God Shows Up in Hospital Rooms- with guest Krista Mercille

When life suddenly shatters into a thousand terrifying pieces, where do you turn? For Krista, that moment came when her teenage son Landon—healthy one day—was fighting for his life the next, needing open-heart surgery and possibly a transplant. Yet amid this unimaginable nightmare, she found something unexpected: peace.

This raw, powerful conversation takes us into the heart of a medical crisis through the eyes of a mother who chose faith when fear seemed the only logical response. Krista vulnerably shares how this journey differs from an earlier difficult season in her life when she pushed God away rather than drawing near. "The struggle is still there, the pain is still real, but with God you're not consumed by it," she reflects, offering profound wisdom about what trust actually means when everything feels out of control.

What makes this story extraordinary is Landon himself—a 17-year-old whose spiritual maturity shines even from his hospital bed. Before his crisis, he would read his Bible alone in his room, listen to sermons, and eagerly share his faith with friends. Now, even while fighting for his life, he continues pointing others to Jesus, inspiring thousands who have rallied around his story online.

Perhaps the most beautiful revelation is how suffering becomes the very soil where unexpected beauty grows. From complete strangers becoming like family to witnessing her son's faith touch countless lives, Krista shows us that our darkest valleys often become sacred ground for God's most profound work. "You have to cling to Jesus with everything you have," she urges anyone walking their own path of pain, "because he is the only thing strong enough to hold you together when everything else feels like it's falling apart."

If you're facing your own impossible situation, feeling trapped in fear, or struggling to find God in your storm, this conversation offers both comfort and courage for the journey ahead. Listen now and discover how the battle won't break you when Jesus is the one holding you together.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Krista's Story
• 7:04 Krista's Faith Journey
• 15:54 The Beginning of Landon's Crisis
• 23:55 Finding Peace Amidst Suffering
• 31:42 From Bitterness to Surrender
• 37:38 Unexpected Divine Support
• 45:10 Words of Hope for Others
• 52:13 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Transcript

Gianina: 0:00

Welcome to Walkthrough the podcast, where we dive into real stories of faith, perseverance and finding God in the valleys and victories of life. I'm your host, Gianina, joined by my beautiful friend, Kiley, and today we're walking through a story that is both heartbreaking and full of hope. Our guest today is Krista, a mother who has been living every parent's worst nightmare. Her son, Landon, has been fighting for his life in the hospital for the last several weeks. He has undergone open heart surgery and is on a list for a transplant, and at so many moments the outcome was completely unknown. Krista and her family have faced unimaginable pain, fear and uncertainty, but through it all, they have chosen to bring it to the Lord.

Gianina: 0:43

This episode is a raw and honest conversation about trusting God when everything feels out of control, surrendering when there are no answers and finding peace in the middle of the storm. If you've ever walked through a season of waiting or grief or fear, this conversation is for you. Thank you, krista, so much for being on this call. We're so excited to have you on here, so welcome. Thank you, krista, so much for being on this call. We're so excited to have you on here, so welcome. Thank you so much. I am I'm happy to be here. Yeah Well, tell me a little bit about who you are, and just your background and a little bit of your journey with the Lord.

Krista: 1:19

Okay, well, first and foremost, I'm a wife and a mom. My husband and I have been married for a little over 10 years Together. First and foremost, I'm a wife and a mom. My husband and I have been married for a little over 10 years. Together, we have a blended family of six kids. Age ranges from 22 down to eight. So life has been pretty busy.

Krista: 1:34

As far as my faith journey, I wish I could say that it was a straight path, but the truth is it's been pretty messy. When I was a young girl, my next-door neighbors were Christians, and their daughter, kelly, became my best friend. Her family were the ones that actually introduced me to the Lord. I can remember when my parents would let me, I would ride to church with them on Sundays. I just I remember going there and loving it, you know, just sitting at church, hearing about God and just soaking it up and just completely falling in love with him. It was so much so that I decided to give my life to him. I even requested at a very young age to be baptized.

