Martin Luther and the Reformation in the top 3 of
the 100 most important events in the last 1000 years, yet many believers today are
unaware of the important impact of the Protestant Reformation.
Not only did the Reformation bring about “the reviving of
the Christian consciousness of Europe,” as Roland Bainton points out, but it
also set the foundation for the coming revivals that followed in its wake:
But there is something more here than just a mere understanding
of the historical impact: There is a remarkable story in the events and central
figure used to initiate the Reformation. It is the story of one person’s
wrestling to find peace with God until he finds that “amazing grace” that
liberates the soul, as Luther experienced.
A Miner’s Son
Martin Luther had been a simple miner’s son, an unknown
monk, a man without power or influence in the world, who would, in the end, stand
up to the establishment in both church and state that had become inconceivably
corrupt and in the course change the course of Western history.
Luther was a simple Catholic monk with nothing to back him,
nothing but his faith in God and the revelation of God’s grace he’d come into.
In spite of the overwhelming onslaught launched against him, he stood upon the
faith and revelation of grace that had come over his life. That grace sustained
him through all the trials and tribulations he’d face, as a fierce attack was
unleashed against him for daring to question the unbiblical practices the
Catholic church had embraced and instituted.
As historian Kenneth Scott Latourette and missiologist Ralph
Winter point out, his was an experience like many in Christian history, a story
of the minority, the one without backing, a man at the bottom, without worldly
power, without means, without money or access to any, one who goes outside the
establishment.
Like Moses before Pharaoh, with nothing more than simple
faith in God, Luther stood up to the powers of his day when he was brought to
defend himself before the Diet, in Worms, Germany, as the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles the V sat listening in judgment of what he would have to say.
In that day and age, dispensing of alleged heretics, as
Luther was accused of being, was no problem. The Inquisition was in full swing,
having been birthed by Catholic fanatics in Spain and the inquisitors took
strange pleasure in torturing and burning to death those that did not tow the
line of Medieval Catholicism.
Knowing that he was facing probable death and torture,
Luther would still not recant when pressed by the diet to do so but proclaimed:
“My conscience is captive to the word of God.... I cannot and will not recant
anything. Here I stand, so help me God.” A poignant and important moment in all
history to be sure, yet a deeper story is underneath it all.
The Transformation: From Tame to Tiger
Luther never intended to stand up to anyone or anything in
the beginning at all. In fact, Luther had actually been quite a tame soul.
After entering the monastery, he unquestioningly went along
and devoutly followed all the prescribed rituals the Catholic Church laid out. From
penance, to fastings, to long dead prayers, to confession of his sins before
the priests, he did it all, willingly, hoping…hoping to find salvation and
peace, yet none of it brought him close to God whatsoever. In fact he felt
further from God now and was worse off than when he started with all these
rituals.
He kept at it though, hoping to persevere and finally arrive
at the peace with God he was supposed to find through all the prescribed
Catholic Church rituals.
He began, however, to drive the other priests mad by his frequent
confessions, obsessively confessing for hours at a time, trying to expunge
every possible sin in his life he could think of—after all, this was what he
was supposed to do according to Catholic teaching—and he felt he must find each
and every sin and confess it.
His superior Staupitz, however, was getting annoyed and told
him: “Why don’t you go out and commit some real sins and come back when you
have something to actually confess.”
The Revelation of God’s Grace
He was then basically sent away to study the Scriptures to
get him out of the priests’ hair. Thus, Luther began to read the Bible, which
was a first for him; priests did not read the Bible. Most couldn’t anyways since
very few knew Latin and it was the only language in which the Catholic Church
allowed the Bible to be translated into. Such edicts of the church were
enforced through pain of death.
Interestingly enough, even though he had been raised in the
Catholic Church his whole life, Luther pointed out later that he hadn’t even
seen a Bible until he was about twenty years old.
Nevertheless, Luther had been educated and studied law
before joining the monastery, and Latin was the language of law. It was while reading
the Scriptures that his eyes would be opened.
As Luther read the Scriptures he began to wrestle with
Paul’s words in Romans and Galatians. The words, “the just shall live by faith”
perplexed him until, like a ray of light shining down on him from heaven, the
Holy Spirit revealed its meaning:
Christ had taken our sins upon Himself at the cross. He took
upon Himself the punishment due each one of us. Now he offers, through belief
in Him and His work, complete forgiveness to those who turn to Him in faith. He
justifies by faith the sinner who believes upon Him, having died in the sinner’s
stead.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, yet in
His mercy He went to the cross for us.
Luther saw the connection: Jesus Christ paid the price man
could not pay through his own works, or law-keeping, or attempts at
goodness—all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God—one is justified
freely only though through faith in Jesus Christ. (Romans 3:21-22)
However, it is by faith through grace alone that this free
gift of eternal life is bestowed on each one who will accept it. (Ephesians
2:8-10)
Christ died that we might be justified, that is, made right
with God, through simple belief in the work He did for us.
