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Series Code: LTBW
Program Code: LTBW000023A
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00:35 Hi, I'm Dr. Kim and welcome to Live To Be Well.
00:38 God's undying love, isn't that just a wonderful statement 00:44 to know how much He loves us? 00:45 Well, today, I'm blessed to have Pr. Curt DeWitt, 00:49 welcome to Live To Be Well. How are you? 00:52 I'm doing wonderful today. Praise the Lord. Thank you for 00:54 allowing me to come and share my testimony. 00:56 Well I am just honored. When I received your call 00:59 about what happened to you, I had to share this story on 01:03 Live To Be Well. 01:05 Now, let's talk about your humble beginnings, 01:07 where you are from, your family of origin, and your educational 01:11 background. Ok I was raised right here in Michigan 01:15 just up the road a little bit, in a little town called Holly. 01:18 Yes, I went to Adelphian Academy. Yes. Yes. 01:21 Um, so I grew up and I was raised a Seventh-day Adventist 01:26 and blessed to have just a wonderful family and I ended up 01:31 going to Andrews University. Yes. For elementary education, 01:35 so I was actually an elementary teacher for five years. Really. 01:39 I love children, I love the youth, and after that I taught 01:43 five years and my mother was killed in a tragic car accident 01:48 which flipped my life upside down, my family's as well. 01:52 And it was the catalyst that actually started me thinking 01:56 about wanting to be in the ministry. 01:58 You know, it puts your faith to the test, to find out how strong 02:02 it is and God used that horrible tragedy, and my mom and I were 02:07 very close, to turn my life around and I just praise 02:10 the Lord, I just felt the call to ministry, possible mission 02:14 service. You know, my wife and I, Kim at that time where 02:17 debating on going either overseas or...you know, so I 02:21 put out some feelers and God opened up the door in Indiana. 02:26 So I kind of came in the back door...Ok. Into the pastoring 02:30 realm. Wow. And I've loved it ever since. 02:32 Ever since. How long have you been pastoring now? 02:34 I've been pastoring over, almost 21 years now. Is that right? 02:37 What's your specialty? Some love youth, family ministry, 02:42 family life. Sure. What are your areas that you find yourself 02:45 drawn to? Um, a couple of areas as I mentioned, the youth, 02:49 tremendously so, I see youth just reaching out in love and 02:54 drawing them closer to Jesus. So that's one big passion 02:58 of mine. Another one is here in district 12, 03:01 this very district, we began something called fight. 03:06 Um, and it is fellowshipping God's healing touch. 03:09 What it is is the Lake Region pastors and the 03:13 Michigan Conference pastors get together and we are actually 03:16 making plans and being...we're having a wonderful time, 03:19 we'll have church services sometimes together... 03:22 We're trying to break down the wall that is there 03:25 and we can't ignore it, it's a fact. The way many of us... 03:29 my brothers and I see, Jesus can't really come until we 03:33 get this figured out and come together and be united. 03:35 And so those are two of the big passions in my life, 03:39 along with the passion of prayer. Yeah. It's just part of 03:42 the story. All right. All right. Well let's get to that story. 03:46 God's undying love and when we were talking on the telephone, 03:50 the Lord put that on my heart and you said that's it, 03:53 so will you please share what happened? 03:56 Ok, um, I have three children by the way, I will just start 04:00 off with that, wonderful children, and I praise God 04:04 for them. My oldest daughter happened to have come home, 04:08 she was living else ware, over in Berrien Springs side of 04:11 Michigan and she happened to be home at this time, 04:13 Kim, my wife was in Africa on a mission trip, 04:17 and I came in basically from a bicycle ride. 04:22 I ride my bike six or seven miles around the city blocks 04:25 if you will, up in Sterling Heights, and I came in, 04:29 I was told later, I must have kicked off my shoes and I turned 04:33 in our quad level home, to go up the stairs and I collapsed. 04:38 Sudden cardiac arrest. I was told that I dropped, 04:42 everything shut down, my heart stopped beating... 