Thank you Jesus -awesome God;
>From Dave Duggan ( [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dear friends,
This is a testimony from a young lady in our church ( 14) , who was part of
team used by God to raise a stillborn baby from the dead in Guatemala. We know
this young lady personally. Her character and integrity are without reproach.
You are about to read a bonafide, contemporary Lazarus resurrection story.
This is as close to the flame of a literal resurrection from the dead as we
have ever been!
BIG blessings,
Dave and Anita [EMAIL PROTECTED]
404.805.4220
My name is Abby. I am 14 years old. I live in western North Carolina. During
the summer of 2008, I went on a ministry trip to Guatemala. During part of the
trip, we divided up into small ministry teams (5 to 7 people) and visited
different villages in the San Pedro La Laguna area. We traveled from village
to village telling the Indian people about Jesus. On one particular day, we
were visiting in the home of young woman. She lived in a small village of
about 14 or 15 houses. We were trying to lead the young lady to Christ, but it
was not going very well. After awhile, we decided to move on. Before leaving,
we asked the woman if we could pray with her about anything in her life. She
told us that just the day before, she had given birth to a stillborn baby and
that we could pray with her about that.
In Guatemalan culture there is great shame and condemnation on mothers who give
birth to deformed or stillborn children. We prayed a simple prayer that
everything would go well with the funeral and burial of the baby and that the
mother would be spared the shame and condemnation associated with having given
birth to a stillborn child. As we were praying this simple prayer, my friend
and fellow ministry team member, Julia (age 17), told me that we needed to pray
over the baby's body. I thought she was crazy to suggest this and that it was
not a good idea. Julia was persistent. She said again that we really needed
to pray over the baby's body. She told me to ask the mother if she still had
the baby's body. When I asked, the mother told us the baby's body was wrapped
up in a burial cloth in the backroom. I asked her if we could pray over the
body. The mother hesitantly said, yes. We went into the backroom and saw the
baby's body
wrapped up in a bundle on the bed. Julia poked her head out of the back room
and asked if she could unwrap the baby's head. The mother said, yes, if we
wrapped it back correctly when we were done. Julia picked up the body and
unwrapped the head. The baby's head was tiny and pale. The baby was stillborn
and had been dead outside the womb for 27 hours. Her skin had turned shades of
purple. Our entire ministry team, five of us, began crying and praying over
this baby. We prayed for thirty to forty minutes. At the end of that time,
Julia screamed out to God, telling him that she believed with all of her heart
that this baby could be raised from the dead. After Julia screamed out,
everyone was silent. We were quietly interceding and praying. Within a few
minutes, the baby started moving. Then the baby coughed and began crying. The
mother came rushing into the room. She was screaming, what is going? No one
could answer her.
We were just staring at the baby, who had come back to life. The mother asked
us again, what is going on? She began crying as she saw that her baby was
alive. She ran out of the house and banged on every door in the village,
telling all of the people that God is real because her baby was alive. Within
about thirty minutes, the baby's skin tone and movements had become completely
normal.
The other villagers came to the house to see this amazing miracle. They asked
us which of the Indian gods we had prayed to for such a miracle to happen. We
told them we had prayed to the biggest God ever and we began to explain to them
about Jesus. Soon, we realized we would not have time to minister salvation to
each person individually. So, we gathered all the villagers together, turned
on our little sound system and explained the way of salvation. Everyone in the
village, 80 to 90 people, prayed to receive Jesus. Each of them was baptized
in the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues. Many would fall to the
ground as the power of the Holy Spirit came on them.
Five days later, we returned to the village to check in on the mother and the
baby. The village had prepared a big dinner in honor of our team. We enjoyed
a wonderful time of fellowship together. The baby, whom they named Julia, was
perfectly healthy and had gained weight. Even after five days, the mother was
still shaking from the impact of God on her life through the resurrection of
her child. Two days after our follow-up visit, the mother brought baby Julia
to church. The mother was still shaking from the power of God on her life
following this astounding miracle.
Abby
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