Kortnee Broughton shares her Testimony, Waiting for Daisy: When Doctors Said "Impossible" and God Said "Watch Me"

The battle is not mine, it's not mine, it's not mine. These words echoed through Kortnee Broughton in spirit as she navigated an impossible journey through infertility, divorce, and her daughter's harrowing medical odyssey.

In this raw, emotional episode, Kortnee  shares how the prophetic words from 2 Chronicles 20:15 became her lifeline: "Do not be afraid or discouraged... for the battle is not yours, but God's." Her testimony begins with a surprising reversal of her lifelong conviction that motherhood wasn't for her, followed by devastating news from doctors that pregnancy would be "impossible" without a miracle.

God responded with an extraordinary dream filled with vibrant yellow daisies—a symbol of fertility and new beginnings—promising to bring her "from darkness to light." When Kortnee conceived against all medical odds and gave birth to a three-pound miracle baby named Daisy, her battle was only beginning.

The tears flow freely as Kortnee details Daisy's multiple life-threatening conditions: tracheal esophageal fistula, underdeveloped lungs, caudal regression syndrome, and a tethered spinal cord. Through five separate ventilator experiences, countless surgeries, and a terrifying spiritual encounter with what Kortnee perceived as death itself entering her daughter's hospital room, God's faithfulness never wavered.

Most powerful is Kortnee’s vulnerable admission of her own struggles—walking away from faith, battling alcoholism, and navigating single motherhood during the height of the pandemic when hospital visitation was restricted. Through it all, God was healing both mother and daughter, just as He whispered to Kortnee: "I had to heal you before I could heal Daisy."

Today, almost-five-year-old Daisy runs, plays, and thrives despite doctors once questioning if she would ever walk. Their story reminds us that God still performs miracles, fights our impossible battles, and transforms our deepest darkness into fields of vibrant daisies. What battle are you trying to fight alone that God wants you to surrender to Him today?

Chapters

• 0:00 Show Introduction and Announcements
• 1:30 Meeting Courtney Broughton
• 3:30 Early Life and Call to Ministry
• 8:30 The Struggle with Infertility
• 15:45 The Prophetic Daisy Dream
• 26:00 Daisy's Birth and Medical Challenges
• 37:20 Battling Through Multiple Surgeries
• 51:40 God's Miraculous Interventions
• 1:01:30 Healing and New Beginnings
• 1:15:00 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

hey, welcome. This is your host, jd. You're listening to the 421 show. Hey, go check out our website at hor421showbuzzsproutcom for all your latest content and information. If you'd like to listen to the show, you can listen to it on Apple, spotify, whatever platform you're choosing. Remember, tune in once a week with Bible talk with sister Deb Osborne. You can also find her on WIC 88.1 Christian radio station. That's local here in Harlan, kentucky. Also, check out a new program that's been added to the station. It's Catewood Church of God and that will be added once a week live Sunday service. If you'd like to support the show, you can support it through PayPal slash, hor421 or HOR421showbuzzsproutcom. All shows are recorded live. No post dated and recorded 421 studio. For contact information for all of your studio needs, you can email at hor421ministries at gmailcom. Phone number is 239-849-1502. Praise the lord. Praise the lord. We're here in the studio earliest morning. Well, not too early. It's about what? 9, 30 or 10.

Speaker 1: 1:32

It's early for me, I guess early for me we got a special guest with us today and she's going to be sharing her testimony with us and I'm excited to hear it.

Speaker 3: 1:40

We also have sister here in the studio with with me and, uh, her name is courtney broughton and uh, the mic's yours, it's hot oh goodness, oh goodness praise the lord, you got this sister um so when I cut, I cut hair for a living, right um so here she does quite well, I have to say so deb came and got a haircut and we haircut and the Lord just set it up perfectly.

Speaker 3: 2:08

I've actually known you since I was a very small child, so I'm glad for this opportunity. But I do just want to dive in. There's a lot to unload, a lot to unpack, and as I was praying, I just told the Lord just guide my words and which way to go. Amen, you know, I have a testimony, my daughter has a testimony, and which way do we mesh that together so that we're both, you know, shown for the glory of the Lord?

Speaker 3: 2:37

But as I was praying on Wednesday about how to go about and tell you guys about my story and my testimony, about how to go about and tell you guys about my story and my testimony. I just heard the Lord speak clearly to me in worship not only over me, but for anybody who may be listening today that many times throughout the last year God has sent words to me in prophecy and through other people, that the battle is not mine, it's not mine, it's not mine, it's not my own, and that he will fight all of our battles, all of my battles. And with that being said, not only in the last year but all throughout my life, I've seen the Lord work and do miraculous miracles through my daughter, through me, through you know different things. My dad was radically delivered from alcohol, never even picked up another drop, never had a craving.

Speaker 3: 3:29

I was 14 years old and I started church at a young age, probably around 12, by myself, completely by myself. I guess the Lord had a plan, didn't he? He had a plan, sister, but Dad, seeing a miracle through my dad, um, you know, seen many healings and things throughout, but, um, with that being said, you know the Lord, he still performs miracles, right, and the battle's not ours, it's always his. And you know the scripture verse the battle's not yours but God's is found in second Chronicles, 20 and 15, where God tells you know, king Josaphat and the people of Judea like not to be afraid of their enemies but to trust in him. In verse 17, he says you shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourself, stand still, see, the salvation of the Lord is with you. Fear not or be dismayed, for tomorrow you'll go against them, for the Lord will be with you.

Speaker 3: 4:26

And I know, many times we have a lot of things that come against us and it's a battle, whether it be sickness, whether it be you know, relationships, whether it be family issues. But a more detailed explanation in that is in, you know, second Chronicles, again in 20. The people of Judea are facing a large threatening army and King Joseph is praying for guidance and God, through a prophet, tells Joseph and the people do not be afraid, do not be discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle's not yours, it's God's. So I knew, as I was digging into that, what the Lord was starting to lead and guide me into, and the verse emphasizes that the battle's not something to be fought with human strength or resources, but rather something to be entrusted to God's power and protection. So, with that being said, I've been through a battle. I've been through a battle. I've been through a battle the last five years. There's there's a lot of bad, but there's also a lot of good.

Speaker 3: 5:29

Um, and just a little bit of my backstory before we get in to the major things. Um, a little about me. I'm harland county native, right here in kentucky, um. Right now I'm 34 years young. Recently, this past November, I got married to the most wonderful man who serves in the Army in active duty. He sends his blessings and prayers from across seas. I have an almost five-year-old little girl that is wild, child, fun and full of life. She has got some energy now.

Speaker 3: 6:05

She is wild. She's doing gymnastics, basketball, dance, t-ball in April, so she keeps me busy and you'll know why pretty soon. I'm just thankful for that. But I grew up in church. My parents did not. They always encouraged me to go. Mom would take us to all the Bible schools, and you know. So I knew the Lord. I just didn't have a relationship with Him until around age 12. I walked into a church that a few friends went to and I gave my heart to the Lord and just went from there, prayed for my mama and my daddy, like I said, and you know, not even a year later, mom was serving the Lord, dad was radically delivered from alcohol, and you know that's a testimony in itself. But around 14, I was called to preach and evangelize, stepped into that. Well, I ran from that. Let me let me rephrase I ran from that, but when I was much younger. You know you have a lot more courage.

Speaker 1: 7:07

So you got a lot more courage more courage, so I kept.

Speaker 3: 7:11

I always had somebody at church with me. It was just in my, it was. It was in my grind. That's what I loved. I wanted to see people come to the Lord and I love mission work. Still do Been doing that. For years I have been on the mission field in Honduras. The Lord's used me in Africa and Peru. That's awesome.

Speaker 3: 7:36

Yeah, I've been to Honduras twice, africa and Peru. But to get down to the nitty gritty, the, the stuff that, um, you know it's not easy to talk about. I was previously married and divorced shortly, um, after four years, but from 2014 to 2018. Um, and I think our biggest issue in our marriage was, you know, all throughout, like, being in the mission field and going out. I have three sisters. I never really wanted to be a mom, didn't really think it was in the cards for me. I always said, growing up like I'll just be an auntie and spoil them and send them back home. So I never really had that want and desire to be a physical mom. I always was very motherly. The oldest of four girls, like always was the bossy one.

Speaker 1: 8:34

I remember you being really outgoing.

Speaker 3: 8:36

Yeah, just loved people, but I just never had that like desire to be my own, to be my mom, to be a mom, you know. But in that marriage we tried for almost five years because once I got married, it was like something clicked and I was like, oh my goodness, I want to be a mom. You know, I was 24 and I was like, well, we could start trying, or we couldn't, it doesn't really matter to me and something just clicked and I knew like, hey, I was married. I'd been through a rough, oh my goodness, a rough bouts of bad relationships and then, when I got married, I was like, you know, I'm in the will of the Lord now. So, but it was hard, infertility is hard. So when I decided, hey, I do feel like the Lord was like calling me in that direction Once I got married like you've always been motherly, you've always had that in you, like I think you know. So I was like I do want to be a mom.

Speaker 3: 9:39

And it just clicked later on. I know 24 is not that old, but the desire really hit around 25 and um I know I recently testified about.

Speaker 1: 9:49

You know my reasons of not wanting to you know, have a family is because of my childhood yeah you know, not having, you know, parents around.

