This is the most incredible testimony you will hear today. Sixteen-year-old Sammy had
gone into cardiac arrest. His heart suddenly stopped. Workers started to do a CPR for two
hours. Doctors left his devastated parents to say their goodbyes. But five minutes later,
everything changed. In this video, we're gonna take a look at what happened as well as what does
the Bible say about miracles. Can they happen today? Can miracle happen to you? Let's watch
this story. Teenager from Missouri City, died at a local rock climbing gym but not from a fall.
After two hours of CPR, doctors finally pronounce him dead but then something miraculous happens.
Sammy Burko really knows how to keep the beat. Now his heart is doing the same but a completely
different story only three months ago. He climbed to the top of the wall. Rang the bell as we were
told and then his body went limp and it looked like he was either playing around or passed out.
They weren't quite sure. When they realized he was unresponsive, they lowered him slowly.
They would soon find out that sixteen-year-old Sammy had gone
into cardiac arrest. His heart suddenly stopped.
Workers at the gym then paramedics, then doctors all perform CPR for two hours. They looked at us
and they said, I'm so sorry but he's gone. Doctors left his devastated parents to say
their goodbyes. Five minutes later, I started talking to him just telling him how much I
love him. I'm sorry that we didn't know how to save him and suddenly as where I started
praying. Wow. Suddenly I started praying. And suddenly my husband said, "Oh my gosh he's
moving."
Their miracle child. He pulled through and actually overcame death. The medical team
came racing back in. Each and every one of them afterward came to us and said, we've never seen
anything like this before ever. Never have we ever pronounced somebody and suddenly they came
back you know five minutes later. Because Sammy went so long with that oxygen to his brain,
everyone expected a catastrophic brain injury instead only short-term memory loss. The first
thing I remember was literally my dad going, Okay this is what happened and you better remember it
this time because he said it so many times. He could only remember seconds at a time for several
weeks. You can see the reset in his eyes so we kept telling the story, so many times that we
eventually wrote it out and we just gave it to him on a piece of paper and every time he would ask,
we would just point to the piece of paper. Because he asked them every single time in the same order,
the same exact questions and it was every two minutes. What happened? Where am I? Why? How?
Oh my God. Now he's working on those legs after spending a month recovering in the hospital. The
last two months he has been undergoing inpatient rehabilitation at tier Memorial Hermann under
the care of Dr Stacy Hall. I was very struck by his story. It's very gripping and very unusual.
This is a young man you know who had the catacola menergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia which
is a super rare genetic disorder that affects his heart. She's in odd how well he's doing
like here a literal miracle. It's incredible. Miracles happen today. The Bible says in Hebrews
13:8 that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. In the Gospel of John, when Jesus talked
about Himself, He kept saying seven I AM's. I am the Bread of life. I am the Light of the
world. I am the Door. I am the Good Shepherd. I am the Resurrection and Life. I am the Way,
the Truth and the Life. I am the True Vine. Jesus is not someone I was or someone I will be. Jesus
is someone I AM. He is present here today. The same Jesus who healed people who raised people,
who forgave people, who delivered people is the same today and He is this Jesus that answers our
prayers. The second thing I want you to remember is that God hears our prayers not only God is
the same yesterday, today and forever which means that we can experience a miracle today. We can ask
for a miracle. Jesus said in John 16:23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly,
I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Not only God is the same
yesterday, today and forever but Jesus tells us we can ask the Father for anything. Now, it's true,
we need to pray for things in line with His will, with His character and with His nature but I love
this story because the moment they pronounced him dead, the mother said her goodbyes. They worked
CPR on this boy for two hours. It seems like all hope is lost. It seems like that's it but the
mother dares to pray. She begins to ask God for help. See, when you're at the end of the rope,
when you have done everything that you could, when doctors have done everything that they could,
Have you prayed? Have you involved God in your situation? Maybe already it seems like it's
gone. It's dead. The death certificates has already been written and many of us,
this is when we give up. But see, our God specializes in raising the dead. Our God
can do miracles. Our God can turn things around. He can split the Red Seas. He can stop the sun,
so Joshua can finish the battle. He can feed the prophet with ravens and the water from the brook.
Our God can do the natural and the supernatural. He created the natural world out of nothing. We as
Christians believe in that. This may sound crazy but so is this story. You can't explain it except
it's a supernatural invasion in the natural realm. This God promises to answer prayers.