Krista: 2:15

But what I didn't understand back then was that there's a difference between knowing about God and truly surrendering your life to him. For years, I was one of those individuals that wrestled with doubt Periodically, find myself back in church, and I would go to the altar over and over again, rededicating my life, because I just I always wondered like, am I really saved? I knew I believed in God, but I kept searching for like some kind of moment that would just make me feel different. But what I've come to realize is that salvation isn't about an emotional experience. It's about trusting in Jesus, surrendering to him and believing what he's already done for you on the cross. And so now, like looking back, I can see that all along, god was drawing me to himself. And even through those struggles, through all the questions, the doubt, he never let go of me. And as messy as my journey has been, I now know that my faith isn't based on how I feel. It's based on the truth of who God is.

Gianina: 3:32

That is so powerful and just I love how you talked about it not being an emotion, but something that God has already done for us and just trusting in that, because it's a lot of times when we're in the moment, it's easy to focus on, like what is God doing right now and where am I in my life, and kind of this back and forth and just realizing like it's already been done, it is finished, like that is that's so powerful, for sure.

Kiley: 3:52

Well.

Gianina: 3:52

I think it's really amazing seeing especially as we're about to get into your story just seeing his faithfulness in your life from such a young age and how, even then, with your neighbor and with your friend that had brought you to church, like God knew that this moment would happen. He ordained things in your young life and just his faithfulness throughout your life, even when maybe you didn't feel like you were being faithful, so absolutely and praise God for that Absolutely and praise.

Kiley: 4:23

God for that I was thinking too like. He has that early realization that you had about it not being emotional.

Gianina: 4:30

In a sense, he was preparing you for this very moment because he knew that you needed to have thought that your faith is an emotional experience and now going through what you're going through and the emotions that you're going through. If your faith would have been in your emotions, where you would be right now?

Krista: 4:57

Absolutely. I completely agree.

Gianina: 4:59

Well, it's been about I would say two weeks, maybe three weeks, since we connected on social media and I think we're both a part of like a women's Bible group and I just remember seeing this post and, honestly, a lot of times I scroll past things on social media, especially when it comes to kids being hurt, like I'll say a quick prayer and then I'll scroll past them, because I get really bad anxiety when I see things about kids being in hospitals or sick, hurt, like I'll say a quick prayer and then I'll scroll past them because I get really bad anxiety when I see things about kids being in hospitals or sick and I just picture my son in that situation.

Gianina: 5:31

But this particular time I just remember the Lord pausing me and saying, hey, pay attention to this. And so I read through it and honestly, I saw right away, obviously, that it had something to do with your son's heart which I know we'll get into, but as a another and prayed for one another and with one another, and even my son has just been praying for Landon as well. And so I definitely would love for you to share a little bit about your journey and what you've been going through over the last month and just kind of how things started and where you're at right now.

Krista: 6:26

Yeah. So if you would have told me a year ago that I'd be sitting here talking about my son fighting for his life, I wouldn't have believed you.

Gianina: 6:35

Yeah.

Krista: 6:35

Because for most of Landon's life, I mean, he was relatively healthy outside of you know just the sicknesses that they get when they're a baby and stuff but he, like I said, he was relatively healthy. And then in 2018, that's when things kind of started to change a little bit he ended up having to go to the emergency room because the nurse at school he wasn't homeschooled at that time, but the nurse at school noticed that his heartbeat was off. That something was funny. So she had him sent to the ER and we found out that he had an SVT and I'm not going to try to pronounce the medical term for that because I will totally butcher it but basically what it is is it's a overly fast heartbeat, there's something just not right with the electricity in the heart, and so he ended up having to have a heart ablation and basically that was just a procedure to kind of fix that faulty electricity and to make his heart rhythm regular again. But after we did all the follow-up appointments and everything, we were told he was okay. We moved forward and we never imagined that years later, out of nowhere, everything would change. And now here we are. You know, like you mentioned before my son, he's now had open heart surgery and he's on a transplant list and we're just walking a road that we never saw coming.

Krista: 7:57

And being a heart mom is something I never thought I would be. No one prepares you for something like this. They can't prepare you to know what it feels like to watch your child suffer and to pray for a miracle and to wonder when it'll come. There's no manual for this kind of pain. I mean it just it breaks you in ways that you never knew were possible.

