My condolences, Brother Jed, on your loss. If you're having an open-casket funeral, you might just want to discreetly double check that your father-in-law is in fact dead. Your prayer might have had a delayed effect. It would be such a shame if he were raised from the dead only to be buried alive. I'm having visions of him trapped in that drawer down at the morgue trying to get out.
I saw my father briefly raised from the dead. He was working outside when suddenly he gasped and collapsed on the ground. My mother rushed over to him to find that he'd stopped breathing. Kneeling beside him, weeping, she prayed. My younger sisters and I gathered around. How long she prayed I couldn't say. It seemed like a long time. But eventually his eyelids fluttered. His chest heaved and his fingers started to twitch. He made some strange vocalisations. I couldn't make out any words; it was more like moaning. At one point I'm sure he suddenly jerked and sat partway up, but flopped back down again. Finally he soiled himself, and then that was it. He was gone for good this time. But I had definitely witnessed a partial resurrection.
Evangelist
Smith Wigglesworth raised the dead.
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A friend of his lay dying. They had been kindred spirits from their boyhood days, perfect love existed between them. When Mr. Wigglesworth reached home one evening he found his wife had gone to see his friend who was sick and he immediately started down to see him also. As he neared the house he knew something serious had happened, and as he passed up the stairway he found the wife of the sick man lying on the stairs, broken-hearted. Death had already taken place. As he entered the room where the man lay, the deep love he had always cherished overcame him and he lost control of himself and began crying out to God. His wife who was present remonstrated with him, but as his heart went out to God he was lost to all around and felt he was being drawn up by the Spirit into the heavenlies. The deep cry of his heart was: “Father, Father, in Jesus’ Name bring him back.” He opened his eyes to find out there were no altered conditions, but with a living faith he cried out, “He lives! He lives! Look! Look !” The dead man opened his eyes and revived, and he is living today.
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Unbelievers are always asking for miracles, but then when a miracle does happen, they try to attribute it to natural causes. They try to find a rational explanation. They move the goalposts. Secular medicine talks about "clinical death." If someone dies and goes to heaven or hell (has a "near-death experience" as secular doctors call it) or if someone appears to be dead but suddenly revives, then he was only "clinically dead," not
really dead. This semantic trick allows doctors to ignore some of the best evidence there is for an afterlife and a God who has the power to raise the dead.
You and your family are in my prayers at this time. I'm still having mental images of your father-in-law trapped in a drawer at the morgue. Perhaps I should pray that if God did end up resurrecting him after you left, He would now be merciful and end his suffering and take him back to be at His side.