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Heart at Risk, Heart at Rest

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Four years ago, Julie Manning drove to the hospital for a planned C-section. Doctors would discover an irregular heartbeat—not in her baby, but in her. Six weeks later, Julie’s cardiologist explained that her heart was malfunctioning, that she may need a transplant, and that she wouldn’t have another child. Julie lives at virtually constant risk for sudden cardiac death. “There are hundreds of times a day I’m reminded that my life is not my own, and that at any moment Jesus could take it,” the wife and mother of two says. “But I trust that he is in control, and that includes every breath and every heartbeat.”

Julie is convinced that suffering is a stewardship. “This story isn’t about some girl who has a heart problem,” she explains. “It’s about how God is sanctifying and winning my soul for his name, and how he’s turning one of his people to praise him despite circumstances of this life.”

Watch the 9-minute film, pray for Julie, and praise God for giving her a steadying vision of his sovereign love and her ultimate home.

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