A TESTIMONY AND A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL WARFAREA TESTIMONY AND A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE
God’s Family Plan: Establishing Generational Blessing
Kathy and Dave Burnett share a dramatic 1988 story of prayer and protection surrounding a highway gas explosion and reflect on how Scripture-based intercession shaped the outcome. The episode outlines a simple pattern for spiritual warfare, daily protection, and living gratefully with faith in Jesus.
20:14•16 Jun 2026
A Miracle on the Highway: Kathy and Dave Burnett on Spiritual Warfare and Protection
Episode Overview
- Accept Jesus as personal Lord and Saviour to receive God’s protection, grace, and mercy.
- Know the word of God and use specific Bible verses as your sword in spiritual battles.
- Listen to the Holy Spirit’s inner prompting, or “knowing in your knower,” and respond in prayer.
- Pray for angelic protection over the roads and places you travel, for yourself and others.
- Maintain an attitude of gratitude, trusting that God is with you through every challenge.
“We have such a great and good God, he uses our prayers even when they are incomplete and imperfect.”
What are the common struggles and victories in addiction recovery? For anyone who leans on faith during hard seasons, this episode shares a dramatic story of prayer, protection, and everyday spiritual battle that might resonate deeply. Kathy Burnett recounts a July 1988 incident that she and her husband Dave still thank God for decades later. While Dave was travelling weekly for work, Kathy sensed a strong inner warning to stop what she was doing and pray.
She describes this as “knowing in your knower,” borrowing Kenneth Hagin’s phrase for the Holy Spirit’s inward witness. As she knelt to pray, she treated it as a life-or-death fight, using Ephesians 6’s picture of spiritual armour and following Jesus’ pattern from Matthew 4: speaking “It is written” and praying Scripture out loud. Psalm 91 becomes the backbone of her intercession, as she personalises its promises of protection over Dave and those with him.
Hours later, as the couple drove to Topeka, a gas pipeline under the highway exploded just seconds after their car passed. A state trooper on the scene called it “a miracle,” and news reports confirmed the scale of the blast. Kathy reflects that her prayers, though imperfect and based on wrong assumptions about where the danger would come from, were still used to shield many people on that busy road.
From there, she lays out a simple pattern for ongoing spiritual warfare: accept Jesus, know the Bible well enough to pray it, listen to the Holy Spirit’s nudges, ask for angelic protection over daily journeys, and live with steady gratitude. This gentle, story-driven episode is ideal for those who rely on faith for safety, sobriety, and family healing, and who want a practical pattern for praying when life feels fragile.
Could this way of praying reshape how you face your next crisis?
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