This is a miracle written and recorded by a member of Pastor Pearl’s Church in CO. She attended our church during the Missionary Conference February, 2009.

My name is Christi Steen. On Aug 26, 2006 I was at 92^nd and Sheridan in Denver, Colorado. I had gone to Archivers (a scrapbooking store) and then to Wendy’s to eat lunch. I pushed the button to get the walk signal to go across the street to Michaels. I got the walk signal and started walking across the street. I am 4′9″ tall and I saw headlights even with my eye. I heard a crunch on my head. I had been hit by a pick up truck.

The next thing I remember is a man saying, “Hold on the ambulance is coming, hold on”. Then the ambulance got there. They got me to the hospital. The next thing I remember the doctor was telling me that they had done a cat scan and I had a broken femur and that they were going to take me to surgery to put a rod in my leg. My clothes were cut off and I was taken to surgery. A titanium rod was implanted in my leg. I had a broken collarbone and a concussion too.

When the policeman came to see me that night he said I was thrown 20 feet. God had protected me and I felt no pain. If I sat in one position too long there would be a little discomfort. I was in the hospital for 6 days. I was out of work for 3 weeks. I was on a walker for 2 months. I could not go upstairs for 2 months. My bedroom and bathroom are upstairs. I did not get to see or use my bedroom and bathroom for 2 months. I had to walk with a cane for 6 weeks after that.

When I had my last appointment with the doctor I asked him about a lump on the left side of my knee. He said my leg was so small and that it was the screw. He said it could be removed in a day surgery if it bothered me. It did bother me sometimes. It felt like it was scraping against the bone. I went in to have the screw removed and when I came out of the surgery the doctor had removed the whole rod. I am healed now.

Christi has worked hard to get this to us… computer problems, etc; I am thankful for her perseverance. Thank you Christi!

Send out March 31,2009

Please visit the redenvelopeday.com for details. We are offering free templates to make your own red envelope or stickers to speed up your project. Please Help send this quiet yet bold message to our president. As you do please pray for his heart to be prepared, softened and receptive.

Please personalize the envelope with a signature or a hand written something.

chris

13 Are any among you suffering? They should keep on praying about it. And those who have reason to be thankful should continually sing praises to the Lord.
14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. And anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.

It is truly a small thing compared to the cancers, diabetes, tumors, heart attacks, strokes and other incredible miracles that have happened to members of our church.  But it was miserable last Saturday night when I was up all night with a headache.  In the morning, the pain moved more towards my ear; I really felt I was getting an ear infection.

After my husband Patrick left for choir practice, about 8:15, I was able to fall asleep and then woke up about 12 o’clock and felt just fine, perfectly fine. I am thankful for the healings, even small ones.

1. Again the LORD said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. “
2. I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to testify that I had written it before the child was conceived.
3. Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and had a son. And the LORD said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4. This name prophesies that within a couple of years, before this child is old enough to say ‘Papa’ or ‘Mama,’ the king of Assyria will invade both Damascus and Samaria and carry away their riches.”
5. Then the LORD spoke to me again and said,
6. “The people of Judah have rejected my gentle care and are rejoicing over what will happen to King Rezin and King Pekah.
7. Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River ? the king of Assyria and all his mighty armies.
8. This flood will overflow all its channels and sweep into Judah. It will submerge Immanuel’s land from one end to the other.
9. “The Assyrians will cry, ‘Do your best to defend yourselves, but you will be shattered! Listen all you nations. Prepare for battle ? and die! Yes, die!
10. Call your councils of war, develop your strategies, prepare your plans of attack ? and then die! For God is with us! ‘”
11. The LORD has said to me in the strongest terms: “Do not think like everyone else does.
12. Do not be afraid that some plan conceived behind closed doors will be the end of you.
13. Do not fear anything except the LORD Almighty. He alone is the Holy One. If you fear him, you need fear nothing else.
14. He will keep you safe. But to Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap that entangles them.
15. Many of them will stumble and fall, never to rise again. Many will be captured.”
16. I will write down all these things as a testimony of what the LORD will do. I will entrust it to my disciples, who will pass it down to future generations.
17. I will wait for the LORD to help us, though he has turned away from the people of Israel. My only hope is in him.
18. I and the children the LORD has given me have names that reveal the plans the LORD Almighty has for his people.
19. So why are you trying to find out the future by consulting mediums and psychics? Do not listen to their whisperings and mutterings. Can the living find out the future from the dead? Why not ask your God?
20. “Check their predictions against my testimony,” says the LORD. “If their predictions are different from mine, it is because there is no light or truth in them.
21. My people will be led away as captives, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and shake their fists at heaven and curse their king and their God.
22. Wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.”

“LORD, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
He spoke, and they were healed ? snatched from the door of death.
Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts. NLT

Who can list the glorious miracles of the LORD? Who can ever praise him half enough? Ps 106:2 NLT

1. Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.
2. Sing to him; yes, sing his praises. Tell everyone about his miracles.
3. Exult in his holy name; O worshipers of the LORD, rejoice!
4. Search for the LORD and for his strength, and keep on searching.
5. Think of the wonderful works he has done, the miracles and the judgments he handed down,

Praise the LORD, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me.
He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. NLT

Written by Ann, posted by Chris

March 18, 2006

Fell in NYC; broken tibia, fibula, heel bones

March 19, 2006

Flight home from NYC to Phoenix

March 20, 2006

Find an orthopedic Dr. who can do the surgery soon!

