The Protection of Guardian Angels

servant wrote:The Protection of Guardian Angels
By Grant R. Jeffrey

Over the course of my life I have been involved in numerous accidents and dangerous incidents that could have prematurely ended my life. I have often sensed the presence of God’s supernatural protection when I have escaped serious injury or death. Several times I felt that an invisible angelic presence had awakened me to danger and helped me avoid a potentially life-threatening accident. My wife, Kaye, lived with her brothers and sisters in a home with her mother and father, who was a pastor in several different towns in the province of Ontario, Canada. In one particular town, her family moved into a house just up the street from a hotel bar and dance-hall. Before they moved to town drunks were accustomed to using the verandah and laneway by the side of the empty house as a place to party after midnight, when the hotel bar had closed its doors. However, once the preacher and his family moved into the house, they felt it took away the freedom for their after hours parties, but they would still hang around. One particular night, the bar patrons were quite angry and rowdy after the hotel bar closed. As their anger grew, the men came onto the verandah swearing, blaspheming, and threatening the preacher and his family. They began to pull on the door in their attempt to break into the house.

Kay’s dad had put the children to bed, but everyone was fearful as they could hear the drunks yelling loudly that they were going to get the preacher and his family. Her father gathered the whole family into the upstairs front bedroom to pray for God’s divine protection. As her dad prayed for his family’s safety, the Lord showed him a vision of a large guardian angel standing guard on the porch in front of their main door. At that very moment, the family heard the sounds of a gig commotion and the men started running for their lives away from the house.

When the sun came up the next morning, the body of one of the drunken men was found lying on the ground at the side of the house: he had died of a heart-attack. When the drunks were questioned, they claimed that while they were yelling threats, suddenly a large man appeared, guarding the front door. They claimed they were so afraid for their lives that they simply ran away as their friend fell to the ground. The drunks never came back to bother the preacher’s family during the rest of the time they lived in that town. Kaye’s family believes that God sent a guardian angel of protect their family in response to their prayers.