Podcast Episode 8: Ryan and Gabby Bonnette Testimony – Pt. 2

• How they met each other and how their courtship process was before marriage. (Good advice for young people at this stage).

• Sis Gabby’s battle with depression and repeated suicide attempts as a teenager and how God delivered her from these.

• Bro. Ryan’s battle with depression in his later teen years and how God delivered him from it.

• How God healed their youngest daughter Ivah at birth when the doctors were not giving them much hope of their daughter surviving.

• How the role of putting God first in their family life played a great part in their daughter’s miraculous healing and what we can learn from that.

• How they go about having devotions with their 4 daughters and the key to making sure this is consistent.

• The necessity of having alone time with God daily and what they do to make sure they pray and read the Word of God as a couple.

Episode Transcript:

[00:00:00] Zoe Urrego: [00:00:00] Oh Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his Mercy endures forever Psalms 117:29.

[00:00:10] Luis Urrego: [00:00:10] Welcome to the Ten Thousand Worlds Podcast my name is Luis Urrego and it is certainly a privilege to have you here listening with us today on this episode number 8 the second part of brother Ryan and sister Gabby Bonnette’s testimony. As you heard in the

[00:00:29] previous episode they discussed their bout and their battle with depression and suicide as well as how they met each other and and how the Lord put them together so that is where we had stopped last time. So we’re going to continue with part two of their testimony and you don’t want to miss this part because here they’re going to get down regarding some practical things that you can do [00:01:00] with your own family.

[00:01:01] If you have children to help instill the Word of God in them. And as well as for you to grow and to put more time into prayer and studying and meditating on the Word of God as well as they’re going to discuss regarding how God brought them through one of the most challenging things that they ever had to face.

[00:01:26] And that was the possible death of their youngest daughter Ivah who God spared. And God healed her and now she’s just as healthy as any other little girl her age so you don’t want to miss it. May God bless you during this part and then I’ll come back here with my final thoughts for this episode.

[00:01:49] God bless. How is the courting process I mean, how did that

[00:01:55] Ryan Bonnette: [00:01:55] Well by that time I had already set my mind on never dating again and I was [00:02:00] bound and determined I was just as resolved not to date again as I was to read my Bible every day. So I wasn’t going to and we didn’t ever technically date.

[00:02:07] All we did is just basically through phone calls, old-fashioned letters, and emails got to know each other.

[00:02:14] Gabby Bonnette: [00:02:14] It was letters and then email or kind of both at the same time. But then when he asked to start talking on the phone, I was like, let me pray about that because I wasn’t sure if I was ready because

[00:02:29] there’s a lot of other things going on behind the scenes on my end. Another girl was upset because I apparently stole him so they just trying to break us up trying to get in between us, but we were never official because we were just talking we were just friends talking getting to know each other.

[00:02:50] Well, then when it we finally agreed to talk on the phone, that’s when things started progressing and before we. Like my friends at the [00:03:00] church would say we’re officially official.

[00:03:02] Luis Urrego: [00:03:02] Yeah.

[00:03:03] Gabby Bonnette: [00:03:03] He had dropped the L bomb. He said he loved me so it caught me off-guard. He sent it through a text and I’m sitting there like I turned red in the face dropped my phone my Dad’s like what’s the matter?

[00:03:14] And I said you. Like he said he loved me my dad start cracking up laughing is it took me

[00:03:20] Luis Urrego: [00:03:20] So you turned red reading the text?

[00:03:24] Gabby Bonnette: [00:03:24] Yeah!

[00:03:25] I did.

[00:03:26] Luis Urrego: [00:03:26] But brother Ryan. Did you did you talk to her dad before that or how did that work?

[00:03:33] Ryan Bonnette: [00:03:33] Well, I met them at the camp the day after we met because the adults came for the Sunday service.

[00:03:37] We met on Saturday at the camp and Sunday. He was there for the service so met him. And I say but as far as in the relationship, I don’t recall what what involvement he had. I mean he was at I don’t remember it seemed like it was fairly hands off because I was by that time so approaching so cautiously.

[00:03:58] You know and just really didn’t want to [00:04:00] get in too deep in a relationship. Again cause I didn’t want to date.

[00:04:03] Gabby Bonnette: [00:04:03] Well, the only thing that they did kind of enforce was that I took one of my tattle telling siblings along for a…

[00:04:09] Ryan Bonnette: [00:04:09] Chaperone or whatever, is that what you call it?

[00:04:11] Gabby Bonnette: [00:04:11] A chaperone.

[00:04:11] Ryan Bonnette: [00:04:11] Yeah. So when I went up there to visit we go play mini golf and it wasn’t never me and Gabby.

[00:04:16] We were never alone. Yeah, the extent of our being alone was only in the car on the way to church with her dad and family in front or behind us in another car. So they were right there watchin where we were going and there’s no chance of anything happening and we just rode to church and back together.

[00:04:32] That was it.

[00:04:33] Gabby Bonnette: [00:04:33] And it wasn’t until we actually like a day or two before actual wedding that we were allowed to be alone with everything

[00:04:41] Ryan Bonnette: [00:04:41] and ground. Because we were running our errands? We are going to get the cake going to get make

[00:04:45] Gabby Bonnette: [00:04:45] Marriage license and stuff like

[00:04:46] Ryan Bonnette: [00:04:46] Preperations

[00:04:46] And stuff like that.

