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Faith in the Midst of Trials 0:02 We wanna honor God because he sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 I am Naina Keegan. We're so happy you joined the broadcast today.0:59 Yes. And today we have a very special friend with us, missus Marsha Hughes. She is an amazing friend of ours. We've talked about our little1:11 sisterhood that, we go out for each other's birthdays. Marsha is 1 of those women of God that we have talked about on the show in the past, and she just has a1:23 real love for the Lord, a real faith in Jesus. If you ever need to be in a foxhole with somebody, but with faith it is Marcia Hughes, and she has written a book and we are1:35 gonna talk more about this book to you today.1:38 Yes. Marsha is a powerful woman of God, and let me just tell you that, she even contributes devotionals to our ministry. And so if you follow our ministry at all,1:50 you'll read some of her devotions on there. Just a powerhouse in the Lord. And her book is entitled From Wheelchair to Playground, and it's all about her daughter. And it's such a2:02 powerful story about her daughter Haley. So so let's just start with that. So Marsha, tell us a little bit about Haley and what happened and why you2:14 were led to write the book. Tell us all about your sweet angel baby.2:19 Thank you, good girls. That's really sweet. Yeah. At 45 years old, I found out, I was pregnant, and, it's a2:31 situation, excuse me, it wasn't really a perfect situation because I wasn't married at the time, and I had never been able to conceive2:43 when I was married before, and so here comes this little girl into my life. I had an artery rupture when I was pregnant,2:55 so it was an emergency, and rushed to the hospital and they were able to save us, but that was the first miracle was that God saved us.3:07 Saved both of you.3:08 Yeah. The nurse when they took Haley away to a different hospital and I had issues, I had another surgery I had issues, so, I remember waking up, I think it was the second3:20 day I was critical and I woke up and the nurse said, you're lucky to be alive, you had you know 5 units of blood and and you're very lucky to be alive, and then I was out again.3:32 And I didn't get to see Haley for about a week, but because of the loss of blood she suffered severe cerebral palsy. Yeah, and so3:44 I got a a leave from the hospital to go see her on a Saturday, so it was about 7 days later, went to Texas Children's on a leave, and3:56 the doctors went to talk to me3:57 in a big conference room and I'm very intimidated you know when I4:01 go in this conference room and all these doctors sitting around the table and they're like, well your daughter's not going to talk, she's not going to walk, she4:13 won't be able to feed herself. I kind of tuned them out at that point and I just didn't even hear the rest of what they said. I didn't even remember hearing them say she4:24 was blind, I found that out later, but, it just I just thought, you know, no, I'm not gonna believe any of that. I'm just not gonna believe it.4:35 And what were you gonna believe instead, Marcia?4:41 I believe in healing and I I still do. I believe that she was gonna be healed.4:47 Mhmm. Did you, like from that point on I mean, I know that you are so strong in the Lord, but right then, you know, after overcoming the surgery yourself and then hearing all of4:59 this stuff about Haley, I just you know, where did you find the faith to even believe like that? Because it was like, you know, it was like everything at once, like, coming against you just to find5:11 all that out. Like, for you to immediately decide that you were not gonna believe that report,5:19 you know? I think that came from my upbringing, you know, having Christian home and Christian parents.5:26 Mhmm.5:27 And there were some things that happened in our past where God showed up in a miraculous way when I was growing up, and I just5:39 I I just never had a doubt. God gave me my faith obviously, but I never had a doubt. And I had people wanting to hang around me because they wanted to see this5:51 miracle, they were convinced too, you know. And I remember driving to work 1 day, I drove about an hour to work, and God said, you know it wasn't happening, it wasn't6:02 happening, and and I was just wondering when this is gonna happen, it was like maybe 3 or 4 years or whatever. Mhmm. And God said, you know, the scriptures speak as though it had6:14 already happened, and he goes, right write it down as though it had already happened. So when I got to work it was a Sunday morning and I grabbed a stack of post it notes, you know those6:26 2 inch notes and I put a pin down on it and I said, okay I'm gonna write about her healing, you know. So I put the pen down and oh my gosh, I'm just flipping post it notes like crazy6:39 and I turned to my partner in, sales and and I said, I think this is gonna be a book. And so I'm just writing all this stuff out and about her healing, and that's the first half