God raises a stillborn

[lomarah]

I just read this story on lighthouselibrary.com and thought it might bless some of you as much as it did me.



MIRACLE RESURRECTION

STILLBORN BABY RAISED FROM DEAD BY PRAYING TEENS AFTER 27 HOURS

AIMEE HERD - JULY 3, 2008



"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."



EDITOR'S NOTE: Kathie Walters Ministries has forwarded an amazing testimony involving teenage prayer warriors on a mission trip to Guatemala. God is doing great things among those who are willing to be used of Him. May we ALL be willing to be used by God to bring life in a world filled with death. –

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

"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 a 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 back room. 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 on? 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."

[redhotmagma]

Wow.

[ded2daworld]

"Our entire ministry team, five of us, began crying and praying over this baby.
We prayed for thirty to forty minutes."
This is not typical of healings or resurrections in the Bible. Healing or raising from the dead took 2 minutes or less from written accounts.

"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."

This is also not typical biblically. It's never recorded that everyone anywhere "accepted Christ" nor is it typical for new believers (since apostolic times) ALL to speak in tongues. A team of psychologists studying tongues proved conclusively that NO ONE speaks in tongues nowadays unless they are first told about the phenomena or grew up where they had seen other people "do" tongues. Recordings of tongue speakers have been pronounced by professional linguists as not a language. I do believe in what is called an ecstatic utterance but not that it was a language. Besides, the 16 people that said they were all hearing the apostles in their own language had the miracle performed on their hearing - not their speech.

I'm not denying this happened If it did, that is truly wonderful. I have just seen so much fraud with healings and resurrections that I can no longer believe it unless I see it myself.
OR... if it's on you tube :laughing7:

The most rediculous "healing" I ever read was Jim and Tammy Faye Baker claiming that their car had accidentally hit a chicken with their car. They got out and saw the chicken was dead. They prayed over it and it came back to life. That's the synopsis that doesn't tell you that they continued on their way to dinner at KFC.

[lomarah]

Ded I definitely understand why you would be cautious to believe just anything. Another caution we must heed is to disbelieve everything, especially just because it isn't the exact representation of a certain circumstance in the bible. My friends husband died as a child from meningitis. His mother and grandmother sat in the morgue and prayed over him until God raised him. One thing I have learned is that He loves variety!  :HeartThrob:

[ded2daworld]

You're absolutely right lomarah. Critical and skeptical are just 2 of my faults that I've been working on. :Peace2:

[Lazarus Short]

Yes, ded, these things still happen.  Go read the book "I Will Be With You Always."  :declare:

Love believes all things - work on that.  :gimmefive:

[lomarah]

Ded you are a really big inspiration for me, you are always so quick to admit that you could be mistaken.  :HeartThrob: That is such an admirable (and enviable!) trait.

[ded2daworld]

It gets easier the more mistaken you are, so it's easier for me :laughing7:
I know when I was single, I was never wrong about anything but somehow marriage has
made me wrong on so many different things that I almost expect to get called out on stuff I say. :punish:
Talk about iron sharpening iron! :Peace2:

[lomarah]

Funny, same thing happened to my husband.

:laughing7:

[Lazarus Short]

The last two posts remind me of this:

A husband is what's left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.

[ded2daworld]

The nerve or the spine? :dontknow:

[eaglesway]

The nerve or the spine? :dontknow:

LOL

[Lazarus Short]

The nerve or the spine? :dontknow:

Hopefully, just the nerve...uh, yes dear... :doh: