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The doctor and nurses stood across the room working on Zoë. When the doctor stepped away for a mo-ment, Matthew stepped up next to his daughter. Laying his hand on Zoë’s forehead he said, “In Jesus’ Name, you will live! Zoë, come back to life!” Movement flickered in her body. Color infused her face and Zoë took a breath. She was put in an incu-bator in the nursery. Twenty-seven hours later, Zoë and Shany were discharged. A short time after the incident, Matthew said he received a letter from the daughter of the charge nurse at the hospital. She said one of the nurses who was in the delivery room when Zoë was born had described what she witnessed. “My mom is in charge of the nursing staff at the Christus Muguerza® hospital,” the letter said. “A very amazed nurse came up to tell her about the wonder that happened at the birth. She told her that everyone saw how the baby was born without life, but that afterward they saw how Matthew got down and prayed for Shany, and that he started talking in a very strange language…. At the same time they were asking for the girl to live, but what surprised them, is that they could feel something strange inside them, something beautiful, and were amazed to see that by praying, the girl had life. When my mom told me, I knew instantly that it was you. Glory to God for the work He did.” “March 2018, we moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area after hearing a word from God,” Matthew said. “The day after we moved, KCM called and offered me a job. In January 2019, Shany became pregnant with our second child. Once again, she felt great during the pregnancy. The only problem was that our son was lying transverse, or horizontal. At 32 weeks, during the last ultrasound, he was still transverse. “We talked to him in the womb and told him to move into position for birth, and he did,” Matthew recalled. “His due date was Sept. 13, but Shany started having light contractions on Aug. 30.” When they arrived at the hospital, Shany was already dilated to 5 centimeters. “When it was time to deliver and Shany began to push, the baby’s heart rate dropped,” Matthew said. “When she stopped pushing, it went back up. The on-call doctor was doing a C-section elsewhere, so one of the nurses called a team from the neonatal intensive care unit. “After 12 hours of labor, our son, Judah, was born. The umbilical cord was wrapped once around his neck and once around his body. He had a weak heartbeat, he was purple and wasn’t breathing.” While the nurses performed CPR, Matthew and Shany began to pray and call their son back to life, he said. Suddenly, Judah started breathing. After he was stabilized, the doctor walked in and saw Shany’s placenta wasn’t coming and wanted to perform immediate surgery. Matthew heard God say, 'Buy time!' How do I do that? Matthew wondered. He quickly asked the nurses to bring Judah to Shany’s bedside. When they did, her placenta dropped and surgery was averted. “Judah never went to the NICU, and they were discharged less than 48 hours after he was born,” Matthew said. For a second time, he and Shany used their faith to believe God, and saw life restored to their children who had been born dead. “The teachings that we’ve learned through KCM have transformed our lives,” Matthew says. “We’ve learned how to live and walk by faith. We’ve been empowered to walk through difficulties and triumph over them. Zoë is 22 months, perfect in every way and speaks two languages. Judah, still a baby, is strong and thriving. God has not only redeemed my past—He’s given us the world.” V ********************************** Join Matthew & Shany in teaching believers how to use their faith. KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW ********************************** 16 : BVOV

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