Krista: 8:18

But yet somehow, in the middle of the hardest season of my life, in the middle of the hardest season of my life, I've never felt more peace. I've seen God's hand in the moments that have just felt unbearable to me, and I've seen his love through complete strangers who have become family. I've seen his strength through Landon himself, gosh. Even in his suffering, he still points people to Jesus, and that's just what amazes me the most.

Krista: 8:48

You know you have this 17-year-old boy who gosh. I could tell you so many stories, but this is a boy that would sit in his room and just read his Bible and listen to sermons and talk to his friends about God. I mean, he's not somebody that was being told to do that, Like he did that on his own, because he loves the Lord that much and Jesus is his lifeline. And so just to see him in this battle, to see him in the middle of it and pointing people to Jesus, it's just, it's phenomenal. And, honestly, as much as this journey has been painful, I can't I can't deny the fact that I've also seen a lot of beauty in it.

Kiley: 9:30

I had reminded Janina that back in 2008, I had viral meningitis and I was hospitalized for nine days. And when we were talking about this, I think it was like two days before my surgery and I was really afraid that I wasn't going to come out of the surgery the same. And she said you know, the enemy doesn't want good things for you and it makes sense that that's why he's trying to attack that part of you, because he knows that you're a unique and kind and generous person and he doesn't. He doesn't want the world to have that and he had mentioned. It kind of set me even more at ease knowing that, okay, god's, god's got me.

Gianina: 10:10

Yeah, it just makes me think about like. So Kingston, my son, is very similar to Landon in that way. He's only 11, but he is one of those. He has the strongest relationship with the Lord that I've ever seen, especially for a child, and just the way that God reveals things to him that I would have never known at his age.

Gianina: 10:32

And so it's so interesting hearing your story and it's like, literally, the enemy is attacking their heart and their heartful part of them. It just really makes me think about. There's truly something special inside of Landon that the enemy is terrified of and is trying to shut down, and so I'm so grateful and thankful that he has people who fight for him. I truly believe Jesus is fighting for him on his behalf too, and so just wanted to encourage you with that that there's a reason that the enemy is attacking his heart because he has this purity, and it just is going to be so cool to see the testimony that God is going to use in his life, and the testimony that God is going to use in his life and the way that he's going to be able to touch people.

Krista: 11:18

So I want to say something and kind of go off of what you guys had said, because I was just having a conversation with my cousin earlier today.

Krista: 11:26

Because there's been so many times and I know we'll talk into this a little bit more in a few minutes but the hard road that I kind of went down as a special needs mom and there were so many times that I wanted to get rid of social media because it really hurt me to watch other people not only live normal lives per se, but like it was painful to see how some of my friends that I looked up to in the faith that they were being able to like serve God and just do things that I always longed to do but felt like I was never going to be good enough to be used in that way or have the opportunity to because of the situation I was going through in life.

Krista: 12:12

And so there were so many times that I would be like I'm just gonna get rid of social media. And my cousin Tracy was, you know, and my best friend Savannah, but they were always right there, like just always encouraging me please do not get rid of social media. God is using you, he's gonna continue to use you and that's just the enemy trying to like silence, silence you. You know, and I mean I almost got rid of social media and I actually deactivated my account for a good while and then decided to get back on because of their encouragement. And I just think about this situation right now that if I would have gotten off of social media and this happened to my son not only would the enemy have had been successful at silencing me, but it would have prevented us being able to share Landon's story as well.

Kiley: 13:06

The amount of people that have already been touched by his story. Landon is one person and the enemy is really afraid of one person, and now he's got to be afraid of a whole lot more people, because it's oh, there's just and it's not to say that we always talk about when things like this happen it's like why is this happening? Why is God making this happen? And it's not that he's making it happen, but he is going to use it for his glory, and that's exactly what's happening. Right, it happen, but he is going to use it for his glory, and that's exactly what's happening right now. What do you think is something that?

