Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart Audio Podcast.

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I was talking to some friends earlier this week and they were recounting a pretty dramatic story of basically

raising a woman from the dead. It's a pretty wild story. They were at kind of a small group

gathering and this gal just went down. No medical reasons, no explanations for it, no medical history, stopped breathing

and her heart stopped beating. You know, immediately two things happened. Someone in the group who did you know something of

something of the group who did know something of CPR kind of jumped in and tried to

offer that at the same time a couple of our friends who are really you know kind of mighty

prayer warriors just you know bam began praying and I don't know all the details and it's not really the point of the story but

this gal came back to life and the CPR wasn't working like they could get some breath

into her but it couldn't get her heart beating again.

And anyway, they really felt like they were sort of calling this gal back from death.

And I hear those stories, and I go, that's the real stuff.

You know, that like, whoa, they're walking with God.

They're getting it done. They're bringing the kingdom. You know? Whether it's

just a remarkable teaching that you hear, somebody who just knocks it out of the park

and some prophetic message for the world today or,

you know, a miracle, a healing, you know, I hear those stories and I go, that's it.

That's the real stuff and kind of everything else needs to line up under that, you know, in terms of an expression

of are we really bringing it walking a genuine Christian experience and and I just need to stop and say no

lies and say no lies like that's so popular and that's so in us and it's in me but the case that we're making in this series is actually that the quality of the

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