Karen,
Thanks for sending your testimony to thelist.  It is awesome!
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Heaven Testimony for Carol and Dave


> Here is that testimony for Carol and Dave.  I know the rest of you may 
> have seen it so you can delete if you wish.
>
>
> Testimony
> By Karen Carter
>
> I got saved in Sept 22, 1967.  My friend invited me to go to vacation 
> Bible school at Elmwood Church of the Nazarene in Westland Michigan.
> Through the years I would pray fervently for my Dad to receive help with 
> food, money and to be released from drinking.  Like the testimonies I kept 
> hearing everyone else at the church talk about.  Well it seems that none 
> of my prayers were answered.  I started the school for the Blind in 
> Michigan.  They did not have transportation to a Nazarene church.  They 
> made me attend a Baptist church.  But than when I was not forced to go to 
> church I stopped going.  I felt like it did not matter because God never 
> answered my prayers. Nor did he do any miracles in my life so I just gave 
> up on God.
> I got into drinking causing trouble and being rebellious.
> Well one day I decided to get my ears pierced.  So my sister-in-law 
> pierced them.  This was in August of 1972.  I had trouble at first with 
> ear rings causing sores and such.  Well months went by and my ear got 
> infected I kept washing it soaking with alcohol and peroxides.  I went to 
> the school health center and they just said I had swollen glands.  It 
> healed up some.  But it turned into blood poisoning.  So here begins what 
> God did for me to believe.
> I was at a point in my life where I was giving up on God.  In fact I was 
> starting to believe that there was no God.  But let me tell what God did 
> for me.  God did not give up on me when I was at my lowest point with him.
> I did not fill well.  I remember sitting on the smoker's porch and I knew 
> I would not be on this earth by Monday.  I even mentioned it to a friend. 
> This was Friday night.  I did not know how I was going to die but I just 
> knew I was going to.  Saturday I felt not to well.  I knew it was probably 
> what ever that gland was doing.  I just hung around and went through the 
> day.  Well Sunday came about and I did not fill well I knew I had a fever 
> and was going to go to the Health Center after breakfast.  I ate breakfast 
> and went back down to my room, to let my twin sister and our other 
> roommate I was going to the health Center.  I asked Sharon (twin) to walk 
> with me.   On the way I started hallucinating. I thought an airplane was 
> landing on the track and was trying to get down protecting myself.  Sharon 
> was trying to get me to get up and let me know nothing was going on.  The 
> grounds keeper came along and helped her walk me over to the health 
> center.  The nurse immediately took me in.
> I was put to bed and a doctor was called I don't know or remember anything 
> about that day.  I did find out later that the doctor said I would not 
> make it through the night and they had to Hurst on hold to pick up the 
> body.
> It was about 11:oop.m.  I was awake still kind of out of it but awake.  I 
> started hearing some choir music.  I thought that the operator had left 
> the intercom on.  The nurse yelled down the hall for who ever have the 
> radio on to turn it down.  Well I noticed the music was coming from the 
> corner of the room.  I than realized it was the Heavenly choir, As soon as 
> I realized this, the music engulfed me.  I was more beautiful than any 
> music on earth.  I knew I was dying and started praying "God I know you 
> must be real and if you are please forgive me of all my sins of swearing, 
> drinking, hurting other and any I cannot think of.  Please be with my 
> family as they morn help them to be strong I don't want my Daddy to be so 
> hurt that he dies and Sharon too.  As soon as I prayed I was back in time. 
> It was one day when I was 7 years old I was running through the house my 
> mom told me to stop running.  I did and looked up.  I could see the love 
> and concern in her eyes, something I could not se
> e alive.  Than I was standing in front of a girl I went to elementary 
> school with that I picked on and I could fill her hurt I had caused her. 
> I than was in my big sisters car she was driving home.  I told her I had 
> to go and that I loved her and to take care of herself and stop doing 
> foolish things.  I was than in my Dad's living room.  I could see my Dad 
> was lying on the couch crying and my big brother was knelling next to him 
> telling him not to cry and that it would be ok.  They probably don't know 
> what they are talking about.  I told them not to worry I was ok and that 
> they would be ok.  Than I was in Germany in a little apartment my brother 
> and sister in-law was there.  Darryl was reading a book.  I said hay 
> Darryl I got to go now but you will be ok I will see you guys later.  Next 
> I found myself in my room at school Sharon and Brenda were crying I said, 
> "What are you guys crying about?"  I am ok you guys stop crying and have 
> fun not sit around crying.  Next I found myself fl
> oating above the health center.  I could see the building outline and the 
> light around it.  Than I was beyond all the universes and I knew what 
> everything was and why it was, every little molecule was for and why.  I 
> looked down and there was this opening where people were screaming and 
> yelling trying to get out.  I recognized a man and felt grief and asked 
> why he is there and Peter said he was a bad man.  I thought not him he 
> used to help our family out.  Than I was taken to another place, that was 
> filled with an over whelming peace and knowing.  I could not see, smile, 
> hear, touch or fill but I knew everything.  Than I turned around and saw 
> everyone that ever touched my life, in one way or another, was there. 
