Medical doctor’s heart attack led to near-death experience in heaven
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
TEXAS (ANS -- August 10, 2016)
-- As a staff physician at the University of Texas Health Center he was
well acquainted with the symptoms of a heart attack. But this time, the
M.D. wasn’t examining someone else – he was grappling with troubling
signs of his own.
At home, Dr. Gerry Landry, 55, felt overwhelming fatigue and crushing pain in his chest for more than an hour.
“Denise! This is serious! Please pray!” he called out to his wife.
His
wife began to pray after she called an ambulance. She also called
Christian friends to pray. “We committed the situation to Almighty God
and asked Him to heal me,” he says.
In
spite of the excruciating pain, a wave of peace washed over the doctor
and his wife after they prayed, a peace that defies understanding.
(Phil. 4:7)
“All I remember during the ride to the hospital was calling out the name of Jesus, over and over again,” the doctor recalled.
A
few years earlier, praying for God’s help would have been last on his
to-do list. He was a nominal Christian, devoted to his church, but
praying for his patients was not part of his life.
But
that changed one day. “I witnessed a young couple praying for a patient
of mine, I actually felt God’s presence in the room and was strangely
moved. They prayed as though God was their closest friend. I envied
them. It started me on a journey, a search for a true, deep, personal
relationship with God,” he said.
“Before
long, I met Christians who taught and prayed for me to receive the Holy
Spirit. After that, Jesus became real to me, and the words of the Bible
suddenly came to life.”
Dr.
Landry entered the same Emergency Room where he had treated hundreds of
patients. The doctor in charge showed him his EKG: His inferior
coronary artery was completely knocked out.
“The
cold clamminess of my hands warned me of collapsing veins,” he noted.
“Yet, the sweet presence of Jesus continued to enfold me with His peace.
But
as his wife prayed quietly by his side, his heart suddenly stopped
beating. “I became acutely aware of my spirit separating from my body
and I died – pronounced ‘clinically dead’ at 4:13pm.”
Immediately he found himself transported to heaven — a place of dazzling beauty!
“A
multitude of radiantly beautiful people surrounded me. In spite of the
crowd, I looked around and actually recognized some of my late
relatives, as well as some historical figures who had preceded me a long
time ago. We were in the Eternal Now, without past or future and I was
perfectly at ease, full of joy.
Photo
captions: 1) Dr. Gerry Landry, M.D. 2) Mark Ellis with Dan Wooding
following another taping of their "Windows on the World" TV show.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is a Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and also the founder of www.GodReports.com, a
website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church
around the world to build interest and involvement in world missions.
Mark is also co-host with ANS founder, Dan Wooding, of "Windows on the
World," a weekly TV show broadcast on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting
Network (http://hsbn.tv), that features the top stories of week on the ASSIST News Service.
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