[00:04:47] Luis Urrego: [00:04:47] Okay.

[00:04:48] Yeah, and I would I would say that. It was worth it.

[00:04:56] Ryan Bonnette: [00:04:56] Oh yea.

[00:04:56] Luis Urrego: [00:04:56] Yeah, I think I think it’s I think it’s worth, you know [00:05:00] waiting on God.

[00:05:01] Ryan Bonnette: [00:05:01] Oh yea exactly.

[00:05:02] Luis Urrego: [00:05:02] Because brother Ryan and sister Gabby they they’ve been really blessed and not just that but also they’ve been up to a real blessing to to a lot of people. And not just through their testimony, but even now because they put God first they put God before them at that time even in their time when they were courting or when they were when they were just talking and now you see the fruits of that.

[00:05:27] Ryan Bonnette: [00:05:27] There’s one thing I want to say to about marriage in regards to marriage This is directly to the young people, especially. When I was in the Baptist Church, I was 15. I was at a youth group where the theme was Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and that’s what they really heavily enforced on us young people at that youth group. The youth pastor at that time gave us a diagram and it’s basically a triangle and it shows this is how he said this is how holy matrimony should be when you young people get married someday.

[00:05:55] It should not be just you and your spouse it should pick you and your spouse in the Lord. I took [00:06:00] that to mean to read the Bible and pray. In the marriage and the way you grow closer to God individually is read the Bible and pray and a marriage if you Institute that include God in your marriage that way listen to sermons together read the Bible and pray together every single day go to church together, you know every service and everything you do do it together and you put God in your marriage.

[00:06:20] And he’ll bless it. And we’ve done that over the years and seen God bless us in tremendous ways overcome many hurdles that all marriages suffer with from time to time and more than anything learning what real love is beyond affection, beyond puppy love let my love our what started as puppy love grow and mature to a Selfless Love and love where we don’t think about our own self, but figure out how to bless the other person.

[00:06:43] Luis Urrego: [00:06:43] Yeah. Absolutely. What is the. For both of you what has been the I guess the greatest thing that you’ve learned in marriage.  

[00:06:54] Ryan Bonnette: [00:06:54] What would you say?

[00:06:58] Gabby Bonnette: [00:06:58] I’m still learning.

[00:07:00] [00:06:59] Ryan Bonnette: [00:06:59] Just that I mean just learning to get over your own self. And so I really I stood you sacrifice is a lesson I learned from her dad when her mom passed away a year ago.

[00:07:08] I never realized what the relationship consisted of but she never would see our lie and Sharon fighting you would always see our lie. Going out of his way behind Sharon’s back to buy her a gift get her a new smartphone and then go surprise her. He say I’m spoiling her that was his phrase. He sound want to spoil mama and get her things and she would never do nothing selfish.

[00:07:27] She never get anything for herself. She’d go behind his back and buying a little gifts and costly that be it wasn’t bickering and fighting there was always trying to figure out how they could bless each

[00:07:35] other

[00:07:36] Gabby Bonnette: [00:07:36] they chase each other. 30 songs.

[00:07:38] Ryan Bonnette: [00:07:38] Yeah play really?

[00:07:39] Gabby Bonnette: [00:07:39] Yeah, they never let the flirty stage leave their marriage.

[00:07:43] They would Chase each other play

[00:07:45] Ryan Bonnette: [00:07:45] in a 40-year marriage. Yeah, I mean in love little Lumber this was so sad to see him lose her now and he’s just torn up he’s all out of shape. But I mean there were lovebirds.

[00:07:55] Luis Urrego: [00:07:55] Yeah. Yeah, that’s what keeps a marriage alive, you know and [00:08:00] my goodness that’s very good very good to know and so I’m assuming that both of you have tried to keep that as well, you know, and I think that’s very important.

[00:08:11] Because that’s what keeps you for one young and too, you know, it keeps the keeps the marriage alive, you know, and it doesn’t get old. You know, you see so many parents so many people now they get tired of one another and I think well, you know, I can easily replace her and I can ease or I can easily replace him.

[00:08:30] But when it’s when you say I do, you know, that’s. That’s throughout eternity here. And so I know that you both have taken that seriously in your life so butter on it and sister Gabby and I know both of you have four four daughters or beautiful beautiful daughters. I want to come back to briefly of just a little bit.

[00:08:50] To just how you do things regarding, you know to just help raise them and admonition of the Lord just how you structure maybe [00:09:00] devotionals and things like that, but I want to I want you to kind of tell you testimony regarding Iva, which is your youngest daughter and how how the Lord that the Lord did a miraculous thing in and Iva.

[00:09:14] So if you can both tell about that,

[00:09:17] Ryan Bonnette: [00:09:17] Okay. Well, I guess I’d say first of all we approach it from the realization that we’re clueless. And so when we started his pants like anybody we’re clueless when no one thing is the Bible gives a little hint a few hints along the way about raising children discipline them train up a child in the way.

[00:09:34] He should go when he’s old and not depart from it. That was a big factor in my childhood being taught to read the Bible and pray. So we’ve instituted that ever since they were born. We’ve read the Bible and pray with them every single day. And and then when they’re old enough to read on their own without them each read the Bible we have about sitting in the middle of our living room.

