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"When I arrived to the hospital my husband 
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surgery had to be done."

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Pastor Medina Pullings made that journal 
entry May 18th 2011

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

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

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

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started pastoring in 1996 in Hollis Queens, 
New York.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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pills a day. By now he felt invincible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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message major pains went through my head 
like POW

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POW POW." Orrin managed to finish his message

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

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knew something was wrong. "It was like aaaa

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mmmmm ( mumbled groaning sounds) When I heard

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the sound that came from my husband, my first

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thought was JESUS." Bishop Orrin was

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

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

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

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

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

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

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recover fully. Most have long-term neurologic 
deficits and

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have problems with thinking, and doing normal 
activity after the

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

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"The fastest quickest prayer I knew.

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

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

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

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"And the posture in that waiting room was 
spiritual warfare

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prayer and praise the entire time of the

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

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

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wife? Then I realized, he doesn't know

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

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

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

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

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

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

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restoration, healing, etc.

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

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but I'm up watching videos of my husband.

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(Inaudible)

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That was a hard day." (Cries)

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Then on May 26th Medina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Within a week he began to improve. Doctors 
were able to remove the drain from Orrin's 
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and he was moved from ICU to a regular room. 
Towards the end

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of his hospital stay he started to regain 
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On June 6, 2011 - ten days after Pastor Medina 
heard from God

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

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

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

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

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and that was GOD working another miracle 
for me."

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

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

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

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a new perspective on being a Pastor, husband, 
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"I spend more time enjoying my life. I spend 
more time not being

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

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

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

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

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and being happy and enjoying things."

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

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work a miracle just for you."

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