Dr. Crandall making his dramatic presentation on Friday, July 13th, 2007, at the 4th Annual World Christian Doctors
Network Conference in Miami, Florida
Dr.
Chauncey W. Crandall IV, who serves at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular
Clinic in Palm Beach,
Florida, Dr. Crandall making his dramatic presentation on Friday, July
13th, 2007, at the 4th Annual
World Christian Doctors
Network Conference in Miami, Florida.
He produced dramatic
evidence that was shown on the screen and told of that day on October
20, 2006 when a middle-aged
auto mechanic, Jeff Markin,
walked into the Emergency Room at the Palm Beach Gardens Hospital and
collapsed from a massive
heart attack.
Forty minutes later he was declared dead. After filling out his final report, the supervising cardiologist, Dr. Chauncey
Crandall, started out of the room.
Dr. Crandall, the doctor who operates in cowboy boots
In
a later interview Dr. Crandall explained, �Before
I crossed its threshold,
however, I sensed God was telling me to turn around and pray for that
dead patient.
Crandall had learned
to follow that impulse even if he was embarrassed. Father God, he said,
under his breath, I cry
out for this man's soul. If
he does not know you as his Lord and Savior, raise him from the dead
now, in Jesus' name.
With that prayer and Dr. Crandall's instruction to give the man what seemed one more useless shock from the defibrillator,
Jeff Markin came back to life and remains alive and well today.
Now Dr. Crandall is writing a book on his incredible experiences called Raising the Dead: A Doctor Encounters the Supernatural
which will be published by Faith Works Publishing based in Houston, Texas.
In Dr. Crandall's
practice he has become a doctor who prays with his patients, and he has
seen many miraculous healings�even
others raised from the
dead. He's known by his patients and by a national reputation for
treating people with the best of
medicine and the best of
Jesus.
But how did a
Yale-educated cardiologist whose Palm Beach practice includes some of
the most powerful people in American
society, including several
billionaires, come to believe in supernatural healing? How as a
scientist can Dr. Crandall embrace
God's power to intervene in
the natural order? And why does this doctor freely acknowledge that
faith does not compel God
to work wonders, even
though God desires that everyone ultimately be healed?
The answers to these
questions compose a story and a spiritual journey that transformed
Chauncey Crandall from a self-satisfied
Christian into a
radicalized warrior for God against the evil of disease. He began
pursuing answers to these questions with
everything he had when late
at night in June 2000 Dr. Crandall received a value alert phone call
from the hospital's lab concerning
one of his patients. His
patient had a white blood cell count of over 80,000. The doctor's
immediate thought was, Whoever
he is, he's dead he has
leukemia.
Dr. Crandall, I'm sorry to tell you this, the nurse on the phone said, but it's your son, Chad. We've already run the
results a number of times to make sure.
Chad was eleven
years-old a flaxen-haired tennis enthusiast, with blue-eyes, freckles
and a mischievous grin. He was
the fraternal twin of his
brother Christian. Christian was the natural leader; Chad the shy
charmer, the one everyone wanted
to be around once they came
to know him. How could Dr. Crandall's precious son Chad be dying?
Once Dr. Crandall
understood that Chad was suffering from a life-threatening illness, he
cried out to God for every spiritual
gift God would give him. He
came to believe that Christ's healing power was not only for the people
of his day but ours as
well. He was surprised to
find that few other Christians shared this faith, many believing that
God stopped performing miracles
during the apostolic age.
Belief in healing through prayer was far more common, though, among
missionaries. So Dr. Crandall
began taking journeys to
such places as remote Indian villages in Mexico where he witnessed many
healings through prayer.
This built-up his own faith
and taught him how to pray effectively for his son.
Dr. Crandall also made
certain that Chad received the best conventional medical care possible,
visiting Dana Farber Hospital
at Harvard, Duke Children's
Hospital, and finally The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Oregon,
where Dr. Brian Druker informed
the Crandalls of a miracle
drug that might soon be on the market, Gleevec. Partially as the result
of Dr. Crandall's advocacy,
which included persuading
President Bush to write a letter on Chad's behalf, Gleevec was
fast-tracked by the FDA. After a
year of keeping Chad alive
with prayer and lesser drugs, Gleevec reduced his counts to normal
within 4 days.
