>> Hello, my name is Linda Markowitz,
and I'm here to share a supernatural story with you,
this story goes back a ways. My youngest daughter, Michelle,
had been in some trouble with the law
and she had been sent to juvenile detention
in Albany, New York.
I was living in Harrison, New York at the time,
about a two hour drive away.
And I was only allowed to visit Michelle
on the weekends only for a short period of time.
>> And I started out from my regularly weekly visit,
but I was very quickly overtaken by a huge snowstorm.
It was blinding snowstorm and I was just determined
I was going to go anyway. So I just continued to go.
I was moving, but there were cars on the side of the road
that couldn't make it any further.
>> But I've determined if I could move, I was moving
and I was going almost the only car on the turnpike.
And I saw this figure ahead of me.
And when I got closer, I realized it was a man walking
and I drove past him and I just felt compassion for him.
I thought, I just need to give this guy some help.
There's not another car in sight.
So I stopped and waited for him and he finally approached.
My car came from the back of the car around to the driver's side.
>> And he said, What can I do for you, ma'am?
I thought, what can you do for me?
You know, I'm not the one that's freezing.
I said to him, Well, I thought maybe you could use a ride.
Would you like a ride? He said,
Oh, I'd be so grateful for a ride.
Would you would you mind? And so I said, come on, get in.
And so we got in the car.
Now, this has been many years ago.
Probably wouldn't pick up a hitchhiker today,
but it was much safer back then.
And he got in the passenger side of the car
and immediately took off his boots
and his shoes, his boots and his socks, I'm sorry.
And his feet were blue. He was really cold.
He didn't have a decent jacket on.
And he looked a little scrappy and just his hair
was a little long, blond and sort of matted.
And snow snow, of course, made him look even worse.
And we just began to talk and he told me
that he was in the woods in the service.
He said, I'm in the service. That's what he said.
And he said, I just finished an assignment in Hawaii
and I came through New Jersey
and couldn't get transportation to my next location.
I said, where's your next location?
I thought even that I thought that was weird.
I thought, of course,
you can get transportation out of New York.
I mean, you can get anywhere out of New York.
But he said that was that's what he said.
So he told me he was going to Boston.
He says, I have an assignment in Boston
and I have to get to Boston.
>> Well, I had determined how much further
I could take him
before I would need to turn to go to Albany,
and he would go a different direction to Boston.
And we continued on this very, very slow journey.
Well, I came to a rest stop
and I thought I really needed to call the facility
where my daughter was at to tell them
that I was going to be really late
and to beg them for mercy to let me still get to see her,
because I only got to see her one day a week.
And they knew about the snowstorm.
And so they said, yes,
they would still give me my visit when I got there.
Well, I pulled off to the rest stop,
was in the phone booth making the phone call
when I all of a sudden sort of came to myself and realized
I had left the car running
because the man was still really cold,
I thought I'd leave the heat on and I left my purse in the car
and I had this flash in my brain.
This was years ago where you still had to use phone booths.
You didn't have a cell phone, that he had everything I owned.
And if he wanted to just take off,
there was no way I could get back to the car fast enough.
But I just finished my call. What could I do?
And I walked to the car, got in the car.
>> I did glance at my purse to see if maybe it looked OK
and it appeared that had not been touched.
And we continued to talk on the way to our destination.
And he told me some really fascinating things.
He told me that there were things
that were going to come in my life
that would be interesting and difficult.
I thought, you don't even know me.
How in the world would you even say such a thing like this?
And I let him talk.
I didn't ask him questions. I just let him talk.
And we went of ways longer, quite a ways, actually.
He was probably in my car a total
of probably 45 to 50 minutes
until we came to the place in the road
where I needed to go one way and him another.
And I said to him, this is where I need to let you off.
>> And he said, OK, I understand.
And he looked back to me before he got out of the car
and he said,
I will see you again in a day when you need me the most.
And I thought, you are really weird
and I'm glad you're getting out of my car.
And he got out on the passenger side
and immediately disappeared. He just immediately disappeared.
And I thought, oh, my goodness, the snow was so blinding
and it was building up on the side.
Hit the road, I thought maybe maybe I was
just too close to the edge of the road
and maybe when he stepped out of the car,
he just slid down an embankment.
>> So I got out of my car,
ran around the back and went around.
And I was absolutely overwhelmed with what I didn't see.
I did not see one footprint anywhere
and I did not see the man.
I looked everywhere, I looked all around.
The snow was still very heavy and I looked everywhere.
But there were no footprints anywhere.
And I stood there and this powerful presence of warmth
just came over me.
>> And I just knew then that I had had an angelic visitation.
I didn't know why or what purpose it would serve
at that point in my life.
Later, I had a real clear understanding
why he was going to Boston.
But at that point I didn't know anything.
And I got back in the car.
>> I couldn't even move for a while.
I just sat there and pondered the things that he had said.
And the last thing he said that he would see me again
at a time when I needed him the most.
And I asked the Lord about that.
And I began to understand a little bit over time
that the Lord had given me this angelic visitation,
this scrappy looking sort of military looking guy.
He was not particularly handsome.
He wasn't big and huge. He looked like a normal man,
but he had a countenance about him that was so attractive.
>> It was so inviting. That's the word.
I wanted to look at him more than I did.
But because I'm driving and I'm driving in a snowstorm,
I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to him face to face.
His voice was like a soothing water.
He was very gentle, spoken, very kind and very gentle, spoken.
And as we as we parted and I discovered
that something supernatural was happening for sure,
because if you get out of the car
when there's 12 inches of snow outside the door,
there's going to be some evidence you stepped in that
and there was none anywhere,
not anywhere on the passenger side of the car.
Not a single snowflake had been interrupted or disturbed
in any way, shape or form.
He just left. He just disappeared.
I guess he went to Boston
and I was so overtaken over time with the Lord sharing with me
that we have angelic forces around us all the time.
>> We don't see the most of us never see them,
but and I've never seen another one.
But I became very aware of how tangible that power is for us,
that God prepares that for us,
and that we have access to it as it is necessary and needed.
So I wanted to share that story with you.
And I want to encourage you to believe God
for supernatural encounters of your own,
not to seek signs and wonders.
>> The Bible tells us very clearly
that we shouldn't be seeking signs and wonders,
but that we should have an open heart
and an open desire for whatever God would send us
so that we can walk in the fullness of everything
that he's provided for us.
He gives us enablement and empowerment
and a lot of ways, including angelic forces.
And so I want to pray with you now and pray
that the Lord open up your heart and help you in a position
to receive what he has for you in this room.
So, Father, in the name of Jesus,
I just thank you for everyone that is watching.
>> And I ask God that Lord you minister life to them
and that father, you open up the heart,
open up the heart and the understanding of the heart
that they may be able to comprehend and see
and know that your greatness in your power is available
even when they do not see.
And Father, I'm asking that each and every one of us
in the body of Christ move closer
and closer to working together with you in this earth
to bring your kingdom to the fullness that you have promised.
And we give you thanks and praise
for that father in the name of Jesus and by faith.
I pray that for myself and for everyone watching.
>> Thank you. Thank you for joining us today.