The prayer closet of an Alabama grandma miraculously survived an absolutely powerful tornado that collapsed a complete home and killed several people.
BestNewsGH.com sources report 72-year-old Earnestine Reese as emerging from the rubble of her home amid singing and praising God for sparing her life in the powerful tornado.
Jason Smith who first broke the story in Facebook post wrote “Listen to me please. I just left a family who survived the tornado in this house and the only [thing] left standing is this closet. It’s the grandmother’s prayer closet, and the whole family survived. Are you kiddin me!!! My God is awesome!!! Shout somebody!”
Grandma Reese after the incident told her grandson “I thank the Lord. You tell God, ‘Thank you, God.’ You hear me? You hear me? Tell God thank you. Tell God thank you,”
Reese’s daughter, Renee Frazier, in a later interview with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said she lost seven family members in the tornado but she is sticking to her mother’s advice to “tell God ‘thank you.’”
Ms. Frazier said “My mom was buried under the debris. As soon as they brought her out of the debris, her first response was ‘tell the Lord thank you.’ Someone said, ‘the trailer is gone.’ She said, ‘the house is gone too. Tell the Lord thank you.’’
She added that “We lost seven family members, 15 people on this street. Every time the enemy tried to bring something into my mind I keep thinking, ‘tell the Lord thank you.’ And that’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna keep telling God thank you because I trust Him and I’m gonna keep telling God thank you. Thank you for the storm, thank you for the recovery, thank you for the joy of the Holy Ghost. Thank you God. I will not forget what he’s done for me. I will not forget. We will rebuild, we will recover, [but] in all of these things, we will thank God. We will thank God.’’
Grandma Reese’s other daughter, Lashawn Wilson, told WHNT that when the tornado hit, her mother gripped tightly to her faith.
“We were like dominoes on top of each other. My son was on top of me. He said, ‘Mom I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.’ And I said ‘Son, just pray your way through,’” Wilson said.
“She’s in good spirits as you can see in the video,” she said of her mother. “She’s been strong throughout it all. Even in the middle of the devastation she has maintained her faith.”
Source: BestNewsGH.com
