This happened to Pastor Dmitriy Leo at one of the conferences of the Father’s Blessing Prayer Center on April 7, 2018.
My watch supernaturally stopped during the service for EXACTLY one hour. I have a good Vacheron Constantin mechanical watch (pictured above), whose power reserve lasts two days, but most importantly, it has automatic winding. In other words, as long as you walk, move, or move your hand, the watch keeps winding and cannot stop.
In the morning, I arrived at the service according to my watch. The time was set correctly because I began the service at 12:00 according to my watch. After preaching about Abraham, I invited the worship team to prepare for the closing prayer. I looked at my watch, saw 15:40, and was surprised that there was still a whole hour until the end of the service. We usually finish services at 17:00. Then I wondered how I could have been so mistaken. I looked at another clock in the hall, and it showed 16:40. I asked other people to confirm it, and the time really was 16:40. I looked at my watch again: it was running normally, and everything was fine with it; the only difference was exactly one hour. Not 50 minutes, not 55 minutes, not 1 hour 5 minutes, but exactly 1 hour.
I reflected on this and came to the following conclusion. That day I was preaching on a very important subject: Abraham’s journey and the foundations of faith. I planned to preach for 30 minutes, but preached for 1 hour. I think the Lord gave me time so that I would not worry or shorten the sermon, but would share everything that was in my heart. There may be another explanation. The Lord stopped time for me as a sign so that I would continue leading the service. In any case, it is interesting. All I can say about it is: “Continue, Lord! More, Lord!”
