‘He said, Yeah, I would like to pray for you guys,’” said Otterson. “When I tell you I’ve never in my 35 years of being alive, I’ve never seen someone — adult, professional, pastor, whatever you want to call it — I’ve never seen someone pray with such conviction and such true sincerity. It was amazing. We kneeled down immediately.”
Otterson continued, “This evangelist comes out of this little boy. He’s like, ‘Dear Jesus, we know you’re a loving God and a benevolent God. I’m calling on you to put a hedge of protection (for) these individuals around these police officers and make sure they’re safe. We know you’re a loving God.’”
The experience nearly moved Otterson to tears and deeply encouraged him. “You could just see the tenseness from everyone that was there,” he said. “So, to see this family in that moment have the individuality, the no-crowd mentality, we are here to have unity, to pray to look for strength in the moment. It was just something you can’t put into words. I would do it all over again for that moment…God sent a 5-year old boy to strengthen soldiers, and that’s something you can’t ever replicate.”