of6:51 the book, it's about her healing. And I mean it's very detailed about what we were going to do and and basically I told God what he was going to do period the end, you know. And I thought well we're going to7:02 be speaking be in in churches because of our healing, people are going to believe in the Lord because of our healing, and7:15 So what happened? Because we we we always think that if we could tell God what to do, it goes like this, you know, a plus b equals c. And so what happened when it7:27 didn't happen the way you thought? So tell us about7:31 that. That was rough, Nina. I I went to work 1 morning and I always went in Haley's room and kissed her goodbye, before I went to work, and I didn't go7:43 that morning because I was running late, and so I got to work and the phone rang and 1 of the guys picked up the phone and, I kind of overheard a little bit of it. I think they said,7:55 well Karen's he said Karen's not here, that was my manager, she's not here. And he said Wally, like he didn't know who was on the other end and I'm thought And Wally is your husband.8:07 Right. Wally's my husband, and I thought why is he wanting Karen, my boss, and then pretty soon Kelly called another co8:19 worker over, 1 of the girls, and talked to her, and I was reading the comics, you know, I was just reading, kind of ignoring them then, and so Penny was just pacing the floor and she'd come over to me8:30 and she'd look at me and turn around walk away, that happened 2 or 3 times and she came up to me the last time.8:38 Can I stop you right there Marcia? We are gonna take a quick break. When we come back, we're gonna hear more of this amazing story. Stay tuned. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.8:48 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.9:00 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the9:12 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus. Give today by logging9:24 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road9:35 number 122 Magnolia, Texas 7 7 3 5 4. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.9:48 Give now.9:51 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. We are here right now with our dear friend, Marsha Hughes, who wrote this book From Wheelchair to Playground, and she was10:02 telling us about her beautiful daughter Haley, and we were in the story and you mentioned that Penny was in your office pacing and there was a phone call. Tell us10:14 more about that.10:16 Yes. At work 1 1 morning and my co worker would come over to me and she'd walk away, and she'd come over to me and walk away, and I said, Penny are you alright?10:28 And so the last time she came over to me and she said, Marsha sit down, and I knew, she didn't have to tell10:40 me then, I knew that I had lost my daughter with no warning. You know, God had just taken her in the middle of the night.10:50 So walk us through that because you had such faith and so believed that God was going to heal Haley. Yeah. And so what11:02 were your thoughts and how did and that get turned around in your mind, and how did you reconcile this with God?11:12 I wasn't a very happy camper with him at all. And actually, the first thing that came out of my mouth was I mean, I11:24 just screamed and I screamed, God I hate you. We have anger, we have anger11:36 towards God. It was I was disillusioned, I was I felt betrayed because I'd had all this faith,11:48 and what happens to all that faith now? You know what happens to it? How do you get it back when you've had mustard seed faith? How do you get it back? And12:00 so he knew I didn't hate him. I really didn't hate him, but he made me so mad at that, you know. And being the gentleman12:11 that he is, he took a step back and he let me go through the grief and the anger and being mad at him.12:23 And he it was just like like a puzzle and broken pieces all around your feet and, you know, and your your12:34 identity changes, you're not a mom mom anymore, you know, Mother's Day doesn't have the same meaning and you dread it and you hate it, and you know, if you've lost12:46 anyone dear, lost a child you don't, you know she was my only child, so it was like you know I'm not a mom anymore and and so what do you do now? Your whole identity12:58 and everything changes and you have to fight, you have to fight to try to get it back, but you know it took a long time to be able to thank God13:10 for healing my daughter, not in my way.13:15 Right? Amen.13:16 And when you think about, you know, grief, there are so many people, and I hear this a lot in ministry, that that you hear the great13:27 testimonies and that's not how it worked out for you. Yeah. And you think, but what about me, God? Do you love me less? And that's just such a lie. You know, if we think about that we're just13:39 passing through the earth, like the Bible talks about we're sojourners, we're not residents here. Haley was never a resident here. She was passing through into heaven, and when we have an eternal perspective,13:52 that's