(**Always go straight to the ER after a long flight and broken bones.)

March 21, 2006

First surgery: 7″ steel plate, 8 screws in tibia

1 ½” screw (into length) in tibia

2 screws (2″ and 1 ½” in fibula

1 pin across ankle (rocker bones)

April 8, 2006

Called EMT; blood clots in both lungs, hardly breathing

Ambulance moved me to Scottsdale Osborn, ER…then to ICU

April 15, 2006

Home from hospital in afternoon

Back to ER for breathing difficulties and pain in lungs again.

April 25, 2006

Second surgery: remove pin in ankle to allow movement

May 2, 2006

Remove stitches.

July 27, 2007

Third surgery: remove 2 screws (2″ and 1 ½”) from fibula.

During this time: physical therapy from April until September.

Blood draws every two weeks to check coumedin levels.

HOW DID I FEEL?

PAIN: At first, the pain was all in my left leg, but as the blood pooled in my lungs, I felt it across the width of my back in the lung area when trying to breathe. It became harder and harder to get oxygen in and out/ to inhale and exhale. The greatest pain was in my back across the lung area.

TEMPERATURE: I remember only being cold at times. I asked the attending nurses for “another warm blanket”. They would bring blankets from some kind of warming drawer;–It felt wonderful!

AWARENESS: I couldn’t focus my mind on anything by the pain (lungs) and not getting enough air. I kept crying out to God for help. It felt like when you’ve swam underwater for (say the length of the pool / 50 meters or so) and you’re lungs are bursting for air. You know you need air but you’re not at the end of the pool yet, so you keep going. When you do come up out of the water, you gasp and inhale as much air as you possibly can-even making a loud vocal noise of gasping. Well, you’re mind tells you to do that, but when you try to get air, hardly any air is taken in. It’s a panicky feeling!!! You’re afraid to exhale for fear that no fresh air will come in. I kept asking God to help me.

I was aware of the cubicle that I was in inside the ICU. I was aware of the respirator to help me breathe, (at first) the IV in my right arm, the heart monitor on my left, the catheter, that my left leg was still bandaged. I was aware that the nurses drew blood every four hours to check the heparin level, etc. After a few days, they switched out the IV and inserted a PIC in my right arm so they could continue to draw blood every four hours and also inject morphine as needed.

I was aware of the “beep-beep” of the heart monitor and the sounds of the machinery around me. There is no television, radio, or loud talking…only the voices of the nurses occasionally.

I was aware that my husband and family came to the ICU. Robyn drew a heart on the China board and wrote “I love you.”

SPIRITUALLY: I think I was crying out to God from the moment I first fell in the street in NYC. I felt HE was nearby, in spite of the pain. Sometime during the Apr. 8-14 ICU experience; probably about Apr. 10 or 11, 2006 this happened:

I watched the person die in the cubicle next to me. I watched the nurses remove the body. I saw the family members crying outside the doorway to my right. I knew death was hovering there.

I prayed, “God, if it’s my time to come home to you, I am ready…and that’s where I want to be. But, if it’s NOT my time to come home to you, would you please take away this pain? I don’t think I can take any more pain.”

My next awareness was a man’s beautiful singing voice accompanied by the most melodious music. I can’t sing the melody, but I memorized the words because HE sang them over and over (I don’t know how long this went on.) It seems like he must have sung these words a thousand times. These are the words:

I AM GOD when you fall.

I AM GOD when you stand.

I AM GOD who holds you in my hands.

I I AM I AM GOD

I can’t say how long it took me to feel “normal”…but I felt like I wasn’t going to die; that I was going to live. Since I was unaware of time or clocks, this may have been anywhere from minutes…to hours…to over the course of a few days. I don’t know, but I am alive and breathing on my own. Praise the Lord!!

I HEARD this and stand behind my experience…even if no one ever believes me. It is real and true; this really happened. I didn’t SEE any angels. I think my eyes were closed most of the time. I HEARD God…Jesus…the Holy Spirit sing to me.

Zephaniah 4:17 says:

The Lord your God is with you…. (He made himself known to me. He identified

Himself “I AM”.

He definitely was there with me in ICU)

He is mighty to save. (I knew He could save me, I knew He could take

Me to be with Him in heaven.)

He will take great delight in you, (His delight in me is due completely to the salvation

afforded to me in Jesus, my Savior. His grace has

made this possible…not by anything I’ve done.)

He will quiet you with his love, (His singing brought peace into my trouble. He

brought calm and quiet into my battle for life.

I think His singing physically brought the healing

into my lungs and bones. I became restful,

peaceful, untroubled, tranquil……….)

He will rejoice over you with singing.

(His singing brought my rejoicing, my healing)

*** It is now August 2008.

I am walking, not fast nor far at a time, but I am walking PTL!

I am breathing well. PTL!

There is no feeling on my left foot between the big toe and little toe, from above my ankle, BUT….I’m continuing to pray for healing and am believing that Jesus, the Great Physician, will continue to heal completely! I write this as testimony and reference so I will not forget what God has done for me.