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I'm sitting here with my good friend, Mr. Gabe Perrault.

Welcome to the podcast.

And we've known each other for several years.

You've been reaching a lot of people through social media,

but recently you've seen a lot of traction with your testimony,

18 days in heaven.

You suffered a head injury.

You flatlined.

And then for 18 days, you were in a coma.

And you had very supernatural experiences during that time.

We'll get into that testimony in just

the moment. But first, take us to the beginning. What was life like before this encounter?

Yeah. Well, I knew all about faith. I knew all about the Bible. And genuinely, I did love the Lord.

I was born again. But I always describe it. You know, you can hear about watermelon

a hundred times. It's very different to hear all about it versus holding it in your hand and you taste

and see for yourself. And so before this experience, I did love the Lord, but there were a lot of areas

that I actually saw as gray. And I didn't necessarily really even

think much of them. And again, it was like the Bible was great, but it was a study book for me,

but it wasn't necessarily an encounter book. It was still, still just, you know, words on a page

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