But Chad's journey
through illness was not over. Three years later his leukemia was back
and had metastasized into other
strains that produced
tumors. In the fall of 2004 Dr. Chauncey Crandall and his wife Deb lost
their son.
At Chad's deathbed,
Dr. Crandall felt he must decide, right then and there, whether to
abandon Christianity completely
or commit himself
unreservedly to God's service. Before he left Chad's hospital room, he
committed the rest of his life to
going wherever God led and
doing whatever He asked of him. But Dr. Crandall made one demand: In
exchange for Chad's life,
Lord, he prayed, let me win
1 million souls to you.
Dr. Crandall had
wanted every gift God could give him, but the gift God gave Dr. Crandall
then was one few Christians
want Christ's cross. By
joining his grief to Christ's sacrifice, his passion, and filling out
the sufferings of Christ, as
the Apostle Paul felt
privileged to do, Dr. Crandall came to know in a far greater measure
Christ's resurrection power.
Much of charismatic
and Pentecostal teaching implies that faith compels God to act according
to our desires. Dr. Crandall
found that God uses
miracles as signs of the world's ultimate restoration�the defeat of
every evil, including death.
And at times we are the
instruments God uses to produce such signs. At other times we are
warriors in an epic struggle with
evil whose destructive
effects claimed God's own son. But it is through joining Jesus Christ in
this battle whatever the costs
that we participate in
God's victory. Our ultimate security is to be found in radical
obedience.
These truths were
confirmed for Dr. Crandall when shortly after his son's death the
heavens opened, as he says. Within
a matter of weeks Dr.
Crandall was being invited around the globe to share his hope in Christ.
He began to see miraculous healings among the patients in his practice.
When he prayed for people at mass evangelistic meetings they were often touched by the Holy Spirit and were healed of
their diseases.
Dr. Crandall pictured at a Reinhard Bonnke crusade in West Africa
Dr.
Crandall became the kind of Christian
who would turn around at
God's prompting and pray for a man to be raised from the dead, because
he had become convinced that
nothing is impossible with
God. Christ's resurrection power is as available today as it was in the
time of the Apostles. The
believer has God's own life
within him, in the here and now, and for eternity.
As it happens, Dr.
Crandall was not the only one praying for Jeff Markin the day he came
back from the dead. Jeff's long-estranged
wife had been praying for
many years for Jeff. His daughter, who was just arriving in the
hospital's parking lot when her
father died, was praying
for him as well. Dr. Crandall's prayer was but one of many that together
became the means God used
to bring Jeff Markin back
to life.
A life that had not
been committed to Christ, as it turned out. Jeff told Dr. Crandall that
when his heart stopped he
briefly visited hell�or
received a vision of it. He saw himself as someone thrown away, isolated
for eternity, unloved.
Once he had sufficiently
recovered Dr. Crandall was privileged to lead Jeff to a saving knowledge
of Christ. While Jeff still
struggles with his faith,
as we all do, his life is now more and more a sign of the transformation
God wants to bring about
in all of us. Jeff has
progressed from a man who cared about little but pleasure to one
committed to sharing God's love with
others.
Raising the Dead shows
that the work of healing, as part of Christ�s epic struggle with evil,
is not only Dr.
Crandall's task and those
of similarly gifted individuals; it's the task of the reader as well and
of all Christ's people
as we join together in
bringing about God's reign his Kingdom wherever we find ourselves.
Dr. Crandall is a member of the board of directors of Regent University and he has appeared as a guest on the 700 Club.
Dr. Crandall has a standing invitation from Pat Robertson to return as a guest on the network once his book is available.
The Fox News (Miami) broadcast resulted in over a million hits to its website.
He is now a frequent
guest on the Doctor to Doctor program of the Trinity Broadcasting
Network (TBN) and he has an invitation
to appear on the network to
promote his book when it is published. He speaks regularly throughout
the year to a total annual
audience numbering in the
hundreds of thousands. For more information about Dr. Crandall and media
opportunities in connection
with his story, visit his
website
www.chaunceycrandallmd.com
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