I will pray for them. Financial trouble seems to be my favorite trouble for
some strange reason, but God knows what he's doing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cairie Witter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.
>I haven't heard it either and I really enjoyed it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cairie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jenifer Gilley" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.
>
>
> BRAD
>
> I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE. *SMILE* I WILL BE PRAYING
> FOR Chris and
> his family also.
>
> Jenifer Gilley
> Christ came that we may have life everlasting!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Electronic Church
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Brad D
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.
>
>
> Hey Jen,
>
> You might have heard this story before but I'll mention it
> again for the
> newbees on list:.
>
> I've got a fishing pal of mine that is known as the miracle
> of St. John's
> Hospital here in the Twin Cities. This happened long before
> I met him and
> hopefully they have had other miracles occur since then to
> drown out the
> title but nonetheless his miracle, was nothing short of,
> well? Miraculous.
> His name is Chris, and at the time was a police officer in a
> small town
> outside of the Twin Cities. His dad and step mom were
> children's pastor of
> a church which was a full spirit, charismatic, Pentecostal
> or whatever
> label you want to put on it, but they believed in the power
> of healing.
> Chris was fairly newly married and I believe had a little
> one too at this
> time. Chris had a beat partner who served in Desert Storm,
> sort of the
> appetizer of the current war we are drowning. umm, that we
> are engaged in
> now. Chris started not feeling well, growing steadily
> worse, I'm not sure
> of all the symptoms but they couldn't figure out what in the
> heck was wrong
> with him. Finally he'd gotten so bad he was hospitalized.
> The nearest they
> figure is the partner had brought bad a virus from the
> Middle East and
> Chris caught it from him and it was affecting him terrible.
> He had gotten
> so bad they had him on life support and oxygen and
> everything and things
> did not look good for Chris because the doctors were doing
> all they knew to
> do to help him, but they didn't know what they were dealing
> with so
> treatment was poke and hope and the clock was ticking down.
> His wife was
> not a Christian at the time, or her family, but Chris's dad
> and step-mom
> like I said were and they darn well were not letting their
> son check out
> without doing all they could. Chris's dad at one critical
> point I believed
> laid hands on him and prayed despite staff not wanting him
> there, in fact
> all he could grasp was his toes. One night sleeping on the
> couch his dad
> had a dream/vision and saw what he believed to be a vision
> that said his
> son will be OK. It's been a while since I heard what his
> vision was so I
> don't recall it but it was a strange kind of dream in need
> of
> interpretation which he claimed he had, and also claimed
> that his son would
> be OK. His dad had gathered all the believers he knew who
> could come and
> lay hands on and pray for Chris, Chris's wife not being a
> Christian was
> like appalled, a gasp at the thought of it, and refused they
> do this thing.
> Well they laid hands on him and prayed nonetheless. Chris at
> this point was
> all the worse and they did not expect him to make it. His
> lungs were crisp
> or permanently damaged due to the length and strength of
> oxygen he was on
> to try to keep him alive and even with that his muscles and
> body began to
> atrophy. Soon the doctors had to make a choice; they could
> not leave him on
> life support any longer because it was beginning to do more
> damage than
> potential good. Family and friends continued to pray. The
> doctors finally
> began to remove the life support off of him and prepared the
> family for
> what was inevitable. Much to everyone's surprise however,
> the more he was
> removed from oxygen, the better he did, the more life
> support that was
> removed, the better he did. The day after he was removed
> from life support
> Chris walked a bouquet of flowers to the nurse's station in
> thanks for
> their support. He went from just a few turns of medical
> equipment
> nobs toward death to walking in a matter of a day or two.
> The doctor who
> cared and treated Chris for the entire time he was under his
> care, which I
> think was told me near $100,000, forgone his fee as he told
> them he did
> nothing to save the man and it was clearly a true miracle
> and he could not
> take any payment for that.
>
> Chris is in perfect health today, probably a decade and a
> half later. His
> wife is a good Christian woman. And please if you have read
> this far,
> please pray for these two as due to varying circumstances
> are struggling
> through a foreclosure and financial troubles as well some
> challenges with
> their teenage boys. They are just good folks and a reminder
> of "There for
> the grace of God go I".
>
> Brad
>
>
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