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A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. Psalms 91,7
In the last Lebanon war, for example in the settlement where I live
all the people there, when the first bomb fell, they all left the place
Our family with the children, and one neighbour, were the only one to stay in the settlement
The bombs came from Lebanon, and every 2-3 minutes it was falling bombs around the house.
And the Israeli tanks was also half a kilometer from our house, shooting back.
If we looked up at the sky, we could see rockets coming from one side to another
I was speaking with my wife and said: maybe it is dangerous to stay here.
I don't know. Maybe we should go somewhere else tommorrow.
In the night, me and my wife were praying really hard to God
and we didn't sleep almost all the night
and we were praying that he would keep us alive.
In the morning I feel it in my heart, in my spirit
that we should to stay, and that nothing would happen to us.
Nothing will happen. God will preserve us and the children.
I come to my wife, and I tell her: You know what? I feel in the spirit that we can stay here.
And she said to me: You know what? I was also praying very hard all the night, and this is the same feeling I have.
So we gathered the whole family and the children, and I tell them not to be worried. God is with us.
We can stay here in the middle of the war, and we will be preserved
You can play outside. You can do whatever you like! You are safe.
The children, they are very sensitive,
and they feel that we really feel it in our spirit
it is not something we tell them and we are afraid.
they see in our face, in our words, how we speak
and they were playing outside, and seeing the rockets flying above the house
Everything was ok!
How do I know that God really did preserve me?
after all the bombs that fell around, not even one fell on the house
One day we were sitting in the evening eating,
and someone was knocking on the door
I come, and I see an Israeli officer that was in charge of this area in the war
And he said: We know that you are the only family that stays here.
he thought that I was a little bit crazy
and he said: Can I ask you, for the next hour, to not go outside?
I ask him: Why? What has happened?
he said: you know, 15-20 metres from your house, a bomb fell, but it just stacked in the ground
and it is sitting there. It did not explode.
I said: Yes, of course.
It was hard for him to understand. For me it was: of course, God is keeping us alive
even the bomb falling near the house, it will not explode
and I come, and we continue to eat, and the soldiers they take the bomb away
I tell the children, and everybody was happy, and we were happy
We know that if you have the faith, and if you believe in God
If you pray for this, God can preserve you even in the middle of the evil or the war
Around you thousand of people can fall on your right or left side - it is written in the Psalms
and you will be saved, and that was what happened with us