Unresponsive: An Excerpt from Sudden Death: God’s Overtime

Read his own personal story of how Jacob Bembry went into sudden cardiac death at work, was revived by EMS and how he hovered near death in the hospital and read about the miracle from God that kept him here.
Note: On December 8, 2011, I went into cardiac arrest and suffered sudden cardiac death. I was clinically dead, according to my physicians and according to the paramedics. I did not see the “Light,” the glories of Heaven, or God while I was clinically “dead.” I feel that if I had I would still be there and would not, nor could I, come back. I wrote a book about the experience called “Sudden Death: God’s Overtime.” Below is an excerpt from the book which is available at a number of online book retailers or you can receive a signed copy by mailing $12 plus $3.99 shipping and handling to me at Jacob Bembry, P.O. Box 9334, Lee, FL 32059
Unresponsive.
The word hung in the air. My sister Debbie had uttered the word to my father when she had called from the hospital, asking him to get over there. I was unresponsive and in a coma.
From what I have been told, doctors were doing everything they could for me at that point but they did not see much hope that I would make it. Doctors had begun the Arctic Sun treatment on me. This is a procedure where they ice the body down in order to get the body temperature to drop. This helps preserve brain function in people who have gone into cardiac arrest.
My father, my two sisters and my brother, along with Pastor Retis Flowers and his wife, Janice, waited and prayed for me.
Texts had been sent out. Friends had posted it on their Facebook pages. Phone calls had been made. Prayers were going out from family members, friends and people I did not even know. They were the prayers of the faithful. God was listening and He was working.
My healing was not actually taking place in that hospital at that time. My healing had begun taking place in Jerusalem twenty centuries earlier as Roman soldiers began to lash Jesus. I have read in the Bible “By My stripes, you are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). I believe that. I believe those words were not spoken just for healing from my sins, but for healing for my body.
Just imagine: a king took those stripes for me. He took them for you also. If you had been the only person on Earth, who was guilty of sin, He would have gone to the Cross just for you. If you were the only person who would ever be sick, He would have taken the beating just for you. Do you think that any king or the President would take a beating and be nailed to a cross for anyone? I don’t but the King did it; not just any king but the King of Kings. He is the King that all other kings in the history of the world will have to bow to and He took the beating and was nailed to a Cross just for me. He was laid in a grave but three days later, he arose.
I began to rally, although it was slow at first.
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