What This Father Discovered About Faith While Watching His Daughter Dying
- By: Joseph Simonds
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It’s every parent’s worst nightmare…
One of your children in the hospital…
DYING…
But you are helpless.
Nothing you can do but watch and pray…
After countless tests, the doctors tell you that it’s out of their hands… that there is nothing more they can do…
Your precious 9-year old little girl is barely breathing… barely hanging on…
Tubes and wires protruding everywhere…
There isn’t much time left.
How would you handle it?
Would you lose it?
Would you get down on your knees and pray?
Would you ask God for a miracle?
Or would you tell HIM you trust HIM no matter what happens?
I know one thing is for sure…
When faced with a crisis like this, our worldly possessions mean nothing.
Your job…
Your house…
Your car…
Your boat…
None of it matters.
And if you’re anything like Kris, he would have given everything he had (including his own life) for his daughter to come back to life…
This interview below is certainly one of the most powerful testimonies I’ve ever heard.
And I know God had this message hit my heart at a time when I needed it the most (which I why I was teary-eyed for the majority of the time).
I’m hoping this hits home for you too on Father’s Day.
Enjoy (and don’t worry, this story has a happy ending).
Kris & Gracyn: Miracles Do Happen [VIDEO]
Kris & Gracyn: Miracles Do Happen [PODCAST]
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Finally, here’s a really amazing picture of little Gracyn holding her own heart!
What an amazing act of God.
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Thank you so much for this amazing story. I’m so glad that I took the time to hear the message. God loves us all!
Thank you Joe, awesome story of life.
God is good
All the time
when he carries us through the valleys…. we can grow if we keep faith
Amazing story of faith,the importance of a Father’s presence and spiritual leadership! Great question Joe on what we do when GOD doesn’t answer our prayer the way we hoped. When GOD says “no” or “not now” has to be the hardest test of our faith. Thanks for sharing.
Love the Fathers Day Message thank you! Been following you guys for a while now and enjoy your tips and research. Always more to learn when it comes to the sport of fishing but same can be said for life. Like others have posted I did not realize you were faith based but as a lover of Jesus it was great to find out. Awesome message regarding work/life balance and timely as we are now grandparents and struggle with our kids now raising their kids but constantly distracted by the phone. Smartphones are more and more a part of our lives and every generation will spend more time multi tasking between their phone and their loved ones. I can’t see this as a good thing and have been guilty of it myself. While I am confessing I will also say that I have prayed to our great Lord for tight lines! Guilty as charged. LOL
With all we use our phones now and the demands of business I believe it is important to spend quality time with kids and your loved ones and assure they know they are more important than that business call. PUT THE PHONES AWAY FOR AWHILE AND ENJOY YOUR KIDS UNINTERRUPTED! Our most important job in this world as Fathers is to be a Dad. Everything else is secondary to that and we can’t forget it. Your message was appreciated and hope you all had a Great Fathers Day.
God Bless
Steve
Glad to see you sharing the Lord and His great power. You might want to put the plan of salvation on a post to allow those who havent put their trust into the Lord know how to get a relationship with Him.
Thanks so much for all you guys do. I needed your testimony as well.
We do serve a miracle working God even today!!!!!
Glad I joined as we get great fishing tips, but also life tips.
Thank you so much for the kind words, Gary! We’re lucky to have you on board!
Loved this Podcast. Always trust God through the good and the bad.
Joe
Thank you for a great Father’s Day message and gift. Having been in similar life/ death situations twice, once with my wife and once when my son Kevin was born, I know I turned to God like never before. I was blessed to have the best possible outcomes both times. But I often wonder what would have become of my faith if the outcome for either or both was unfavorable. Thank you for discussing this fact that it doesn’t ALWAYS have a positive outcome. I’d like to think I would have kept my faith alive if the outcomes were bad, but the truth is I just don’t know. I now spend more time praying for those families who did not have positive outcomes and still have faith. They are my role models, and if I am ever put to the test, I hope to be like them. A lot to digest, but really gets to the true meaning of faith.
Amen Mike! Thank you for taking the time to listen and comment. Much love from all of us here at Salt Strong
Joe,
I had sensed but did not fully understand SaltStrong’s faith based mission until I read this post and watched the video! Fishing to the glory of God and making fishers of men all in one organization. What could be better!?
I’m praising God, and now praying, for your team!
Ted
Thank you so much, Ted! We are blessed to have you part of the Salt Strong family.
When I joined Saltstrong I thought I was getting a leg up in the fishing community. Never could I have dreamed I was getting God Family and fishing all in one. Thank you so much Joe for sharing! That was amazing! And don’t beat yourself up so bad LOL! We all as fathers wish we could go back and redo a lot of our parenting. Talked with my 93y/o stalwart Christian Dad today and told him how much I loved and appreciated him. He responded by telling me he wished he could go back and do a lot of things different. Funny thing is I can’t think of anything I would want him to change.????????
Keep up the great work Joe. Bama Dave. ( BTW he still fishes.)????
Wow. This is awesome Bama Dave! Thank you so much for sharing this. Much love from all of us here at Salt Strong.