04:45 My daughter was downstairs at the time, and she heard the 04:49 big bang and she came up the stairs and saw her dad 04:52 lying face down and sweaty from the bike ride 04:56 and everything, and kind of an awkward position, 04:58 my head was up on the first step off to the side 05:01 and my face was facing off to the side, eyes wide open, 05:04 but I was dead at that point in time. 05:07 You were dead. I was actually dead, um, they say afterward 05:11 they tried to figure out the timing, somewhere between 05:14 ten and twelve minutes I was gone. 05:17 I was without oxygen, everything had shut down. 05:20 Mercy. So my daughter, at first she came up, 05:24 she heard what I was understood to be the gases to be escaping. 05:27 You know when you go through this experience... 05:29 she thought I was still breathing and so she called 911, 05:34 she knew that something serious, I had hit my nose and the back 05:37 of my head and I was bleeding as well...but she thought I was 05:40 breathing and she called 911, and she said my dad 05:42 is still breathing and but he's taken a fall and maybe 05:46 good if someone comes out and you know, let's check in to see 05:49 what's going on with him, he's just laying here on the floor. 05:53 And so, she talked with them for a minute or two and 05:57 they actually told her, we sent someone on the way 06:00 an ambulance will be there shortly and I guess they 06:05 actually hung up with her. They said call us back if 06:07 anything changes. Stop pastor, NO. 06:10 I was quite in amazement when I heard later on, but as I... 06:14 after she had hung up, she went to take the cat downstairs 06:18 put the cat in the back bedroom, not realizing that 06:20 you know I was literally already gone, by the time she came 06:23 back up the stairs, she noticed that I was turning purple 06:26 and then blue fairly quickly. 06:28 And she had realized that things had taken a turn for the worse. 06:31 what she thought, so she got back on with 911, 06:34 9:11 the call went through not even as an emergency, 06:38 they took their time and went and met with the fireman, 06:41 and they took their time getting there, they didn't even 06:43 put their lights on...That's how hard the enemy was at work 06:47 here in this. My goodness. And so she called them back up, 06:51 they said we've got to get him turned over, 06:53 we've got to start the chest compressions, 06:55 and so they stayed on the line with her and she said, 06:58 you know, told me later, she said trying to get me turned 07:00 over all sweaty and the way she is kind of a tiny 07:03 you know, 100 pounds, beautiful young lady, but she finally got 07:08 me over and started the chest compressions. 07:10 They said we are going to count to 200, and just got her going 07:13 until the ambulance drivers arrived finally. 07:16 Um, long story short, at that point, they came in, 07:20 they had to shock me twice to get my heart beating again. 07:23 Umm. And so they of course put me in the ambulance, 07:26 they raced me to the hospital to the emergency room 07:29 and began the process of what they do so wonderfully well 07:33 there at Troy Beaumont. 07:35 And I was in a comma when they realized how long I had 07:40 actually gone without oxygen. Usually you don't survive after 07:43 five minutes. Five minutes. And to think ten to twelve, 07:46 there wasn't much hope. So they put me in kind of a cool down, 07:51 I don't recall the name of the machine but it was a machine 07:55 that would bring your body down to between 91 degrees 07:57 and 93, 94 degrees, because they found out others have 08:02 stopped breathing...you know kids have gone under the ice, 08:04 so to speak...They found out that it actually preserves 08:06 brain damage. Umm. And so, I was hooked to this 08:10 machine and my daughter of course started making 08:13 phone calls, she was quite a trooper, and I just praise 08:16 God, how God worked it out that she actually was there, 08:19 because I would have been alone... 