Krista: 13:41

God has been teaching you through this journey. If there's one thing that God's been truly teaching me in this journey is how to truly, truly trust him, like we've just been talking about. And I don't mean the kind of trust where, like you say, okay, god, I trust you when the things are going well. I mean the kind of trust you say when you have nothing left, no control, no answers, and you know you have to decide and really believe within yourself that he is still good. And for so long I thought trust meant understanding. I thought that if I trusted God, he would make everything make sense to me. But now I see that trust isn't about understanding. It's actually about surrender and it's about saying God, I don't get this, I don't like it, but I will still hold on to you.

Gianina: 14:30

Something I've really been struggling with is fear when it comes to my son, and truthfully, I feel like that started from when I was pregnant. I had a little bit of complications when I was pregnant and it seems like from that moment. So I was about 20 weeks when I found out just the complications that we were having and I just was paralyzed by fear. And then, of course, he was born, and the next day I was told he has a heart defect, and then that was like more fear, and then things that have happened over his life.

Gianina: 15:03

And I just remember being in worship one day and the Lord literally showed me a vision of what are you going to lay down on the altar, and it wasn't in a way of like sacrificing Kingston, obviously, but I had this image in my mind of putting him on the altar like Lord, you love him and care about him even more than I possibly could. And so I'm laying this down because you can take care of Kingston better than I can, and just like I'm going to let go of that fear, because that was something that I was literally just paralyzed for. I mean, kylie can probably tell you too, and even Kingston wants to play football now, and so it's like everything just is fear, fear, fear, fear. Like I'm scared this is going to happen. I'm scared that's going to happen, and so how are some ways that you feel like you've been able to overcome fear, because you had to have been afraid during this?

Krista: 16:00

process. I think in this kind of situation, fear is a natural emotion that anybody would feel. But what is important is that whenever we feel that fear is that we realize that that's not coming from God and we have to take those thoughts captive and we have to stand on the word of God and fight against that. And so when I find myself getting afraid and spiraling downhill, I just I pick up the word of God and I just soak myself in his promises and I just pray because I mean there's just no way out of it, in my opinion, other than just releasing it to him and digging into his word, because if I don't have his word, then I am, I'll be honest, I will be a hot mess because I will be all up in my emotions and it will just consume me.

Gianina: 16:57

Yeah, I love what you said about fear isn't from God and I was actually thinking about this as I was processing through like different fear is? The Bible never actually speaks about fear as an emotion. It talks about the spirit of fear and just like like claiming that off of your life and like Lord, I'm laying this down, like I'm not partnering with this fear and I give it to you and I just reading his word, like you said, that is so powerful.

Kiley: 17:27

Yeah, One of the words that just keeps popping into my mind right now is peace, and, janina, I'm with with the other episodes that we've recorded. Everybody that we've talked to so far has gone through so many different things, but the underlying theme is just that they have this sense of peace because they know whose they are and they know who they are, and it's so incredible to make that connection because it can only be explained by having that relationship with Amen.

Gianina: 18:10

Yeah, I do want to say if there's someone listening that is maybe like well, I know the Lord and I'm going through this season in my life and I don't have peace that it's okay to ask for it. There's no shame, you're not doing anything wrong, you're not lacking faith because you don't have that, but just ask for it, and if you need that peace, just pray for it and God will be faithful to answer. So, krista, is there anything that you've done to kind of cultivate this peace in your life, or has it just been more just resting in the Lord?

Krista: 18:45

Honestly, it's just been resting in the Lord because I haven't always had this kind of peace. I haven't always had this kind of peace. There was a time in my life, and actually just recently, that I walked through a dark season and I didn't rest in the Lord, I didn't cling to Jesus and I didn't have peace. In fact I pushed Him away. So just to give you a little backstory for the past 10 years my husband and I, you know, we've been special needs parents and we've been raising my son, elijah, who is autistic and nonverbal, and throughout that season I have just been utterly exhausted physically, emotionally, spiritually, just completely sleep deprived, just in that season where you're just barely making it through the day. And I became angry. I was angry, I was bitter, mostly because I knew that God could change the situation he has the power to do so and I knew that he could make things easier. He could have given us rest, he could have answered my prayers the way that I wanted him to, you know, but he didn't and it made me bitter and instead of running to him, I ran from him and instead of trusting him, I questioned him and I didn't let him carry me. I tried to carry all the weight by myself and all it did was break me down even more. I mean, I felt empty, I felt alone, I felt abandoned. I didn't even want to hear anything about faith because I just, I was just not in a good place.