Speaker 1: 9:58

You know that I know they loved me but they was following their own demons. Yeah, you know, and I'm fighting my demons and I didn't want to bring, you know, my faults upon them. And then I, you know, I didn't want to end up like my father. I didn't want to end up like my mother. You know I had many, you know, things that I had like I just don't want to be. Then I had a lot of friends, you know, just as bad as a background that I did, you know, abusive, you know if it was sexually or physically, you know, and it's just like I didn't want to bring. Actually, it's kind of like, like the Bible says, you know, you bring a child. You know it's kind of sorrowful to bring a child into this world Exactly, and before I was even a Christian, you know, those thoughts would enter into my mind. I didn't know the scriptures then, but I had those feelings you. And now I'm, you know, serving god. There is times that I want a relationship or I kind of like I wish I'd went down that family road, but god has made you know me, his all you know, and I thank god for it, and I didn't mean to interrupt your testimony you're good, you have family through the station, through, I mean

Speaker 1: 11:02

yeah your family is those who are listening I've got, you know, people like you coming to the station and I've got Sister Deb that joins me and I've got my church family. So in a sense God has gave me a physical, flesh family. And then I've got my natural family, my sister and now my dad's, back into my life. Oh, praise the Lord. And then I have my niece and my nephew and I spoil them, oh, you know, you know. Then I have my niece, my niece and my nephew, and you know, there I spoiled him like you would. You know, you your own kid, you know, and I scold him just like I would if I had a kid. You don't go as well, but you know I try to see where I relate to to her is.

Speaker 2: 11:35

I'm like you. I never wanted to be a mother.

Speaker 3: 11:41

I wasn't even that good at being an aunt, I mean my twin sister and I are we are the middle of five girls and all of my sisters.

Speaker 2: 11:47

I'm the only girl that didn't have kids yeah all of my sisters. They had enough kids to have a football team. Yeah, all of all four of them, and I'm like uh-uh no, no way and then my mom was a twin, yeah, and she had twins.

Speaker 2: 12:01

And I'm like, and I watched my sisters and none of them had twins and I'm like, it'll be me, I didn't want one, let alone two, and I wasn't the aunt that said hey, you know, bring your kids and drop them off and I watch them while y'all have you know, don't drop your kids off in my yard.

Speaker 2: 12:17

Take them on that. You know what I'm saying. It's not that I hated my nieces and nephews, I just wasn't going to. You know what I'm saying. I wasn't a babysitter, yeah, and now I'm a fur baby mom, but I relate to not wanting to have children?

Speaker 3: 12:32

Well, I had, and that was my story. Like I stuck to it. I just I knew I was called into evangelism so I just wanted to go out and preach into the nations and that's kind of that's the mindset I had. But when I met my ex-husband I was like something just came over me. You know, by this point I'm 25. All my friends, we live in a very small town. It's like a stigma if you don't have a kid by the age of 20 or married by 18. Like, what are you doing with your?

Speaker 2: 13:02

life, something's wrong.

Speaker 3: 13:03

I did. I was like, oh man, something just came over me and I'll tell y'all here in a minute, like I know why. Now you know God knows all the answers before we ever have a clue. And so, around 25, that just heavy, just need to be a mother just overtook me and I told my husband at the time I was like I want a baby and we're going to do this. Little did I know it didn't happen.

Speaker 3: 13:36

So in five years of us just trying and crying and praying and me preaching the word and doing all that I knew to do, you know my marriage was not perfect by any means. He served the Lord, I served the Lord. He had his own demons. You know I wasn't easy to live with. There's a lot that goes into that. I won't get into that. That's not a part of this. The part that I want you to realize is that in that five years doctors told me it would probably never happen. The last chance that the last doctor that spoke to me, she told me she said I know you've tried, I know it's been very difficult, I tried. I didn't go into the whole like in, like you know, ivf and like, oh, it's very expensive.

Speaker 3: 14:25

You know I had to just trust the Lord and you know I had help through medications and things like that. That was insurance approved or whatever. But she told me she was like her words. I'll never forget it. She said it would be very difficult or impossible and one looked at me and she said it would take a miracle.

Speaker 3: 14:49

You know I have some womanly issues that we won't get into, but it's very difficult for me to get pregnant and infertility consumed my life Everywhere I went. You know, like I said at this point, everybody's on their second or third kid. I'd see a baby shower and I just I would on Facebook or an announcement on media and I would just go into shambles and cry and cry out to the Lord, like you gave me this desire. I know you did. And then we'll skip over to the mission field. Yeah, complete strangers that didn't even speak my language, prophesying over me and my child. I'll never forget it and I'm going.

Speaker 1: 15:32

That's got to be the Lord I'm in Africa with a bunch of people I don't even know, that don't speak my language and they're sitting here telling me you and your child, you will have a child, and I'll never forget that.

Speaker 3: 15:43

And I was, like these people don't know me, like you, this ain't happening. So I either had to, like, keep the faith or I had to just, you know, basically give up on the Lord, which at this moment, is not what I did. But let me tell you here's one of the miracles that that plays a big, big part in my story. That plays a big, big part in my story. About two and a half years into trying to conceive, I had a dream and I know it was very prophetic, I'll never forget it. I had a prophetic dream in which I was surrounded by darkness. In this dream, complete blackness everywhere, and it was just me in the darkness. And the Lord brought me from this darkness into a huge field of flowers. I'm not a flower girl. I've told all the men in my life, like don't bring me flowers, they die, I can't keep them alive.

Speaker 3: 16:37

So I don't know what the Lord was trying to do, but you know, flowers are pretty.

Speaker 1: 16:41

They are, but I'm like you. They die, they do, they don't smell to me.

Speaker 2: 16:46

I love flowers.

Speaker 3: 16:47

Yes yes, you, yep. And so the Lord brought me from this darkness into a huge field of flowers, and in that field the Lord spoke to me. I'm going to bring you from darkness to light.

Speaker 2: 17:01

Wow.

Speaker 3: 17:01

Amen, and when he said that at the sound of his voice, when he said light, I get emotional Huge yellow daisies.

Speaker 3: 17:12

I can't explain it. It was like you know theatrics in a movie, but huge yellow daisies. There was no daisies in this flower field. You know you had your tulips and your mongolian, you had all these beautiful flowers, but there was no daisies. But when he said light, huge yellow daisies from the ground all the way up past my head grew and the petals hung over me and they were bright yellow. I'll never forget it and I remember the Lord said it was his voice audibly. He said wait for your daisy.

Speaker 2: 17:47

Wow.

Speaker 3: 17:47

And in that dream there was no darkness left around me and I knew at that moment that I'd been waiting and I'd been praying.

Speaker 2: 17:56

He was telling you something.

Speaker 3: 17:58

And I knew when I woke up. I woke up from that I was praying for a child. This was two and a half years into praying and wanting a baby, but the Lord told me wait for your daisy. Well, guess what? You know me, I'm OCD and I get hyper fixed on something. I'm like what's the Lord telling me? What's the Lord telling me? And so I began to research the significance of a daisy and I found that they represent purity, innocence, new beginnings, joy, cheerfulness and in Norse mythology and I don't get into all that, this is just Google talking, but the daisy was known as a sacred flower Listen to this which represented beauty and guess what fertility well, you know you was talking about the meaning of things.

Speaker 1: 18:49

I believe everything that god created has a meaning, absolutely, and there's and everything's got a name and behind that name there is a purpose and a meaning behind it. Yeah, even my name alone means the hill of god. Yeah, and, and and, and. I know, like you know, mythology and all that they, they pick that practice up, but I believe we've lost that. We've turned it into like little gods and truly it's not. It's. It's all about god, right?

Speaker 3: 19:14

yep, and that that's the thing like the daisy represented fertility. If I hadn't looked that up, I would have never known the significance of that.

Speaker 1: 19:23

Ain't it amazing how God speaks to us. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: 19:26

So for this I took that daisy and that dream represented in my life. And from this I took, you know, when I was researching, I also said the daisy represented, you know for me for sure, motherhood, childbirth, a new beginning. It was no coincidence there's never coincidence with the Lord when God told me to wait for my Daisy. What he was talking about for me I knew that meant my baby, two and a half years into praying. But that's not all. So again, doctors told me pregnancy would never happen, told me it'd take a miracle. They said it would be impossible for me to conceive a child. They even said it would take a miracle. Their exact words was a miracle. So let me just not, let y'all forget that miracle, that's a big, big word.

Speaker 3: 20:18

And you know, shortly after a year of being divorced to my first husband, I became involved with another man. So we did divorce. It didn't happen. It wasn't in the cards for us. You can imagine the spiral that I went down. You know I was in a godly relationship. So I thought and things come about and I was, you know, freed from that situation biblically. And I was like, oh, my goodness, lord, now, what, like? What am I going to do now, if I serve you, I have to be married to have a baby. You know what I mean Like, and there was no reconciling that marriage, it just wasn't in the cards. He pulled me out of that situation, but the doctors are telling me it's impossible. But now I have an impossible situation, right, and so shortly after being divorced, I just ran.

Speaker 1: 21:14

I ran.

Speaker 3: 21:14

I was hurt. I was mentally just exhausted. I was putting more faith in the doctors than I was the Lord and I was devastated. I was devastated that I was now more faith in the doctors than I was the Lord and I was devastated. I was devastated that I was now a single woman coming out of my first marriage. I thought that would last forever and I'd have baby and you know it'd be the beautiful picture Christian life. And that's not what happened. And you know, like I said, I started serving the Lord very young, so I never dabbled in drugs or alcohol, or that wasn't my story. However, after my divorce, I tried my first drink of alcohol at 28, 29 years old and it consumed me and as a child I knew that it was in my bloodline. So I think that helped me to to know like, don't go down that road.

Speaker 1: 22:06

So I never. That's what. That's what the curse of sin does. Yeah, you know, god covers that curse and he takes it away. But when we walk away from the will of God, that curse of then is reenacted. Yeah, then, all of a sudden, you've got seven or more demons right behind it coming. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3: 22:23

So I did, I tried alcohol and I did. I liked it.

Speaker 1: 22:26

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 22:27

As a sinner. As a sinner, let's clarify.

Speaker 1: 22:31

It did me wonders. I'm not going to lie to you. It helped me forget. But when I woke up, it's all back again. It's all back again and that's the thing.

