A Song of Deliverance
Apr 28, 2024 | by The Fellowship
About halfway through the pastor’s sermon last Sunday, an elderly lady was sitting in the congregation with her daughter and whispered that she was not feeling at all well and needed to leave. As they exited the worship center, she complained of nausea and dizziness and her speech was deteriorating.
Then she began to lose consciousness and her daughter cried out for someone to help them. By God’s providence, a man was in the foyer just a few feet away talking with a friend. He grasped the situation in an instant and was able to break her fall and go down with her so that she did not hit her head. Immediately he began praying over her and declared, “You are not dying today.” Then he began singing the song: Death, Where Is Your Sting.
The daughter was so afraid her mother might be dying because they had lost her father in 2020, and that death was still a source of great grief. She mentioned to those who had gathered to help that her mother was a diabetic. One of them, a pastor at the church, immediately went to retrieve the first aid kit that is always kept on hand because he knew it contained some glucose tablets. Another person called 911.
As soon as the mother slid to the floor cushioned by her rescuer, some ladies began praying over her. She said later that she was aware of the prayers and singing, but it sounded very far away. “Jesus, I am coming home,” she said to Him.
The man holding her kept encouraging her to squeeze his hand. At first it was barely perceptible, but gradually … her hand pressure increased, and her eyes would flutter open now and then. She was conscious enough to have one of the glucose tables placed in her mouth to dissolve. In a bit, she was able to open her mouth for the second glucose tablet. Everyone knew she was regaining consciousness when she began singing the song with the man holding her.
The EMTs arrived about five minutes after the 911 call was made. They began to assess her condition and discovered that her blood sugar was normal, so a diabetic crash had not caused her to faint. But her blood pressure was 72/41 – much too low. The EMTs loaded her into the ambulance and whisked her off to the hospital. She was stabilized and remained so throughout the day as well as the night, having been kept for observation. The next morning, she was released.
In thinking about what might have brought on the loss of consciousness, she and her daughter figured out a possibility. That Sunday morning, she had taken her blood pressure medicine on an empty stomach before leaving for church. Recently she had been purposely losing a lot of weight. So, the dosage of the medicine might have been too strong for her current weight, plus it went straight into her blood stream with no food to slow down and dilute its absorption. Her cardiologist is on top of the situation.
The words of the song that was being sung over her and which she eventually joined in singing were very meaningful for this emergency, especially this verse:
“No weapon formed against us will prosper,
The gates of hell won’t stand;
Your church will rise from glory to glory
In the name of Jesus.
He’s alive, He’s alive, He is risen!”
How beautiful it is to see the church spring into prayer as well as action in this emergency! How awesome to see the hand of God move to meet every need and to restore a member of His precious family!
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from
trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:7