By Terry Warren
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas--On April 26 I was giving a sermon to the Fayetteville church about the power of God. Near the end of the sermon I was reading from Isaiah 40:29-31, where God says he gives power to the weak, and that those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength and mount up with wings of eagles.
I spoke about how the reality of Jesus' resurrection from the dead showed God's power over the last enemy and transformed the lives of the disciples.
In the third row I noticed that Bill Dunaway, 75, husband of member Marylis Dunaway, appeared to be having a heart attack. I left the stage and immediately went to his side and began to pray asking God, "If ever we needed you to reveal your power it would be now...."
According to two nurses in our congregation, Mr. Dunaway had already exhibited symptoms of being near death. As we awaited the paramedics, his color and life began to slowly return.
When the paramedics came, one said he thought Mr. Dunaway had had a heart attack and that a ventricle was blocked. He was taken to the emergency room at a nearby hospital. After an hour and half of testing the doctors released him. They could find no evidence of either a heart attack or any residual damage.
As he left the hospital Mr. Dunaway told me, "Let's go to lunch."
We went to lunch about two hours after services, and he laughed and joked about the experience. His color had returned and he seemed more energetic than he had for weeks.
When I returned home I got a call from the nurse who assisted Mr. Dunaway before the paramedics arrived. She was concerned that he had died.
She asked me if I knew she was taking his pulse as I was praying for him. I said, "No, how was it?" She said: "I'm not saying he didn't have a pulse, but I sure could not find one. But when you started praying for him his pulse returned fairly strong. That was a miracle."
About 110 members witnessed what appears to be a mighty manifestation of God's miraculous healing power.
Terry Warren pastors the Fayetteville and Fort Smith, Arkansas, churches.
May 20, 1997, WN, page 9
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