Speaker 3: 22:39

Like I knew that lifestyle. I knew that lifestyle.

Speaker 2: 22:41

I knew it wasn't for me.

Speaker 3: 22:41

My sisters weren't serving the Lord. So I was hanging out with much, much younger people. They were doing that every weekend. I was doing that every weekend. But fast forward, you know this is the ugly part. You know I met a man that I've become romantically involved with. We were drinking every single weekend. He drunk every night. I would definitely label alcoholic, but I was drinking too. It wasn't no stigma on him or me, we were just having a good old time. So I thought. But I was going down to where I'd started drinking a lot, a lot and um, I always, you know, mama was still praying and mama still had, you know, the cries of the, you know cries out to the master, and I, just I knew like I was designed and created to serve the lord and it never leaves you oh, when I walked away from god, and every time I took a drink I heard god.

Speaker 1: 23:42

I leave the 99.

Speaker 3: 23:44

But that's the truth. Every time I'd get so sick I'd pass out Like I would be, like I'd wake up the next morning. I'm still alive, I'm not in hell.

Speaker 1: 23:55

Oh, I could testify to that, yeah.

Speaker 3: 23:57

And I'm like you know it's not doom and gloom, yes, you hear it your whole life, but it's real. And I still had that conscience, I still had that spirit. You know, we may leave him, but he never leaves us.

Speaker 1: 24:09

He never leaves or forsakes us it got to a point where I was drinking, I was like I wish I'd never known the lord, because it was. It was a haunting experience, always until I gave my, my heart back to god. It was constantly there. I, when I landed in flor, florida, from that plane, I was drinking on the plane. I left the airport drinking. I sat, you know, landed, you know I wasn't drunk, drunk but you know I'd been drinking and I heard the Lord do the whole thing. I leave the 99,. Leave the 99.

Speaker 3: 24:39

Yeah, and he did. And I'd been dating that man for, you know, almost a year and a little, to my surprise. Guess what the next part of the story is? I became pregnant, pregnant. You know I can't explain. It had never been late for a menstrual cycle. That's another mystery. They couldn't. I was a mystery and a miracle all in one. They couldn't explain why I couldn't get pregnant, but they also knew that you know it's not happening because it was harder for me. But anyways, um, I got pregnant. It was five, five days late.

Speaker 3: 25:18

I'll never forget it, and I mean it was instantly two double lines and I was like people's like, well, what did you do? Did you fall on the floor? And I said no, I just stared at it like I'm probably drunk right now, you know. But I knew I wasn't. But let me just backtrack. The Lord just gave me this. I didn't have this in my notes, but let me just backtrack. The Lord wants me to say this notes. But let me just backtrack.

Speaker 3: 25:46

The Lord wants me to say this the night before I found out I was pregnant, or yeah, the night before, there was a revival at my hometown, in my church, and I went to that revival and I'd rededicated my life to the Lord. I kid you not, I was living with this man, you know, drinking every weekend. I'd rededicated my life to the Lord and I remember, on our first date he told me he's like I don't believe in God, I will never serve God. If that's who you are, that's fine. I'll never take that from you. But don't push that on me. I should have known. Should have known, you know.

Speaker 3: 26:17

And I was like, oh, but I'd always, in all my previous relationships before my marriage, I had the fix-it syndrome. And maybe it was because my daddy was an alcoholic and I just seen my mom nurture him and stay with him through hell and high waters and you know, I just always felt like, oh well, that doesn't matter. So I looked at him. I said that's okay, you know, you don't dictate how I live my life, so that's fine. And you know, we continued like I said. But the Lord reminded me just now that I rededicated my life at that revival.

Speaker 3: 26:49

That night, and I'll never forget it, I was stone cold. You know this is an alcoholic walking in. You feel like you're not good enough. And I'd already known the Lord. I'd already been preaching and in ministry. I'd already known all the miracles he could do and I just stood back there, stone cold, and if you've ever brought yourself into a church again, to you know, rededicate your life, or to pray to the lord, to, to you know, save you from the pits again, you're, you're, hard, your heart becomes hardened I got when I come and I rededicated my life back to God.

Speaker 3: 27:22

I walked into a um, a Methodist church because I was trying to find a church to go to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:28

And it was the areas. It's not because they're Methodist, but it was just like I knew that I belong in the house of God, but it was like it was just so weird, it was different. I don't know how to unless weird, it was different.

Speaker 3: 27:53

I don't know how to, unless you went through it. You don't know the feeling. You know and I knew my heart was stone cold. Yeah, it was because I knew if I let any bit of the lord's spirit enter into my heart I was a done deal. So you know, all these ladies seen me for the first time back at church and they came and they done the whole, you know surround you, pray for you and shouting in your face you can do this, you got this, and I felt nothing.

Speaker 3: 28:09

I felt nothing. I didn't feel nothing by the words preached. I didn't feel nothing because let me, let me remind you I've done this my whole life. I'd fall back in a bad relationship. I'd go back to the Lord, I'd fall back and I'd go back. This was was different. This was out of a marriage. I'd never drunk a drunk of alcohol until after this, and so these were other demons like we were talking about that were added to me that when I walked in the church, I brought those with me you know, you know, we've all seen and we've all fallen short of the glory of god.

Speaker 1: 28:38

But you know, when you get deeper into sin, you know, because sin is sin, it don't matter what you've done, you can commit murder in your mind. But then if you actually commit that murder physically and then try to go back to god, it is, it is difficult. I'm not murdered, but what I'm trying to say, that you know. Yeah, when you get deeper into sin, it is hard, yeah, it is very hard yeah, and, and that's why we're sitting there.

Speaker 3: 29:02

And you know, then I saw the preacher came down and I'll never forget it. She came down and she knew me well, but she wasn't from here, she was from Louisville, kentucky. Well, she was from here but she had moved off for many years. But she was talking. She was, you know, the speaker that night. And she came to me and she said she spoke me by name and she said Courtney. She said the Lord wants to save you and deliver you and he wants to set you free. But you know, there's always a but. But here we go and I remember I looked up at her and I felt the Lord speaking. This was the Lord, this wasn't this woman. And when she put her hands on me I felt, I guess, comfort and peace from her words. And I'm an emotional person. I cry if the weather's bad.

Speaker 1: 30:00

Wow, I do too.

Speaker 3: 30:01

That's amazing, that's why I said it. You know, I sat there there and I was stone cold, so I knew Anyway. So the Lord, she looked at me and she said but she said, there's a soul tie on your life right now.

Speaker 3: 30:14

She said, and the Lord is saying to you this moment if you do not let go of that soul tie or break that soul tie, it will follow you the rest of your life, yes, and you will see not the Lord's hands but the enemies. And you need to break that right now. I instantly knew exactly. I didn't quite understand what a soul tie was, I just knew it was bad.

Speaker 1: 30:47

And you know, I hadn't got a chance to research it. A lot of people don't realize that there is a spiritual realm that we're not even aware of, and it is way more than we can ever comprehend, right, I mean, I totally get what you're saying.

Speaker 3: 30:59

A soul tie.

Speaker 2: 31:00

Never heard of it.

Speaker 3: 31:01

So well, she told me that. So I just knew, like I had that deep. I knew I was in a sinful relationship and I'll just say the Lord's not fully released me yet. But it was not a good relationship it was I didn't realize until after I left the relationship with my child's father that was very abusive, sexually, mentally, all of the above. And that was my soul tie and I knew that I was living with this man. I didn't remind you, I did not this was the night before.

Speaker 3: 31:33

I did not know I was pregnant, had no idea. So after she prayed over me, I prayed and I said, Lord, I want it gone. But in the back of my mind I was like I can't leave him, like I live with him. I'm going back to his house tonight Like how can I do this?

Speaker 1: 31:49

But see, that's how the enemy curses us. He enacts those curses on us. You can call it a soul tire curse or whatever it is, but when he enacts that on us, it keeps us from moving forward or growing with God.

Speaker 3: 32:02

Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah definitely.

Speaker 3: 32:04

I went back. My mom, I remember, after service all the ladies of the church were so, you know, accepting. We're glad you're here, we know you can do this. I was, I mean, I was dead set on serving the Lord that night. I knew I could do it, but I also knew I had to cut the tie right. So when, oh gosh, it gets ugly, my mom grabbed me and she said please come home tonight, leave your stuff, do not go back there. My mom knew, like I said she's a praying woman. She knew.

Speaker 1: 32:39

She said don't go back there, please, I miss my mom. I mean, there's times you'd say that maybe you miss my mom. I didn't mean to interrupt you, no, you're fine, you're fine.

Speaker 3: 32:55

I'm so glad that they are praying people though. Yeah, yeah, and, and she did. She grabbed me and mom's not forceful by any means, but she said do not go back there, you come home and you know that's what the lord does when he calls us home, he says I don't care what you look like, who you are, it's like the prodigal son, my mom was just like courtney, you can do this like come home, don't you dare go back, because she knew I mean, she knew I'd been living with him.

Speaker 3: 33:15

And you know I had kind of every time I would fall into a sinful relationship I would cut my family off. It was guilt, it was just guilt and Mama was like please don't go back.

Speaker 1: 33:26

Well.

Speaker 3: 33:27

I went back. So I went back that night, slept in the same bed as this man, you know, didn't tell him a thing. You'd think I would have told him, like didn't tell him a thing, but I knew I had the peace of the love of the Lord. So you imagine how miserable I was sleeping in that bed that night. I was like what am I doing here? And so you know, he left and went to work and I didn't work that day. I think it was. You know, he left and went to work and I didn't work that day. I think it was. It was, it was.

Speaker 3: 33:59

It was a Saturday. And I just remember, like thinking I'm going to church tonight because it was a revival, we had like a four day revival. I'm going to church tonight, he can't stop me. And I said to myself I'll never forget it, the conversation I said to myself, if he stops me from going to church, I will leave him, like giving the Lord an ultimatum, like I know I'm not supposed to be here, but you know, and I said, if he stops me from going to church tonight, I will leave and I'll never come back.

