LT. Chaplain Terry Sponzholz
President, firefighters for Christ, Citrus County Florida.
We had finished a Code Two run to the hospital (heart attack) when we received another emergency call from my captain: “Our baby has quit breathing!” You could hear the commotion in the background. His wife was in a panic, and administrating breaths to their teo-week-old daighter brought no response. The couple was hysterical.
The driver of our fire engine made record time with the pedal all the way to the metal. It as a seven- or eight-mile drive from the hospital to their home. How long had their baby been without oxygen to the brain? had damage already taken place? We beat the ambulance to the scene.
It is a moment that stands still forever in your mind when a non-breathing, two-week-old baby that is limp, blue in the face and lips, lifeless, and with arms and legs flopping is thrown into your arms by your captain. The Captain had only one direction for me.
“You pray a lot! Do what you do, please!”
And that is when the Holy Spirit fell on me. I cried out to the Lord and started to pray in tongues. This catholic family had thrown their baby into the hands of a Pentecostal chaplain! But when the Holy Spirit fell, the power went into that baby in my arms. And that baby came back to lie, without my ever putting on the mask or turning on the oxygen.
By the time the ambulance arrived the child was totally back to normal. the Holy Spirit had blown life into that child all over again Fear had gripped the parents, not only because of the baby´s being without oxygen for more than the four-minute limit, but because it was compounded with the pain they left from when the captain´s nephew had drowned.
“It was not Gods fault that Tommy (the nephew) had died,” I had told them, but it had left a mean feeling inside of the captain´s body. That day the pain had compounded in his heart. He had expressed the only way he knew to express it: “Do what you do!”
And those words spoken in faith towards god, brought a miracle to his child that day!
He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. Psalm 91:15
Excerpt from the book “Psalm 91. God’s Shield of Protection. Military edition” by Peggy Joyce Ruth and Angelia Ruth Schum.
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