Suddenly he was given that life-changing revelation that
Jesus died for him. Here he had been trying all this time to pay for all his
own sins through all kinds prescribed rituals, trying to justify himself
through his works, when Jesus had already done the work for him on the cross.
This revelation broke on him like a wave crashing onto the shore. He now
understood it.
In his own words he describes his experience:
“I greatly longed to understand Paul’s epistles to the
Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one expression ‘The justice of
God.’ Because I took it to mean that justice where…God deals justly in
punishing the unjust. My situation was that though [I was] an impeccable monk,
I still stood before God as a sinner, troubled in conscience, and I had no
confidence that my merit would assuage Him. Therefore I did not love a just and
angry God, but rather hated and murmured against him. Yet I clung to the dear
Paul and had a great yearning to know what he meant.
Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between
the justice of God and the statement ‘the just shall live by faith.’
Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness
by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith.
Thereupon, I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. The whole
of Scripture took on a new meaning and whereas before the ‘justice of God’ had
filled me with hate [and dread], now it became to me a gate to heaven.
If you have a true faith that Christ is your savior, then at
once you have a gracious God, for faith leads you in and opens up God’s heart
and will, that you should see pure grace and overflowing love. This it is to
behold God in faith that you should look upon his fatherly, friendly heart…” (3)
Having come into the revelation of God’s grace and being
liberated from the condemnation of the law and dead works, Luther’s heart was
transformed.
He had come to know the love and grace of God and he would
not back down on the knowledge of that truth so clearly laid out in the New
Testament, even when push came to shove, even when the shoving came from the
pope and the emperor.
He took his stand on God’s Word and the grace and truth it
revealed to him. It changed history then and shall do so again!
Footnotes
(1) James M. Kittelson’s preface in Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, quoting John Todd in Luther: A Life
(2) Yale scholar Roland H. Bainton, from the book Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
(3) Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton.
We’ve continued to minister in Europe and will be sharing
music and testimonies this weekend at Tubestation Church in Cornwall,
England. Tubestation is an outreach to
the surf and beach community in Cornwall so a good fit for our background. Also we’ll be ministering in France shortly, starting off at an evangelistic
outreach which has featured the surfing aspect of our background as a way of
attraction. In light of the terrorist
attacks that just took place we appreciate your prayers for continued protection
and provision as we travel.
We’ve been a bit behind with a lack of Internet, so here is
a further update from our ministry in Scandinavia, in the country of Sweden.After ministering on the east coast in Småland we were ministering in the south
in the region of Skane, in the city of Hässleholm, and then after that in the
city of Varberg on the West Coast.
We did a meeting first for the leaders of New Life Church in
Hässleholm where we did some
teaching and then prayed over them. The Lord came over them in power, some who were
overcome by the Spirit ended up on the floor.One of the men touched said he had not experienced a move of God like
that in many, many, years. He was greatly rejoicing to see the Lord pour out
His Spirit like this after such a long time.
Hanging out after a meeting with friends from Hässleholm, Sweden.
We saw the Lord continue to move as we ministered in some of
the home groups during the week where we taught and activated them towards the “priesthood
of all believers” and practicing the gifts of the Spirit and praying for one
another. It was a blessed time in Hässleholm
as we had a great time of fellowship with the pastor Daniel and his family, and
with the people at the church there, while enjoying many great meals including
a traditional Swedish meal of roasted pork with lingonberries, caramelized
onions and pickled cucumbers.We got to
share a lot of Holy Ghost stories as well as teach in some intimate setting,
and experienced the Lord empowering His people.
Checking out a car at the American Car Festival where we did an evangelistic outreach with Biker Church in Sweden.
We also did an outreach with a group called “Biker Church” at
an event held by “The American Car Club of Sweden.”This type of event is really popular here: classic
American muscle cars where everywhere, along with people dressing in Rockabilly
style. We did some music and helped share where we could (many spoke only
Swedish there at this particular event) and gave out Bibles.We also had a divine appointment with a guy
that spoke good English and after sharing with him for some time we ended up praying
with him as he opened his heart to receive Jesus. We were quite stoked, as people
getting saved in Sweden isn’t all that much of a common thing.
Preaching and ministering at New Life Church in Sweden.
