Lord I Lift Your Name On High
My grandson Matthew was hit by a drunk
driver last January . He was hit right in front of our house
.We live in the country ,so there is never a
lot of traffic. We were just sitting down to eat when
my son-- in - law ran in our house screaming .My husband and
I ran out to the road and there was our 5yr.old grandson ,
MATTHEW laying lifeless in the road .He was not breathing
and showed no signs of life. Even as Ministers ,this was a
very hard trial to have to walk thru ..As soon as I seen
Matthew laying there i just lost it .Within seconds we both
stormed the heavens for our little grandson .i got on the
phone and began to call my parents and all the prayer
warriors we knew. It took the ambulance 30 min, or more to
get there.
My husband immediately began to talk to Matthew. Matthew's
favorite song from church was ,Lord I lift your name on
high. My husband told Matthew ,lets sing your favorite song
to Jesus together .Matthew lay lifeless ....After about the
4th time on the song Matthew began to breathe and spit up
blood and cry .There were about 15 neighbors formed around
my husband ,my son , and Matthew and they were holding hands
and praying for a miracle.
Matthews mom was not there so I road in the ambulance with
him .He was in bad bad shape!! I prayed all the way ....
His mom ,my daughter was shopping and someone had to go find
her .Today i thank God that she was not there .It was very
hard to be there at the scene.
He was immediately taken to surgery then I.C.U. He had a
broken leg ,broken arm , shattered elbow , a hole in his
liver ,his lungs were damaged He had two areas of brain
damage ..cuts and bruises everywhere ..he flew 50 ft. in the
air on impact. For 2 weeks he laid in the hospital in i.c.u
unable to do anything ,but lay there and scream. They didn't
even think he was aware that anyone was in the room. He was
paralyzed on his whole right side ., They didn't even know
if he was aware of his surroundings. We prayed and prayed
and prayed. The church and friends came and went.
One Sunday morning a visiting minister whom we knew had been
invited to preach at our church ...He didn't know about our
GRANDSON ,when we told him how bad he was he said this
message is for you ...
His message was keep marching forward, no matter how bad it
looks keep praising God ..he said god is god in good times
and bad and he wanted our praises always ( ....Matthew had
been in the hospital 3 weeks ,with no response to anyone at
all ,),,this minister prophesied to me and my husband...he
said to praise god no matter what it looked like and if we
did , from this day forward Matthew would come back to us
....he said everyday my daughter would call us with good
news from the hospital ..it was as though god himself was
right there talking to us .we were filled up and energized
from that moment on and god told us thru that minister that
Matthew was healed ....He began to praise god and sing to
the lord ....we both knew that god had just used this man to
minister to us.
The next morning my daughter called me at work to tell me
that Matthew was nodding yes and no answers for the doctors
.They would ask him something and he was answering correct
by shaking his head yes or no ....The next day she called to
say that Matthew was following her movements with his eyes
now. the next day he was moving his right arm that had been
paralyzed .......The next day was the best ...She had went
home to bathe and the phone rang and when she answered it
,Matthew was on the other end saying mommy this is Matthew
and i just called to say I love you ........we were all in
tears ..for God had given us an awesome miracle ......he
continued to get better every day ...he had to learn to walk
and talk and eat and go to the bathroom all over again, but
praise god he has done just that ...he was in a wheelchair
for 3 months because of his broken leg and arm...today ,only
because of the all mighty hand of god Matthew is totally
restored .. He is back in school and back to normal.
We give God and only God allllllll the glory and praise ....
This has been an awesome testimony in our lives to others...
He has never mentioned the accident ,but once....this is
even more remarkable we were at McDonalds about 3 months
after this happened and he looked up at me and out of the
blue ,he said grandma do you remember when i got ran over
???? I said yes Matty I sure do ..I was very sad.
He said I wanna tell you what happened ..... I said o.k.
....he went on to say ., grandma you know what happened to
me ? He said , I died that day and you not what happened I
went to heaven .....he began to tell me , I seen Jesus and
god and it was so beautiful grandma ...he said there were
lots of people there with me ...he said you would have loved
it there.
I asked him , how did you get there ??? He said Jesus took
me grandma .........I said well how did you get back to us ?
He said after just a little while with Jesus and god , Jesus
brought me back down here . He said Jesus told him to stay
away from the road from now on so he would not get hurt
again..........here I was, as I listened to this 5yr.old
telling me about heaven in the middle of McDonalds , knowing
the miracle that god had given us , with tears just flowing
down my face .... So i know without a doubt that god does
the impossible. He did it right before my eyes..... Thank
you again Jesus for your mighty power ........ God is
soooooooooo good Jesus loves us all very much
Ogangel1@aol.com
(Received on Wednesday October 3, 2001)
