"Get Up!" A Father's Command from Heaven - TBH 175
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
14-year-old Patrick Kenny lay by his father's grave on a frigid January day in Chicago. His goal? To die of frostbite. Then, he heard a voice.
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| 0:00.0 | My dad died. I had decided that I was just going to lay down next to his grave and it was cold enough I'd freeze to death. I went, laid down on the grave next to it, and then all of a sudden he and I heard him say, you need to get up. |
| 0:20.3 | And I remember looking over at the grave and thinking, okay, this is working. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm starting to hallucinate. |
| 0:26.0 | And then the next thing I heard, I said, get up and get out of it. |
| 0:30.5 | This is touched by heaven. |
| 0:32.8 | Everyday encounters with God. |
| 0:34.5 | Those moments when heaven and earth collide, and we see God. |
| 0:37.3 | We see his hand |
| 0:38.5 | reaching out to us, tempting to get our attention, inviting us into a closer relationship. |
| 0:43.9 | Here we share stories of encounter with angels. Divine intervention, prophetic dreams, |
| 0:49.0 | visions, near-death experiences, big and little God incidents. I'm your host, Trapper Jack. Welcome. |
| 0:54.8 | This would be episode 175. Glad you're here for this remarkable story of Patrick Kenny. This is like a boxing |
| 1:01.0 | match, and Patrick just keeps getting knocked down and getting back up again. How does he do it? |
| 1:05.3 | Well, the help of dad, both of them, actually. I'm reminded of Psalm 54m 54 god himself is my help god himself is my helper and that is |
| 1:16.0 | the case here because down goes patrick again there's there's i mean loses his dad there's health issues |
| 1:21.2 | with his son knocked down he health issues with his wife he's knocked down and he keeps getting back up |
| 1:26.0 | again with the help of god now pat talks about a lot of these events. He is a speaker out there. So he doesn't need much help |
| 1:33.1 | from Trapper in this episode. So I'm going to be sitting back along with you and listening to these |
| 1:38.2 | remarkable stories of getting knocked down and God himself, being my helper, helping Pat back up again. This story comes out of the |
| 1:46.8 | Chicago area where Pat was a fire chief for many, many years. If you want to go back to Ireland, |
| 1:51.7 | that's where mom and dad are from. Not that they met there. They were living 15 miles from each other |
| 1:56.1 | and didn't meet there. They had to meet in Chicago at a dance. That's where it all begins. I mean, everything about |
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