Witness the Wonder: God Stories of Faith, Miracles and Supernatural Signs for Hope in Everyday Life
Jun 30, 2026 · 39 min · 13 segments
As **America celebrates its 250th birthday**, discover the documented miracles, divine providence, and **God stories** throughout American history that most of us never learned in history class. In…
Barry LoudermilkGuestChristina SmithHostAs someone who has spent years researching America's history, what do you feel makes two hundred and fifty so significant?

Well, first of all, it's the length of time that we have been a constitutional republic.

If you go back and look in history, there's only been a handful of governments built in a similar manner that the United States was.

In fact, no one ever thought we would actually succeed as a nation because of our sinful nature.

You know, greed tends to overtake people, and when you build a government that's built upon the will of the people, a lot of times you end up with what you saw in the French Revolution, to where corrupt power during a revolution simply changes hands to another corrupt power.

The longest or the average length of time of a constitutional republic is seven to eleven years.

And part of that is because of divine providence that our, our nation was built upon Judeo-Christian values.

The scriptures are evident throughout our founding documents because that's what our founders went back to when they were designing this.

So you can go back and you can read the writings of our founders, read the documents themselves, and you can see, as Samuel Adams put it, the fingerprint of God upon all these.

I-in fact, the University of Houston, I think it was in nineteen eighty-four, did a very exhaustive study of what was the greatest inspiration of our founders and our framers, those who wrote these documents, those who envisioned this type of country.

Uh, they came back, and it was eighty-four percent of their writings, their statements, their philosophies came directly or indirectly from the scriptures.

And so that kinda shows you, not only did they use the Bible as a guidebook, they built the nation using the ideas, the morality, and just the, the framework from the scriptures.

There is a scripture that says, "The Lord is my king, the Lord is my lawgiver, the Lord is my judge." That is where we get the three branches of government.

The executive, the legislative, and judicial come directly from the Old Testament.

... one of the things that makes it, that makes us unique as a country, not only is the foundations, but the reliance on God throughout our history.

And the reason it's so important to know that is because of an Old Testament scripture, Ecclesiastes 1:9, which says, "Whatever has been will be, and whatever is has happened in the past.

There's nothing new under the sun." Okay, that's a paraphrase, but it's basically saying there's nothing that you can face in your life or a nation could face in its, its future that hasn't been faced before in the past.

So if we wanna have a successful future, we have to look back into the past and see, uh, what has sustained us so far.

So if we wanna go another 250 years, we have to look back at the past and see what sustained us for the first 250 years.

And there is a story that happened during the, uh, debates for, uh, independence in 1776 at the, um, Independence Hall there in Philadelphia.
As someone who has spent years researching America's history, what do you feel makes two hundred and fifty so significant?

Well, first of all, it's the length of time that we have been a constitutional republic.

If you go back and look in history, there's only been a handful of governments built in a similar manner that the United States was.

In fact, no one ever thought we would actually succeed as a nation because of our sinful nature.

You know, greed tends to overtake people, and when you build a government that's built upon the will of the people, a lot of times you end up with what you saw in the French Revolution, to where corrupt power during a revolution simply changes hands to another corrupt power.

The longest or the average length of time of a constitutional republic is seven to eleven years.

And part of that is because of divine providence that our, our nation was built upon Judeo-Christian values.

The scriptures are evident throughout our founding documents because that's what our founders went back to when they were designing this.

So you can go back and you can read the writings of our founders, read the documents themselves, and you can see, as Samuel Adams put it, the fingerprint of God upon all these.

I-in fact, the University of Houston, I think it was in nineteen eighty-four, did a very exhaustive study of what was the greatest inspiration of our founders and our framers, those who wrote these documents, those who envisioned this type of country.

Uh, they came back, and it was eighty-four percent of their writings, their statements, their philosophies came directly or indirectly from the scriptures.

And so that kinda shows you, not only did they use the Bible as a guidebook, they built the nation using the ideas, the morality, and just the, the framework from the scriptures.

There is a scripture that says, "The Lord is my king, the Lord is my lawgiver, the Lord is my judge." That is where we get the three branches of government.

The executive, the legislative, and judicial come directly from the Old Testament.

... one of the things that makes it, that makes us unique as a country, not only is the foundations, but the reliance on God throughout our history.

And the reason it's so important to know that is because of an Old Testament scripture, Ecclesiastes 1:9, which says, "Whatever has been will be, and whatever is has happened in the past.

There's nothing new under the sun." Okay, that's a paraphrase, but it's basically saying there's nothing that you can face in your life or a nation could face in its, its future that hasn't been faced before in the past.

So if we wanna have a successful future, we have to look back into the past and see, uh, what has sustained us so far.

So if we wanna go another 250 years, we have to look back at the past and see what sustained us for the first 250 years.

And there is a story that happened during the, uh, debates for, uh, independence in 1776 at the, um, Independence Hall there in Philadelphia.
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