The Reason I Didn’t Die / A resurrection Story

I used to be unsure of the reason I didn’t die. Die from what you say? A few different things that I will mention in this article and a whole lot that I won’t, mainly because There were many instances I’m sure I am unaware.

But first let’s talk about the things I am aware of happening that almost took me out.

I can talk all about the drugs and hypothermia that at the time seemed to be the death of me but this article isn’t going to focus on that testimony. Nope.

Let’s focus on a couple others and then we’ll dive into why these near death experiences happen to me and other individuals in the world.

Five Minute Hospital Trip

Just a normal day after having a tooth pulled I went home with my antibiotics around noon and was going to take one after lunch until I saw the dosage instructions.

Take one pill every 12 hours. Since I ate lunch around 1:30pm I didn’t want to have to wake up at 2:00am to take my next dosage so I decided to wait till after my late dinner around 8:00pm that night.

My wife and I sat and ate dinner and after I told her I would take my antibiotic, and so I did.

Now I’m sitting on the couch flipping through some Netflix for about 10 minutes and something strange happened.

I had a feeling come over me like I had never felt in my life. A burning heat sensation that started at my legs and continued up to the top of my head until my head literally felt like it was on fire!

As I stood up asking my Wife who was in the kitchen “What in the world is going on?” I now felt the burning sensation go down my arms until my hands felt like they were going to explode off my wrists.

My Wife confusedly asked, “I don’t know, What’s goin on?”

I realized and said “I think I’m having an allergic reaction! We gotta go to the hospital now!”

She calmly assured me they would give me some Benadryl and I would be fine. Well, halfway to the hospital, which was 5 minutes from my house I was struggling to stay with it and not black out with my eyes wide open.

I told my wife, “If I’m out when we get there tell them it was Augmentin”.

Well, she refused to accept that and laid her hand on my chest and immediately started to pray, and yes I felt God with us. 

The five minute trip seemed like a 30 mile trip and in my mind I couldn’t get there quick enough and when we finally arrived there was no way I could walk in.

When Donna went to go get someone she saw a wheelchair in the entrance and just rolled it to me and I managed to throw myself in.

As she rolled me in the nurse saw the discolor in my face and immediately asked what I had taken.

She said it was Augmentin and that I was allergic to Penicillin, and at that time the Doctor was coming by and he stated that Augmentin is the shotgun of all penicillins! 

They rolled me to a bed and the nurse there said get in the bed. My response was “There’s no way, I can’t.”

She said “You’re a big boy and I can’t put you there.” I replied as I held my hand up “Hold on just a second, let me gather myself”, and with every bit of strength I had left I put myself in that bed.

They started working on me… blood pressure of 60/30 and the nurse says under her breath “He shouldn’t even be talking with a blood pressure like that”

That’s when the Doctor came in and told me to stick out my tongue and he proceeded to shout “Praise the Lord!!”

I said “Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about! Praise the Lord!” 

After a couple hours or so I’m stable and ready to go home and I asked the Dr. Why he shouted his praise for after he looked in my mouth.

He proceeded to tell me 2 individuals walked in his ER in the recent past in my exact condition and they didn’t walk out alive because when he looked in their mouth angioedema had begun to set up.  When he saw no sign of that in my mouth he knew there was hope.

The Same Spirit

I told you all of that to tell you this; When it’s your time to go, you will go. No earlier and no later and I am more than confident that God is nowhere near through with me.

Oh, yeah, I hadn’t mentioned that not long after that I survived a disease nobody has ever survived that I was diagnosed right around the time I was to step out and start pastoring a Church. Not going to get into all of that one here but you can read it the article titled Our Testimony HERE.

You see I believe the reason I didn’t die then or any other time is because the same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me.  

If you are saved and in Christ that same spirit lives in you as well, we just need to grab a hold of that knowledge and run with it.

The only thing holding you back is you, not the devil because if it were up to him I’d already be dead.

Instead God chose to use me as his resurrection story. That, my friend is the reason I didn’t die.