This testimony is from quite a few years ago and it’s taken me sometime to write it but here it goes…

In 2009 at the age of 23 my brother, Brandon, had open heart surgery. I remember it being such a devastating ordeal for all of us with his surgery lasting many hours and not knowing whether he was going to be okay or not. He ended up having a hole in his heart that the surgeons attempted to close up.

I recall one specific time during that day when my family and I were in a hospital garden talking, crying, and praying together. It’s situations like these you’re not really sure what to say or how to say it. I was about 20 years old at the time. I remember sitting on a picnic table bench praying for my brother with tears and I started to hear a certain phrase repeated over and over in my head.

It went “he’s going to get married, he’s going to have kids, and he’s going to be okay.” It wasn’t long before I was also saying the phrase over and over. There was such incredible peace that really made so sense that came with that phrase. I immediately had hope and faith that my brother was going to survive this ordeal.

Long story short, my brother thankfully did survive the surgery. He did get married. He did have a daughter. God’s spoken word to me did come to pass. He lived for another 12 or so years and unfortunately he did pass away from another heart issue around 2 years ago now.

At some point after my brother’s surgery I shared that word with him hoping it would encourage him. I recall one day driving with him somewhere and him telling me that every time he went to a doctors visit he would go to a note with that word on his phone to remind himself of what God spoke over his life.

I’m so thankful to be able to partner with God with what he’s done and continues to do on the earth!