"When I arrived to the hospital my husband was in a coma

surgery had to be done."

Pastor Medina Pullings made that journal entry May 18th 2011

sitting in a hospital waiting room. Her husband, Bishop Orrin

Pullings had suffered a brain hemorrhage, and was fighting for his life.

"Surgery had to be done and there was great risk." Orrin & Medina

started pastoring in 1996 in Hollis Queens, New York.

In just 14 years, United Nations Church International had grown to 4 churches

in 4 states. They worked non-stop pastoring the churches, and were

also parents to 5 children. Orrin functioned on as little as

4 hours of sleep. "You know as a young man sleep wasn't very important to me. It was about getting the job

done. I always felt like I was running out of time." Then in

2007 Orrin started getting headaches and seeing black spots in his vision.

Even though a doctor found nothing wrong, Orrin had to take up to 12 pain

pills a day. By now he felt invincible.

"The subtitle for my first book was Unstoppable Faith, discovering the

indestructible you. I'm totally unstoppable, so what could happen

to Orrin Pullings?" For the next 4 years Orrin continued his

grueling ministry schedule. The headaches came and went, until May 18th

2011. He was preaching at his church in Charlotte, North Carolina when

he had a severe head pain. "And I remember right in the middle of the

message major pains went through my head like POW

POW POW." Orrin managed to finish his message

moments later, he collapsed. When Medina spoke to her husband on the phone she

knew something was wrong. "It was like aaaa

mmmmm ( mumbled groaning sounds) When I heard

the sound that came from my husband, my first

thought was JESUS." Bishop Orrin was

rushed to Wake Forest Baptist Hosptial where they began emergency surgery to relieve the

swelling and drain the fluid from his brain. Dr. Don Yates

the Pullings family doctor, explains just how serious his condition was.

"Bishop Pullings had a very serious bleed in his brain.

called a intraventricular hemorrhage. So many of people don't even survive the bleed

but of those that do survive, there is a fairly low percentage of people who

recover fully. Most have long-term neurologic deficits and

have problems with thinking, and doing normal activity after the

condition has occurred." The doctor spoke to Medina about her husband's condition.

"The fastest quickest prayer I knew.

JESUS, when you can't get all the words out, everything that you

need to say, it was summed up in that one word."

By now, church members and Orrin's parents had come to pray with Medina.

"And the posture in that waiting room was spiritual warfare

prayer and praise the entire time of the

surgery." After surgery, Orrin was still in critical condition. When he

woke up he couldn't remember anything. "So you're my

wife? Then I realized, he doesn't know

who I am. You're my wife? and I said yes

I'm your wife. So now in this moment I've got to get over myself, not fall to pieces

because if I hit this floor, this is going to mess him up now."

Over the next two weeks his condition worsened. Medina watched online recordings of

Orrin preaching and journaled her thoughts and prayers. "I miss my husband so much

I won't give up. I will continue to declare his total

restoration, healing, etc.

The miraculous! He's a miracle! Haven't had any sleep

but I'm up watching videos of my husband.

(Inaudible)

That was a hard day." (Cries)

Then on May 26th Medina

says God gave her a promise. "And He said I'm going to give him rapid recovery

God says 10 days I'm going to raise Him up

and then The Lord had given me this song (singing) "Up above my head is

a miracle." "And in my husband's room over the bed

where his head sat there, on the wall only in his

room at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital was the word MIRACLE."

Within a week he began to improve. Doctors were able to remove the drain from Orrin's head

and he was moved from ICU to a regular room. Towards the end

of his hospital stay he started to regain his memory.

On June 6, 2011 - ten days after Pastor Medina heard from God

Orrin was released from the hospital with no residual effects, and no need for

rehabilitation. "And God worked that thing out. When He said miracle, he meant miracle.

because my husband walked out of that hospital on his own two feet

in his right mind, no rehabilitation, he went straight home

and that was GOD working another miracle for me."

"To see him today walking, talking, thinking normally, and having no problems with his

normal activities, that is definitely a miracle. God has definitely been part of this."

Two weeks later, Bishop Orrin returned to the pulpit. He says God has given him

a new perspective on being a Pastor, husband, and father.

"I spend more time enjoying my life. I spend more time not being

worried and stressed out about the success of the ministry. God is a God of multiple

chances, and He's given me another chance to live this life the way He

promised me. The way He ordained me to live it. The abundant life.

Good health... (laughs) Good wealth, a good family life

and being happy and enjoying things."

"Have faith in God! Have faith in God! Have faith in God! He will

work a miracle just for you."

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