Jade’s Story: God Still Works Miracles
My testimony is one that I have had trouble telling. Something BIG happened in my life that changed me forever…
August 5, 2010: My twin sister, Jenna, screamed out my name out of panic and worry. She suffers from severe asthma and it can strike at any time. Well, it stuck that morning. I was SO scared, but I did what I knew I had to do to help her. I called 911, administered two Epi-pens, and eventually… I had to perform CPR on her because she stopped breathing.
All the while that I was doing CPR, I was praying inside my head to God, “Please, help me to pull her through. Do not let such a young person go so fast.” I worked on her for twenty minutes until the paramedics arrived and took over. They got her into the ambulance and worked on her there for half an hour in our driveway before they transported her to Cameron Memorial Hospital in a Angola, which is only about twenty minutes away. They held her at -that- hospital for an hour. Eventually they knew they would have to transfer her to a bigger hospital that could deal with Asthma better. So they prepared her for the forty minute drive to Ft. Wayne, to Parkview Hospital.
All the while, I was still prayng and watching over my mother, my older sister, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle. We were all on edge because Jenna hadn’t been cleared yet, there was still a chance that something could happen and she could slip away from us.
I started a Facebook “crusade” to start a prayer chain for Jenna. The more people praying the better I felt. Slowly, farther on in the morning God helped to lift my worry as the doctors cleared Jenna. She was breathing with a tube in her throat, but they knew she was breathing on her own as well. The repspirator was set at 20 breaths per minute, but she was breathing at 30 breaths per minute.
I was a believer before this incident, but the LORD pulled me through during this hard time. I prayed for healing and he brought it.
Jenna slowly recovered over the next two days and was able to come home after three days. She had suffered immensely that morning. Even more than we had known. The doctor told us that not only had Jenna suffered an asthma attack but she had also survived a minor heart-attack and a mini-stroke. It was one of the scariest moments of my life! The LORD held me close to him though and helped me to believe. My faith grew ten-fold that day and I am now more faithful than ever.
I may only be seventeen years old, but I know that God is my Lord and that he can truly work miracles!
GOD LOVES TEENAGERS!
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