We had a powerful meeting at New Life Church on Sweden’s
Mother's Day.God did so much—some
highlights follow: We shared about Lonnie Frisbee and the outpouring that
happened on Mother's Day years back at what would become the Vineyard
Movement.God showed up in power and
poured out His presence for us on “Swedish Mother's Day.” Many were filled and
empowered as the Holy Spirit poured out His power, some were brought to the
floor as God filled them. There was a teenager named Noah who was filled
powerfully as tears streamed down his face, as were others.I had a word for a shoulder condition while a
woman named Daisy was actually already overcome by the Spirit and on the floor and
healed of a frozen shoulder by the time she got up. The worship leader had a powerful encounter
with God and was touched deeply by the Lord’s presence as waves of the Lord’s
presence came over her as we prayed for her. As we came to a seeming close the
Spirit of God suddenly broke out again,the Holy Spirit just kept things going as He filled a twelve year old
boy with His power for the first time in his life and came upon his father who just
kept shaking under God’s power.One of
the workers of the church was knocked to the ground and couldn't stop laughing as
God released His joy over him, the fruit of the Spirit made manifest! It was an
awesome renewing time in God’s presence and power and we were told by some that
it was just what they needed living in such a secularized humanistic country in
Europe.It is always awesome when the
Lord moves, but even more so in such spiritually challenging places.
We then ministered in the city of Varberg on the West Coast
in a Pentecostal church.We felt led to
give a message on evangelism and reaching out to the lost. The pastor shared
afterwards that he had just began a program to train people for evangelism and reaching
out to the lost so the timing was clearly from the Holy Spirit.
Taking in the sights with our friend Christopher in Varberg, where we had a powerful meeting at the Pentecostal church.
The Lord empowered many with the Holy Spirit and was
releasing a burden for the lost.A woman
began praying in Spanish quite strongly, it happened that Mercedes talked to
her afterwards and we found out she didn't speak Spanish…she was suddenly
speaking in tongues in Spanish, which of course was quite a sign and wonder.With Sweden being one of the most secularized
and humanistic countries in Europe it is all the more awesome to see the light shine
in the darkness.
Please pray for this evangelistic outreach coming up in France.
How We Connected With the
Pastor in Hässleholm
One time, some years back, as we were coming into Sweden,
where we’d be staying at a friend’s house, something happened with coordinating
our arrival.Instead of finding our old
friends there, we instead arrived to a locked up empty house. A little error on
the schedule, so we figured our hosts would probably be back in a few hours,
and so we looked for something to do and found that the garage was open (one of
those old kind that was separated from the house out in the yard), and decided
to go in there to hang out.
We were just tooling around – so to speak—and killing time,
when an old phone on a work bench in there rang.I picked it up and said hello and I got a
Swedish voice back.
It turned out to be a friend of our hosts named Daniel on
the phone, who we had not met before, so I talked with Daniel on the garage
phone for a bit.
We communicated as best we could, his English was still
developing, and we set up a time to come and have dinner with him and his wife.
I was just telling him we we're locked out of Steve’s house
at the moment and maybe he could come by, when he suddenly said, “See you when
you come for dinner,” and hung up.
“I guess he didn't catch that,” I thought as I laid the
phone down.
Meanwhile our friends showed up and found us hanging out in
the garage.
“So how long you been here?” Steve asked.
“Oh, a while but it didn’t feel like that long because your
friend Daniel called while we were hanging out in the garage and I talked with
him a bit,” I told him.
“Called?Called
where?” our friend Steve asked. (This was before the ubiquitous cell phone took
over all of our lives, if you can remember such a time some years back.)
“Right here in the garage on this old phone.” I replied.
“What? Are you sure?”Steve said.
“Yeah, it was that phone,” I said.
“Hey dude, that
garage phone doesn’t work at all, it isn’t even hooked up.”
“What? Are you sure?” I replied.
Steve went in and grabbed the line and showed us.It just went over to an old transponder thing
but the transponder wasn't connected to a line out or anything else. “See, look,
it is dead, no dial tone, nothing. I am not able to dial out or receive
anything in, it is dead.”
“Wow! That is crazy!” I said.“That is miraculous, a definite sign and
wonder!”
Well, after a bit of musing on what kind of wild miraculous
goings on were happening, we eventually made it to dinner with Daniel and his
wife Camilla.
It turned out to be a very supernatural dinner itself. After
enjoying some wonderful fondue, which you would expect to find more in
Switzerland than Sweden, we ended up having some prophetic words over Daniel
about his call into ministry.The Spirit
of God fell on him and us in power as we prayed for him and then prayed
together. Daniel has been in ministry many years now since that time, and that
time was a confirmation of God’s direction and purposes for him.
We have ministered with him and his family and church many
times down in the south of Sweden as well as having some wild miraculous
encounters too.
So, as we ate dinner with him that first time, Daniel asked,
“Why didn’t you tell me you were out-locked?”
“What is out-locked?” I said.Then it hit me.“Oh why didn’t I tell you that we were locked
out?” I exclaimed after figuring out what he was trying to say. “Well you hung
up before I could fully explain,” I said.“Then the phone didn’t work after that. I tried calling back but it
wouldn’t work.” I explained what Steve had told me about that garage phone not
being connected and we were both blown away at such a supernatural connection.