Speaker 1: 34:29

Again, didn't know I was pregnant.

Speaker 3: 34:33

Oh golly. So I'm getting ready, I get up, I get to church. You know, at the time his house was like 45 minutes from the church and so I had to get up and get ready and plan to be there. You know, leave ex-Shirley whatever he was on his way back from work and you know I don't remember the details, but the Lord was probably very disappointed. He wanted to smack me, I'm sure, but we got in the biggest argument. He was like we never see each other. Now you're going to church and blah, blah, blah. So what I do? I ended up staying home.

Speaker 3: 35:09

I did not go back to church that night. My mom was crying, I was on my way, and then this big fight happens. Then I'm already going to be late. You know how the devil is. I was like I ain't going, I'll leave this year, I'll do it again tomorrow.

Speaker 3: 35:26

Long story short, the next day I wake up, he goes back to work and I thought, oh my goodness, wait a minute, I am five days late for my menstrual cycle. Like that's. That's maybe stress? I doubt it, but I've never been late. So then I thought, surely not. And I went out, and you know the drill. So I looked down and instantly two pink lines. I was like there's no way. And the Lord gave me an out. Two nights ago he gave me an out, but we'll get into that. But the Lord always has a plan for everything before you know it. But I decided to stay and I was in that relationship. And so now, being freshly rededicated and trying to live for the Lord, I find out I'm pregnant. That that has to be the Lord.

Speaker 3: 36:20

Five years, two and a half after the stream, five years later, I'm I'm pregnant. Well, it was not an easy journey and I don't even know where to start. But, um, you know, it was a miracle that I even saw two pink lines, let's, let's say that. But um, turns out, um, you know, I thought I was losing her several times, would have to be in the emergency room. I was on bedrest, two to three times for two weeks at a time, laying on my back, like I'm just not built to carry a child, but I did.

Speaker 3: 36:57

And so at 30 weeks, I had Daisy emergency C-section. She came and she was fighting, fighting, fighting. So she was three pounds, three ounces. But let me rewind. When I had my anatomy scan, they told me at like 24 weeks, whenever you have your anatomy scan and they're looking over and they're like, oh no, she's got a hole in her heart, wow. I was like this is my miracle baby. No, no way, no how. And then they said and the markers she could be Down syndrome, you know. And they told, said and the markers she could be down syndrome, you know. And they, they told me all the things they have to tell you the worst. But they're like there's.

Speaker 1: 37:41

I hate that, yeah, yeah medical after this.

Speaker 3: 37:45

They always tell you what the worst of the situation could be. But they're like you know, we need to do some blood work, you know, because women now have the right to terminate, yeah, if they find out something's wrong. And thank God, thank God for my Christian background and the desire to want a baby. So bad, I didn't care, right, I didn't care what she came out like. I did, of course, pray for a healthy child, but I didn't care, you know. And so we done the blood work. To my surprise, everything come back great. They said, oh, she'll be perfectly healthy, she'll be normal. But you know, fast forward 30 weeks into labor, you know, three pounds, three ounces. Daisy Jean came. I named her Daisy. Would never guess why. That's awesome.

Speaker 1: 38:33

That is Named her Daisy Would never guess why that's awesome that is.

Speaker 3: 38:34

I named her Daisy. When I found out she was a little girl. That dream, my mom, my mom, she looked at me and she said you remember your dream right? And I was like what, two and a half from two and a half years ago, when I was married and serving the Lord, you bring this dream and and I'll I mean just brightest day. She said you bring the strength and and I'll net I mean just brightest day. She said you're going to have a girl. And my mom is like I don't know if the Lord gives her prophetic for babies, but she's never wrong. With my, with my sister's kids, she was never wrong. She could look at you and be like you're having a boy, and she's like you're having a girl. I don't, I wanted a boy, I don't know. I mean, mean, his name wouldn't have been daisy, but it'd be close or something, yeah, clover, I don't know. But um, I, I, I was shocked.

Speaker 3: 39:21

And then, you can imagine, to my surprise, daisy showed herself at 12 weeks. She was like I'm a girl and I was like, oh, my goodness. So mom reminded me and I was like, well, there's my daisy, wow. And so here's where it gets complicated. I'll say you know she was a miracle baby. They told me her markers were fine, everything looked good. But being born at 30 weeks, of course you still have to have some oxygen help. She was born at three pounds. Her lungs wasn't developed. She had all these issues and it was rough when she was born. She was born. I'm going to say some medical terminology, but I probably won't explain it.

Speaker 3: 40:05

Just give you a hint. You can't see the picture, but if you can imagine, three pounds can almost fit in your hand. Very small, very small. Imagine three pounds can almost fit in your hand.

Speaker 3: 40:12

Very small, very small, and she had all these wires and all these tubes, one down her throat, one helping her breathe, you know, and in this little box that was caged in and I had my miracle baby laying there. I couldn't even touch her, wow. And at this point, after I had her, I did stay with her dad and was in that sinful relationship again and could not find my way to pray to the Lord to help me or her, because I had so much guilt and pain from just failing the Lord so many times. But I knew where my help came from. That never left me. I knew I could pray. And now Harlan County, you know, knew oh, this is a helpless child and she needs prayer. So mom rallied up the troops, you know, and I had an army behind me.

Speaker 3: 41:03

But Daisy, daisy Jean, I'll say that's her middle name but she was born with what's called TEF and that stands for tracheal esophageal fistula. So it's a congenital birth defect where there's an abnormal connection between your esophagus, which is your food pipe, and the trachea, which is your windpipe. So I'm not dumbing it down, but I do want you to understand, like basically, essentially, what that means is her airway and her food, her esophagus was one thing she didn't have to, so every time she'd swallow, every time she'd eat. If she ate it went into her lungs. If she breathed in air, it filled up her belly. So they noticed this shortly after she was born and her belly blew up three times its size and they were trying to give her ventilation through the ventilator to help her lungs expand, because her lungs wasn't developed. But then they noticed her belly was blowing up. So I'm emergency C-section. And they're like we're shipping your baby off right now, right now Got to go to Lexington. I was like, oh no, and so, anyways, she was born with that.

Speaker 3: 42:12

Anyways, she was born with that, born with BPD, which is bronchial pulmonary dysplasia, which is chronic lung condition where her lungs wasn't fully developed. She was born with reactive airway disease, which is basically breathing problems that cause wheezing and other symptoms like asthma. But she also had asthma. I'm sorry, the list goes on and on. This is what this baby endured Caudal regression syndrome, which is basically a rare birth defect that is in the lower spine and it only occurs in about 1 in 60,000 births and it can affect your lower back, your legs, your urinary tract, your gastral tracts and genitals.

Speaker 3: 42:58

She had a tethered cord, which means like, as we grow, your cord grows with you. Hers was stuck. They call it stuck, so she could possibly not ever be able to walk with caudal and tethered cord. That was all things stacked up against her. But then she had g2 placement in her belly. That's how she got her nutrients, because she couldn't eat my mouth, you know. Um, let's not forget that in 2020, at 30 years old, when daisy was born, this was the beginning of the pandemic, oh man 2020, beginning of the pandemic was.

Speaker 3: 43:33

You know, we were in the hospital. The hospital shut down, the America shut down. Like I was all alone with this very sick baby, no medical training, nobody in my family was a medical professional, didn't have nobody to reach out to, like I knew nothing. I learned everything bedside, by this miracle, and I knew that that was my ministry at that point and my eyes began to open to things. And so she underwent two major surgeries before one week, at two days old, I signed myself out of the hospital, walked into the hospital, was there for her surgery and I was there. And I remember I was there and I remember I was asleep and I was woke up and and after her first surgery, they had to stop because they almost lost her, so they couldn't even complete the surgery that they went in for. Um, and I remember I woke up that night and there was like seven doctors and two nurses at her bedside and they were watching her stats and her monitors. Because she was not making it, they brought in an extra ventilator, which is called the jet ventilator, to give her extra support, and they looked at me and they said while you were sleeping, we almost lost her and now we're just watching her fight and he drew out a diagram of her lungs and showed me and I was just like how could this little bitty thing, this little bitty miracle is this my fault? Is this? You know things? I could have helped. And we were in the NICU for almost six months. She made it through her second surgery. We were NICU in COVID. Nobody was allowed to visit, nobody was allowed to come to the hospital, just me and her dad, and he worked a lot and didn't show up a lot, and it was horrible. There was no cafeteria at the hospital. It was four by four walls, like a dungeon, literally. For six months, only communication I had to the outside world was FaceTime and phone calls. That's it. Like I said, no medical background. She was on the ventilator probably for 17 or 18 days, and then I finally got to hold her and she's a fighter. So we got home in August of 2020.

Speaker 3: 45:54

And Daisy done well, you know, of course she was on oxygen, she, she was on a feeding tube. I had to learn all this and I had to come home and do all this by myself. Again, me and her dad had bought a house away from my hometown, so I lived there with him by myself. He worked all the time he wasn't there. I was by myself and just just praying that the Lord would help me through this Um and I, after realizing, you know, if I'm going to do it alone, I just want to go back home. I just want to go home and, you know, I think that was the Lord's way of just getting me to a point to where I could see, like all I need is the Lord and and to be a mom to this baby that he's gave me, right, and it didn't matter whose feelings are hurt, it didn't matter. You know what the situation looked like. I walked off and left a home that my name is co-owner on. I, I had everything for Daisy. Daisy had everything there. We had a beautiful home and set up, but she was not in a beautiful situation. I'll just be honest. So, anyways, the Lord gave me strength and courage and I left that situation, moved back to Harlan, lived with my parents.

