Now, he has had time to reflect on this traumatic experience and is profoundly grateful for all the prayers that were poured out for his healing. It was touch-and-go for a while, but he made it. Morris underwent emergency surgery to repair arteries that had been damaged by two separate hematomas. “And I knew I wasn’t dying that day,” the pastor declared. Then, God responded with some clear and concise words: “I’m not.” And I just don’t think you’re finished with me yet on earth (in terms of ministry work),” the pastor remembered telling the Lord. Morris recounted a frank conversation he had with God: “If this is it I’m ready to come but I’d like to stay for my family. I thought about my family and my church family but … I just knew God will take care of them,” he continued. “I was excited that I was about to see Jesus, that I was going to Heaven.

He said he had no fear and felt “extremely peaceful.” Incredible, despite his dire medical condition, he said he also felt “happy” and “excited.” “I didn’t go to Heaven but the Lord’s presence filled the helicopter and I felt like I was about to go to Heaven,” he explained. “So Debbie and I said goodbyes and I recorded a video to our children and our grandchildren.”ĭuring that perilous 35-minute flight, Morris said he had “an encounter with the Lord.” “So we both thought it was over,” Morris recalled during an emotional talk at Gateway earlier this month. “You might want to get in and talk to him,” one of the medics told Morris’s wife, Debbie, as they loaded the pastor into a medivac helicopter. Pastor’s Final Act of Faith Before Tragic Death in Volcano When paramedics finally reached him, Morris was in a critical state - first responders could barely find a pulse. Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris has detailed his extraordinary experience of survival after he fell terribly ill from a bout of internal bleeding. The 56-year-old pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was at a remote property with his wife when he suddenly collapsed.

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