On Monday Bethel worship leader Kalley Heiligenthal asked “the global church” to pray for “resurrection power” after her two-year-old daughter Olive was “unexpectedly” pronounced dead on Saturday after not waking up from her sleep.
Since then the church in Redding, California has held daily prayer and worship services, believing that God will bring the girl back to life again.
In a video posted on Facebook on Wednesday night, Johnson thanked the “countless people” who have joined the church in “prayer and intercession for the life and resurrection of Olive Heiligenthal” and added that many people have asked “important questions on that journey”.
Johnson explained that they’ve been praying for a miracle of God because of the “biblical precedent” Jesus set when he raised the dead and commanded his disciples to do so also.
“We try to run with a real conviction and a devotion to the very thing that Jesus taught us to do. So I’ve been asked, ‘isn’t this interrupting the sovereignty of God?’ And my response is… we don’t ever want to violate the sovereignty of God. God is sovereign. He chooses what he wants and we cooperate with him.
“The reason Jesus raised the dead is because not everyone dies in God’s timing. And Jesus could tell, and he would interrupt that funeral, he would interrupt that process that some would just call the sovereignty of God. He’d raise a…
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