Krista: 20:25

And fast forward from then till now with the situation with Landon. You know, here I am in the hardest battle of my life, but this time I made a different choice. Instead of pushing God away, I'm clinging tighter to him than I ever have, and the difference in that is amazing. That's where I found the peace, that's where I developed strength, his strength. I'm doing this all by his strength and just it's given me the ability to breathe and in all the uncertainty. And this situation, obviously, is much harder than the situation with my son Elijah, but my heart doesn't feel as heavy and the burden isn't crushing me the way that it did before, and it's not because I'm stronger, it's because I'm not carrying it alone this time and, honestly, that's the difference between walking through suffering with God and walking through it without him. I mean, the struggle is still there, the pain is still real, but with God you're not consumed by it.

Gianina: 21:32

You're not consumed by it. What do you think made that switch for you? Was it basically just this situation where you kind of went from pushing God away and being more bitter towards him and then Landon being in the hospital softened your heart and made it turn towards God? Or was there something else that happened in your life that caused that shift?

Krista: 21:55

Well, when I pushed God away before, it was like I still loved him, right, but I was angry.

Krista: 22:01

But in this situation, my son is fighting for his life, you know, and he could have died. You know what I mean. Thank God he didn't, but he could have. And it's like when you hit rock bottom like that and you just are in so much pain, the only thing you can do is cry out to God and just to cling to him and to beg him to be there for you and to carry you through it, because the pain is just so overwhelming. And I think, just knowing how I felt before in that situation of pushing him away and seeing how it affected my life, versus now in this situation where I started just holding on tight and saying, god, this is killing me, but I'm going to trust you, no matter how the situation goes, I am going to trust you in every single aspect of it. And to see how he is working in my life and how he is just surrounding us with a beautiful army of believers and just outpouring of love, it's amazing and it just proves that you need God.

Gianina: 23:09

You know it's so sweet because, as you were sharing that, I, just I had this image of Landon praying for you. You know, going through this situation, and I just can't wait. I just feel like one day he's just going to tell you I was talking to Jesus and I was praying for you. You know what I mean? I just see that and I feel it and just I can just the way that you've described him and the person that he is. The Lord has favor over his life and, even if his words couldn't speak it, like his spirit was speaking it and crying out to God on behalf of his family, and I, just, I truly believe that. And so what an amazing image of strength for him to be the reason that your whole family is strong in the midst of him suffering.

Krista: 24:03

I actually want to say that you just gave me chills and I'm so glad that you said that, because Landon is just, he's such an amazing kid and there were so many times that he would see me just stressed out about something because, you know, we were in the thick of the whole special needs parenting thing and he would just walk into the room and he would be like mom, I don't know why, but I just feel like I need to pray for you right now, or I feel like we need to pray about this situation, or, you know, he would pray the most beautiful prayer and it just so.

Krista: 24:34

When you just told me that, like you could, you had this vision of him praying for me. I absolutely do see that and in fact, when I was just talking to him and my husband on the phone a little bit ago, I was thanking my husband for, you know, just being there and telling Landon how proud I was of him and just how I'm glad that he's just being so strong and and he just, with the sweetest voice, he's like mom, I'm proud of you too. He's just, he's an amazing kid.

Gianina: 25:03

God will definitely use his story for his good, for sure.

Kiley: 25:08

Yeah, and it's exciting to see it happen here in real time too. Krista, what are some unexpected ways you've seen God show up for your family during this time.

Krista: 25:21

God has shown up in so many unexpected ways in this and it's just been amazing, unexpected ways in this and it's just been amazing. I first started posting about Landon and just expected it to just be with my friends and family on Facebook, just letting them know that I was taking him to the, you know, to the ER, and or that my husband was, but never in my wildest imagination did I think that you know he wouldn't be coming home that night. I didn't think that we'd be sitting where we are today. I also didn't expect to see what God was going to be doing throughout this whole situation, just to see how this story has just spread the way that it has. I had no idea that in just a matter of weeks, that hundreds or even thousands of people would be surrounding us, lifting us up in prayer, walking through this journey with us.

