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When questioned about what happened, Patrick remembered being face down on the bottom of the pool, unable to breathe. He told his parents that two giant ladies had picked him up off the bottom of the pool. They flipped him over with his face up and put him on top of the water. “Oh,” he said, “and they had wings.” Putting the Pieces Together That same morning, Therese received a phone message from a woman she didn’t know. She asked that Therese call and give her a report on Patrick. What was that about? When Therese returned the call, she discovered the woman was a pediatric ICU nurse in Houston. She’d been in the hot tub when her daughter saw Patrick floating on top of the water. Pointing toward Patrick, the daughter said: “Mom, I think that little boy needs you!” Rushing to Patrick’s side, the woman immediately began to perform CPR. No wonder there was no bruising or broken ribs. A pediatric ICU nurse was the most qualified person on earth to resuscitate a child. Shawn and Therese pieced the timeline together. An hour before Patrick drowned, God had directed Bill Krause to get alone and pray in the Holy Spirit. After he drowned in the pool, two huge ladies with wings lifted Patrick’s lifeless body off the bottom of the pool and placed him face up on top of the water. Then a little girl sent her mother, a pediatric ICU nurse, to the rescue. The choir “just happened” to be practicing at the church and, upon receiving a call from their pastor, wound up praying and interceding for Patrick. Every detail of Patrick’s rescue and resuscitation had been orchestrated by God. With thankful hearts, the entire family had praised God and celebrated together under the warm Hawaiian sun. Say Goodbye to Torment “When we got home, I knew better than to voice my fears, but I was being tormented by fear,” Therese says. “I checked on him all the time. I got up in the middle of the night to make sure he was breathing. I just couldn’t seem to shake it. “Then on Feb. 25, Jesse Duplantis came to minister at our church. Before service, he sat in the office talking to my parents. They told him what had happened to Patrick. During the service, Jesse called Shawn and me up front. He got close to me and said, ‘You’ll never face anything like that with this boy again. You have nothing to fear.’ “Then he asked to see Patrick. While praying over him, Jesse said, ‘The anointing that is on me is now on him. That boy is going to do something.’ He went on to say that the Lord had shown him that Patrick had come back because he used his own authority. He’d said, ‘I want my Mommy!’ His authority as a believer shut down death.” The week before Easter, Patrick sat in a circle as his teacher taught about Jesus and showed a picture depicting Him. “Oh, I know Him!” Patrick exclaimed. “When I died and went to heaven, He showed me the holes in His hands. You could see light through them! He said everything was going to be OK.” His teacher called Therese. “You didn’t tell me that Patrick went to heaven and saw Jesus!” “What are you talking about?” That evening, Shawn and Therese talked it over and decided to ask Patrick about heaven. “Son, why didn’t you tell us you went to heaven?” “I don’t know.” “Do you want to tell us about going to heaven?” “No, that’s something I don’t want to talk about.” Months passed, and every now and then Patrick would mention his visit to heaven. His family decided to never pressure him to talk about it. Bill and Cindy Krause still love getting together with all their children and grandchildren. When they do, there’s always a breath of prayer, a note of praise and a sigh of thanksgiving that Patrick is among them. “We grew up learning the Word of God through KCM,” Therese remembers. “The Word is the foundation of our lives, and a lot of it is due to our partnership with KCM. Now our children are learning the same thing. The first week we had BVOVN® (now VICTORY™), our third child, Julia, was baptized in the Holy Spirit and started speaking in tongues.” Today, Patrick Ryan Hardesty is 6, blond, blue-eyed, fair and a thinker. What the enemy meant for evil, God turned for great good. He is a young boy who is destined to do something. But he isn’t the only one. All 34 members of the family, and the entire family of Family Community Church, are shaking the gates of hell with even more faith and more fervor. They’re setting the captives free—and hell is trembling! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Join Shawn & Therese in teaching believers how to use their faith. KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW 1-800-600-7395 U.S. only * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 20 : BVOV

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