08:21 Basically my wife would have come home, or somebody else 08:24 would have found me days later, maybe even weeks later 08:27 which would have been horrific, so I praise the Lord... 08:28 Praise the Lord that she was there. God is so good. 08:32 So family of course started racing in and Kim, 08:39 they were trying to reach her over in Africa, 08:41 she was in the heart of Kenya, on a mission trip, 08:43 literally far away, her phone didn't even have service 08:45 where she was...They were on their way to another 08:48 mission station. And a...so basically, my elders came, 08:55 a couple of leaders from the Michigan Conference, 08:57 Elder Mitchiff came, and of course, you know being 09:00 Seventh-day Adventist, we believe in the power of prayer 09:02 and the power of anointing... Yes, yes. 09:04 And so while the doctors and nurses were racing to and fro 09:08 trying to keep me alive, they came and had a special 09:11 anointing, and lifted me up to God in prayer. 09:14 And I believe I have no doubt that God has the last say. 09:18 Yes. And He obviously...here I am, I praise the Lord for this. 09:21 Um, so five days later when Kim came back from Africa, 09:25 about three day it took her to finally make it back, 09:27 and my other kids came, and I'm of course oblivious to all 09:31 of what's going on. And five days later, they began... 09:35 They took me off of the cool down machine... 09:38 And, you know, during that time, I remember hearing later 09:42 from my sister...my sister, that's Aleciano, 09:45 my oldest sister, she came down, she's up in Charlotte, 09:47 near Lansing area and she raced down with her husband. 09:50 Her and Gene and Pr. Hall, they were wonderful, 09:54 she stayed by my side three days and three nights, 09:56 and never left. Your sister never left. 09:58 My sister never left. Umm. What a sacrifice, 10:01 she just wanted to make sure I had the best of care... 10:02 I just praise God for her and Gene, 10:04 and all my family as well. 10:06 So they took me off the machine, doctors were coming in 10:12 talking to my wife and children, and letting them know 10:15 that we need to consider when we can't keep him on machines 10:18 you know, forever. They didn't have much hope...Umm. 10:22 Because you got 10 to 12 minutes without oxygen... 10:24 If I came through it all, it would have been heavily 10:27 brain damaged. I was told later that all through the five days 10:31 of being in a coma, that I was showing all of the classic 10:34 signs of having brain damage. I was what they call posturing. 10:38 My limbs would kind of turn inward instead of normally 10:41 outward in a resting position. The EEG was showing abnormal 10:45 burst suppressions, which means a state of inactivity 10:48 and then electrical kind of jumping and then back to 10:52 inactivity, so it was not looking good. 10:54 I remember my sister told me later, she said, 10:57 one of the nurses...a number of Christian nurses there 11:01 coming in saying, we are praying for him. 11:02 One came in actually in tears and saying, "I am so sorry, 11:06 he is so young," forty eight years of age. 11:08 Forty eight. Forty eight years of age. Wow! 11:10 So, when they took me off the machine, they weren't holding on 11:15 a whole lot of hope...I pressed the doctor's to get information 11:17 out of the doctors...later on it was like pulling teeth 11:20 of course. But they told me that they didn't have much hope 11:24 I was going to come out of this. 11:26 But you know what, God knew exactly...You know man's 11:29 extremities are God's opportunities. Yes. 11:32 And so, on my daughter's birthday, this was July 15... 11:35 I just celebrated the three year anniversary here 11:38 a few days ago. But on the 20th, which is Ashley's 11:41 birthday today, I praise the Lord, I woke up 11:46 and they began to talk to me, and at first I wasn't 11:49 responsive, a lot of heavy drugs and such, but, um, 11:53 after doing some tests... Of course the family was 11:55 thrilled, we had a little birthday party, 11:56 we had some pictures, some took and had little birthday hats, 12:00 I was laying in the bed and they are all gathered around me... 12:02 But it's amazing, I love God's timing, you know on my 12:07 daughter's birthday...On your birthday three years ago 12:09 today. Yes. Today we are doing this broadcast, today. 12:13 I woke up. You woke up. Yes, praise be all to God. 12:17 Um, they did some testing, he was sure that it must have 12:22 been...I would need a pacemaker, maybe an electrical problem 12:25 with my heart. After some testing, they actually found out 12:28 that I had five clogged arteries. What! 12:31 They figured genetic stress, or maybe a combination of those 12:34 because, I have always been in to the eight laws of health. 