knew the voice of the Lord. Turning around,
he went inside and found Jan cooking supper.
"The Lord told me to go get a physical."
They made the appointment and were
shocked to learn that his EKG looked bad.
Ted was admitted for an angiogram.
"You have a blockage in your heart," the
doctor told Ted, "but it's in a spot where we
can't fi x it. We're not going to do anything at
this point. We'll treat you with medication
and lifestyle changes."
"I'd always said that God would do His
part, but we still have to be smart enough
to do our part," Ted said. "We took our faith
stand on God's Word. We also changed our
eating and exercise habits to do our part in
the natural. The following year, in 2005, we
bought land and built a church. We borrowed
the money and paid it o in one year. Only
God can do that!
"The church grew so fast that we ran out
of seats. So, in 2008, we tripled the size of
the church. Once again, within a year and a
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half, God paid it o ."
Things moved along well both at church
and at home.
In 2012, Ted was walking on the treadmill
when he heard the Lord speak again:
I want you to have a triple bypass.
Wait. No way will I do that, Ted thought. I'll
come home and be with You.
I want you to have a triple bypass. Everything
will be good.
Ted agreed, but didn't tell Jan what he had
heard.
One night a few weeks later, Ted couldn't
sleep all night.
"The next morning, I told Jan I thought I
needed to go to the hospital. My brother went
to a certain cardiologist, so I asked Jan to call
his o ce.
The Vision
"While Jan was making phone calls, I
prepared myself for the reality of heart
"The church
grew so fast that we
ran out of seats. So, in
2008, we tripled the
size of the church. Once
again, within a year
and a half, God
paid it o ."
