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“We left without a single manifestation of her healing,” Jill explains, “but that night her kidneys and other organs started working. She lost 75 pounds overnight! Two weeks later when I went back to the hospital, her doctor took me to his office.” “You don’t understand,” the doctor said. “Her death had progressed to the point that it was irreversible!” “That’s right,” Jill said, “but God told us to declare divine reversal!” “I’ve made it mandatory that all the nursing students go to her room to see a documented miracle,” he said. But Carolyn’s healing wasn’t the only miracle. “I was an atheist!” the doctor announced. “But now I believe!” Carolyn is still well today. Death Strikes Back Don and Jill owned a small trucking business, hauling building supplies. No matter what time Don left for work, he and Jill made their faith declarations each morning. On Jan. 31, 2014, Don was ready to leave at 2 a.m. “Our greatest blessing ever is coming to us today because great grace is upon us!” Don shouted. “This is the year of victory over death! Everything we’ve been believing for is coming today in Jesus’ Name!” Jill shouted the same confession right back at him. That afternoon around 3:30, Don called sounding breathy. “Something’s wrong.” “Where are you?” “I’m at Jim’s Truck and Trailer.” After that, all she heard was a gurgling sound. “Don!” A man’s broken voice came over the phone. “Jill? It’s bad. Real bad.” He’d been found slumped over his steering wheel…dead. Jill drove to the scene without a single shred of fear. Climbing into the truck, she saw Don, purple and black in death. “You shall live and not die!” Jill shouted. “You will declare the works of the Lord in the land of the living! No weapon formed against you will prosper! The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal body! The prophet of God has spoken! This is the year of victory over death!” When a fire truck and ambulance arrived, Jill said, “I’ll meet you at the hospital.” In the car she phoned KCM’s prayer department. When a man answered she shouted, “Listen to me! Get in agreement with me! Kenneth Copeland prophesied that this is the year of victory over death! My husband shall not die!” The man had put her call on speakerphone and she heard people shouting praises to God! Jill’s daughter-in-law, Amy, arrived at the hospital first. She saw Don’s body on a gurney shoved up against a wall. His feet were purple. His arm, hanging off the side of the gurney, was black and purple. But that wasn’t what caused her own heart to lurch. There was no resuscitation in progress. Don had been without oxygen for 44 minutes. They’d given up. When Jill arrived at the hospital, so did the top cardiologist in the area. “Mrs. West,” he said, “I’m going to try and save him.” “It felt like I was wrapped in Jesus,” Jill says. “I sat in that waiting room and used the sword of the Spirit, God’s Word, to slice and dice the spirit of death. I was in such a place with God that it seemed like only 15 minutes had passed when the elevator opened and the cardiologist stepped out.” “He’s alive! He’s alive!” Don’s largest coronary artery had a 100 percent blockage, which the cardiologist opened with stents. He was in the hospital for three days and every test came back negative. No brain damage. No heart damage. No death. It was a miracle. Faith for Finances The Word of God brought Don West back to life and Jill never suffered a moment of fear. If her faith was going to stagger at anything, it would have been at the hospital bill of $64,000. That didn’t include the doctor bills, cost of MRIs or rehab. She and Don remembered the words of their confession that fateful morning, that everything they’d been believing for was theirs. They’d been believing to be debt free. In obedience to God’s Word, they refused to worry or fret. They refused to let it steal their peace. Eighteen months later, Don and Jill had just returned from attending the 2015 Southwest Believers’ Convention when they received a call from the hospital. “Someone has paid $50,000 of your hospital bill!” Shouting glory to God, Jill emailed Pastors George and Terri Pearsons to give them the praise report. Sunday morning, they made their usual hour and 40-minute drive from Wichita Falls to Eagle Mountain International Church. Pastor George opened the service by reading the email. Spontaneous praise erupted all over the sanctuary! “I want everyone who feels led, to throw money at them!” Pastor George announced. Before it was over, they’d thrown $6400. At the close of the service, Pastor Terri took the microphone. “I got a text from someone watching online who said they wanted in on the giving,” she explained. “They’ve thrown another $10,000!” Just like that, the hospital bill was paid in full, the cardiologist was paid in full, the rehab and all associated debts were wiped out. “I attended the first convention that KCM held,” Jill recalls. “And in all the years since then, the only time I missed Southwest was 2006 when there was a death in the family. Even then, I watched it by live streaming. My faith is strong because I continue planting the Word in my heart. What does partnership with this ministry mean to me? KCM taught me how to bring my husband back from the dead!” Don and Jill West aren’t resting on the laurels of yesterday’s faith. They keep sowing the living Word, replenishing their supply and sharpening their sword of faith. It is a vibrant, tangible manifestation of the power of God. It’s called ever-increasing faith. V 14 : BVOV

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