[00:09:51] We put it on a pedestal on purpose where it’s always there. So when somebody walks by it, they can just stop and read a scripture. We haven’t read before [00:10:00] each meal three versus a piece that I’ll read. They’re all at the reading age now so they can all read it read before they go to bed at night. I have a devotional each one of them praise.

[00:10:10] But and then the other scriptures, you know just about discipline and we don’t know or constantly praying Lord help us to know how to discipline your children how much or how little and and so on and rewarding them for good and making sure they always say thank you because attitude of gratitude goes a long way and I will what a fish tank I mean.

[00:10:30] Gabby Bonnette: [00:10:30] When they have questions no matter if it’s right at bedtime, we always take the time to answer it. Even if it puts us in our past bedtime. We always make sure to answer the questions and we’ll even like it show them where it’s at in the Bible. Let them read like what about the question like Marcy had our oldest had a question about.

[00:10:51] Steven so her little nightly Bible reading is from Acts chapter 6 to 8 the whole [00:11:00] section of Stephen

[00:11:02] Luis Urrego: [00:11:02] so that you always make you don’t always have maybe have some sort of. Structure in the way that we got. We got to do it this way. And then that’s it. No, they’re included in that. They need to say something or ask questions.

[00:11:19] That’s that’s that’s what you do.

[00:11:21] Gabby Bonnette: [00:11:21] Yeah. Well, we have like a little guideline like our nightly reading and stuff like that. But when it comes to questions, that’s where we. Head in that direction. We let them do the leading when it comes to having their own questions.

[00:11:34] Luis Urrego: [00:11:34] Do you feel that sometimes when you’re when they have the questions and maybe the Devotional May have started certain way but then all of a sudden it leads to this certain direction just because of the wider the questions were heading and then because I know it’s happened to us, you know, we’ll start next thing, you know, it’d be like 45 minutes and then we’re already over here, but but but discussing something with them.

[00:11:55] Yeah that that. And they’re in there. They’re their [00:12:00] attention is there because it started with a question that they had. Yeah, you know and and so I think it’s so important, you know to have that with them. So what do you do? What do you do when they start the you have a certain time when you start devotionals with them?

[00:12:17] Ryan Bonnette: [00:12:17] Basically, whenever apps in a way, it’s ever I get up at I stayed in the afternoon because I work at night. So I get up at 7:00 start getting ready for if we suffer from 7-8 and it pretty much every time o’clock every night pretty much its sequel the Bible study time to about 8:30. Of

[00:12:33] Gabby Bonnette: [00:12:33] course whenever they have a question.

[00:12:35] We just drop over doing an answer here

[00:12:38] Luis Urrego: [00:12:38] praise the Lord. Amen. Do you do you? Do you take time to listen to the tapes quizzes and things like

[00:12:46] Ryan Bonnette: [00:12:46] that or young Foundation sermons? Because we do that little bit every night during the supper while reading supper. I’ll stand over there and call out the question or Mercy read the question then we’ll listen sermon to get to the answer and that pretty much takes most of the [00:13:00] month until the next jump Foundation sermons come out.

[00:13:02] So that’s that’s sort of type of cautioning daily with them.

[00:13:05] Luis Urrego: [00:13:05] Okay. All right, so but it’s not necessarily like the you actually sit down with with them to listen to a tape

[00:13:14] Ryan Bonnette: [00:13:14] or. No, a lot of than just having it playing at supper. But now when we’re done with the young Foundation sermon, we keep one going somewhere in the house pretty much constantly.

[00:13:24] Now, that’s up to them whether they actually catch it or not. You know, they catch words here and there I’m sure he mother back there playing around but there’s always a sermon or for pretty much just strictly sermon. We occasionally played gospel music here to let us pretty much constantly assignment plan.

[00:13:39] Luis Urrego: [00:13:39] Okay, so, all right, but ended devotional time. You mainly concentrate on the having a back and forth with them. Like they ask you you respond and you only it mainly that’s that’s what your devotionals comprise what

[00:13:56] Ryan Bonnette: [00:13:56] we do follow like a little oh we have a whole series of [00:14:00] like a bedtime

[00:14:01] Gabby Bonnette: [00:14:01] story Bibles

[00:14:02] Ryan Bonnette: [00:14:02] and we go from one to the next one.

[00:14:04] And if it’s

[00:14:05] Gabby Bonnette: [00:14:05] if it’s not really according to Bible will actually say. That’s what they believe. Let’s read

[00:14:12] Ryan Bonnette: [00:14:12] it from the Bible that this is a lot of denominations.

[00:14:15] Luis Urrego: [00:14:15] Yeah sure and

[00:14:16] Gabby Bonnette: [00:14:16] will help explain why it’s wrong and why we believe this and that and that’s where

[00:14:22] Ryan Bonnette: [00:14:22] all that comes in. Yeah.

[00:14:24] Luis Urrego: [00:14:24] Yeah. Do you do you feel that?

[00:14:27] Sometimes it’s a little because I mean you have what Mercy she’s going to be 11 years old. She’s the oldest and then I’ve Ashish. She’s five. So the in that there’s that Gap there and obviously Mercy understands more things and Iva does but when you get gathered them together, you have to be sensitive to that.

[00:14:47] Ryan Bonnette: [00:14:47] Correct?

