Courtney Smallbone, wife of For King and Country’s Luke Smallbone, has shared a stunning miracle story about the time her baby died suddenly. On CBN’s “Heaven Meets Earth Podcast,” Smallbone shared the amazing testimony with hosts Abigail Robertson and Ryan Bethea. She described the horrifying moment she found little Leo’s grey, lifeless body. And as she screamed and wept over him, her husband scrambled to call 911. In the chaos, she began praying in the Spirit and then said a simple prayer that God answered immediately. Leo was just an infant when it happened. She had put her 8-week-old son down for a nap, along with her two other children at the time. “I finally got all three down, which was a miracle in itself. I put them down for a nap and went out to have a cup of coffee and to read. And I was out there for a little while, and I was reading this book, and it’s like my vision kept blurring like I couldn’t focus,” she recalls.
“So I’m sitting there trying to read, I can’t focus. And you know, the Holy Spirit in a mother is a strong thing? And I hear this voice say, ‘Go check on Leo, and don’t believe what you’re going to see.'” “So I ran into where he was napping and found him. He was blue and grey, cold, sunken in chest, and blood all over his face and limp, and I just started screaming. I picked him up, and I ran outside, and my husband was mowing. And he saw me and saw what Leo looked like. He just ran and called 911. I put him on the ground, and was just looking at him. He had blurry eyes like death, you’re looking at death,” she recalls. “Your biggest fear is like right in front of your face; that was my biggest fear. And I remember looking at him. I tried CPR and nothing, so I just started praying in tongues.” “I felt like wind around us. I was laying hands on him and praying,” she continues. “Luke’s on the phone and he yells ‘they’re on their way. They’re like a few minutes away.’ And you can tell on the other end of the phone, like they’re coming to pick up a dead baby.
He’s lying on the ground, sunken in chest, death, blurry eyes. And I am on the ground with him. And I say very quietly. ‘Only You can do this. Only You can do this.'” Immediately, her prayer of surrender was answered. Leo came back to life. “And literally in that moment, his chest expands, he starts crying,” she recalls. “He turns pink. His eyes go from foggy to clear, and he’s, crying, fills his diaper. That’s all I can describe in that moment. And… he starts breathing. I am screaming and Luke’s still on the phone. “It’s when heaven and earth touch. It’s like, this is who Jesus is, but I didn’t expect to see him this way. Right. In my deepest, darkest fear that he would touch my baby, in front of me. And so he comes alive. I get in the ambulance. They’re like, ‘We need to go check’ because I guess when they’re newborns, they’re like, we need to really watch him because it could happen again,'” she recalls. “And I was like, I’m just gonna trust God with his life. It was a surrender of him. When they got to the hospital, doctors told her Leo had a skull deformity called craniosynostosis.
“Babies have soft spots, and his head closed, and the deformity was like a football, so it’s really heavy and pressurized, and so they were like, ‘He has an issue. We need to run these scans; he’s going to have to have open surgery. Honestly, at that point, I was just so surrendered, okay, it’ll be okay. After that, I’m just like, I think we’re going to be all right. Like God has his hand on his life and he’s actually not going to let any of us go until it’s time. I actually truly believe that ‘If it’s not my time, if it’s not my child’s,’ it removes that fear and that worry.” “We only see in part. And so that was a moment in my life where I’m like, ‘I’m not the same.’ When you see the glory of God nothing’s impossible.’ If God wants to do it, He will do it, and I will partner with Him wherever he wants to go and whatever He wants to do,” she says. As her faith has grown, so has little Leo. He’s now eight years old and is turning into a bold evangelist. Courtney even compares his outspoken courage to John the Baptist. “And to see Leo, now he’s eight, and he loves the Lord.
He actually gave a sermon at church a few months ago. He wanted to. And to hear his heart, he remembers that he sat on Jesus’s lap, he saw his grandpa, and he had never met his grandpa before. And he said, ‘Oh yeah, Papa told me I had to go back, but he said I’ll see you at the end of the world when the dead are raised.’ And I said, ‘Who told you that?’ ‘Well, Papa did.'” “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ He remembers, he sees, he has dreams. He loves the Word of God. He cries. One time we were at a concert and I took him to the bathroom before the concert because we’re in music, and he started crying and I said, ‘Why are you crying?’ And he said, ‘There’s people out there that don’t know Jesus, and they will die eternally if they don’t know Jesus.’ And he’s sobbing uncontrollably, can’t calm him down. People are like, ‘what’s wrong? And I’m like, ‘This is actually intercession that has hit his little heart with this understanding of who God is and His love for people.'” “And so every day is a gift with him. Every day I am so aware, I am so aware that life is a gift. Children are a gift.”
Source: CBNNews
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