This story comes from Devin Tudor, a Racer who launched on M Squad in January of 2013.
Devin is a firefighter and EMT in Georgia when he’s stateside, so when he came upon a woman in Honduras who was going into cardiac arrest, he knew exactly what was wrong – and had none of his usual equipment available to save her life.
Read his story:
Last week, four teams that were staying with Tony at Zion's Gate ministries had the opportunity to go feed the hungry at the trash dump. Our general game plan was to feed the multitudes out of the back of three pickup trucks. We were encouraged to look for Jesus in the eyes of the people we would see here – And Jesus we saw, Jesus we encountered.
We got to see Jesus in the eyes of these men, women, and children. These ones that truly know poverty. We got to love on them, pray with them, laugh and even cry with them.
This woman here is a miracle. Danae, one of our lovely team leaders, was moved by the Lord to go sit on a trash pile and talk to this woman.
Danae was sharing the Lord's heart over her, and asked if she could pray with this woman, and the woman agreed.
As Danae prayed, the woman passed out.
Immediately one of the people from our team called me over to check on her. I jumped into EMT mode and begin checking her heart rate, breath sounds etc etc.. her heart rate: 30-32 beats per min, her breath sounds: 7-10 breaths per min.
At that point I thought, "I have nothing. I have no AED, no oxygen, no IV kits…nothing"
Suddenly it hit me.. I have everything! I turned to looked back at my team who were already ready and waiting for what I was about to say next.. "Alright guys, let's go to work! Let's pray"
With hearts engaged and hands raised we begin to pray and speak life into this woman.
My heart was racing, my palms were sweaty and I was praying "Lord do what you do. You love your children, you love them best, so breathe life into this woman right now"
One of our team leaders, Marielle, felt the Lord speak to her to tap her chest/heart, and out of obedience, she did…twice..
On the second tap the woman opened her eyes and took a deep breath!!!
We witnessed a miracle this day! Not sure if you believe in these or not, but I assure you they're real. They happen. The Lord is faithful, and He gives life. We were able to witness the faithfulness of the Lord this day. We were able to see God move through a miracle here in a pile of trash…
May you too reflect on His faithfulness today. May you search for Him in the eyes of those around you. May you find Him in the trash piles physical and spiritual, and may your eyes be enlightened to see how good our God really is.
This snippet is from Danae's blog about that day:
"I looked down again at her stomach again and I couldn't see her breaths anymore. I started to wonder if I was holding a lifeless body in my arms. I looked at her face and saw that she still had wet tears on her face from when we had been praying. I knew that this wasn't going to be the end. Another squad mate started praying more and more for her heart and tapped it a couple times like a defibrillator would. On the second time the woman came to life again. She was confused a while but was finally able to talk again. We talked and comforted her for a while and at the end, she recommitted her life to Christ. It was beautiful."
Incredible, right? We thought so, so we thought we'd share!
