In 1999 while living in a very old house in Malvern, AR, a tornado outbreak swept through the state. The radio let us know one was coming to our neighborhood. We discovered the lid of the storm cellar under the house was covered with a cord of firewood, so we went to the kitchen where the most wood surrounded us. I began tossing plates and silverware into the pantry so they wouldn't become projectiles. My wife looked out the window saying "What am I looking at?" It was a huge green swirling ball full of lightning rolling into our yard. From the damage happening around it we realized there wasn't hope of getting through it. Right then she stepped to the door, swung it open, and commanded with finger pointing to it "In the name of Jesus go over us and leave us alone." Immediately it rose up and passed over without harm. She has always been a virtual prayer warrior, her first project to get me saved 23 years earlier, a major miracle, as she married me unequally yoked. We learned to pray more inclusively, as it came right back down in the street and removed all the ancient oaks lining it, the fire hydrant, the poles, and dozens of neighbor homes were destroyed. We could see a mile across town where formerly we had only a view of roofs. Some burst trees contained an arsenal of civil war weapons, uniforms, meal packs that had been stuffed into hollow cavities that were recovered and put in museums. We had to abandon the house due to news there would be no utilities until after the cleanup, projected to take months. We've been watching the weather since then, and whenever radar shows danger coming to us, we pray it away. The maps show storm after storm splitting, each side going around us. We've taught prayer classes a long time, telling that, and have never heard of a single family adopting "preemptive prayer" as we call it, some saying "hedge building", suffering storm damage. That of course extends to any other threat they face in life. The "hedge" principle comes out of Satan's challenge in
Job 1:10 (KJV) [SUP]10 [/SUP] Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.