SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Clarice and Ron Holden, and Ron was hit by a drunk driver, truck plowed into his car. He got catapulted out of the car. He had everything imaginable wrong, to the point where the doctor said “Mrs. Holden, go home. Put your affairs in order. He has three hours to live.” This woman tenaciously held on. She started giving the doctors orders. She started saying “Will you be in agreement that my husband will live and not die?” And the doctor said no, but finally, this mad woman is pestering him, so he agrees with her. Then she says “And I want to be in on every meeting.” She stayed in that hospital 52 days, praying with herself, and others, and church members. There was prayer going on in their church, the whole hospital was aware of what was going on. But there was one tough night, and you were singing with a friend, worshipping God, and all of a sudden, someone joins you. Tell me about that.
CLARICE: Well it was really touch and go that night, and I was not comfortable waiting in the waiting room. I went to the Intensive Care, the door, and we were just walking and praying and singing, you know, just really giving everything we had. And all of a sudden, we were singing “Thank You, Lord”, and in the background we heard somebody say “Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord.” And I turned, and there was a lady, and she was mopping as she was walking, and she was praying with us. And there was an elevator right behind us, and it would come up and the doors would open, nobody would go out. And then it would go out and come back and she kept right on doing this. I never thought anything about it that night, but the next day, I said I wanted to talk to that lady, because she really seemed to encourage us, you know. She helped us with our prayer. Nobody had ever heard of this lady in the hospital. I explained what she looked like, nobody had seen her. And you know, we just couldn’t answer that question.
SID ROTH: What happened with Ron as of that moment when she came in?
CLARICE: Well that night, he took a turn for the better, and he started getting better.
SID: So if no one knew this cleaning woman, that was an angel.
CLARICE: Well we believe it was.
SID ROTH: Ok Ron, speaking of an angel, you had a horrible experience while this was going on. The angel of death came in. Tell me briefly what occurred.
RONNIE: Well I didn’t realize who he was to begin with. I had other angels in my room, three angels, and they were there…
SID: You’re having all these angels, and your wife is in war. You had the better deal.
RONNIE: I did, I did. I was lying in bed, I saw this man come in the door who was like 7 feet tall, he had a real nice Armani suit on it looked like. He started walking towards the bed, and then he turned and went and leaned against the wall. And I had a real bad feeling about him when he came in, and he stood against the wall and just stared at me. And then he started towards the bed, and the other angels, the other people in the room, stood up and talked to him, and said something to him. And he glanced at me, then he turned and went back out the door, and I felt such relief when he left.
SID: But there was another point when the angels were giving you a choice. What was the choice?
RONNIE: I think it probably was the night they said… there was a couple more nights they said
I would not live through the night. They told me “We’re getting ready to leave to make a trip to the other side. If you’re ready, we want you to go with us, and you’ll never hurt again, you’ll never have any pain.” And my wife, she told me later she had been talking loudly to me to fight.
She said I had to fight. Everyone was fighting for me; everyone was praying for me, I need to fight.
SID: Out of curiosity, being in the coma and everything, and literally dying, could you, even though you were in that coma, could you hear anything going on with your wife?
RONNIE: Well, apparently I could, because I told them “No, my wife is waiting for me. She’s calling me back to the hospital. She wants me to come back, and I really need to go back.”
SID: Clarice, what were you saying about that time?
CLARICE: Well again, we’d done everything and nothing was moving, so I just went in and I started, I was praying, but I walked around that room. I say, “Ronnie, you have got to fight. I’ve done everything I can do. You have got to fight.” And I was like screaming at him. But you know, we didn’t…
SID: You just don’t look like that kind of person. So ok Ronnie, so you’re saying “My wife…”
What’d you say? “My wife needs me”?
RONNIE: “My wife wants me to come back. She’s been calling me back. I really need to go back to her. I can’t leave right now.”
SID: So you literally had a choice.
RONNIE: I did, I had a choice, absolutely, yeah. I’d never heard of that before, and I don’t know why I was given that choice.
SID: A miracle transpired. And although the doctors said three hours to live, although there was no human rationale, Clarice grabbed hold of the promises of God and refused to give up. Tell me about the day that Ronnie walked out of the hospital.
CLARICE: Well, as you know, they have to roll you out, so I’d spoken to a lady in the hospital, and I asked her if she could sing a song, and she said she would. And as they pushed him out on the sidewalk there, the sidewalk was lined with doctors, nurses, physical therapists, janitors, and everything. This lady started singing “Amazing Grace.” Because we knew that it was God who did this, and the doctors even knew. They called him their “Miracle Boy.”
SID: The doctors used the word “Miracle Boy”?
CLARICE: Yes they did.
SID: Ok, what about that doctor that you had to literally twist his arm to agree that Ronnie would live and he’d has some hope? What did he say after Ronnie walked out?
CLARICE: Well he was very shocked, and he was very thankful though. He saw our pastor there one day, and he said, “Who are you here to see?” He said “Not Ronnie, another member of our church.” He said, “Well he’ll be just fine then. You are a praying group of people.” And that was very special to us, and he saw a difference, and he saw a miracle. And we’re just so thankful.
SID: Some of you need a miracle right now. Some of you are giving up, but God knows what’s going on in your life. That’s why He’s going to have Clarice look into the camera, and in one minute, give them encouragement.
CLARICE: If you have been given a sentence of death or anything that does not line up with what the word of God says, you take a stand. You fight for what is rightfully yours. You stand for what you know is right, and if it’s your husband, if it’s a loved one, if it’s a doctor that has told you that it’s not curable, do not take that for an answer. You do what you have to do to get through that. And if a person in your family is not where they need to be, you stand until that happens. And someone asked me, how long do you stand? You stand until it happens. That’s what we did, and that’s why he’s here today, and we thank God for it.
SID: Ronnie, is there any way that you would be alive today, based on what occurred, if your wife had not been tenaciously believing God’s promises?
RONNIE: No, I know there’s not. She stood for me.
SID: So listen, don’t give up. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. The only evidence that is valid and spends in heaven is faith in God’s word. And God says you shall live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord. I’m going to speak that again to you. You shall live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord. That’s what Clarice and Ronnie Holden are doing. They’re witnesses that God is bigger than what you see with your eyes. God’s word is true. Let every man be a liar, but God’s word is true. People are being physically healed of all sorts of pain right now, especially in the neck. Move your head; you’ll see that pain is gone. In fact, it’s healed.
Anything you need, it’s yours, in Jesus’ name.