Speaker 3: 47:10

Daisy started getting sick again and caught her first virus at 14 months old. On May 23rd she went on the vent. She was dying. They told us her lungs were underdeveloped. She couldn't handle this virus and the thing of it is. What y'all need to realize is that this is just a childhood virus a snotty nose, but for Daisy it was deadly.

Speaker 3: 47:38

And this was on May 23rd. She went on the ventilator. You know Mama rallied the troops. We started praying. Church was praying, people were praying. You know I prayed. I looked at her May 31st we went home.

Speaker 1: 47:58

Death sentence on May 23rd, may 31st, we went home.

Speaker 1: 48:00

I was given a death sentence when I was a child yeah, I mean as a. You know me. Now I don't remember a lot of it. I do remember some. Yeah, I was a bubble boy, you know. I was born with cystic fibrosis. You know, in the early 80s or late 70s, you know, they didn't have a lot of information on cystic fibrosis I was told that I would never live to see the age of 18. Right Before I was even I think it was before I was even six the devil tried to take my hearing, you know, and now I could hear everything. I play music.

Speaker 3: 48:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 48:30

You know I'm 48 years old, so it's a miracle. You know God's got something in store for your baby.

Speaker 2: 48:37

Yeah, she's here for a reason and bless her heart.

Speaker 3: 48:41

Her story just keeps going and going. You know that was at 14 months old and then June to June in 2021, that was horrible. Every sickness she'd get, we were in and out of the hospital constantly, constantly, constantly. Then we got the news They'd done some more testing. They tested her for cystic fibrosis. They tested. You know, they're like a normal, just normal underdeveloped lung for a preemie should not do this. We unfortunately received a diagnosis that wrecked our worlds and Daisy Jean was 20% of anyone who has ever had a reoccurring fistula, which means when she was first born and they'd done the repair and separated her airway and her esophagus, there was a hole also in her stomach that's called a fistula. There was a hole also in her stomach that's called a fistula. Well, they come out and they tell us you know, in 2021, you know, over a year and a half later she's going to have to go through this same surgery all over again because the fistula has reoccurred, but this time it's on the airway side. So she has a hole in her lung that needs repaired immediately or she's going to keep getting sick and it will eventually kill her. So I was like, oh, you can imagine, I seen her go through it at three days old, but now she's old enough to say mama and she's old enough to express pain. And it was horrible. It was horrible and so we went through that.

Speaker 3: 50:18

September, july, was the surgery. We were in the hospital over three weeks, almost a month Fast forward. She done good. She came out of it. She had like chest tubes out of her back, pain pumps Like you can imagine. They had to go through the same surgery site. She was pitiful. She didn't even look like a baby. I mean honestly, she looked like just a gray pile of bones laying there. She was so sickly couldn't eat by mouth still yet. Well, in September went through the surgery September of 2021, she got sick again even after the surgery and got put on the vent again.

Speaker 3: 50:57

And this is another miracle, by September 28th she was off of it and home like another miracle. Then they did another surgery because her airway and things was completely collapsing on her when she breathed out. She had tracheomalacia. So every time she'd breathe out, her airway and things was completely collapsing on her when she breathed out she had tracheal malacia. So every time she'd breathe out her airway only worked 70%. It was completely closing on her. They did another surgery that lasted five or six hours because we were going regularly for injections to keep her airway standard open and they did a five to six hour surgery. Um, and that was the fistula repair, the airway repair. You know and no, I'm sorry, that was september. We were out by october 14th, so that's how long we stayed in the hospital for recovery for all that. So that was a long time in the hospital. Again, I done it alone.

Speaker 1: 51:57

I think, growing up I can remember all my hospitals. Even at age five. I can remember and it was horrible.

Speaker 3: 52:06

It's not fun. And then you know as a grown woman and you're alone and they won't let nobody with you except the other parent that chose not to be there. So it's like I'm alone. So where else does your help come from? You had to pray. I mean, it's kind of hard not to believe in God when you're watching all this.

Speaker 1: 52:26

God put you in that situation so you could pray.

Speaker 2: 52:29

Yeah, that's like you know that reminds me of the scripture.

Speaker 1: 52:32

Paul said you know, please remove this thorn. Well, if I remove his thorn, are you going to pray?

Speaker 3: 52:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 52:38

I hate to say it, but why was the man sitting there at the pool? Just for that very reason, for God can heal him. Why did Lazarus die? So the people can take off the grave clothes, so that people can see God's miracle working. God's got a plan for everything. We may not see it. No, we do. Yeah, it's there.

Speaker 3: 52:59

And then her story goes on December 20th of 2021. You know we got home right before Christmas. Dicey has never been out of the hospital on a Christmas until this past year, so praise the Lord Praise the Lord for that.

Speaker 3: 53:18

But tragically, yeah, I got all kinds of notes here March 4th she was flew out. She turned two shortly after December 23rd. So a thing with Daisy, daisy, I don't know what it is with threes. I've been putting all that together. She was born on 3 30 2020. The doctors told us if she lived past three she would be okay, like all these threes were appearing. You know she was the third grandchild, like I'm like okay, lord, well, so god was telling you his favorite numbers on that child.

Speaker 3: 53:54

I know right, yeah, so in the Trinity, obviously that's the first thing I thought. I was like what in the world are you doing, lord? So I just anticipated. I was like by her third birthday we'll be okay. Do you know? I hate the devil, and I'm not saying the Lord inflicted any of this on my baby. This is not.

Speaker 1: 54:14

No no.

Speaker 3: 54:15

This is not from God. However, this was the story that we carried. And do you know? She was two years old in December. Her birthday's in March. She'll be five next, praise the Lord, and that's a whole other testimony. But two months, two months before she turned three, this baby caught not one, not two, but three childhood illnesses at the same time.

Speaker 2: 54:48

Wow.

Speaker 3: 54:54

And within two days was flew out. Now, need I remind you this? Our story can't be simple. This was during the one time in the winter that it was negative three degrees outside and my husband now praise the Lord for him. You know, he had come into Daisy's life around age two and a half and he was wonderful to us, he loved us. But we had just picked him up from the airport because, like I said, and he was wonderful to us, he loved us. But we had just picked him up from the airport because, like I said, he was military active duty, he was stationed in Texas, we had picked him up from the airport.

Speaker 3: 55:22

The thing with Daisy is, when she's sick, it comes out of nowhere. So you're like, yay, praise the Lord, daisy's great, she's doing good. And then five hours later you're like we're in the hospital on the ventilator. That's how quick. I need y'all to realize. That's how quick things happen.

Speaker 3: 55:38

So I carried the guilt of did I do this to her? Did I take her the wrong place? You know, did I let the wrong person be around her this week? Was she here, was she there and? And spiraled all the time Like what did I do wrong? But we went and picked up, um, my husband right now. We went and picked him up we wasn't married at the time, picked him up from the airport and was spending time wrapping Christmas Eve y'all Christmas Eve wrapping gifts. On Christmas Eve, downstairs, had the baby monitor on. I hear Daisy upstairs. She starts coughing and I'm like, okay, well, she coughs all the time she's got a lung disease. You know, everybody always thinks she's sick. And then I start hearing her aspirate gasping for air. Couldn't breathe. Negative three degrees outside, y'all. It is the only winter storm I know of being that bad and completely froze over. So guess what? Our local hospital is four miles down the road. I've got to get in the vehicle. The windows are frozen, the car's frozen, what?

Speaker 3: 56:38

do I do I can't walk four or five miles down the road in negative three degree weather. So I'm panicking. Well, he goes out and he's like, unfollowing the doors, doing what he can to get the Jeep doors open. And you know, we get her there, but painfully, you got to realize. I mean negative three, everything's froze over, even the roads, so the Lord protects us. Getting there to the hospital. We get to the hospital. Guess what? We have to stay in our tiny hospital who has zero.

Speaker 3: 57:11

And I'm not speaking ill of our hospital. They have saved my daughter's life multiple occasions but they have zero accommodations for a medically inclined child that is pediatric. They just don't have the means for it. You have to go other places. And so now that I've moved back home and I live in Harlan, that's the only place to go.

Speaker 3: 57:32

And I knew something was wrong. I mean, she was gray, her skin was changed, she was puking big balls of mucus and just was awful. And when I knew, at that moment I was like I'm losing her. I knew something was different and I knew I was losing her. And the hospital nurses, they all knew Daisy's story, they knew us and they said we do not want her here. They told me that, as a worried mother, you know they're like we don't want her here. They tried, helicopters couldn't make it told me that, as a worried mother, you know they're like we don't want her here. They tried, helicopters couldn't make it to us, ambulances couldn't make it to us, nobody could make it, and so we stayed overnight in the hospital.

Speaker 3: 58:10

Just so happens, the hospital that we're used to going to was two and a half hours away. They tried to get to us. They had to turn around and go back. It was so bad helicopters couldn't fly. Well, our EMT service thank God for them. They knew us, they took the chance and they drove the other way, across the mountain to Johnson City, tennessee, and got us to a children's hospital over there, and there we spent over 14 days. Daisy set up sepsis, they told us. They said there is nothing left for us to do for your child. So I had to lay there and watch her die. Her lungs shut down. She was on the ventilator, full oxygen, full support. She had brain activity. She was fighting it.

Speaker 1: 58:56

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 58:56

But she was lifeless. She had no life in her whatsoever. It was horrible, it was horrible, it was horrible, and I just want to say this, like after 14 days of being in the hospital Daisy Jean came out of it. Are you surprised?

Speaker 2: 59:12

She's a fighter man. She's a fighter.

Speaker 3: 59:15

She came out of it and the doctors were shocked, the nurses were shocked. They were like we've never seen this. You know, we've never seen this. So, miracle upon miracle, upon miracle. By this time you know I'm serving the Lord and, yeah, I'm like. Okay, God, this is you Like, you know, and just as, and you know, just as I started out today saying I know, that.

