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surgery. Miraculously, the cardiologist said he would meet us in the ER. Before we left, I told Jan to pack some clothes because we wouldn't be coming home. Chad and Christi were there with us. When they told me that I had to have open heart surgery, I said, 'I know,' because God had prepared me for what was coming." Ted had the surgery and was released from the hospital three days later. At home, he developed pneumonia. His parents, Chad and Christi, and grandkids all gathered around the bed to take Communion. Suddenly, Ted left his body. "I watched everything from above the scene," Ted remembers. "Everyone was standing around my bed except for Chad. He was sitting on the bed beside me. I saw a bright light come in from the right. It covered the whole bed. "From the other direction, I saw demons. They were holding long spears that were flat on the end. They jumped up and down, sticking the spears under the edge of light. They were trying to flip it off me. "I heard the Lord say, As long as you have the prayer, the Light cannot be taken away." No Fear "Ted recovered supernaturally fast after that," Jan remembers. "But over the next five years, we went through trial after trial: angiograms, heart attacks and him just not feeling well. Night after night I would wake up to make sure he was breathing. One night, the Lord said, Read Psalm 91. "At church, Ted had us reading Psalm 91 for 91 days. We read it in every version so that we got it embedded in our hearts. I was on day 46. I picked up my phone and read it from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition. In verse 5 it said, 'You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night.' And verse 6 said, 'nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.' "Sudden death. Those words leapt off the page, and I knew God was saying, Stop it. You don't have to worry about him dying suddenly in his sleep. With those words, the fear left, and I had peace." In 2014, Ted was told he needed another operation. This time, because of complications, they said he had to be put on a waiting list for a heart transplant. "I don't have peace about this," Ted told the doctor. "I don't think that's for me. We'll just trust the Lord." "Do you understand that you need another heart? We can't do surgery on yours again." "That sounds good to me," Ted replied. In total agreement and peace, Ted and Jan, along with the entire family, took their stand of faith. When symptoms hit, they quoted God's Word. They understood that Ted wasn't sick and trying to get well. He had been healed 2,000 years before. They were believing for the manifestation. God Intervenes Several years later, Ted received a call from his cardiologist. "I'm retiring," he said. "Before I do, it's urgent that I get you in to see a cardiologist friend of mine in California. He may be able to repair your heart without surgery." A cardiac interventionalist had developed a procedure called a "Hybrid TECAB." Using a catheter and a robot, it allowed him to perform a coronary ablation rather than a bypass. He only performed the procedure on 3% of his patients—those for whom surgery was not an option. The length of the procedure and possible complications were similar to those of bypass surgery. It took three months to work out all the details. Finally, in November of 2018, Ted and Jan flew to California. Prior to the procedure, an angiogram showed a single artery feeding the back side of Ted's heart. It looked like a thin, red thread because of the blockage. The cardiologist inserted a tiny wire into the artery. A tiny balloon followed the wire. With intricate delicacy, he moved the wire and balloon millimeter by millimeter. Using 28 pounds of pressure, he opened the artery a little at a time and put stents in place. After three hours and 20 minutes, the artery pulsed with blood. Instead of a thread, it looked like a fat earthworm. Later, the doctor told Ted, "I literally don't know how you made it here. Your life was hanging by a thread." Today, Ted Currington is happy, healthy and living his best life. He and Jan continue to lead the church, where Christi and her husband, Matt, are over children's church and Chad and his wife, Ann, are over the teens and youth. Three of their grandchildren are on the praise team and the others serve in other aspects in the church. The youth are in revival; they are seeing salvations and baptisms weekly, and God's miraculous hand moving on people's lives. "When I told Christi and Ann what the doctor said," Jan says, "everyone agreed as to what the 'thread' was that the doctor had spoken about. "It was a thread from the hem of Jesus' garment! "Whatever you're facing, just grab the hem of the Master's garment. Just one thread will do!" 1 4 : B V O V HOW TO USE THEIR FAITH. JOIN US IN TEACHING BELIEVERS Partner with KCM. KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW

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