1 agree with Karla, that these wonderful interventions are not always coincidental. God honors His children's faith and He controls the elements, the thunder, lightnings, etc. I remember one day I was going some place and was caught in an awful electrical storm. I felt impressed to pray that God would protect my parents so I offered up a simple prayer for their protection. I then forgot all about it. But later that day when I saw my parents, my mother related to me about how near she had come to being struck by lightning. She had reached over to unplug a cord from an outlet, and just as she pulled her hand back, lightning struck where her hand had been. I then remembered praying for their protection and told her about it. (Taken from Trials and Triumphs.)
In this case, God did not stop the storm, but He controlled the lightning flash, withholding its strike until my mother was out of danger. Praise His Name!
In Mark, the fourth chapter, beginning in verse 36, we read where Jesus was in a ship, "and there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm."
Hebrews 13:8-"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."