- Lebanon, another hotspotin the Middle East,

where one Beirut pastor,wow, he is thanking God

for a Holy Spirit hunchthat he says saved the lives

of his church members from thatmassive explosion in Beirut.

Pastor Said Deeb said he felt the need

to send everyone home early that day.

He was so concerned overthe risk of COVID-19,

but little did he knowthe reality was far worse.

34 church members and 240children gathered each day

at his Life Center Church in Beirut,

which is just a two-minute's drive

from the site of the explosion.

He says the blast blewthe windows from one wall

to another and tookeverything out in between.

And no one would have survived.

- And Pastor Said joins us now by Skype.

Pastor, thank you so muchfor being on the show.

- Thank you for hosting me, Wendy.

- Pastor, you say the dayof that horrific explosion

at the port in Beirut,that you heard the voice

of the Holy Spirit.

What did He say to you?

- Yeah, we were meeting andpraying at about 1:00 p.m.

We pray every morning becauseat night we have discipleship

groups and we have kids thatcomes, because we have a center

that hosts all the refugeekids, Syrian refugees.

And we have lots of refugeescome for discipleship.

We have meetings in every room.

We have so many classroomsand we are 34 staff there.

So I was feeling anxious.

I don't know what happened to my heart.

And I was feeling not at ease.

And I don't know what to explain it.

I felt something is going to happen.

Something bad is going to happen.

We started praying and praying,

but we didn't get the breakthrough.

So I don't know why I was so rude.

I want everybody go home, go home.

Close everything and go home.

Just close the Center.

They said, "How come?"

"We have commitments, we have meetings."

"We came long ways, long distances,

"and now saying go home."

I said, "I don't knowwhy, but please go home

"and come on Sunday."

It was a Tuesday afternoon.

- Wow, thank goodness.

What went through yourmind when you felt the Lord

tell everyone to go home?

What were you thinking?

- Well, I don't knowwhat's happened with me.

It's like anger, sadness.

I don't know what is this,but something so intense.

Just as if the Holy Spiritsay, "Go, go, go, go, go."

So I was saying,"Everybody, go, go, go home,

"go home, go home," pushingthem, turn off the computers,

forcing them to leave.

I was forcing them and theysaid, "We are cooking."

"We need to distribute foodfor refugees and for the poor."

I said, "Today cancel everything,put it in the fridge."

So they were thinking I lostmy mind, but they didn't know,

and I didn't know this isthe Holy Spirit's prompting.

I didn't know why.

They asked me why, I said, "Idon't know why, just leave."

- You had said that theexplosion basically blew one wall

to the other side and thatif anybody, if those kids

had been in there that theyprobably would have perished.

Tell us about the damage thathappened in those classrooms.

- They started sending mepictures from the church

and I was shocked, becauseit took us 12 years

to build this auditorium andthis church and nice facility.

And now everything I built in 12 years,

I saw it destroyed on the floor.

All the ceilings on thefloor, all the lamps,

all the paintings, all thedoors, doors without frames,

windows, and you know, all this glass,

all over the glass andgadolinium, doubly glazed.

And you see the glassremoved from its place.

And even the frames, the frameis removed out of its place.

It's horrible.

- We know, so far, at least 200people have lost their lives

in the explosion.

Thousands were injured, many are homeless.

How is your church, Churchof God Life Center, Beirut,

helping those in need right now?

- I see it's a big, big, big miracle that,

I imagined the number wouldbe 10,000 lost their lives.

I'm really doubting the numbers.

When you see the damage all around the us

and around the place, youwon't believe your eyes.

It's only 150 to 200 deaths.

Now we have 300,000 displaced.

They have no place to sleep.

We have around 100,000kids now without shelter.

Now the army is trying to build tents

and stuff like that.

The second morning, early in the morning,

we started cleaning, but Ithought everybody is hungry now.

So I told myself, let'sfinish with the kitchen first,

before we continue.

So we fixed the kitchenand we start cooking

and we started makingsandwiches and hot meals

and giving away.

So in one hand we werecleaning and in the other hand,

feeding the poor around us.

And we didn't know what to do, really,

because the need all around us is huge.

So people were comingfrom all over Lebanon

to help cleaning this area where we are.

And we started sendingthem food, sandwiches,

giving away drinks,and virtually every day

we have people coming for food.

We haven't stopped food.

We haven't stopped that.

And today we gave away400 hot meals in boxes,

a very nice rosto and puree,

and 500 sandwiches,

in addition to thousandsof bottles of waters.

We do this everyday.

And I thank God for the body of Christ.

People keep calling me all over the world.

The five continents, America,

Europe, Singapore,

Germany, Switzerland, UK,

sending us, you know,money through Western Union

and through the account of the church.

And we start by faithcleaning and by faith cooking.

And every penny we get, wegive away, straight away.

- Well thank God, Pastor,that you heeded the voice

of the Holy Spirit, many lives were saved,

and now your church ishelping those in need,

while you're rebuilding yourselves.

So we thank God for your testimony.

Thank God that you'realive, that you lived

to tell about this storyand the goodness of God.

God bless you.

- God bless you and thank you so much.