Krista: 26:08

But the amazing thing is is that God knew right. He knew. He knew that I was going to need all this love and support just surrounding me. He knew that Landon was going to need all the love, the support, the prayers, my husband. He knew all of that and he provided it. That's the amazing thing. And just the outpouring of love, the messages, the prayers, the way that complete strangers have just become like family to us. It's been overwhelming in the best kind of way, and never in my life have I ever experienced this kind of love and support before. I mean, it's in this kind of like hard season that you realize that God is really there and that he's moving and that he's reminding us that we're not alone.

Kiley: 26:55

I just keep thinking about the amount of stories that you're going to hear for years to come after this Absolutely people's lives and this is a moment in time for you guys, but I think the ripple effect of everything is going to be exciting to see. Maybe somebody is going to reach out to you years from now and say, hey, I followed your story and because of that, this, this and this happened. I have no doubt that it's so hard to be going through it in the moment, but you know we always talk about how hindsight is 20-20. And so once he's home, you can start to look back and think, wow, this actually, you know this impacted a lot of people.

Krista: 27:35

Well, it's amazing that you say that because there's been so many comments from so many people about how his story is increasing their faith. It's just it's amazing to see because Landon has always, always wanted opportunities to share about God to people and he would sit there and brainstorm with me and my husband and try to figure out ways of how he could approach people and talk to them about God, and we would just try to help him come up with different scenarios of the best way to bring it up to somebody and just things like that. But it's just it's amazing to see that God is using him even from a hospital bed. I'm sure that he didn't expect that. It's just going to be exciting to see everything that God does through this.

Gianina: 28:23

Yeah, it's interesting because I remember when you were first posting about who Landon is, and specifically when of him singing when he was a little boy, and I remember having this thought of, like God, why would you allow this to happen to someone who loves you so much and who has just prayed and laid down his life and dedicated his life to you? And I just and I'm sure you've had those thoughts too of why Landon? Why are you, like literally all he's done all his life is praise you, why are you allowing this to happen? And I just in that moment felt the Lord kind of shift my thinking to instead of thinking why Landon, when he has dedicated his life to you, shifting it to how amazing that God prepared him and laid such a strong foundation and was so close to him his whole life and gave him this beautiful heart so that he would have this impact. And so that, even more than impact because, yes, you know, impact is a good, good thing and it spreads the gospel and the message of Jesus but even more than that, just just his life, his heart God cares about Landon, like so much. And so just thinking about that, I think is is so powerful that reversing it into thinking this is about God's grace. All of those moments leading up to this was God's grace over Landon's life, because God knew what was going to happen and kind of preparing his heart and his mind Because I mean, I know you've told me or you've shared how he's struggled to kind of fight through some of this stuff and just imagine somebody who wasn't as strong in his faith maybe would have given up and just been like man. This fight, this fight is just too much.

Krista: 30:17

Absolutely, absolutely. I even put myself in his position and I'm just amazed at everything that he does. I mean, when we sit there and we try to give him encouragement and pep talks and pray with him, I mean all he does is he just points his finger up to the Lord and he just praises him. When I think about that, you know, I would like to think that I would be that positive and I would hope that I would be, but you never know how you're truly going to be in a situation until you're experiencing it yourself. And to see that there's a 17-year-old boy who is going through such a horrible experience but yet has that strong of faith, it's just, it's really inspiring.

Kiley: 30:59

So, krista, what would you say for someone who is going through a similar situation?

Krista: 31:05

I just want to say, if you're walking through something like this, I just want to encourage you that you are not alone, that I see you. I know how heavy it feels. I know how terrifying it is to wake up every single day not knowing what's coming next. I know that there's moments where the fear grips you so tightly that you just don't even know how to breathe. But if there's one thing that I've learned from this journey is that you just don't even know how to breathe. But if there's one thing that I've learned from this journey is that you just have to cling to Jesus with everything you have. You have to cling to him, even when it hurts, even when it doesn't make sense, even when you can't even see a way forward. You just have to cling to him and do not push him away, because he is the only thing that is strong enough to hold you together when everything else feels like it's falling apart.