12:36 The last fifteen or so years, two meals a day, 12:39 I'm eating healthy vegan food trying to...my cholesterol 12:42 is always a little bit on the high side. So exercise, biking, 12:45 running, working out with weights. I've always been 12:48 athletic and you know, very active. And the doctor 12:51 told me a couple of times, he said, you know, 12:54 had you not been living the eight laws of health, 12:56 this lifestyle, you would not be here today. 12:59 What? He said, I have not doubt about it. 13:02 So I praise God for that. You know, one aspect I want to share 13:06 is the amazing power of God. He showed me an x-ray 13:11 and he said, I want you to look at this portion here 13:13 and he said, see those two... And I didn't know what they were 13:16 but it was two arteries of sorts that my body because of my 13:22 exercise...With five clogged arteries, I had the widow maker, 13:25 you know, this is...often you just don't come out of these... 13:28 Two were 100% clogged. Three 75- 80% clogged, 13:32 but he said, you see those two lines there on the x-ray? 13:35 I said, yes and he said, those because of all of your exercise, 13:39 was your body trying to create two bypasses, 13:42 because I wasn't getting enough blood flow through the normal 13:46 arteries. I was flabbergasted, I didn't even know that that 13:50 was possible, but I was in amazement just praising God 13:53 that, look what if we follow His guidelines. 13:57 You know I try to live healthfully in spite of our 14:00 genetics and whatever may be, I am in amazement. 14:04 I ended up with a five bypass surgery. Five... You did. 14:08 Five bypass surgery. And then began my most painful 14:12 part of my journey, which was a severe depression. 14:16 Coming out of five bypass surgery, I was told and 14:19 warned about it, you go through this depressive state 14:23 and I can kind of equate it to the best explanation 14:26 it is like being thrown down into a pit maybe 20- 25 feet 14:30 in the ground. A small, like a well, almost like an old well 14:33 sort of thing. And it was like I was walking around in 14:36 bottom of this well and couldn't get out, didn't know how to 14:40 get out...but I want to testify to God's goodness. 14:44 Because one thing throughout this, it was about a year 14:47 and a half it took me to get through this after the surgery 14:50 to recover emotionally from this. 14:52 I always knew that there was someone down there that was 14:56 walking that pathway with me in that well. 15:00 Um, I never lost sight of Jesus, Jesus always let me know 15:03 you know what Curt, I got you. 15:06 You know, we are going to walk through this together 15:08 and when it's time, I'm going to guide you all the way back 15:12 out of this well. It was odd Dr. Kim, sometimes my friends 15:17 and my family...it's almost like they were looking down 15:19 in the well saying Curt come on out, here, just take our hand. 15:22 Yes. But when you are in this depressive state, you can't 15:26 just take someone's hand and they pull you out and everything 15:29 is okay. But there was someone down there that made it ok. 15:32 And He lifted me out little by little, I know often times, 15:36 He was carrying me in His arms. Yes. He is a wonderful God, 15:39 I love Jesus so much... You know this trial... 15:43 My life has been one of tremendous activity, volleyball, 15:47 basketball...I could run up and down the basketball court 15:49 for hours on end, even in my late forties, 15:52 but when this happened, it turned everything upside down. 15:55 The amazing part is, and I didn't like it, you know, 15:59 because sure, people, in fact some of my friends, 16:02 when they had heard what had happened, they said not 16:03 Curt DeWitt. You know, not him, the one who runs up and down 16:06 the basketball court, this can't be true. 16:08 But I praise the Lord, because He has led me and helped me 16:13 see so much...I have to stop depending... 16:17 You know, I am in the ministry, I'm trying to win souls for 16:20 Jesus, trying to help be a small part, to finish this work, 16:24 I want to get out of this world. 16:25 You know, there is so much pain in the world. Amen! Amen! 16:27 God wanted me learn a valuable lesson and that is I need to 16:31 stop depending upon my own strength. Um! 16:34 I praise Him for this. Even though I didn't like it in the 16:37 flesh, I don't want people to know that I have 16:40 Coronary Artery Disease. You know that's my initials, 16:43 actually Curtis Allen DeWitt. 