You may have noticed that for the past two days, the DWOD has been published about 9 hours later than normal.

Sulojana and I have been ministering in the Ottawa Valley since Friday night. We have been staying at a retreat centre named A Place to Seek His Face.

It is a comfortable house located in a natural forest setting that is accessible by driving up a mountainous curvy road for more than 3km away from the closest main street.

The quietness and serenity of this place owned and operated by Charles and Alexandra Cheatley is ideal for anyone who simply wants to get away from it all and get rested up and/or restored in body, spirit and soul.

Needless to say there is no internet connection available here—which is a blessing if you want to avoid all distractions.

But, it also spells difficulty for someone who writes and uploads blog posts daily for you who subscribe to Destiny Word of the Day.

The game plan was to compose the DWOD before going to bed, get up early in the morning and drive 30 minutes to a place where there was a free Wi-Fi connection.

At breakfast, we were prompted to ask Alain, the caretaker of the place, the closest location where one could go online.

He promptly pulled out his IPhone, got out the cable with an Apple connector at one end and an USB connector at the other and said: “Right here!”

Thanks to a process known as “tethering” I was able to go online from my laptop and upload the DWOD to facebook, the website and the autoresponder, all in short order.

Praise God for tethering!

This morning, as Sulojana was sharing her side of the amazing miracle that God performed on my body on Dec. 31, 2010, the Holy Spirit helped me discover the tethering grace of God.

Part of Sulojana’s story is about how she was so adversely affected by the deterioration in my health that she found it difficult to pray.

It is not that she did not want to pray. She was not angry at God. Her faith was still intact.

But emotionally, it was very difficult for her to cope with the sight of seeing me lose 30 pounds in less than 6 weeks, lying around with no energy left whatsoever, often experiencing incredible pain as another spasm would hit my stomach.

She realized at that moment how much she (and I) needed the prayers of others. It was so comforting for her to know that there were people in our congregation and a number of close friends who were seeking God on our behalf.

When she could not go online in prayer herself, it was so amazing to realize that others could upload those prayers to the Throne Room in her stead.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that when you are part of the Body of Christ, you are knit together with others who have also chosen to follow Jesus.

No Christian has to ever walk alone, even when it feels lonely. There is always another fellow follower of Jesus who would be glad to agree with you in prayer, stand with you in solidarity and walk with you in unity.

Theologically, you can call it fellowship.
Pragmatically, you can call it support.
Prayerwise, you can call it intercession.
Biblically, you can call it “standing in the gap.”

Let’s just say that we could just as easily name it The Tethering Grace of God.

Can you relate? Please share your experiences with the rest of your DWOD family