So pray for your needs. Pray for the troubles that you're going through. Ask for His invasion of His
kingdom. The Bible tells us to ask for that. Pray that Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth
As it is in heaven. Pray that give us this day our daily bread. Pray, Lord deliver us from evil. We
can ask for things and our Heavenly Father is so gracious and so good to answer our prayers. The
third thing I want you to remember from this story is the Holy Spirit is alive and active
on the earth today. Romans chapter 8 verse 11 it says, But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. I love this. Not only we see Jesus is the same, we
see the Father promises to answer prayers but we also see the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who releases
power. When the Holy Spirit came upon disciples, they received power for witness. Now, it wasn't
only power to empower their speech or to empower and give them persuasiveness of words. Paul makes
it very clear. He says, I didn't come to you with persuasiveness of human knowledge. He says, I come
to you with demonstration. We see that after the apostles received the power not only there was
a conviction about their preaching but there was also a confirmation to their preaching with signs
and wonders. They gave witness to the resurrection of Jesus. What are these signs and wonders? They
are miracles. They are displays of the unseen realm making appearance on our seen realm. The
world we see today was created by the world we don't see. That spiritual realm where God lives,
where God is the Spirit, He created this natural world, this visible realm and then God likes to
show off and show up and invade this realm by His kingdom. In His kingdom, there is no sickness.
There's no depression. There's no demons. That's why when His kingdom invades, we see healings, we
see deliverances. We see people being reconciled to God because a new kingdom comes into this world
and so I want you to believe today because the carrier of this kingdom is the Holy Spirit who
lives in us and Paul makes this statement that this Spirit raised Jesus from the dead. He dwells
in us meaning, He didn't just make an appearance two thousand years ago and just gone. He is living
in us and He's the same powerful because He is God and the Holy Spirit doesn't turn off His
power. He doesn't stop being God. He doesn't stop being powerful. He lives in us and He can help us,
lead us, fill us, convict us but also give life to our mortal bodies that means miracles can happen.
They can happen today. They can happen to you. All you gotta do is ask place your trust in Him.
I want to encourage you today to reach out and to ask. I want to encourage you today to believe
nothing is impossible to those who believe. Jesus told Mary and Martha when their brother died. "If
you believe, you will see the glory of God," and Martha of course was postponing the miracle
and you know the sisters were saying, "Yeah, one day," one day and that's how a lot of people are
today. It's all about one day but what about now. Jesus says, "I am Resurrection and Life." He says,
Listen, the God who's going to raise Lazarus in the future is talking to you right now and He
says, You can believe what a miracle today. Now the greatest miracle is the Salvation of your
soul. You being reconciled to God. The greatest miracle is Jesus rising from the dead for our
justification and dying for our sins that is the greatest miracle but it doesn't mean that
with those miracles, God does not want to shower us with His love and mercy and His compassion by
invading our impossible with His gracious love and power. When it comes to miracle,
in the conclusion, there is really six ways people perceive the supernatural. The first position is
the anti-supernaturalists. They don't believe in miracles at all. They don't believe that miracles
ever happened that they're just fairy tales. The second position on the miraculous or the
supernatural is the hardcore cessationists. These people, they reject any supernatural
manifestations they don't embrace miracles. They don't believe in the demonic possession today.
They view that God can perform miracles but He rarely does that and all of the gifts of the
Holy Spirit have stopped since the New Testament was written. The third position on miracles is
this soft core cessationist. These people don't reject the supernatural completely they believe
that God allows miracles where the gospel is breaking new ground but miracles shouldn't be
norm or they should never be expected. The fourth position is the believing continuationist. These
people believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit that they are for today and that miracles are
real. There's just one issue, they don't actually practice them or expect them. The fifth position
is the practicing continuationist. These people who welcome all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and
expect them in their life and pray for them and practice them meaning, they pray for the sick,
they drive out demons and the sixth position, that is the abusing continuationists. These are
the people who abuse the gifts of the Holy Spirit and glamorize them. They elevate the spiritual
experience above the written word of God and they miss the whole point of the gifts of the Holy
spirit. Now, I am in the fifth position. I believe in the gifts and in the power of God today. I've
seen it happen. I've seen God do things that blow my mind away things that just were impossible,
notable miracles. Now, Do I see them every single day? Not yet. But I do believe my God
is able. He is loving and I do believe that the greatest miracle is salvation of your soul and I
believe that none of the miracles are above the Word of God. They all submit and they elevate
God's word but they don't rise above the word of God. So I want to challenge you today if you
don't believe in miracles to open your mind to the possibility that you are wrong. If you're
one of those people that believe miracles used to happen, they don't happen today, I want you
to open your mind to the possibility because it's real that Jesus is the same. He did not change.
He did miracles because of compassion. Did He stop being compassionate? No, He didn't. The sicknesses
disappear now because 2000 years ago, there was a lot of demonized and sick people. The same is
true today and the same is true of Jesus. All you have to do is reach out and ask and believe. Maybe
you've seen people abuse the gifts and the power of God and you went into the other extreme of
embracing cessationism. I want to let you know the two wrongs do not make one right. Your reaction to
somebody's abuse could be as wrong as their abuse. We have to find healthy balance in the scripture.
If you're watching right now and you're facing a serious problem, Have you tried prayer? You
probably have tried everything but have you tried prayer? Have you asked God to come and invade?
I want to encourage your faith to look up to the hills where your help comes from because God wants
to invade your world with His kingdom. Thank you for watching this video. Were you encouraged by
this? Let me know in the comments below. I want to bring some of these videos occasionally not
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