Doctor Said "No Heartbeat," Then God Showed Up in That Silent Room | Val Kleppen | 082

That didn't mean it had to be theirs.

Exactly.

And this is all through the work you're doing as boots on the ground, hands and feet of Jesus doing Harlan's heart.

Is that right?

Yeah.

And so certainly I didn't want to be tied with... anything that would take anyone away from their faith either.

My husband and I both said multiple times, we can't imagine what this journey would be like without having any kind of eternal hope.

The pain and suffering that we were enduring with that eternal hope was already so intense.

Like, I just can't imagine without that.

So eventually, several months later, I get a phone call from this woman who was having what I would consider, Mick, to be a benign issue.

I had buried my daughter and put her in the ground and was trying to figure out, like, am I going to eat today? And she called me with this issue that I would consider very benign and said, I'm just really struggling with this.

I don't mean to mock her because it was a big issue for her.

And I get that now.

However, when she called me, I was like, you're insane.

And she said to me, I know you're a prayer warrior and I'm just really struggling with this and I want you to pray for me.

And I was so offended, Mick, if I'm being completely transparent, because I thought my only prayer for like seven months now has been, God, why? God, why? And you're calling me a prayer warrior and you want me to pray for this thing that will probably work itself out if you just give it a minute? Like, I was so upset and offended, but also I wanted her off the phone and I didn't want to be rude about it or anything.

That was not my heart at all.

And so I thought, well, I guess I'm just going to have to pray for her.

So I did.

I started praying a real prayer that was more than two words long.

And that was really for the benefit of this woman.

And something shifted.

Something shifted and my tether got a little shorter.

And then I started reading the Psalms.

And previously, I thought that King David was a little bipolar.