Speaker 3: 59:41

God when he told King Joseph that and the people of Judea don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. You know this battle looks huge. Your adversaries are bigger than you. It looks worse. The doctors are telling you no. The nurses are looking at you crying, saying we're so sorry. And I'll tell you an experience that just came to my mind when I was sitting in that room when she was dying. I had never experienced anything like that, being an alcoholic going through all those but I seen death come into our room that night.

Speaker 1: 1:00:14

Right.

Speaker 3: 1:00:15

And I tell everybody if you don't believe in the spiritual, you need to.

Speaker 1: 1:00:20

I know the spirit of death and I'll tell you it is not nothing you want to play with.

Speaker 3: 1:00:24

He walked into our room that night and I have no other way to describe him but death. He walked into our room that night and he looked in my spirit. He looked at me and he said I'm taking her. And I remember rising up instantly and I said you will not. I said this is God's child and this is his miracle. And this is not the last breath that she would breathe.

Speaker 3: 1:00:51

And you know by this point, you know people were allowed to visit the hospitals and stuff, so mom and dad were able to come over on the weekend and pray with us. But I remember, in that time of despair, you got to realize this is all new doctors, all new nurses. I knew nobody. I'm in an unfamiliar place once again, and I remember death came and he I mean he spoke to me and he said I will take her, this is it. And I was like I just I just rose up and I said you will not. I just rose up and I said you will not, this is my miracle, this is my baby and I will fight for her and God's breath will be the ones that fills her lungs, because she has a purpose and she has a plan to be here.

Speaker 3: 1:01:35

And I had no idea what Daisy Jean was capable of. But God did and he knew and I can tell you. I remember, like researching, like you know, miracles in the Bible and seeing, you know. I mean, look in John 2, water into wine, you know. He heals an official's son, you know, drives out the evil spirits. You know, mark Luke, john, you know that heals Peter's mother-in-law of a fever, heals many in sick, disease, leprosy, paralyzed, you know, those that were paralyzed, withered hand, raises the dead. You know, and I'm like God, you do all these miracles. Now I need you here.

Speaker 3: 1:02:12

And people forget that this isn't just for Bible times, this is for us, this is for now. And in those verses, you know, tells us weep, not. So we have to know that he was showing. When he went to the woman at the well, he knew her before she spoke, he knew her. He wasn't supposed to sit down with her and have any relation with her at all, but he knew her before she even spoke. And guess what she did her at all. But he knew her before she even spoke.

Speaker 2: 1:02:44

And guess what she did she with one encounter went out and saved a whole, entire, I would say county, county, yeah, a whole entire yeah because she had one encounter she proclaimed the gospel, the living gospel exactly and you know I remember I was.

Speaker 3: 1:02:56

I looked at daisy jean when she was laying there a bag of bones and I said arise, just like the word says. I got it noted here arise. And you know she was dead. But like with Lazarus, arise, you know, get up, get up. And I remember I was like you've done this before, you can do it again. And people you know were probably filled with fear. And then I go back to my story. I'm like people probably thought I was a crazy person, but you know I don't care. They saw it when it was all said and done. You know they saw it and the rumor went throughout all the town and you know. But that's why I'm here and that's why I'm so thankful for this opportunity is to share daisy james story and um that's awesome testimony.

Speaker 1: 1:03:42

It really is, because it reminds me a lot of, you know, my childhood, you know, and all the, all the crap that I had to go through. You know, and uh, I was, you know, born with, like I said, with cystic fibrosis and other mental conditions. You know, I lived you ever seen that movie bubble boy, where he lives in a boat? So I lived in an oxygen tent. Yeah, that's what I lived in.

Speaker 3: 1:04:05

I don't make those anymore.

Speaker 1: 1:04:06

Oh, I've done that the first three years of my life, but yeah, yeah, I mean even then I, then the lord reminds me and he shows me different highlights of my life. Yeah, how close I was to death yeah, you know yeah, you know then different times.

Speaker 1: 1:04:19

Yeah, and even now, at the age of 48, just a year and a half ago, I had a major heart attack and it, you know. And then I was, and then, before that, you know, after I gave my heart back to god and I rededicated my life, I ended up in the hospital, almost died. Then, you know, and, and then the lord just repeatedly shows me just different parts of my life, where death was so there.

Speaker 3: 1:04:42

Well, when she came out of that. You know her third birthday was two months later and so you can imagine that I had it's like forever and ever and I was like this is just unreal. And we, we had a parade for daisy I'll never forget it for her third birthday and she sat in the back of my dad's tailgate, up on a chair, like a princess, and all of Harlan County rallied. You know, the fire department and the rescue teams and anybody that wanted to join in drove by and just honked for Daisy. Because we live in a small town, everybody knows everybody.

Speaker 3: 1:05:20

Yeah, you know, if you don't know them, you know their mom or you know their dad, right. You know and everybody, knows everybody, and so I'll never forget. And the whole time I was in the hospital, let me the Lord just gave me this, let me remind you all I never went without. I was a single mom raising a very medically inclined child that was going through all these things, living in the hospital. Do y'all know how expensive the hospital is?

Speaker 1: 1:05:45

Very.

Speaker 3: 1:05:46

I mean, unless you starve yourself, which thank God. Uk has great cafeteria food, but it is expensive. If it had not been for my hometown and my different churches donating and sending money into us, I had not have made it the lord provide every single dime.

Speaker 1: 1:06:06

Amen, god is good.

Speaker 3: 1:06:07

He is so good, every dime and so I just want to say that too. I never went that because the battle wasn't mine, that's right, the battle was his. And then flash forward um, obviously now, like I said, next next week, daisy Jean will be five years old on March 30th.

Speaker 1: 1:06:23

Amen. You know God supplying you with everything reminds me. Yeah, you know, when God brought the children of Israel out, he supplied them with everything that they needed.

Speaker 2: 1:06:33

Everything.

Speaker 1: 1:06:33

The only thing that he says don't complain, Just follow me. That's hard and that is super hard.

Speaker 2: 1:06:40

I'm a little mad, which that's what they did the whole way, though he only commanded them one thing Walk my ways.

Speaker 1: 1:06:45

Yeah, everything else will be added to you.

Speaker 3: 1:06:48

Let me say this too, just a little bit more into her testimony, because it's a major part. Not this past Christmas, but the one before. In November, two Thanksgivings ago, daisy went through and had the spinal surgery and they told us how excruciating it would be. They said most adults have a hard time with this. You have to lay flat on your back for three days. So they had to keep her completely sedated, Wow.

Speaker 2: 1:07:16

So I have to basically see her. I was going to say I can't imagine Miss Daisy laying being a child would be extremely hard.

Speaker 3: 1:07:20

Yeah, it was hard for me to lay on my back just for like a day and a half after my surgery. When I say Daisy is wild and rampant, I really mean. When you look at her, people come up and say all the time there's no way, this is Daisy. Oh my God, there's no way. And so, at four years old, no, at three.

Speaker 1: 1:07:42

I never thought, because, I think, walked into our one of our restaurants and I'd seen you sitting with your, your baby, and I I heard your child. I was like I'd have never thought that child would be in that seat because, hey man, she was rampant, she was rampant, yeah and here's the thing like I was saying, they didn't know if she'd ever walk.

Speaker 3: 1:07:58

she was extremely delayed from age two, from about one to two, extremely delayed, which you could imagine why. I mean she'd been on the ventilator five times now. But they went through and they'd done the spinal surgery and they said for three days she'll be flat on her back, we'll sedate her. She can't move. That was horrible. It was horrible and she came through it. Do you know? In two days they said everything's healing up. Great. By day three they got her up that evening and that child was walking down the hallway.

Speaker 1: 1:08:30

I just see the number three. Everything you're saying, I know.

Speaker 3: 1:08:33

Yes, thank you. That's another reminder. I promise you not on the third day. On the third day Jesus rose. He got out of that grave. My baby had her spine clipped y'all. She had it clipped and they told her this will be excruciating. She literally got up and walked. I remember showing Facebook. Facebook. Does you know? Media can have good effects.

Speaker 1: 1:08:57

Yes, it can. Obviously we're sitting here.

Speaker 3: 1:08:59

It does have good and bad, bad, but it can be used for good and I use that for daisy's story. I use every marker that's awesome because I knew people were praying.

Speaker 3: 1:09:08

Daisy was up walking, we were home. Um, we made it home. We were in there for thanksgiving but we made it. We made it home she was. But the story's not over. Daisy caught a virus and they warned us. They said keep her away from everybody for two weeks, don't let nobody in. I promise you all. I did to a T what the doctor said Two weeks, 14 days exactly after she literally caught a virus. And do you know where her lungs are so bad? When she catches the virus, she coughs, coughs, coughs. So as she's coughing, her incision began to pop back open. It looked almost perfect. The glue had closed, her stitches were inside. It looked beautiful. Her incision popped back open, wow. And in her back, and after two or three days of consulting back and forth with Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio, they said you're going to have to bring her back. She had MRSA.

Speaker 1: 1:10:09

Oh, oh, wow she had MRSA staph infection.

Speaker 3: 1:10:11

If you don't know, it's really, it's the worst it's the worst of the worst.

Speaker 2: 1:10:14

The worst of the worst, they told me they said Daisy now has MRSA.

Speaker 3: 1:10:18

Well, I'm automatically like freaking out because I'm like what if that gets to her lungs? Like this is not good. Why, lord, would you have her come out of this? And don't think I don't question the Lord, I do. I talk to him like I'm talking to you all.

Speaker 1: 1:10:33

That's the way it should be.

Speaker 3: 1:10:35

I do. I say, lord, why would you have her come out of this? And everybody see her walk again. And then we're going back, backwards, we're going backwards and let me remind you, it's a week before.