[00:14:48] Luis Urrego: [00:14:48] How does how does that work order or is there another time that maybe you take Mercy aside and kind of talk with her on her own

[00:14:56] Gabby Bonnette: [00:14:56] or if it’s a real like big question that. [00:15:00] Little ones won’t understand then we’ll talk to her or Harmony our second like just recently Mercy heard something at church and now she wants to read the Seven Seals.

[00:15:15] Luis Urrego: [00:15:15] So

[00:15:17] Gabby Bonnette: [00:15:17] we’re gonna let her do that like between surfaces that charge and stuff and she asked questions need to understanding she can come to us personally, but when it’s devotional time we try to use. Like their language their childish language not such big terms. If there’s a word they don’t understand we put it in simple terms.

[00:15:38] Even for the little ones to understand.

[00:15:40] Luis Urrego: [00:15:40] Right? Right, but Mercy is humble enough to see to know. Well, you know, I may understand this but I’m still trying to you know, I’m gonna get down to that my sister’s level.

[00:15:54] Gabby Bonnette: [00:15:54] Okay.

[00:15:55] Luis Urrego: [00:15:55] Alright. Well praise the Lord. So there you go. There you [00:16:00] have parents.

[00:16:00] There’s a structure that you can you can you can use and the key thing is to follow through and and to be consistent because I think when the children see that children notice and when you’re not consistent and you’re not you don’t follow through or you just you know this side well, maybe not tonight.

[00:16:21] Yeah. They noticed that then eventually, you know, they’ll get to a point where oh, it’s okay to miss one night or it’s okay to miss and then eventually trickles down. I can miss church service here and there and things like that. So train a child like you said whether I’m trying to challenge the way he should go and when they get older they would not depart

[00:16:39] Ryan Bonnette: [00:16:39] will

[00:16:40] Luis Urrego: [00:16:40] praise the Lord.

[00:16:41] So can you share with us? Just for the benefit of the listeners and those because we know that the scripture says brother Brandon also said that how important it is. How can we grow in Christ? And that’s to read our Bibles and pray every day and as I’ve said before. [00:17:00] It’s some two of the most simple things to do, you know to pray pick up your Bible read, you know, listen to the messages.

[00:17:08] But yet it is what some of the most difficult things for Christians to

[00:17:12] Ryan Bonnette: [00:17:12] actually

[00:17:13] Luis Urrego: [00:17:13] take the time to do that. So, can you share it? Maybe how you do that may be together with you and sister Gabby or when is it that you take a long time to spend time with God?

[00:17:27] Ryan Bonnette: [00:17:27] Well, as I said earlier, it was first in still to me.

[00:17:31] Even from a young man little boy. Actually that that was important because of my grandmother and then my parents to we even had family vibrating grown up. But then the youth pastor at Corinth Baptist Church in Gainesville had introduced the diagram of what I would call a relationship chart basically that shows husband wife and God on a triangle to where’s never supposed to be.

[00:17:55] Matrimony, it should be a holy matrimony where the two of you read the Bible and pray together and [00:18:00] go to church together. But as far as me individually I started when I was 15 14 actually reading the Bible and praying but it wasn’t every day. It wasn’t until about 15 when I have the resolve to do it every day never miss a day of it.

[00:18:14] Well, I did that every day and I’ve done every day since but. As far as finding time you make time you won’t find time. I see that’s the realization that struck me at 15 years old as a Baptist kid. You’ll never find time because at 14 I struggled as a 14 year old kid. I couldn’t find time. What was I busy doing?

[00:18:32] I don’t know but I couldn’t find time to read the Bible. So I realize you have to make time I think of it like tithing because on our money we take the tenth off the top before we do buy groceries before do everything else. We take a tenth off the top and you have middle. Same thing with our time we take a tenth.

[00:18:49] So at the very start of the day spend time of God the very first chance you get every day no matter what if you put it off even once you’ve given the devil leg up and [00:19:00] he’s going to fight you throughout the rest of the day and if you put it off and put it off and put off their never happen. So I always the very first chance every single day.

[00:19:08] I make time to read the Bible and pray and on weekends. That means getting up about 5:00 5:30 Saturday and Sunday morning because I know my wife and kids are still many bit. So I’ll have this time to myself. I say that this table and you my Barbarian preying on weekend’s weekdays are little bit different structure because of my schedule, but I still do it first chance.

[00:19:26] I get with Gabby not we have kind of like do devotionals when I first came home from work. I work at night. So I come home about the middle of the day. We do. I always do a Bible reading two chapters a day together and listen to about 11 pages of a sermon of brother Benjamin and usually try to follow along and the sermon book and then.

[00:19:46] Do we read quotes from our church of the signs that have been breached and so on and then at night before I go to work if I have some more time, we’ll do a lot of extra reading. We rebuild progress together those type of things the books that I recommend is Jenna kois, [00:20:00] you know, 50 years in the Church of Rome.

[00:20:03] Hope to read his lips to Babylons that all those type of things. We try to include that in our reading sometimes at night are usually every night before I go to work. And just constantly make time. That’s all I know to do is a battle is never easy and you never find

[00:20:19] Luis Urrego: [00:20:19] him. 

[00:20:21] Gabby Bonnette: [00:20:21] What for me it was?  It started in back at home.

