By Anita Mondragon

 

We have a friend that came down with the virus.  They put him in the hospital and he needed to be on a respirator so he could breathe.  In order to do this, he was put into an induced coma.  He remained this way for three weeks.  As his condition improved, they decided he no longer needed the respirator.  However, he was not responding and remained in a comatose state.

 

A call for prayer was requested.  No matter what was done, there was no response from our friend.  He was breathing but seemed lifeless.  The night the call for prayer came, I woke myself up a few times calling his name aloud in my sleep.  I recalled the story of Lazarus in the Bible…how Jesus went to his tomb and called out his name.  I earnestly prayed that God Himself would call out the name of my friend and wake him from his sleep. Read more…