16:44 Um. CAD, you know, God gave me a year later after the 16:48 surgery, an eye opener. I was in tears because He was 16:51 letting me know, Curt, you have a spiritually wicked heart, 16:54 I need to give you a new heart every day. 16:55 And I remember it was an experience that... 16:58 You know, my life has changed physically, I am not the same 17:01 man I was, I can't run up and down a basketball court anymore. 17:04 I praise God I can exercise, I'm back on my bike 17:06 by the grace of God, working out a little bit, trying to stay 17:10 healthy, but I am trying to focus on doing it for Him. 17:13 Yes. Instead of for me and God is good. Yes He is. 17:17 He is so good. Yes, we have a saying, 17:19 Dr Lewis you know, my... I call her my boss, and 17:23 she is, but on Dare to Dream General Manager, 17:25 we did a broadcast "Look at God". "Look at God" 17:30 and what He can do. We can just focus on His love and 17:34 obedience to Him. Absolutely! 17:36 Um, your members, what was going on with your congregation? 17:41 Thank you for bringing that up, I was just getting ready 17:43 to come to them. What would I have done without my 17:45 church family? Umm. Um, My church family got work 17:49 right away and they put on a prayer vigil. Yes. 17:53 We... They prayed...They opened up the church 17:56 three nights in a row for an hour or two, I think it was 18:00 a couple of hours, and they poured out their hearts to God 18:05 asking, pleading for God to spare this pastor, you know, 18:09 we love him so much...They told me stories afterward... 18:12 In fact when I came back and shared my testimony what I'm 18:16 sharing here today with you...one who had been attending 18:21 for years and came out and she said pastor, 18:23 she said, when I heard you went down, 18:25 she said, I told my mom, if God can let this happen 18:29 to this man, this pastor that we love so much, 18:32 I will never step foot into another Seventh-day Adventist 18:35 church again. My Lord. 18:37 She was finished. My Lord. She was finished. 18:39 She said she hugged me and hugged so tight, 18:42 and we were in tears and I talked to her, I said 18:46 that I tried to strengthen her faith, I said, 18:48 but look what God's done. 18:50 You know, why not me? Sometimes we want to ask those questions 18:54 why. Why not? Why not! 18:59 Dr. Kim, why not? Why not? 19:01 I'm not any more special than anyone else in the world, 19:03 God loves us all and Jesus died for all of us. Yes. 19:06 He can be honored, His light can shine through us, 19:10 kind of a Job experience. 19:12 I focused a lot on Job, trying to get through these 19:16 though times. But my church family, many of them showed up 19:19 at the hospital when I was there... 19:20 The love that they poured out, I could not have made it 19:24 through...Even afterward, you know Kim continued going on 19:28 mission trips...My church family just stepped it up... 19:31 Umm, you know how wonderful it is to get those hugs and 19:35 to have a plate of food ready when I came to fellowship meal 19:37 late, which they did so often... Wonderful church family, 19:41 the power of prayer, is... When I think of my church family, 19:44 I think of not only those who love me but they prayed... 19:48 God heard their prayers, they got together in one accord, 19:52 in one place, with the same mindset... 19:54 I remember my elder told me Ray Cook, he said one of the 19:58 attendee's was crying out to God in the prayer time, 20:03 God, I need this man to teach me more about you and about 20:06 Jesus, spare his life. And it just brings me to tears... 20:10 My church family...Wonderful, warm church family...Um hum. 20:14 Just, just a special bond that we formed and it was hard 20:18 leaving it recently...I left and joined the Baxter church 20:20 family and that's the hardest thing I've ever done. 20:22 Because there's a special bond there that's way above and 20:25 beyond the normal bond a pastor has with a church family... 20:28 How long were you at Warren? I'm sorry. How long were you 20:31 at the Warren church? I was in Warren just over 20:34 seven and a half years. Really. 