[00:20:27] Mom and dad used to sit down with all of us kids read each of us read a chapter. Then we’d all get down a half prior. It wasn’t like a one-person lead the prayer. We all got down and prayed her own individual prayers. Quietly, we had a quiet time. Well when I met Ryan I told him right off the bat.

[00:20:48] That’s what I wanted to do. Even if we’re Dayton Court and whatever you want to call it. I said I wanted to do that. Yeah with that special someone or just in a in the relationship. I want to keep God in the relationship [00:21:00] sure. So we even started praying together and reading the Bible together within our courtship and then.

[00:21:07] Continued on to our marriage so we read and pray together and then over the years we started adding in everything else for me personally my quiet time because I’m a busy mom is after I lay the girls down for bed my prayers all throughout the day dwelling on the Lord all that kind of stuff within my activities, but at night I’ll pull up a sermon.

[00:21:33] From church go back and listen to those or if I’m all caught up and it’s been a day or two, you know between Services. I’ll pull up brother Branham and listen to him for a couple of hours and I’ll usually start at about 10 o’clock at night when I know the girls are asleep not going to bother me and I’ll go on infantile sometimes one o’clock in the morning, then I turn it up and get her up at five and start my day.

[00:21:57] Luis Urrego: [00:21:57] Okay.

[00:21:59] Gabby Bonnette: [00:21:59] That’s the only [00:22:00] time I can find time. It’s. After I know they’re

[00:22:02] Luis Urrego: [00:22:02] asleep. Yeah, that’s what you’re actually losing sleep.

[00:22:08] Ryan Bonnette: [00:22:08] She hasn’t

[00:22:10] Gabby Bonnette: [00:22:10] done times sometimes I do but I feel like I’m blessed with that little bit of sleep. Yeah, because I thought God there and

[00:22:17] Ryan Bonnette: [00:22:17] yeah, absolutely. Sometimes you can find time to do it.

[00:22:20] So. I mean you have to make it work somehow. I never told her to do that. She’s decided that

[00:22:25] Luis Urrego: [00:22:25] that’s so that’s so awesome sister Gabby, you know you sacrifice and God takes care of the rest. That’s wonderful. So when you both have devotionals together you both pray together or just you get together you go over to someone the one room or whatever and brother Ron you pray.

[00:22:49] Ryan Bonnette: [00:22:49] My prayer time is usually when I’m driving the chicken truck and and then you know sometimes often myself here as a family we pray each nominee put the kids to bed. That’s [00:23:00] our family prayer time. As far as me and Gabi. Usually we have our prayer while not usually I mean every night before I leave to go to work we go in our bedroom together and pray together for a while before I leave for work and then I don’t know what you doing.

[00:23:14] Gabby Bonnette: [00:23:14] I pray throughout the day like when I’m cleaning. Cooking all that kind of stuff. That’s when I pray it just you know,

[00:23:22] Ryan Bonnette: [00:23:22] yeah, I’m

[00:23:22] Gabby Bonnette: [00:23:22] not busy

[00:23:23] Luis Urrego: [00:23:23] just constant devotion

[00:23:25] Ryan Bonnette: [00:23:25] pray without ceasing as out of the

[00:23:27] Luis Urrego: [00:23:27] scripture says pray without ceasing and not necessarily wait until the the emergency come to pray, you know just can’t just be you already already before even the emergency comes already prayed up is what they say.

[00:23:42] So. Come back to to little Iva. When when you when you all had Iva tell us exactly what happened at that time.

[00:23:53] Gabby Bonnette: [00:23:53] Yeah, cuz you don’t know what happened

[00:23:55] Ryan Bonnette: [00:23:55] during your pregnancy

[00:23:58] Luis Urrego: [00:23:58] Iran wasn’t pregnant with [00:24:00] her.

[00:24:00] Gabby Bonnette: [00:24:00] Well first and foremost all my pregnancies were a little bit complicated. They’re all miracles within themselves Mercy.

[00:24:06] I started having contractions about 20 weeks. Then she was born with a high white blood cell count. She too had to stay in the NICU wasn’t really severe but she had to stay an extra day in the hospital Harmony. The placenta was bleeding up until the middle of the pregnancy and I thought I was going to lose her.

[00:24:30] I was strictly I was put on restrictions. No heavy lifting bed rest as much as possible all that kind of stuff with you Le I had.

[00:24:42] Really high fluid levels to their arms almost to the point where it was toxic for her.  But they said it was normal range, but very high so they monitored her and then come about 34 weeks. They discovered a hole in her [00:25:00] heart and they talked about delivering her and doing surgery right away. So I went up for prayer.

[00:25:08] National or just take care of it. We didn’t want surgery and he did the next two weeks later. They did another ultrasound. They said it’s

[00:25:17] Luis Urrego: [00:25:17] not there praise the Lord

[00:25:18] Gabby Bonnette: [00:25:18] and she was born just a normal happy little chubby monster. Yeah, but she was

[00:25:28] Ryan Bonnette: [00:25:28] God

[00:25:29] Gabby Bonnette: [00:25:29] healed her and then with Iva I always knew that I would have her early.

[00:25:36] Something just told me if she was going to come early.

