What does a dead heartbeat sound like? How about lungs with no air? How deflated and flat they must be. In Peace like a river, Reuben was born dead… there was no life in him. His father was clearly a firm believer in faith healing, he did not take “No” for an answer, he demanded that life be brought to his son and it was. Amazing isn’t it? This birth signified so much more than an actual birth, it signifies how life can literally be brought back from the dead in any man, it means there is a start of new and pure life and it means that now is a time of resurrection.
When my mother was pregnant with me, there were several times where I should have been dead… and possibly my mother too. Her stress levels were constantly through the roof and it happened to be around that time when she was diagnosed with post-pardoned syndrome and chronic depression, her life was at the lowest point it had ever been, so low it was kissing death. When my mom was in labor with me, she was doing fine until her heart gave out and both of our blood pressure and heart rates dropped deathly low. The doctors rushed to get her heart rate back up in hope that mine would mimic hers and quicken it’s pace, my dad got on his knees and prayed with a humble heart and my mom instantly was given full life back to her. When I came out of my mother’s womb, I was smiling and my mom tells me till this day I was a blessing that literally saved her life. She felt the Holy Spirit in the room giving me to her as a gift to take away her troubled thoughts and burdens.
Even the first part of this book we are beginning to read strikes me as breathe taking, maybe we forget just how important it id to realize how important Faith is, let us not just rely on it to carry us from problem to problem, but let our Faith be the way that we are able to see during the entire journey
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