Pastor Robert Morris returned to the pulpit of his Texas megachurch this past weekend, nearly two months after he nearly died due to internal bleeding.
Met with a standing ovation from thousands of Gateway Church attendees, Morris made it clear that he was able to recover due to everyone’s prayer support, saying, “I’m here because of prayers.”
The 56-year-old pastor detailed his recent life-and-death journey, saying he first passed out while he was with his wife in a remote property about 1-1/2 hours away from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in April. He was bleeding internally and when paramedics could not get a blood pressure reading and had difficulty feeling a pulse, a helicopter had to fly him to the hospital.
Just before being flown, one of the first responders told Morris’ wife, Debbie, “You might want to get in and talk to him.”
“So we both thought it was over,” Morris recounted as he got emotional. “So Debbie and I said goodbyes and I recorded a video to our children and our grandchildren.”
During that helicopter ride, Morris said he had “an encounter with the Lord.”
“I didn’t go to Heaven but the Lord’s presence filled the helicopter and I felt like I was…
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