A pastor in the UK named Rod Lewis died in his kitchen after some heavy snow shoveling. His daughter, who was fourteen at the time, saw him when he died. His wife had run out of the house to go next door for help. Here are two key excerpts from his testimony:
Rod Lewis' Testimony
"I felt myself, at that moment in time, leaving my body as I went into a tunnel. Up to that time, although I had been born again many years previous, I had never heard anyone talk about this kind of experience.
"The sensation was of travelling at high speed down this tunnel. All my natural senses were greatly heightened. The colours were more vivid; my hearing was incredibly acute and everything I saw was manifestly more distinctive than with my normal vision. I had no fear because, being a Christian, I knew the place to which I was travelling was Heaven.
"Something I really love to do is to travel fast, and so the speed at which I came through the tunnel was a wonderfully exhilarating experience. Approaching the end of the tunnel I saw before me the most brilliant, glorious, radiant light. As I saw the glory of Heaven appearing before me, I head the name of Jesus, seemingly echoing throughout Heaven. ‘Jesus, Jesus’. On the third shout of, ‘Jesus’, I did, as it were, an emergency stop, and my spirit went into reverse. Back I came up the tunnel at top speed, and re-entered my body.
"I remember that the first thing my mind fastened onto in my body was my hearing, as I became aware of my wife saying, ‘Jesus’. The next thing my mind fastened onto was my eyesight, and I saw my wife, Pauline, and neighbours gathered around me."
His wife raised him from the dead by crying out in faith the name of Jesus three times. Rod was perfectly fine after she raised him from the dead and he traveled to the US on ministry not long afterward for a trip he had previously planned. He says that since he was raised from the dead, God has used him to raise other people from the dead. He tells of one such man who died in a service where he was preaching.
"On one occasion, when I was preaching one night in my church at Burrwood, a man died. (That’s how boring my preaching is!) About halfway through my message, he got up and walked out. I just assumed he needed a ‘comfort’ break. Having got through the doors, he then collapsed. Two ladies who were outside rushed back into the church, down the aisle, saying, ‘Come Pastor, quick, quick!’ I sprinted out of the church and there was Jack, laid out, dead. They had already phoned for an ambulance, but one of the ladies handed me a bottle of anointing oil and said, ‘Hold out your hands,’ and then proceeded to poor all the oil into my hands. Then she said, ‘Slap it on his head!’ So I did exactly that, with the oil running all over his head. The Holy Spirit came over me with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, as I spoke out the words, ‘Death, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Take your hands off Jack. Now, Jack, come back into your body’. Instantaneously, he came back into his body, and he is still fit and well."
Closing Words
While it was by faith in the name of Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit that Rod and Jack were both raised from the dead, here were two keys to how they happened. Rod's wife Pauline simply cried out, "Jesus!" three times in order to bring her husband back from death, and although he had already reached heaven, he could hear her shouts of Jesus' name echoing throughout heaven, which immediately brought him right back into his body.
And when he raised Jack from the dead at church, he laid hands on him with anointing oil, rebuked the spirit of death in Jesus' name, commanded it take its hands off of Jack, then commanded Jack to come back into his body. (See Rod's Testimony
here).
I hope this has strengthened your faith and reminded you to be ready to meet your Maker at all times, since you never know when that day and hour may come.
Authors Note: Return to reading Raising the Dead. If you enjoyed this post, I also encourage you to see Howard Pittman's Life After Death Testimony. Forty Days in Heaven and Hell, Eudoxia Varga Testimony of Heaven and Hell, Ezekiel Moses Testimony of Heaven and Hell, Sakhile's First Trip to Heaven, and The Judgment Seat of Christ. You may find more articles like this on the Home page of this blog, and you may find more of my blogs at Writing for the Master.
Do You Want to Know Him?
If you want to know Jesus personally, you can. It all begins when you repent and believe in Jesus. Do you know what God's Word, the Bible says?
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15). He preached that we must repent and believe.
Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"
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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.
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