Speaker 1: 1:10:46

Christmas. You know God. You know Christ talked to God. He says why, lord, have you forsaken me? He talked to him, just like you know. That's the way he wants us to talk to him.

Speaker 3: 1:10:54

And I did. I said why, lord, what? What is this?

Speaker 3: 1:10:58

yeah and they told me that day I'll never forget it, at cincinnati they said, well, just bring her in. I said, do you anticipate us to say? They said, no, we'll clean it real good, add some more glue to it. Basically it'll be fine. Well, they looked at it. No, he's seen some infection. He was like I'm sorry, miss broughton, but we're gonna have to go in and do a wound, wash, open it back up, completely, get out the MRSA, wash it and we're going to have to butterfly stitch it all the way up her back and you'll have to come back in two weeks to have it removed. I'm like, oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3: 1:11:34

So that baby went all the way back through that. We missed Christmas again, was in the hospital, ended up staying. I had no clothes on my back, had to wear hospital scrubs Thank God, you know. People sent me Walmart orders to the hospital. I had nothing. They told me I wouldn't need it, which normally I'm more prepared but I trusted the Lord that I wouldn't need to stay. But I knew it was bad and anyways, we went through all that and went through Christmas. Then she turned four. That was December. Then she turned four and from all this past year until next week Daisy is just full of life and vibrant.

Speaker 3: 1:12:13

Amen and she has only been—she has not been hospitalized. Not one time at all has she been sick. Oh yeah, it's been a really, really bad year in her lungs, but we've not been hospitalized. Mama's managed at home, she's got oxygen when she needs it, and I'm waiting for the day. And I'll tell you she had the flu two months ago. That should have killed her.

Speaker 1: 1:12:39

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:12:40

This flu that's going around rampant is awful.

Speaker 2: 1:12:43

Yeah, it is had the flu, that baby.

Speaker 3: 1:12:45

her lungs were like weak for about a month but popped right back out.

Speaker 2: 1:12:49

We weren't in the hospital.

Speaker 3: 1:12:50

Survivor Nothing.

Speaker 2: 1:12:51

Yeah, hey man.

Speaker 3: 1:12:52

Nothing. Every time she spikes a fever or any childhood virus, you know that is normal. Of course, my mom brain just goes crazy. No, like this child, for this past year has been just remarkable.

Speaker 1: 1:13:06

So you know you, you're talking about all of this reminding me of in psalms 23, I think it's in verse 5. It says thou prepare the table before me in the presence of my enemy. Yeah, as long as we walk with god, everything else will be added. It might look bad, but god has prepared a table before us, and on that table there's healing, there's blessing, there's clothing, there's food, there's just anything possible that God has to offer, and it's everything. As long as we follow him and we walk in his ways, he'll not withhold nothing from us.

Speaker 1: 1:13:39

I was telling you before we started the show, everything you see in this room was donated or give to me to get it. You know, I've got equipment, computers, you know, and God is a supply with all of our needs, as long as we do one thing that's. The only thing required for us to do is to walk. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3: 1:13:58

And I did have that one last scripture to close it out. I said you know, you cannot forget, and this is how the Lord coincides Like. Psalms 23 was given to me in the hospital.

Speaker 1: 1:14:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:14:08

Three different times and recited to me. And I have a dear friend, him and his wife. They would call and just pray over Daisy. And you know, because when you're in those dark times sometimes you don't see the light, you do not see the light. And when it's your child, when you're finally a mother and it's your child and y'all y'all. I know you said you haven't experienced it but you love somebody, we've all. But just imagine, as Christ loved his son and he gave. I was having to give my child over to these professionals every single time. So Psalms 23 was recited and quoted to me several times.

Speaker 1: 1:14:51

That was the first scripture the Lord gave to me when I'd rededicated my life back to God.

Speaker 3: 1:14:56

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:14:56

And I think it was like four or five times during the day. It was constantly recited because I was having spiritual attacks.

Speaker 3: 1:15:03

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:15:03

You know, I literally walked for days, literally with death right here. Yeah, I mean, it's like I almost got to a point. I knew death personally. Yeah, it's just like, dude, you're going to have to go away. It did Eventually. The more I walked with God, death just started to kind of back off. Yeah, walked with god, death just started to kind of back off, yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:15:21

but I knew the day that if I walked away from god then death would have been exactly exactly, and that's that's where another one comes in, at proverbs 3, 5, and that's probably how I can just wrap all this up is yeah, what's that say? Trust in who, trust in the lord? That's, and what's it say With all, all. Not half, not a piece of, because I'm real bad for that sometimes.

Speaker 3: 1:15:46

I'm a control freak Literally a control freak and I want to control it all. I want to make all Daisy's decisions I want to do, but the Lord already has all that planned out Right. And so it says trust Him with all your heart and lean on your own. I want to lean on my own. I feel like I know it, I feel like that's my baby. I'll make the decision for her and you know, her dad is in and out of her life and I wasn't going to share this, but not going into crucial details or anything. But he's in and out and we're. You know there is custody orders, legal matters that have to take place for those type of things. That's just common knowledge, um, and that's a battle.

Speaker 1: 1:16:27

Well, I could, from my own experience with my dad being in and out of my life. I grew up with my dad. I can count the time I was when he left to the time I was 19,. I can count on one hand how many times my dad had been in my life and now I live with my dad. So there is hope, yes, and you know, and I'm watching my relationship with my earthly father grow. I there is. Sometimes I, you know, I feel the animosity or that hey, you know, rise up in me Like you know why questions, but I didn't the why questions, but I didn't. The lord reminds me. He says we've all seen james, yeah, and he's having to fight his own. And then I feel the peace of god come upon me and and I and I I do forgive, you know, my, my family and my dad but there is hope.

Speaker 1: 1:17:13

Yeah, you know that relationship and that bond between you. Know a daughter and a father or a kid in general, no matter. You know what, who they are will eventually, as long as you know your child walks with God. Because she's walking with God now, oh, yeah. And when she does get older, whenever it is, you know that that relationship will mend. Yeah, but it's one of those. It's going to take time, though.

Speaker 3: 1:17:38

But yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 1: 1:17:42

I pray that it mends between us.

Speaker 3: 1:17:43

Yeah, you know, people look at me there's, there's been a lot of ugly.

Speaker 1: 1:17:46

I won't lie, I mean my mom hated my dad yeah, there's been there's.

Speaker 3: 1:17:50

I can't personally say that I've ever said I've hated him, because I was always taught not to yeah, but that's hard to do my own mother has looked at me and said I do not know how you even speak, talk, communicate anything, and I'm like, at the end of the day, I didn't choose him, god did.

Speaker 1: 1:18:10

Well, on my mom's deathbed I watched my mom and my dad mend. I was in my 30s and I I watched them before she died. They made a connection and then she passed away not long after that, but they mended that burnt bridge. Yeah, you know their, their past crossed and they mended that and that allowed me and my sister to mend with my dad.

Speaker 3: 1:18:36

Yeah, and that's the thing, like with all, like I, with all the legal standpoints in the court and things, it's got ugly. There's no pretty to it, right now?

Speaker 1: 1:18:45

No, there's not.

Speaker 3: 1:18:46

You know, because he wants her this amount of time. I want her this amount of time and I'm trying to, you know, raise her up in the ways of the Lord. He doesn't believe in the Lord, you know. So how do you mend those two lifestyles together? How, how do you make that?

Speaker 1: 1:19:03

work and then he doesn't know the lord, so obviously he's not very kind to me.

Speaker 3: 1:19:05

You know, we know how to direct our prayers now, don't we? Yeah, please do you know, and and that was one thing that the lord does constantly remind me of, and and I know now why he tied it in he's. He's allowing me to talk about it right now, and in a in a beautiful way, you're looking at it, a whole picture.

Speaker 1: 1:19:22

You know, I look at it, I try to look at it in god's view. You know, the whole picture yeah you know, would her dad, if he'd not had this child? Would he had made it to heaven? Or would he had the opportunity to hear god's message right, maybe through your child and through this sickness? Now he's able to say hey, I see that you know he's seen it he's seen it.

Speaker 3: 1:19:43

He can't deny yeah he may not been in the physical hospital room but he knows she came from it right he knows what she came out of, he knows how many times you know that she's just been a living miracle period, point blank yeah um, and yeah, yeah, just, I have to pray for him, and the battle's not mine, it's the Lord's.

Speaker 2: 1:20:05

That's it.

Speaker 3: 1:20:06

You know if the Lord turns, if court turns over, and he gets her part of the time, even when I don't see fit. Or you know the Lord, the Lord knows what he's doing.

Speaker 2: 1:20:18

Look where the Lord's brought her from already. Exactly, and he's going to keep her. He's got his hand on her. Yeah, because she's here for a reason.

Speaker 3: 1:20:25

You're exactly right. She's here for a reason, and there is alcoholism still on that side and you know just, there's a lot of worry, Not medically, but now it's personally in that relationship. What could Daisy learn from that? What relationship?

Speaker 2: 1:20:43

what could daisy learn from that? What could daisy come from?

Speaker 3: 1:20:44

but daisy was born from that period. She's a little miracle, yeah. I mean. So yeah, the lord's gonna do work.

Speaker 1: 1:20:47

I believe when she gets older, she's gonna see your testimony yeah she's, and she's living it through with you right now and it's going to help her when she gets of age. Yeah, you know, and she's going to see that.

Speaker 1: 1:20:57

You know that, like it says in psalms yeah you know that, no matter what the Lord is, my shepherd I shall not want. And she's going to see that and she's going to say, well, if my mommy made it, I can make it. It all goes full circle. It does Even with our lives. I knew you and your mom and your dad and I knew you as a child, our lives. You know, I knew you and your mom and your dad and I knew you as a child. Now you're sitting in front of me sharing, you know, a life testimony of what god has done for you, and you're sharing it to the world and and your testimony is is brought encouragement to me. I know it's brought encouragement to deb.

