I just remembered another situation where God showed up. Back in the early 90's, I was going into this inner-city DMV to ask a quick question (I needed directions and was lost in the "wrong" area) and yes I was the only white person in the entire DMV or DMV parking lot.
Now I'm 6' 220, but this HUGE black thug came up to me (this guy was phenom enormous and literally towered over me). I held up my hand and told him to keep his distance as he approached so he started trying to put me at ease with his speech obviously as a precursor for going for a knockout (internal alarms were ringing and the Lord was telling me everything I needed to know about this guy).
Get this though, I opened my mouth to tell him I knew what he was about and there would be no free shot but what came out was something
totally different.
God simply took over and I found myself telling this guy, "Praise God, He's so good" and literally spent two minutes simply praising God in front of this guy.
God had totally taken over and it wasn't me doing it. I was just along for the ride.
The man's countenance changed and he walked off with a "I'm not going to let you con me with that God stuff anymore" look on his face.
I was like, "what just happened God? You said all that stuff through me and it worked."
I have no explanation, of course, other than what happened. I don't know the man. I don't know why praising God was enough to dissuade that particular individual from attempting to assault and rob me when it wouldn't have someone else. I just know what happened. But God knew.
Offer up a quick prayer, call the police and put them on speaker as loud as possible, yell really loud that the intruder better leave or else; then cock your gun as loudly as possible and wait for their reaction. Praying before bed hopefully prevents this kind of thing from happening at all.