[00:25:39] Ryan Bonnette: [00:25:39] So about

[00:25:41] Gabby Bonnette: [00:25:41] 20 weeks. I started having contractions again. They told me just take it easy. Don’t do anything. Just rest just rest. Well, that was the year that pneumonia was going around in summer. It started out as bronchitis and then turned to pneumonia my brother and our church brother Boyd [00:26:00] had that hmm.

[00:26:02] And it was going around it was highly contagious. So everybody was coming down with it and I wound up getting it at first I thought it was bronchitis because I always get bronchitis. It was nothing new to me in about 34 weeks contractions started getting worse. They even checked me said it’s just braxton-hicks.

[00:26:23] Nothing’s going on but deep down inside. I knew something was happening my cough got worse. I was treating it like. I was taught to over-the-counter medications and angular as needed, but it just got worse to the point to where I could not cough standing up. I had to sit down and lean forward to even get a cough out because it was so painful.

[00:26:49] So

[00:26:50] Ryan Bonnette: [00:26:50] horrible

[00:26:51] Gabby Bonnette: [00:26:51] and then at night I was coughing up. And then one day he was at work or coming home from work something [00:27:00] and I coughed and my water broke. I’m kind of so hard that my water broke and I was only 35 36 weeks.  I had gestational diabetes and I had that with all my children, but with her I had.

[00:27:18] You know, I was managing it but what that causes for any pregnancy is the lungs to not develop like a normal baby. They take slower to develop.  So I went in the next day because I had an appointment. I wasn’t sure that my water broke. So I went in the next day for my appointment. They said yes, you you’re ready to go.

[00:27:41] You’re having contractions. There’s water go to the hospital I go to the hospital. By that night four minutes before midnight we have her and.  they confirmed that I did have a lot of fluid around my lungs and in my lungs and stuff and [00:28:00] so they were treating me for any viruses or anything and then when she was born she.

[00:28:06] whimpered a little bit but didn’t fully cry and then they wanted me to nurser. She would not and she started turning blue. So they soon as they took a look at her they rushed her out.  And then from there he can tell you because I wasn’t there

[00:28:24] Ryan Bonnette: [00:28:24] and I took her into the observation there for a while and watched her oxygen level her oxygen saturation in the blood kept dropping steadily 89 88 ask the doctor or the nurse they are.

[00:28:34] So what does what’s it supposed to be a supposed to stay in the 90s. He said well. Cuban few short while later they went ahead and took her into the neonatal ICU. And that’s where she stayed and I rolled my eyes because I thought Here We Go Again, they’re overly cautious a lot of times with children because with babies infants because they can turn so quick for the worst.

[00:28:53] So that took her in there and monitor her. I didn’t think anything really wrong. The next day was Thursday. [00:29:00] I realized that she’s getting sicker and oxygen levels getting lower. Started worrying Friday. I was really worried because I thought was no loser and I remember going home because we had to go back and forth ten to our children at home mom and broke with my sister were watching our other three.

[00:29:17] We still had to live our life only have one sick. And so I went home the scripture comes to my mind fear has torment. Because I’m in the middle of a very fearful battle a lot of anxiety mainly not knowing she’s going to live or not was what was so terrifying to me. There’s not even seeking to make it weird

[00:29:34] Luis Urrego: [00:29:34] the doctors already telling you

[00:29:36] Ryan Bonnette: [00:29:36] things like a lot they don’t say hold on then it wasn’t until later on actually told her she was dying.

[00:29:41] Where did it happen was

[00:29:42] Gabby Bonnette: [00:29:42] like there was we had I was released from the hospital when came back to see her. We walk into the NICU and we see. Two nurses Rush Nur to the very back of the Nikki where the more intensive care is immersed in there. Like what’s goin on? We found out that she had taken a turn for the [00:30:00] worst and she needed one-on-one care.

[00:30:01] Ryan Bonnette: [00:30:01] She had a constant observation from inertia.

[00:30:04] Gabby Bonnette: [00:30:04] But this time she was already pill clammy Gray.

[00:30:09] Ryan Bonnette: [00:30:09] Look like she’s dead. Yeah, she’s on oscillating respirator, which is a freak Show like a sign. I like a Frankenstein top of an invention. I don’t know if anybody knows what an oscillating respirator is but it’s like an air compressor that you would see in a mechanic shop.

[00:30:25] Very fast-paced not a. It’s more like a constant just that basically the point was to try to keep her lungs inflated constantly with these constant puffs of air in order to force oxygen. So if you don’t a hundred percent oxygen forced into the lungs with them fully inflated no respiration or chest is not moving up and down.

[00:30:46] This is 24 hours a day. She’s like this. Our chest fully post out lungs fully open to try to force air in because of those sacks inside that lungs were not opening to get oxygen out of the air and put it into the blood. That was the [00:31:00] knob so. Then but Saturday Friday was my first witness. I didn’t know that was an angel or the Lord dealing with me.

[00:31:08] But that scripture came to my mind fear has torment Saturday night was when she was her lowest and we thought for sure she’s going to die and I came to the resolve that we’re going to go to church and say Gabby was just going to church study about study that time Bible study and I never said this to brag.

[00:31:23] This was not me. And if anything I could say that by this time I was in love with the Lord. From daily Bible reading and prayer so much to where I was willing to just let her go. We had pretty much sort of been our mind sort of separated and said what would she’s going to go but we don’t want to sit here and watch her die.