Speaker 2: 1:21:36

Yes, ma'am uh, you know, sister jan had told me some things. Uh, you know, we had talked about daisy. She told me how she she didn't go into grave detail like you did yeah, and. I tell you what I thank you for that that has. So that's a phenomenal testimony and somebody does need to hear that, because somebody somewhere is going through that with their children, probably right now. Now you know, when I was young I didn't want kids at all at all you know, and me fertile myrtle.

Speaker 2: 1:22:10

My first time I got pregnant. I hated it. I hated it. I really did Not that I hate kids or would hurt anybody's kid, I just didn't want kids. And the more that I felt my body changing and I thought I can do this, I do this and then five, four and a half five months I lost it and that I was devastated yeah you're wow, I didn't think I wanted that and now you know it's gone and yeah, um, but that's a phenomenal testimony and that is so.

Speaker 2: 1:22:40

Thank you very much. It is my pleasure to be here and to listen to that. It's an inspiration. Y'all made me cry. It's an inspiration. I say cry Did you see me sitting over here crying a while ago.

Speaker 3: 1:22:50

I did. I didn't make eye contact.

Speaker 2: 1:22:54

And I'm like you I'm a crier. I broke down and cried last night during my podcast.

Speaker 1: 1:22:58

I cry, not when people are around.

Speaker 3: 1:23:01

Yeah, James, we know.

Speaker 2: 1:23:02

But that was awesome, and I just see what a strong mother you are, you know. So not only has God brought Daisy, he's brought you right, yeah, and he's there.

Speaker 3: 1:23:14

Well, and that's another just a little add-on. I know I keep thinking of stuff, but just to be married now in a healthy relationship, my husband has been through hell and high water with me. What's your husband's name? Chris, chris.

Speaker 1: 1:23:26

Turner, chris, I want to give you a shout out I know you'll be listening and thank you for your service, right? Thank you for your service.

Speaker 3: 1:23:32

He's wonderful and right before I came he said I know you got your interview, babe, but you know I love you. Go share your testimony with the world. I know that's what you want to do and I'm here praying for you, wherever he's at. It's like seven hours ahead.

Speaker 1: 1:23:46

Is he abroad or is he in state?

Speaker 3: 1:23:47

No, he's across the seas.

Speaker 1: 1:23:50

So next time he gets in state I'd like to meet him and shake his hand. He would love to. I would.

Speaker 3: 1:23:56

So he plans to be home around October and that was another struggle with us. We freshly got married in November this November and he deployed in January. So you know that was another obstacle for me and Daisy?

Speaker 1: 1:24:12

Does he go to church and serve God? Absolutely? Yeah, you know what I'm inviting you, chris, on the show. You know I want to get yours because you know yours is know, yours is just as strong.

Speaker 3: 1:24:22

Yeah, our testimony together and what he had went through. He'd probably never admit it. He's such a humble, sweet guy.

Speaker 1: 1:24:30

I'm the loud mouthy one you know you can't choose the way relationships work so, um, he, he's just a, he's a beautiful man I'll you what. I invite both of you on the show and you guys do a couple's testimony together.

Speaker 3: 1:24:44

Yeah he would love that. He's got a lot of family and addiction and he should not be where he is right now. He does have a daughter. I have a stepdaughter, a bonus daughter. I hate the step word. We're Gentiles.

Speaker 1: 1:24:58

We're drafted into the family 15?.

Speaker 3: 1:25:00

Oh goodness, she just turned 15 in January.

Speaker 1: 1:25:02

Wow.

Speaker 3: 1:25:03

Yep, so her and Daisy are ten years apart. I've got two. So you know, me and Chris are the same age. But just the miracle of he had to get through a lot of things with me mentally and I did not. It took me until up into the very point of marrying him for me to love him the way that's a strong man.

Speaker 1: 1:25:23

That I do right now it is.

Speaker 3: 1:25:24

He loved me. He said from the first day he ever said hello. He knew that God sent me to him and I'm like he had never been married, like he waited on the one. I'm like I am not your one, I promise you know. But he fell in love with Daisy. And to see their connection and to know how the Lord planned all that out, like it's insane.

Speaker 1: 1:25:45

You know, I look at, I look at it this way he is walking like Christ is because you know, christ took upon us. Oh yeah, we're Gentiles. He took on a whole nother bunch of crazy kids. You know the Gentile kids. I tell him I'm like like, yeah, you live with a lot. Sorry, babe, he, he's a very strong man to do that and that takes a lot to be, you know, to draft in somebody else's kid and being through an abusive relationship multiple times right and then you have this good godly man and even being through a marriage of infidelity and stuff like, is this really who?

Speaker 1: 1:26:21

you are.

Speaker 3: 1:26:22

You know, I was that bad voice for myself and for him and I'm like, okay, can you show me who you are now? Like I knew that at any point and I mean we didn't even. We waited to date for two years and then I broke up with him a few months before he proposed Wow, that's how you said strong. You have no idea that's a whole other story we can talk about later on, but just know that he is a very strong man and he has dealt with and helped me cope with knowing when was enough and when wasn't, and how to pray for Daisy's dad and how I mean he does it Because he's a father, and so he's been the very one to look at me and say just stop right there and let's just pray for him and for the actions that are taking place right now. You know, and that's a man.

Speaker 3: 1:27:15

And then he's just continually showed me how beautiful he was on the inside, and and I I mean the Lord, the Lord. Just a couple of months ago, he spoke to me through a prophet and said I had to heal you before I could heal Daisy. That is what he told me.

Speaker 1: 1:27:37

Oh yeah, I've been through that myself. That's awesome. That reminded me like when I, when I rededicated there's so much, when I rededicated my life back to the Lord, I thought it was going to be easy peasy. I thought I was going to fall right back into everything like it was supposed to be, I know right.

Speaker 1: 1:27:53

The Lord says James, I've got to trust you, yeah, because there's a lot of healing that's got and got to go on in your life. And for months I battled, like I told you, I fought death literally. And the more I walked with God, it got easier and easier. And look where I'm at today.

Speaker 3: 1:28:08

It's crazy, it's wild. I love it.

Speaker 1: 1:28:11

But you know, when we walk away from God, you know the first time, you know God takes us in. You know his grace is there, his mercy is there. But that second time I did, I prayed, I was like and I wish I didn't know you lord yeah, because it's so hard. And he said, james, I gotta trust you again. Yeah, and and just now I'm starting to feel that trust between me and god, even though I know he trusts me, he has me in the palm of his hands I don't trust me and that that's it.

Speaker 1: 1:28:39

That's what I've heard. Like, lord, I know I can't make this decision, you make it for me, yeah yeah, I thank god for this testimony over daisy starting kindergarten.

Speaker 3: 1:28:47

What school? How is it? Is this gonna be good? Is this gonna be, you know? And I'm like, oh my goodness, so that's where it was awesome testimony.

Speaker 1: 1:28:54

it was, and again I want to invite uh, you and your, your husband, on the show when he, when he, when he comes stateside and gets settled in and gets family life going again, pray for his safety. I will definitely, and I guess we can end that here and if Sister Deb would like to end us in prayer, First of all, thank you very much for coming and I'll have all your information. If anybody wants to contact you, it will be on the website and so on. And, sister Deb, go ahead.

Speaker 2: 1:29:22

Thank you for sharing. I see such strength in you. You know you never know anybody until you hear them, start talking and see the type of person they are. And I feel safe in saying this when you start evangelizing out there, you let me know where you are, because I want to hear that. I want to hear that. That was awesome. I so enjoyed that. I so enjoyed that.

Speaker 1: 1:29:44

I so enjoyed that.

Speaker 2: 1:29:45

Thank you, god is good. He is, he is, oh, how wonderful. Amen, I know. Praise the Lord.

Speaker 1: 1:29:50

I felt the Spirit really kind of, you know, start going from breast to breast between us, because I really felt it. I felt the Lord and I know there's somebody out there and if you don't know God, definitely please, I beg you with my heart, give him a chance and I promise you, if you do I'm not going to lie to you and I know God ain't going to either he'll show himself to you some way. Somehow he will reveal himself.

Speaker 1: 1:30:10

No, matter what you're going through, the battle's not yours you got to open the invitation at an altar right now, wherever you're at park bench car, you're running, you're jogging, you know you're in a mall, wherever you're at, just call upon the name of the Lord and you know, and he will save you. Guaranteed Amen, go ahead and you want it.

Speaker 2: 1:30:29

Our Father, god in heaven. We so thank you for this day and for this time, here and now, and for what we've heard in this awesome, awesome testimony. We thank you for the work and everything that you have done in this life of this young lady and her daughter. We just thank you for Daisy and for Courtney and for the blessing Lord that it's blessed us just hearing this, and we ask you to let these words go, lord, to the ears that need to hear it. Wherever near and far, whoever needs to hear this, let them hear it, let them understand it, let them see that you know what I may be going through something, but I can get through because of you, lord. It's all about you.

Speaker 2: 1:31:07

We thank you for this beautiful day and waking us up this morning. We thank you, lord, for the salvation and saving our souls. We praise you and we honor you. We love you. We ask you to forgive us for all of our sins. Help us, lord, to worship you and serve you in spirit and in truth, and we give all of our praises and grace and honor and glory to you, god, and you only.

Speaker 1: 1:31:33

In Jesus' holy, sweet name, we pray. Amen and amen. Praise the Lord. Hey, this is your host, jd. You're listening to 421 Show and you just listened to Courtney Broughton. All her information will be on the website and if you'd like to support the show, you can support it through PayPal at HOR421. Or you can go to the website HOR421showbuzzsproutcom. All shows recorded live, no post editing, recorded at the 421 studio. For contact information, follow your studio needs. You can email at HOR421ministries at gmailcom. Phone number is 239-849-1502.