David Stine: "I believe God gave me this dream because He has healed your body." | Unfolding Short Stories
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
"I believe God gave me this dream because He has healed your body."
When David Stine was fifteen years old, doctors gave him about six weeks to live. His family was bracing for the worst. Then David's grandfather, one of the only strong Christian believers he knew, called with a dream and a deep conviction that God had done something. Years later, David can look back and see how this moment became part of the story God used to draw him closer to Jesus.
David also writes about this story in his new book, The Way of the Ox.
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| 0:00.0 | I could see him staring at me through the phone. |
| 0:02.6 | He said it like this. |
| 0:04.0 | He said, David, I believe God gave me this dream because he has healed your body. |
| 0:09.5 | You're healed. |
| 0:11.1 | God's story? |
| 0:13.1 | Your life. |
| 0:16.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:20.5 | David Stein was 15 years old, and he was preparing for what looked like the end of his |
| 0:25.7 | life. |
| 0:26.6 | Doctors had given him about six weeks to live, and his family was bracing for the worst. |
| 0:32.0 | Then his grandfather, one of the strongest and really only Christian believers that David |
| 0:37.0 | knew, |
| 0:42.9 | called David about a dream he had had while David was still in the hospital. |
| 0:44.4 | Here's David's story. |
| 0:48.9 | I was just a young guy, just 15 years old. |
| 0:56.2 | My big dream at that time was to play college tennis and maybe even play in the pros after that. |
| 1:02.8 | But here I was 15 years old, just normal kid, normal 90s world. |
| 1:09.7 | And I had started having this odd, this odd symptom would begin to happen, especially after long hours of tennis. And my mom's a nurse, |
| 1:13.1 | and she would try some different things to see if it would stop. And it was basically like a, |
| 1:18.4 | it was a gag reflex that would happen. And I couldn't stop it. It's not anything that you |
| 1:24.2 | normally see someone struggling with, of course. |
| 1:33.2 | And I started to lose some weight, and it happened, it went from happening like one time a day to then like 20 times a day. |
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