Descending into Hell, the Hand of God Caught Me

While Descending into Hell Fire the Hand of God caught me

It was on December 28 of the year 2020. I was in a tree stand hunting that morning around about 8:30 am and started to step down out of it but when I stepped, I must have missed it, or something caused my foot to get caught on the step. I somehow tumbled out of that tree stand to the hard ground fifteen feet below. I fell 15 long feet hitting the ground at full impact. It blacked me out for a little bit and when I came to, I was lying there trying to get my bearings. I knew I needed to call for help but my phone was about 12 or 15 feet from me. I was thinking I had better try to get up and get my phone, but I had a bad burning sensation on my left side. It was burning like liquid fire and the pain was unbearable. I realized it wasn’t possible to stand plus the pain was excruciating, so I helplessly lay back down I knew I had to reach for my phone somehow but there was no way I was going to walk over to get it. So, I began to roll over and over to reach it. Something like a gator when it goes into a death roll, I painfully rolled until I could grab it. I hit the speed dial for my son who was just down the road hunting. He had already come in and I told him to come to get me because I had fallen off the deer stand and then I blacked out again.

I don’t remember anything else until he was coming up with his dodge truck to help me. My efforts to get up and get into the truck were unsuccessful. I did not know it then, but I was partially paralyzed and would not be able to use my legs or one of my arms. I tried to get up and it hurt so bad. Then I told him “Son, do what I tell you to do, don't turn me loose until you've got me in the truck no matter what.” So I started pulling trying to get up but was not able and then I must have blacked out again. When I came back, he was pushing me into the front seat of the truck the rest of the way so he could close the door.

Then From that moment until I was in the hospital I went on a journey. A journey where it felt like I was falling. I just kept falling and falling and falling and then suddenly, I started feeling heat. Still falling, the heat became more and more intense, and just about the time that I really start feeling it burn, I looked all around me and all I could see was just flames of fire leaping beneath me. When it got to the point that I just about couldn't stand the heat of the flames any longer, at that moment there was a hand that reached out between me and the flames and I kind of fell into the hand. That was the hand of God!

That's when I woke up in the hospital and I felt the Spirit of God drawing me. I responded by repenting and confessing, “yes Lord if you spare my life, I will serve you till my dying day.” I had served the Lord when I was a young man but had grown cold and away from God. I had been in that condition away from Him for about 30 years now. But He never left me. He was there when I needed Him most and saved me from death and hell. I cannot thank Him enough.

They told me in the hospital that I had a collapsed lung and broken ribs. They brought in a surgeon who was a specialist to perform the tedious surgery I needed. Upon arrival in the surgery room, the surgeon asked me if I knew where I was and I told him yes sir I did. He responded saying no I mean do you know where you're at. Yes sir, I am at Southeast Health, and he said you are in my operating room and I am not supposed to tell you this but you're not supposed to be here because of the trauma that your body has gone through. Yeah, there's no medical reason you should even be alive. Now you are about to undergo surgery on your lung, but you should be in the morgue right now. He said either you know a higher power, or a higher power has a strong calling on your life!

The surgery went very well and then I went home. About a week and three days later once I was at home again, I had to sit in a recliner because I was still burning and uncomfortable. I felt the urge that I wanted to try to lie down again. When I did it was tolerable, so I dropped off to sleep. At about 2 a.m. I got woke up by the Spirit of the Lord. At the time I was unaware it was the Lord. I looked at the clock and it was two 2 a.m. and I felt like there was something in the room with me. It was like somebody other than me and my wife was in the room. I couldn’t sit up but I could lift my head off the pillow, and I looked around but there was no one present other than me and my sleeping wife. Well as a laid my head back down I heard an audible voice say to me, “Lift thy leg”. Well, I went on and laid my head on the pillow because I thought I was dreaming. I said man this sure enough is a good dream because I wish I could lift my leg! For all practical purposes, I was still partially paralyzed from my chest to my feet. I could not move my legs. The voice spoke to me again and said, “Lift thy leg.” With no hesitation, my left leg went straight up to the ceiling! And then when that leg came down, he said, “lift thy other leg.” Then my right leg went straight up to the ceiling! Then he said, “lift thy arm” because I could not lift my left arm. So without even thinking, I sat up in the bed, and that burning sensation that had plagued me since the fall was gone. It has not come back either!

No more burning or hurting whatsoever. I crisscrossed my arms back and forth and realized that God had just healed me.

I woke my wife up and told her to turn on the light because I have something I want to show you. Then I demonstrated to her what the Lord had so miraculously done, and she went to crying, she was so happy. She told me I had better stop it or I might hurt myself and I was so excited I told her God has healed me! He has delivered me from possibly months and months of therapy or paralysis for the rest of my life. God did it!!

She told me I better go back to sleep, but I just could not. I had to praise Him, so I let her sleep and went to my recliner to thank Him. My son and the rest of my crew arrived around 6:30 am to get instructions on what they were supposed to do that day in our business. When he saw me, he asked me how I was doing and I told him great, really great. He came on in and sat down on the sofa beside me and I told him there is something I must show you. So he sat down there waiting to hear and I just threw one leg up and then the other and then I stood up. When I looked at him, he had big old crocodile tears running down each cheek, he was so happy. Later I received a letter from the State of Alabama offering to extend handicap services and assist with rehabilitation.

The letter stated the reason as paralysis from the fall with a spinal cord injury and a brain injury where my head had struck the ground. I have stored this letter as living proof to give the devil a black eye and to show what God has done! Every day I live I praise the Lord for what He has done. I give Him praise daily each time I see another day and I can step out of the bed. Now I attend the Dothan Church of God regularly. I do not miss an opportunity to share what the Lord has done.

I was literally on my way to hell, having drifted away from God to a self-indulging lifestyle, running from the divine call to preach, I was literally descending into hell. But God in His mercy reached His hand out one last time to save me and renew me unto Himself. What a faithful lov- ing heavenly Father we serve.

Yes, Lord, I will serve you, I give my life to you. I will obey your calling.

James Lowe is 62 years old lives in Dothan Alabama and attends the Dothan Church of God with his wife Priscilla. He has been serving the Lord for two years since he returned to him after the accident. He ran from his calling to preach for about 30 years before returning. Praise God he is back!

Contact James, email at Allseasons54@hotmail.com

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