I haven't heard it either and I really enjoyed it.
Thanks
Cairie
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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
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From: The Electronic Church
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Behalf Of Brad D
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:03 PM
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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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