where we get our peace. And would you say that that has been a hope for you with Haley because you will see her again?14:01 Right.14:02 What was exactly, like, the turning point? Because, you know, God's ways are not our ways. And, you know, we we can think he should do something a certain way, and and and then14:14 when it didn't happen that way, but for what you just said that you know she's healed, you do know she's healed now. So what was it? When was that turning point in your mind? When did you finally like sort of14:26 come to that conclusion that she did get healed?14:30 You know it's right after, this is weird, but it was when I was holding her when I got home, and the pastor came over and I was in14:42 her room holding her, and he came in and he said, I had a vision on the way over and I couldn't understand it, but Haley was running in a field14:54 in, you know, in heaven obviously. She was running in a field and Jesus came over, she fell down and Jesus came over and reached his hand down. And he15:06 didn't understand, but his hand was closed and his thumb was out. Isn't that weird? But I knew it was true and15:17 Haley reached up and grabbed his thumb to stand up. I knew it was true then because Haley's hands were curled and she couldn't open them. The only thing she could do15:29 would be to grab a finger, grab our thumb.15:34 So something so specific15:36 Yeah.15:36 That you would know that was from the Lord.15:38 Right. Nobody would know that.15:41 That's amazing.15:42 And And that had to be comforting to know that, you know, there's that she's completely healed now and and and the Lord put that in your heart to know that.15:54 Yeah. It's amazing. And at her funeral, somebody else mentioned that she was they had a vision of her skipping,16:07 you know, said she's a skipper, you know, and so, even though I was angry, I had those things to hang on to, because I I knew she was there,16:19 you know, I mean I've been raised that way, I know I'm gonna see her again and meet her and, get to hold her again and all of that, but but it took time. It really did16:31 take time for the the anger and there's a big amount of guilt that always comes with a a death, you know. Yeah. And you think, well I didn't why wasn't she healed? I didn't pray16:42 enough. You know you make God up to who you think he is at that time, you know you're making up your own God right then and you go, well okay. God didn't think I prayed enough. Well, that isn't it. You16:54 know?16:55 And some church people have even said that to grieving people that, well, maybe if you're you would have had faith enough or whatever, and they condemn these people And and the Lord17:07 is sovereign. He is he knows what he's doing. And so we just have to have peace in that.17:15 And we and knowing that everything that we go through, God will use it for his good and for his eternal glory. And really, so much17:27 good has come out in in what you are doing for the Lord now, and your book, and how many people this is blessing and helping. So we're gonna talk more about that when we come right back. We're gonna hear all about yourHealing Through Forgiveness and Purpose 17:39 book.17:40 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.17:52 When you donate to Grace Grace ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the18:03 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus. Give today by logging18:15 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 road18:27 number 120 22, Magnolia, Texas 7 7 3 5 4. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission today.18:39 Give now.18:42 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. And if you've been listening to this powerful story from our dear friend Marsha Hughes, and she is just going to take us through now how God18:54 healed her daughter in a completely different way than she thought. And what that means because she has written a beautiful book about it that you all have to get. So tell us tell us19:05 how, you know, you know now that she's healed. You had so many confirmations with visions and people speaking and praying, but when did you finally decide that you know she's healed and19:17 that you're gonna leave it with the Lord?19:20 I know exactly when that was because that's when I was able to forgive. Yeah it seems weird that you have to forgive someone who died, you know,19:32 but especially in suicide I think you know that's an issue but for people, but to forgive the person who died seems weird, but you you still19:44 have to forgive God. So there's no, so it opens up that channel between you and God again so it's not closed off, you have to forgive him19:55 for answering your prayer in his way and not your way, and you have to forgive yourself, you have to forgive yourself for20:08 the feelings that you, the negative feelings that you had against them and against God, and you just when you get to the point where you can get get on your20:19 knees, you know, and ask forgiveness, it just brings healing.20:27 