Cairie and Jen,

I love to hear of that kind of stuff too. Real stories of tangible touch 
from God, there is something about faith having little use anymore because 
what you stood in faith for has come to pass. Helps carry us past the 
moment of doubt we may be in on things we are waiting on God for.

Brad


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At 01:30 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
>I haven't heard it either and I really enjoyed it.
>
>Thanks
>




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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
>Christ came that we may have life everlasting!
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>Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:03 PM
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>Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.
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>
>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