Heart Reboot

One week ago today I was admitted to the hospital…

The day before, my chest hurt. I wishfully thought it was heart burn, even though I don’t get heartburn. I took Tums, but it didn’t go away. So the next morning, with the pain still there, when I found myself exhausted just taking a shower, I drove myself to a satellite ER.

They hooked me up to an EKG, did their thing and I waited. 10 minutes later they started an IV and were drawing blood and I was given aspirin ‘as a precaution’. Or so I was told.

20 minutes later I was informed that both the EKG and labs showed I was either having, had had, or about to have a heart attack. And I was being admitted to the local hospital where I would spend the next 55 hours being poked and probed and tested.

I was immediately and continuously being prayed for and prayed over. The faith of many believers, aligned with my own; No weapon formed against me was going to prosper. And it did not!

It baffled 2 cardiologists and 3 doctors, not to mention the numerous nurses. I don’t have any of the markers to dictate it happening to me. Even with my hidden secret revealed, still nothing.

I underwent all of the tests and they show there is no damage, no sign that it even happened. As my family doctor said to me and my husband upon my release, it is one of those things that may never be able to be explained.

But I know what happened. I took the enemy’s weapon of death away from him. And then threw the shame in his face the night before with my confession. He was pissed and fighting back.

But God… my favorite line💜

What the enemy meant for evil, to kill and destroy me, God used for my good. Because I am now even more determined than before to fight for my life. 

He has saved me from death so many times in so many ways. All the miracles He has performed on my behalf… I have seen too much of His hand in my life to doubt that He did this, too. He has resurrected me. And now, my heart beats even stronger… for Him.

As one of our pastors (one of the men that prayed for me the night before it happened) said to me: ‘It’s like God hit the reset button on you.’

And I am alive to testify that there is nothing better than a God reboot of the heart.