you know it it's over you're done you know you're not getting out you could have listened to your mom you could have listened to your dad you could have listened to all your friends that told you that there is a God and that you should follow the Lord but you didn't and this is where you are now Frankie fry grew up in a Christian home though personally didn't believe in God thinking it was all just fantasy but after being hospitalized with covid-19 he soon came to a harsh realization I could feel myself falling and I
fell for a long ways until I hit what felt like concrete and you could hear people screaming and I just remember thinking like somehow I have died and now I'm in hell when my girls were born they were born premature and in hell I got to watch that knot turn out so well over and over and over like the nurses come in just say oh they didn't make it oh this one didn't make it it's like the worst things that could have ever happened to you in this life in Hell happen every day there's no
hope for tomorrow the sun's not coming up again it's over this is your home now and you are absolutely completely miserable meanwhile his wife Ashley was afraid she would lose Frankie as his condition worsened and he was put on a ventilator she too identified as an atheist do in part to having been hurt by professing Christians but in that moment she found herself praying to a god she didn't believe in hearing his doctor basically say that there wasn't much they could do for him was the scariest thing that I have ever heard I went straight
to my bedroom away from the kids and I just dropped to my knees and I just felt in my heart I can't even explain why because I didn't believe in God but I just felt in my heart you need to turn to God and I said God if you can help him I will change please help him and I just felt this peace that you cannot even explain come over me I heard him in my heart say you don't have to worry I'm going to heal him that's when everything just clicked for me like he's
real this is it he's real this is all the proof that I've ever wanted in my life days passed and Frankie wasn't getting better Ashley was undeterred though she continued to pray believing for his healing up to this point she'd struggled with depression and substance abuse isolating herself but now she began reaching out to other believers asking for them to pray as well the fact that I was able to ask people for prayer for Frankie and that they were coming through it was kind of like redeeming my past like where I'd been hurt by the
church it was it felt like God was showing me you know these are my people like this is what they're supposed to do and it was just so comforting and people showed up for us in just a way that I've never seen as Ashley rallied people to pray Frankie was still lost in hell and all I could think about was my wife and my kids I was really worried that they might end up here while right in the middle of all this this anguish being almost physically grabbed and pulled up and I can just remember
going up really really fast and it's like night time almost like through space and then just stopping it was God who had pulled me out it was just such a relief it's like finally I don't have to wonder about this anymore is there a god is any of this real you I'm finally there with him miraculously Frankie's condition then quickly turned for the better once awaken off the ventilator he and Ashley shared with each other about their encounters with God hearing what Frankie experienced was even more comp information for me that God is real God
loves us and he cares about us God had changed both of us at the same time to hear her say or acknowledge in any way that there even was a God that that alone made me made me just weep because I was just very very Overjoyed knowing I'm going to get to try this again I don't I don't have to make all these same stupid mistakes I finally get to go tell my kids about God Frankie fully recovered over the course of the next month and Ashley was delivered from her depression and addictions they have
since started praying together and taking their family to church now that they know the truth about God they're eager to share his hope with the world just as soon as I was able to speak good enough to be understood I was telling anyone that would listen about God about what I'd seen hey did you know Heaven and Hell and God and Jesus all that's real did you know that it's not very often you hear someone being that far gone and getting a second chance I'm insanely grateful to God to even just be here at all
I am so grateful to God that he let us have Frankie back I believe my family went through this because God loved us enough to chase us down and say you're not going to continue living this empty life that is leading to Nowhere like you're coming home to me it really gives me peace to know that no matter what could come our way God's there and he's listening to our prayers he loves us he cares for us and he's already got it taken care of