Krista: 31:53

Honestly, one of the biggest ways to hold on to him is to get in the word. Read the Bible. I know how easy it is to be overwhelmed and distracted, especially when life is just crumbling everywhere. But the moments that I have spent in God's word, even when I didn't feel like it. Those were the moments that have sustained me, because the truth is, when everything else feels uncertain, his word is unshakable and the enemy is going to come in and he's going to try to make you believe that you are alone and that God isn't moving, that nothing is changing. But please do not believe that lie, because God is in every single detail. He is holding you. He's there right now, in this battle with you. You may not have all the answers, you may feel like you're barely holding on, but just grab onto him and don't let go. Make time to just sit in his presence, read his promises and just let his truth anchor you, because the paddle won't break you if Jesus is the one that's holding you together.

Gianina: 33:00

Yeah, it's so good. Well, I would love to have the opportunity to pray for you and your family and for Landon. Lord, I just thank you so much for this opportunity to be here tonight and to share together with Krista and with Kylie, and I thank you for the opportunity for us to talk about your goodness, talk about your faithfulness, talk about your peace and just the things that you bring to us that we can only learn when we're in the valley, and we don't see them on the mountaintops, but we see them in the valleys, and so thank you for those beautiful flowers that you grow in the valleys that we would miss out on if we didn't walk through those seasons too. And I just want to cover Krista and her whole family and Brian right now God, with your love, your unwavering love, that, no matter what happens, they would feel your peace, just sweep over them, and I thank you that that has been such a big testimony over her life so far in this journey that you've just been her peace, and so I just ask that you would continue to be that for her moving forward and even as Landon starts to transition, to come back home and have different things that they're going to be navigating and challenges. I pray that even then, you would continue to be her peace, that you would continue to just lead and guide them. And we pray right now over Landon and his body, and we speak life to his heart, we speak life to his bones, as he's going to start to have to learn how to walk again and have to learn how to do different things on his own. We just speak life into it.

Gianina: 34:39

God, I ask that you would bring even more peace over to his mind and his heart. Father, he would just I almost feel like laugh when he thinks about how stressed out everybody is, because he just knows that he is anchored in you and he's going to be okay. And so, lord, I thank you for that. I thank you that you've given him such a strong foundation throughout his life that now that he's going through undoubtedly what's the hardest thing in his life, that he's able to be anchored on you, because we truly can't imagine going through seasons like this without you. And so, lord, I thank you that you've been faithful over Landon and over his life, and I just continue to ask that you would speak to the doctors about the plans moving forward for his healing, god, that you would give them the right tools and the things to do and the things to say for his healing to just be continued.

Gianina: 35:33

But, Lord, I also pray over the impact that he's going to have and how far his story is going to reach. And we just say right now that, whatever the enemy meant for evil, you're going to turn it around for good. And so this attack that came from the enemy, he's going to turn it around for good. And so this attack that came from the enemy, he's going to really, really wish that he never brought this attack on Landon's life because, truly, you're going to be glorified through it, lord. And so we just thank you for that. We pray that people will get saved through this story. We pray that people will get baptized because of his story and that ultimately, it's just going to lead to a surrender, that people are going to surrender their lives to you, and I just thank you for this, thank you for this opportunity to talk to Krista and hear her heart and just how beautiful her journey through this has been with you, lord. And so we just thank you for that and we honor you in Jesus name.

Kiley: 36:23

Amen, amen. Well, krista, thank you so much for sharing your heart and your family's journey with us today. Your faith, even in the hardest moments, is such a powerful reminder that God is with us in the waiting and in the pain and in the unknown. If you are listening today and you're in a season of uncertainty whether you're waiting for healing, for answers or for a miracle know that you're not alone, healing for answers or for a miracle, know that you're not alone. Just like Krista and her family, you can bring every fear, every question and every moment of heartache to the Lord. He sees you, he hears you and he is walking through this with you.

Kiley: 37:02

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