Testimonies: God protecting me (Part 1)

I will be writing multiple articles with different testimonies. These are just three short ones that I have compiled for this one.

Protecting me from injury:

One of the days between July the 7th and 10th in 2023, I went outside with my bicycle. I was going to my relatives because the previous day I went to a monastery and I got some gifts, so I wanted to give these to them. 

As I was riding, I approached a parking lot. On entering the lot, there is a turn which I took quite fast, and I hit a little rock which almost knocked me down because it slipped the front wheel. But I did not fall. 

A short three seconds later, I almost got hit by a car because I did not see it, and I was going the opposite way through this parking lot. 

Then, I exited the lot and I was passing through buildings, and these buildings are quite bunched. Now the buildings themselves have hip-height walls made of stone which are like "borders" for those people living on the lowest floors and their gardens. Also, between these buildings, there's like a crossroad separating them and what the problem is, with those short stone walls and grass fences on top of them, you cannot really see who is coming from the sides on the crossroad. I was passing by at considerable speed (as much as one can with a bicycle) and as I approached the crossroad, a person from my right came flying at speed with his bicycle. I turned as far left, as close as possible to the stone walls so that we may avoid each other. He nicked my back wheel and slammed on the ground while I remained up. If I had been a few centimeters to the right or back of where I had been at the point of contact, the person would've hit me straight in the side and would've sent me into the stone walls and I could've broken my hips or ribs. The Lord well and truly protected me that day.

Protecting me from fever:

That same year during this period I became a snooker coach. I was previously only a player but I decided to be a coach as well, and by this way I became quite close with the main coach who was also the president of the association and also organized all the tournaments, both in the country and the traveling for outside. His name is Lazar. Fast forward a few months later to the end of November, on Thursday early in the morning (2-3AM) I went to sleep. I had a dream where I was in the car of this Lazar, he was driving, and I was sitting on the back seat, there were four of us in the car, and we were traveling somewhere. A few hours after I woke up, he called me and said to me: "Hey, tomorrow (Friday) there is a snooker tournament in Bulgaria. Your friend P. D. was supposed to come with us but he cancelled at the last minute. So I am calling you if you want to take his place". And I accepted. So, the next day we gathered together to travel, and sure enough, Lazar was driving; there were four of us in the car; and I was sitting on the back seat. 

When we arrived in Bulgaria, the weather was torrid. We were there three days and it was constantly snowy, rainy and cold. The apartment where we stayed was around a kilometer or two from where the tournament was taking place, so we got there each day on foot. On one morning while going to the tournament, I got so drenched in snow and rain, when I got there it was like I had taken a shower (I also have long hair). It took me the whole day to dry up. Two of the three days that we were there, I was drenched because of the snow and rain. When we came back home, the other three people of our team all caught colds, while I did not. One of the people came to me afterwards and said: "We all caught a fever, except you, yet you were the one who got constantly soaked. How could this be?"

Protecting my property from damage:

Some weeks ago this year, I became hungry so I went to preheat this air fryer that I have and to cook my meal in it. Before I preheat it, I always check inside to see whether there is something left over or if I hadn't washed it from the previous cooking. But this time for some reason I didn’t check inside. So I turned it on and I wanted to leave and go to another room while this thing was heating up, but I stayed there for some reason. 

As it was heating, it started making this fierce noise, it was like it will blow up any second. I quickly turned it off and when I opened it I saw that there was a large piece of paper from the previous cooking which I left inside. And somehow this paper got up from the bottom and stuck to the heating fans on the top. The paper was burnt and the fryer was full of smoke. 

If I had left the place while the fryer was heating up like I intended to do, the paper would’ve caught fire or the fryer would’ve exploded because the fans were choking on the paper. Thanks be to the Lord, there was no damage at all to anything and I dearly thank Him for keeping me there.

These are just a few short testimonies. I want to point out that in the first two testimonies, I was the only saved person (Christian), and that God protects us from all evil, no matter how small it looks.

If you have any doubts about God protecting you from something, whatever it may be, no matter how small a protection, take a look at James 1:17: "Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow." God is our only protector.