Dying in Faith: A Personal Testimony

Sometimes we hear and see so much that is wrong or disturbing in the world that we tend to forget that miracles happen everyday. Dr. Raymond B. Green experienced a miracle that only he can tell in his words. Read on as he shares his testimony with us.

In the words of Dr. Raymond B. Green:

On December 19, 2011, I was influenced by the ministers of the local church under my leadership to please go to the Emergency Room at the nearby hospital to discover why for weeks food could not be held down by me and I could no longer use the bathroom to urinate or defecate.

Growing up from the age of 12 in a Christian Pentecostal Church where supernatural healings and manifestations occurred regularly, deciding to go to the hospital was a very challenging undertaking. I wanted God to heal me without medical intervention. However, God tested my faith outside of my comfort zone by allowing the hospital medical staff to diagnose me with an umbilical hernia which caused a blockage in my intestine. Five days after hernia repair surgery, I went home on December 25, 2011 (Christmas Day). My return home for recovery from surgery began the next phase of my faith testing process.

While at home taking a shower a few minutes after midnight on December 26, 2011, I experienced septic shock during which my stomach blew up like a red balloon and I passed out in my bath tub with white foam drooling out of my mouth. Ministry assistants from my staff who were staying at my house to attend to me heard a thump from my fall, broke in the bathroom, and began to pray for me while calling on the name of Jesus. Resultantly, I became conscious, and they called for the ambulance from the Emergency Room to take me back to the hospital for further care. Once the ambulance arrived, the emergency medical technicians had to get me prepared for transport to the emergency room approximately fifteen minutes away from my residence.

While being medically attended to in the hospital emergency room, I flatlined for almost ten minutes with no heartbeat or brainwave activity. Before being pronounced dead, I supernaturally started breathing, my heart began beating, and my brain started functioning. During the death process, I left my physical body and began to travel to continents all over the world at the speed of light. Every place I landed, I automatically spoke the language and advised leaders to resolve conflicts in their particular land. In my travel in the spirit realm, I saw war coming to America, shortage of food, and apostasy throughout the nations. After seeing many coming events while traveling in the spirit realm, I landed back in my physical body.

The hospital doctors then discussed with my family a new procedure that was being used at the medical facility but unsuccessfully on patients that they wanted to place me in to try and preserve my brain cells called a Hypothermia medically induced coma. However, my family was warned by the medical staff that I probably would not live through the night. As I was from a family of Christian believers, they instructed the doctors to place me in the Hypothermia medically induced coma. In the early part of the medically induced coma, my kidney would not respond, and I was placed on dialysis through my neck for two weeks. At the end of those two weeks, ministers from my church came to my hospital room, prayed, and anointed me with oil, and my kidneys started functioning properly. To this day, I have never returned to dialysis.

While in the coma, I had two angels that would often appear to me bringing water to drink and making me exercise. While in the coma, they also assured me that I was going home and would recover successfully.

After coming out of the 21-day medically induced coma, much to the medical staff’s surprise, I was able to walk. Although I was able to walk, I left the hospital talking like a five-year-old and unable to hold a pencil. Thankfully in 2019, my speech fully recovered, and I began to write normally again. After coming out of the coma and still in the hospital, God commanded me to pursue a Doctoral degree. So, in March 2015, I began pursing a doctoral education which culminated with a dissertation process that started in the year 2018. With all of my disabilities, just as the Lord instructed, I got my dissertation approved and graduated with Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership with a Christian Ministry emphasis in March 2022.

Dr./Elder Raymond B. Green, Ed.D.. M.B.A., B.A., A.A.