20:35 And you just now transferred to the Baxter church up near 20:38 Saginaw, MI...Yes. Up in that area? That's correct. 20:41 How long were you out of the pulpit when this occurred 20:45 before you returned back to the pulpit after this? 20:47 I was out of the pulpit probably about, 20:51 I want to say about two months. Ok. Um, I may not have been 20:55 ready when I came back, but all by the grace of God... 20:58 You know, from being so much thinner of course...Yeah. 21:03 And trying to recover health wise and moving slowly... 21:06 But the doctor had released you to go back. 21:08 He had released me. Ok. He had released me. 21:10 And so I shared my testimony... And you know of course that 21:13 first time, you can only imagine when I come up and I sit 21:16 up there and walk in and everybody...almost everybody's 21:19 in tears and I'm crying, I am fighting tears because it's only 21:22 by the grace of God I am able to sit in this same chair 21:26 up front and be able to get up and share what Jesus... 21:29 what He has done for me. 21:30 I want to testify about Jesus. Yeah, yes. 21:33 Jesus...His grace is truly sufficient. Yes. 21:38 Something that He allowed... It's the, "Though He slay me, 21:41 yet I will trust Him." Yes. 21:43 I know one day there's a spe- cial quote in faith I live by. 21:46 The nutshell of what it says in Ellen White, the wonderful... 21:51 Inspired Writings Yes, oh yes, she says that basically one day 21:55 when we get to heaven we are going to be able to look back 21:58 and trace our whole journey from start to finish. 22:01 And she said, when we see every way that God was there 22:05 and Jesus reached out and He... we'll see His guiding hand 22:08 and there will not have been one thing that we would change, 22:12 and that has become one of my favorite quotations. 22:16 I'm excited because we go through trials. Yes we do. 22:20 I'm sure...you know, you have trials, I have trials, we all 22:22 have trials and if we are trying to walk with Jesus, 22:24 trials are going to come, we have a bulls eye. Yes. 22:27 But you know with God, if He be for us, who can be against us. 22:31 It's not about...Dr. Kim, it's not about how terrible 22:36 the trial is. Yes. It's not about what comes, 22:39 it's about that we remember what a great God we have. 22:42 Yes. That He will never leave us, He will never forsake us. 22:45 Jesus means everything to me, I love Him more today than 22:49 I ever have in my life because of trials and tribulations, 22:53 His grace is sufficient. The things that we... 22:57 that often I have dreaded, you know sometimes you almost fear 23:01 Lord don't ever let this happen to me. 23:03 God's grace is sufficient. Um hum. 23:05 I want to testify that His love, it's supreme and I will hang on 23:10 to Him until my dying breath or until He comes. 23:13 I am a little curious, what did preach on that first... 23:18 Did you preach that first Sabbath? 23:19 I preached that Sabbath, it was my testimony, it was the story 23:24 that I'm sharing with you today. Oh. I'm sharing the lessons 23:27 that I learned, you know, the power of prayer, 23:29 the power of the health message, trying to live and remember my 23:32 body is a temple for the Holy Spirit, I am not my own. 23:34 What we put in our bodies, how we treat our bodies, 23:37 outwardly, inwardly, we want to honor and glorify God. Yes. 23:42 Many other lessons, there are so many that God taught me... 23:47 You know one thing I want to share...when we were at the 23:49 hospital after we went to my sister and brother-in-law, 23:51 I went back to visit and just to thank them, 23:55 thank them for the wonderful care they had. 23:57 The charge nurse of the Intensive Care Unit, 24:02 she actually told us, she said there was something different 24:06 when we were in your room, we felt there was some sense of 24:10 aura is what she said. We could feel that there was 24:13 God's presence with you and some of the family and friends 24:17 that would come in to the church. Yes. 24:18 And again this is not nothing to do with us, 24:21 but this is to me a testimony that Jesus was there, 24:25 His angels were there. Yes. The power of the Holy Spirit 24:27 was there. Yes. Psalms 91:11. There we go. "I give my angels 24:30 charge over you wherever you go." Absolutely... 