Text Message Prayer Awakens “Lifeless” Baby
On Sunday, August 23, Pastor Robert Gay typed a text message prayer to his wife, Stacey, that awakened their newborn grandson, Josiah Gay.
At birth, Josiah was grey and not breathing. Doctors had resuscitated him, yet he still would not breathe.
“They could not get him to respond. He was lifeless,” Robert said. Josiah’s birth was six weeks early, after his mother’s uterine sac ruptured. His umbilical cord had a full knot in it.
“Statistically, less than 1% of babies are born with a full umbilical cord knot,” explained Robert. “And less than 1% of those survive vaginal delivery.”
Robert’s wife had been sending him text messages from the delivery room with updates of the baby’s condition when she heard one of the nurses use the word “still” in reference to the baby.
“She texted me ‘He’s not breathing’ and ‘We need him to cry, Pray,’” Robert said. “I immediately texted her back, ‘In Jesus’ name, breath’” Robert responded with a text message of faith, and the result was miraculous.
Baby Josiah awoke crying just as the sound of Stacey’s phone ringing alerted her to Robert’s text message.
“God had performed a miracle,” Robert said, but that was only the beginning of Josiah’s miraculous recovery.
Parents Joshua and Miranda were told their baby was very sick, according to Robert. On a health scale of 0-10, with 0 being dead and 10 being full health, Josiah’s score was 1.
“Doctors said he would be in the hospital until his original due date, October 4th,” Robert said. But within 10 minutes of his first health score, Josiah received a second health score: a score of six.
“We had a group of about 25 people in the waiting room praying in tongues and interceding,” Robert said.
Josiah’s health score finally rose to an 8, and he left NICU after only six and a half days, according to Robert.
“The doctors kept commenting on what a miracle he was,” Robert said. The delivery doctor said to Roberts’s sister-in-law, with tears streaming down her face, “This is a miracle because cord babies like this don’t live.”
To his parents and grandparents’ delight, Josiah was brought home on exactly the same day his father Joshua had come home 24 years earlier.
