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After
living in my apartment for two years, I was praying a prayer of protection
over me and my two daughters. I had been seeking God and asking Him lately
for more of Him. So, as I was lying on a bed in my bedroom and just thinking
about God, I saw a lighted silhouette of what looked like a man. I thought
hmmm, that must be an angel. Thank you Lord for that gift to see. I went to bed
that night and my daughters also. We all lived in a one bedroom so we shared
a room. About 3:40 AM we were all awake and could not sleep. My youngest
had a raging fever and I could not get it to break.At 3:55 AM as
we were trying to get back to sleep, we heard this large boom. My oldest
thought it was an earthquake and I said, no, something's going on. Come
out on the balcony with me. We heard another noise that sounded like a gunshot.
Outside we went.When we looked
over the balcony, the entire back part of our building was on fire. A raging
huge fire! We grabbed our two cats, I grabbed my 2-year-old, and we ran
for the front of the building. My 15-year old began to knock on everybody's
door along the way. We got to the front of the building and the stairwells
and elevators were all in flames. The hallways were filled with smoke. We
were on the fourth floor. We headed back to the back of the building, and
by now those we had awakened were coming out, and we were shouting fire,
fire, the building is on fire!The other elevator
was in flames, and the stairwell next to our apartment, too. There was one
stairwell left to check in the very back of the building. We felt the door
and the handle, they were not hot. We opened the door, no fire! And we all
filed out. We went around to the front of the building and I began to call
people on the intercom on the second and third floors to wake them up and
tell them fire, fire, go out the very back.Every single person
and pet got out of that building alive except for the man who started it.
His intent was to kill all of us. He had laced the hallways on the second
and third floors with gasoline soaked towels and rags. The fire department
said it would have been the most fatal fire in the history of Los Angeles.
It was nothing less than Divine Intervention that saved us. I was actually
sad for the man who started the fire and had died in the fire, that he did
not know the God that I serve and the Jesus that loved him so much He died
for him. And I thank God for hearing this mother's prayers for protection.
Shelley - Valley Village, CA |
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