[00:31:39] So we said let’s just go on the church the scripture kind of mind having done all to stand stand. We did all we know to do praying and fasting seeking God and I saw we could do and I was just going to church and serve the Lord. And this was our way of saying well, we love you. If you take our baby.

[00:31:54] We still love you. We’re still going to serve you many people aren’t church. I’m sure you’ve noticed I’ve done that when they’ve lost a [00:32:00] loved one. I won’t mention names but we’ve seen many people lose their spouse of 20 or 40 Years be right back at church the next service, you know, so I’ve never said that the Bragg was saying that dragons Lord.

[00:32:11] Yeah, but we left and went to church that night and then run away was the second witness God spoke to me. The brother waiting said, don’t worry. Stop worryin, and he didn’t know how bad she was. So I was kind of mad at him for saying that because I thought how dare you want our babies dying, but then I realized he didn’t know we didn’t tell anybody she was dying, but he knew I was worried because I was crying the whole Bible study.

[00:32:34] So then we went back to see her one more time that night after the Bible study and then left again to put our three other kids to bed still had to raise our family. So in the middle of like 10 o’clock at night. I just started those off to sleep. Gabby was still awake and then the doctor called Gabby and said we need to come in.

[00:32:54] We can’t do any more for your baby.

[00:32:56] Gabby Bonnette: [00:32:56] Well, actually they Children’s Hospital in Atlanta. [00:33:00] Had called me and said we need some information about your daughter and

[00:33:03] Ryan Bonnette: [00:33:03] I was like,

[00:33:04] Gabby Bonnette: [00:33:04] wait what no, like because your hospital called you and I was like No And about that time Ryan gets a phone call saying that they’re having to move or to it Lena.

[00:33:16] So we rush over there and they still weren’t honest with us. They were just like let’s just say she’s critical. She’s stable. They would not come out and tell us. Yeah, and it wasn’t until we got down to Atlanta. They took us into a little room. Set us down and doctor comes in introduces herself Point Blank.

[00:33:35] She looks just dead in the eye and says your baby’s dying. She may not make it through the night

[00:33:40] Ryan Bonnette: [00:33:40] and right before that that nurse that I worked on her during the transport found Gabby and told her I said I lost almost lost her baby twice on the way down here.

[00:33:50] Gabby Bonnette: [00:33:50] That was after they told us that she was

[00:33:52] Ryan Bonnette: [00:33:52] the only oh, why do I receive the third witness?

[00:33:54] That was one on Friday that said don’t said fear has torment. The second one was on [00:34:00] Friday on Saturday night at the bottom side where the weights said, don’t worry and I didn’t know it’s still that this was ordained with me. The third one was at two o’clock in the morning there at the consultation room there about about to right before the doctor comes in to tell us that she’s dying.

[00:34:14] I had my Bible open because it was the start of another day. I always read the Bible the first of every day first chance I get and I landed on first down for fear has torment he who fears is not made perfect in love. And here comes the doctor in the room and I said my Bible down on a table coffee table for people are in the room.

[00:34:32] There was all these Forest constantly surrounded her testimony Force should one fourth day of the week four minutes till midnight Forest guys number of Deliverance areas for people in room a doctor and an assistant. They mean Gabby and the Bible says in Revelation the psalm 23 set up a little bare table before you even in the midst of your enemies.

[00:34:52] Lowers Mighty in battle Mighty to deliver and the why he fights to me when I hear that when I hear someone say is mighty in battle. I laugh [00:35:00] because there’s no fight. There’s really no battle when the Lord comes in the devil just sits down in the corner and shivers. He’s so afraid and God didn’t have to come in there and slide me a little Mana or a little meat a morsel of bread under the table.

[00:35:14] So to speak to hide it from Satan what was present was our enemies of death and fear.

[00:35:20] Luis Urrego: [00:35:20] Mmm,

[00:35:21] Ryan Bonnette: [00:35:21] she was dying. I was afraid and the Lord was dealt had that with me through three Witnesses and said Don’t Fear now the final what I came to the realization I was at he’s saying even if she dies my job is to not fear because what good does Fear do whether she lives what if she dies don’t fear right?

[00:35:39] So that was what was in my mind by that time and I realized when I set my bow in town all of a sudden, I thought the last couple days. I was like Lord you’re dealing with me right now. Friday a witness Saturday a witness and the third witness was Sunday morning to avoid morning here comes the doctor and says down said you were babies dying the that struck us like a lion roaring in my face the [00:36:00] most fearful interaction I’ve ever had with a human being to definitely sit down look me in the eye and Gabby just melted.

[00:36:05] I mean she just like fell down to start on that sure we’re sitting down but she is melting in her seat started crying and I was like shaking but I was at the same kind of knew the Lord was working. And then later on it was just wrote me all the realization of how he’d been doing the whole time and gave me that little piece.

[00:36:21] I needed to overcome the devil that their present the death and the fear everything surrounding us and our baby. Don’t fear just plain and simple just don’t be. No matter what don’t be afraid we went out of that consultation room. We signed a consent for them to do this hideous procedure. I won’t go into details.

[00:36:39] Gabby Bonnette: [00:36:39] It’s called ECMO.

[00:36:41] Luis Urrego: [00:36:41] Yeah, Giacomo Diamond just a name sounds terrible.

