Testimony of Healing October 18, 1999 Issue

Protection from fire

Cherie B. Nelson

My husband and I and another family member had been asked to housesit a beautiful home on the Oregon coast. The night we arrived, we were all weary, and we turned in early to bed. As I fell asleep, I felt especially peaceful, remembering the comforting assurances of God's protecting care that I'd been studying and praying about all day. Suddenly, around 11 p.m., I woke and saw that the outside wall of our bedroom was on fire. I woke my husband, and together we roused the rest of the household and called the fire department.

As we stood outside waiting for the fire trucks, I prayed diligently to see God's harmonious universe all around me, and I held to the certainty that the law of God could and would operate on our behalf. I realized that right then we were under divine law, and that we were thus protected. Soon the fire department arrived and put the fire out.

As we went about the cleanup of the inside, I kept in mind the story of the three Hebrew men in the fiery furnace, who were so well protected that not even "the smell of fire had passed on them" (Dan. 3:27). I knew that the same freedom and protection from fire that they experienced were mine.

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