Though most know it:
[A Yankee officer was in a disastrous battle in the French and Indian War]
There were 86 British and American officers involved in that battle; at the end of the battle, [he] was the only officer who had not been shot down off his horse — he was the only officer left on horseback.
The next day, [he] wrote a letter to his family explaining that after the battle was over, he had taken off his jacket and had found four bullet holes through it, yet not a single bullet had touched him; several horses had been shot from under him, but he had not been harmed. He told them:
“By the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation.”
[George Washington]
Fifteen Years Later:
An old Indian chief from far away, having heard that Washington had come back to those woods, traveled a long way just to meet with him.
He sat down with Washington, and face-to-face over a council fire, the chief told Washington that he had been a leader in that battle fifteen years earlier, and that he had instructed his braves to single out all the officers and shoot them down. Washington had been singled out, and the chief explained that he personally had shot at Washington seventeen different times, but without effect. Believing Washington to be under the care of the Great Spirit, the chief instructed his braves to cease firing at him.
The Bullet Proof President
http://www.garymcleod.org/bullet.htm
Goosebumps!!
Yes - thank you for that incident’s retelling also!
If not mistaken, I thought I remembered that this same Indian Chief told that they saw all these “beings of light” during that attack - Angels? - who were fighting alongside Washington and his troops that day....protecting him specifically from being killed.
I’ll have to go back and look that up but I thought I remembered that from one of the history books I have read.
Yes, George Washington was miraculously preserved many times during his life - we know because God had a definitive purpose for him and would not allow anything to destroy him or take his life before he had accomplished that purpose!
(Which reminds us in fact that God has a purpose for each of our lives and is there beside us, around us, protecting and delivering us as we fulfill His purpose for our lives as well!)
Wonderful.
Thanks.
God will protect his people in these times also.