24:32 They sensed the presence of God. Yes. 24:35 And we were able to have prayer, we joined in a circle 24:36 right there in the middle of the Intensive Care Unit 24:38 that evening and we made a little circle of joined hands 24:41 and they were wonderful and gracious allowing me to offer up 24:45 a prayer of thanksgiving and... So you've been back to see 24:49 the staff at the hospital... Absolutely. 24:52 Actually Dr. Tutroni, a wonderful doctor, 24:54 my cardiologist, you know you could tell he was baffled... 24:57 shaking his head, you know, you don't eat... 24:59 That's because it was a "God" thing. 25:01 You don't eat bad things, you don't drink, you don't smoke, 25:03 What is this? Why... but whether it's genetics, 25:07 whether it's stress, it doesn't matter, God is in control. 25:11 He saved you for such a time as this. 25:13 Amen! Amen! You know, that young lady who might have left, 25:17 God saw that and in that, your daughter, she was there watching 25:23 all of this. You know, two questions, I want to know 25:26 how your daughter is doing because she saw all of this 25:28 and I know she is daddy, daddy, daddy, you know. Sure. 25:32 And then the second question. You know they say that 25:34 the hearing is the last to go. Did you hear anything 25:38 during this time? I am glad you brought that up. 25:41 I knew absolutely nothing, this is what I tell people, 25:44 most people come to me when they hear my story... 25:46 That's the first question out of their mouths, 25:48 hey, did you see God, did you get to talk to Him? 25:50 and they are asking in all sincerity, and I tell them 25:53 simply this. The Bible was right, and they say oh yeah, 25:57 what, what, what did you see? 25:58 The Bible says the dead know not anything. 26:01 I knew nothing, my memory was erased, it was a time of peace 26:04 I absolutely knew nothing until I awakened and had no idea 26:08 what had happened. The Bible is correct, 26:10 I can testify to that ten to twelve minutes of being dead, 26:15 being gone, no brain consciousness whatsoever, 26:18 I did not see God, I didn't, but I sure have felt His presence 26:21 ever since, and His arms around me by faith. Yes, by faith. 26:24 And your daughter, what was her name? 26:26 Stephanie. Stephanie. She is doing well, 26:30 I'm sure that was horribly traumatic coming and seeing 26:33 her dad like that but she was a trooper, 26:35 my family, all of my kids, Steven and Ashley as well. 26:39 What a trial, but the Lord has His arms around me 26:43 and they are on their own journey's, each of them 26:45 on a different type of journey. Do they call you regularly? 26:47 Do they check on you? Yes, absolutely. 26:49 We talk and call and now the new texting thing, 26:51 so we are off...and send a text in between here and there. 26:56 But I am so proud of my children and my family as well, 26:59 God has blessed me tremendously. 27:01 Pastor this is nothing but God, I mean, I am doing everything 27:05 I can not to just cry, shout, just praise Him for your life, 27:10 I am going to come and visit and hear you bring 27:15 the Word of God. I recently lost my husband... 27:18 Oh, I am so sorry. And thank you so much. 27:20 And your testimony to me today, has strengthened me to go on, 27:25 to trust Him and not question Him, but to believe that God 27:29 is in control. But I don't know why but God has spared your life 27:34 in such a time as this... even to strengthen me. 27:37 I want to thank you so much for just taking time to be with us 27:42 and you are truly a testimony of the title of the program, 27:46 Live To Be Well. 27:48 Oh, praise God. Because you are truly doing that... 27:50 I just want to say to everyone... 27:53 I want to thank Pr. DeWitt for coming, we love you, 27:56 we appreciate you, we are going to walk around the kingdom 27:58 together. Oh, Amen! Praise God... 28:01 And thank you for your ministry as well, 28:02 you know if God can be glorified and honor this story, 28:05 and many others that you have shared, God is going to be 28:10 lifted up and continue. Yes He will. 28:11 And you will be in my prayers as well as 3ABN... 28:13 Please, please keep us in prayer. 28:15 I want to thank Pr. DeWitt and we want to thank you. 28:18 God is everything. God is able, but He has an undying love 28:23 for Pr. DeWitt, for me and for you. 28:26 I'm Dr. Kim, continue to Live To Be Well. 28:29 God Bless. |
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