(OPINION) A medical doctor is testifying that a woman was raised from the dead by the power of prayer hours after emergency room staff had done everything they could to revive her.
Dr. Landon D. Vinson, M.D., an emergency room doctor at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas, recently told members of the First Assembly of God about the miracle he witnessed along with their pastor, Rev. Randy DePriest.
In a video posted to YouTube, Vinson gives his testimony to the congregation. It was during the spring of 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when an unnamed woman was taken to the emergency room in Coffeyville.
She was receiving CPR when she was brought into the emergency room and was given CPR for an entire hour after arriving. But she had died.
“We did get her heart beating again, but essentially the only thing keeping her heart going were shots of adrenalin in her bloodstream and putting her on a ventilator,” Vinson said. “From a medical standpoint, she wasn’t alive. She was what we call ‘brain dead.'”
He described to the congregation the numerous ways medical officials determine a person has died. In this instance, they found no signs of life.
The woman’s eyes were fixed and dilated; she showed no gag reflex, and her limbs showed signs of mottling, all of which precede the onset of rigor mortis. So, Dr. Vinson, his staff, and the woman’s husband decided to remove her from life support.
According to Vinson, the woman’s husband had asked someone to call DePriest to come and pray.
Vinson said he told the man, “Sure. We’ll wait for the pastor to get here.” He thought that he and the nurses would simply wait for the pastor out of respect for the woman and her husband.
After a few minutes, DePriest arrived at the hospital. The staff had not told him about the woman’s condition so he placed his hand on her shoulder and began to pray.
“We began to pray over her,” the doctor recalled. “My head was bowed. There was a nurse in the room. Maybe just a couple minutes into the prayer, a machine began sounding an alarm.
I thought I would just turn it off so it would not be distracting. When I looked up, spontaneous breath began coming back. I saw a hand moving on this woman.”
As the pastor prayed over her, he began to ask her questions. She started nodding her head and responding.
He called her by name, and said, “This is Pastor Randy, and I’ve come to pray for you.” Her eyes opened, and he asked, “Can you hear me okay?” She nodded, “Yes.”
Then DePriest said, “Do you know Jesus Christ as your Savior?” Again, she nodded “Yes.” He continued, “That’s great news. Today we’re going to do what scripture says.
Where two or three agree, touching anything, and believing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, asking Him, it shall be done. So I’m asking God to restore your health and to heal you. Does that sound alright?” Again, her reply was, “Yes.”
“This made no sense to me because she did not have any sign of life,” Dr. Vinson said. He continued, “We had taken her off all medications. We had given her four medications to keep her heart going. Those were all turned off. But now her blood pressure was strong. It was going through the roof.”