> They appeared as if they did on earth. I am not sure if this was Heaven or 
> a lower level of Heaven.  But, people like Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, John 
> Kennedy, Egger Alan Pole, Helen Keller, Louis Armstrong, and others.  I 
> can not judge people but going by some of these peop
> les lives, and the ways they believed. I would be surprised if they were 
> in Heaven with Jesus.  Than Peter pointed and I looked and there was the 
> line of my relatives.  My mom was with a little boy in the center.  To her 
> right were my uncles and Aunts.  I knew all but two ladies one had on a 
> pair of silver rim glasses with grayish curly hair she had on a dark blue 
> button up dress and pearled necklace, and the other had brown curly hair 
> with a flower pattern dress.  I asked who the little boy is.  Peter said, 
> that is Aggie's little boy.  He appeared to be about two years old.  Than 
> beyond the people I seen the beautiful city and in the center was a very 
> bright light which was God and rings of people around the center these 
> rings went on for what seem like as far as the eye could see.  It was like 
> all the people were around the throne.  The most high were in the center 
> around God.  They were all worshipping God.  I said it is so beautiful and 
> so peaceful, I want to stay here.  Jesus
> was in front of me and told me I could not stay that he needed me to go 
> back and do some work for him and I could not come until I finished what 
> he needed me to do. I said oh no it is so nice and peaceful and beautiful. 
> He put his hand on my chest and I went backwards.  The next thing I 
> remember is I thought I was sitting in a chair wrapped up in a blanket. 
> Than it was the next morning the nurse was waking me up.  I did not say 
> anything for a moment.  I was thinking of what happened to me and than I 
> said.  I died last night didn't I?  My voice sound high and squeaky.  The 
> nurse moved like she was uncomfortable.  I told her it was ok I know I did 
> because of what happened.  She said, yes you did.  I checked on you at 
> about 10:54.  Than I went down to the other hall to check on the kids down 
> there went back to the nurses station did some paper work and came back 
> about 11:34.  At that time you were cold, your eyes were rolled back in 
> your head and your fluids had all come out.  I tur
> ned to call the mortuary to come and get you but than the next thing I 
> knew I had jumped on top of you and was doing CPR.  She said I was dead 
> for at least a half hour.
> It turned out my voice was high and squeaky because when you die your 
> vocal cord stretch out and relax.  And the reason I thought I was in a 
> chair was because she had taken me out of the bed to change the sheets and 
> my pajamas because of the fluids.
> When I was home that summer I told my Dad about what I experience and I 
> told him that I thought it was weird that there were two ladies there I 
> did not know.  The ladies I seen that had the glasses on.  I described 
> them to my Dad and when I did his hair stood up and he turned white as a 
> ghost.  I thought he was having a heart attack.  He said, Oh my god baby 
> you must have died, because the one with the silver rimmed glasses was my 
> great aunt that died when I was nine and the other with the brown glasses 
> was my aunt who died when I was fifteen.  They were my favorite aunts. 
> Well than I was getting goose bumps because I have never seen any pictures 
> of anyone in my Dad's family.  Not even to this day.
> When ever I have my doubts I do not doubt that there is a God.  It is more 
> of what he will do for me or give me.  I could never deny there is a God 
> because I have seen him face to face.  I believe that he had to have me 
> die so that I could know he is real because of my hard head and 
> stubbornness.  It was the only way he could get it through my head.  This 
> also shows that he never gives up on us we give up on him.  And I do not 
> know why he kept hanging on to me and other die in there atheism.  Unless, 
> those people still are denying God when they see him.  I don't know how 
> they could when you fill and know his presence and power.
>
> --
> Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed
>> the Ten Commandments?
>
> I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out 
> there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out 
> there is
>
> IN GOD WE TRUST
> Karen Carter '74
> -KC- Ministries
>
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Carol Pearson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Karen,
>
> I haven't seen that testimony either . . ..
>
>
> --
> Carol
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>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Karen Carter
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Heaven
>
>
> Hi David,  I too have visited Heaven when I had blood poisoning and was 
> dead for about an half hour.  I wrote about it in my testimony I sent 
> earlier this year If I still have a copy of it I will send it to you.  I 
> too remember the heavenly chior coming down and surrounding me and you are 
> right there is no sound on earth like it.
>
> --
> Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed
>> the Ten Commandments?
>
> I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out 
> there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out 
> there is
>
> IN GOD WE TRUST
> Karen Carter '74
> -KC- Ministries
>
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: David Weston <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Hi there Friends,
>>
>> In 1989 while I was very unwell with my heart condition, and before I had 
>> my
>> heart operation. I had two visits to heaven. Well it is nothing like I 
>> had
>> read in the book of revelation, it was more wonderful so much more than
>> words can tell. But the thing I look forward to is the singing, nothing 
>> like
>> one has ever heard down here on earth. The other thing that I look 
>> forward
>> to see is the beautiful colours in all the plants. The only person that I
>> want to meet is my bridegroom--Jesus.
>> David Weston.
>>
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