And you saw you saw God do some remarkable things, like at your job and, you know, talk about that, like how he was really taking care of you in other ways.20:36 Yeah. Well, I was mad at him. He was he was taking care of my job.20:42 Yeah. Because you you felt like you couldn't even think after Haley passed away. No.20:47 I couldn't put it together. I Yeah. I don't think I smiled for a year and someone even said that. I I I actually overheard someone say, I don't think Marsha smiled for a year, and that's20:59 how, you know, grieved I was and how broken I was, and but amidst me being mad at God, he came in and I was in a commission sales job,21:12 and I don't know if you know what a lay down is, but they're like, okay I want to buy, how much is it? I'm writing a check right now, that's a lay down. And I had numerous people come21:24 in. I was in land sales so it was lots. So I had a builder come in and buy 21 lots. Everybody that walked in the door when I was up21:35 bought multiple lots, 2 to 4 lots, they were all doubles or more. People noticed it. The people in my job said this is like miraculous, this is not normal,21:47 you know, and I recognized that God took over for me totally when I couldn't even put a thought together. Right. And, or when I get lost on property21:59 or something, you know, he would he would, he would just take over for me and and I didn't have to worry and I was number 1 in sales that year.22:11 But he just he blessed me totally and and the fact that I recognize that Haley was after the forgiveness, I recognize that22:23 Haley was in her ministry, that even though she was a special needs child, people loved Haley. We led 2 of I led 2 of her nannies22:35 to the Lord, and I wanted an invitational funeral and 7 people raised their hands22:41 to Praise God.22:43 To accept Christ at her funeral, so 9 people out of her little life, you know, of 11 years.22:49 That's amazing. Yeah.22:51 And so, little miracles happened all along the way that that let me believe, hey you know God's still all around you like23:03 David, he's before you, he's behind you, he has his hand on your shoulder, you know he's still there when you're ready, he's there. Amen. You have to be ready and and the forgiveness23:15 brings you to that point where where you're open again and you're ready. Yeah. Yeah.23:21 So that led you to write the book, and it is such an amazing story. It is such an amazing story.23:28 It is and she did such a great job with the book and it's called From Wheelchair to Playground and every single person needs to get a copy of23:40 this. This is a real testimony of the grace of God in tragedy. And, you know, we hear so many different kinds of testimonies, but I believe, you23:51 know, the Bible says there's wisdom in the house of the grieving. And in in in your weakness, God made you strong. Yeah. And and Marcia truly is we have seen her24:03 life, and she truly is a a woman of God and a woman of faith.24:08 Yes. Thank you.24:09 So we appreciate you. Would you pray for24:11 our viewers? Would you would as the Lord leads and maybe people who are going through some of these things that are caught this program and and really, you know, thought that this could minister to them,24:24 and so how would you please pray for them?24:26 Oh, that'd be a privilege. I would love to.24:28 Okay.24:29 Alright. Father, I just raise people in the audience up to you right now. Those who are going through grief, whether it's a job or a pet24:41 or husband, wife, child, whatever it is Lord there's different types of grieving, but it's a true emotion. Father I just ask that you would touch them and heal them right24:53 now. I ask that you would kiss their heart, that you would just wrap your arms around them, that they would feel encompassed by your love. Father25:05 we just thank you, we praise you, we worship you, we honor you, everything that we do honors you, so when we get to the point, bring us to the point where we can25:17 forgive, each 1 out there. Just bring them to that point Lord of forgiveness, open their heart again to you, and25:29 just love on them. Let them accept your love.25:33 Yes.25:34 And then be a blessing to others.25:37 Amen.25:38 And we just pray that in the mighty name of Jesus.25:42 Amen. So powerful.25:44 Don't forget to get this book.25:47 Wherever it says from25:48 Wheelchair to Playground by Marsha Hughes, get the book.25:53 And the proceeds go to children's ministry, so you're gonna be helping out a lot of children, so that's so wonderful. Marsha, we are just so grateful. We know your story is gonna blend. So much. And let me just say,26:05 she also works in children's ministries. She she she has a jail ministry that goes and speaks to to the girls who are in juvenile, detention and jail. And they are26:17 getting saved and she's doing mighty things for the Lord. And what the devil meant for harm, God is using for good. So we are thanking you for being part of our broadcast today. 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