When you’ve been a Street Pastor for a long time, you can make the mistake of believing you’ve seen and done it all, even to the point of thinking you might know how God is going to answer prayers in a situation – wrong!

We were with a young lady who, having the latest technology, had all her money on her iPhone. Unfortunately even iPhones need charging and hers was out of battery, so she had no way of either phoning her partner as she couldn’t remember his number, or of paying for a taxi. We radioed CCTV who suggested taking her to a nightclub as they might have a phone charger there.

Ah, that was unexpected and it was going to be a new way as to how the Lord would answer our prayers – wrong again – we took her to a club and explained, asking the owner if they had a charger. He simply pulled £15 out of his pocket and gave it to her for her taxi fare – sorted