[00:36:44] Gabby Bonnette: [00:36:44] Yeah. It’s basically where they buy a tire bypass the lungs and heart and if you are on that you only have two weeks.

[00:36:52] Ryan Bonnette: [00:36:52] Yeah, and the procedure itself could have killed you said only 70 percent of people actually survive the procedure itself because they have to cut the jugular vein [00:37:00] on and this case on an infant a very fragile frail infant.

[00:37:03] It’s already close so close to that and they’re going to surgery and Cutters are they doing

[00:37:07] Gabby Bonnette: [00:37:07] that? Can they can bleed out

[00:37:09] Ryan Bonnette: [00:37:09] and put a tube in there to draw The Blood Out circulate it through a machine to oxygenate the blood and then. Put it back in and that’s not just to start to heal over all that was to do was to buy her some more time to get oxygen or blood because for at this point is that our brains fixing the shutdown Hearts fixing shutdown long as fixing to shut down all the major organs are not getting oxygen because you before she left Northeast, Georgia.

[00:37:31] She was 37 percent oxygen saturation. That’s the number I remember seeing

[00:37:35] Gabby Bonnette: [00:37:35] that was that a hundred percent

[00:37:38] Ryan Bonnette: [00:37:38] there were given a hundred percent and of that. 37% was actually sustain in her interview lud it wasn’t getting through so basically she was drowning yeah I guess you could say on a table just sitting there not getting oxygen and so pale and so clammy and gray and sickly looking well then we went out there and just watch them work on her all night week from 2:00 in the [00:38:00] morning till about time for church

[00:38:01] Gabby Bonnette: [00:38:01] when we went out there that’s when the paramedic came to me and told me.

[00:38:06] You have a fighter. I almost lost her. What Weiss was yeah. She goes. I almost lost her twice on the way down here.

[00:38:15] Luis Urrego: [00:38:15] Wow.

[00:38:16] Gabby Bonnette: [00:38:16] They were having a pumper by hand. So it was a miracle just transporting

[00:38:20] Ryan Bonnette: [00:38:20] her lights and sirens and all – but and then we set there and watched them work on her. She was stable at that point and we just wait for them to come into that procedure that we signed a consent very dangerous procedure.

[00:38:33] We just ignored fighting sleep. I was trying to read the Bible and and just waiting to then seven o’clock comes time for church. So now I’m mostly and our kids. 50 60 miles away would get up from their leave are dying baby. Even though we don’t know the outcome and I’m not bragging of this to say to Brian.

[00:38:51] I’m just saying that this is what the Lord was still with me about you serve me no matter what and and don’t fear no matter what and so I got up on no [00:39:00] sleep up to Gainesville. Got our other three ready for church and we went to church that morning brother William bull Devon priest really good sermon.

[00:39:06] We set there fought fighting sleep. And then we left the service that morning called the nurse on the way back down to Atlanta. It went to see her. And she said your I said how she doing thinking she’d be on the ECMO by that time or dead and the nurse say well, she’s actually getting better. And on that time.

[00:39:24] She started her out on her own that was no intervention with the doctor. That wasn’t anything that they did different that we know of now they’re

[00:39:31] Gabby Bonnette: [00:39:31] not all medicine was the same all the treatment plan was the same

[00:39:35] Ryan Bonnette: [00:39:35] my respirator everything.

[00:39:37] Gabby Bonnette: [00:39:37] Everything was the same as just the location.

[00:39:39] Ryan Bonnette: [00:39:39] Yeah,

[00:39:40] Luis Urrego: [00:39:40] so the ECMO was not done

[00:39:42] Ryan Bonnette: [00:39:42] everything I never had

[00:39:43] Gabby Bonnette: [00:39:43] but we were prepared for that in case it came to it.

[00:39:47] Luis Urrego: [00:39:47] Okay, okay,

[00:39:48] Ryan Bonnette: [00:39:48] and she would had a long Battle of coming back. It was maybe a three weeks later before maybe before she woke up the first time I guess

[00:39:55] Gabby Bonnette: [00:39:55] no she woke up for the first time when they removed. Breathing tube, and that [00:40:00] was like two weeks her two weeks two week Mark. She was two weeks old when they removed it and I heard a cry for the very first time we had walked in and they had just pulled the tube out and I heard this big ol whining scream and I started crying nurses go.

[00:40:15] No, it’s fine. She’s okay. She’s okay. We just remove the tube. I said I know. The cry I have not heard her cry

[00:40:22] Luis Urrego: [00:40:22] so not even when you had given birth to her.

[00:40:25] Gabby Bonnette: [00:40:25] Just a whimper. That’s all

[00:40:26] Ryan Bonnette: [00:40:26] she can manage. Wow. That’s

[00:40:29] Luis Urrego: [00:40:29] incredible. I didn’t know that part of it. Yeah, what’s very impressive is the fact that you know, when you know, we say at the church and you know, the brother Dale is even.

[00:40:42] Even mentioned that several times but the fact that during this time you did not forget. To do the things that will continue to help you and your family grow

[00:40:53] Ryan Bonnette: [00:40:53] in Christ

[00:40:54] Luis Urrego: [00:40:54] again again, and I just want the listeners to to do [00:41:00] know this reiterating the fact that again seek ye first the kingdom of God.  All right, just as brother.

[00:41:10] Ron salt first the kingdom of God even before marriage. Now they’re still applying that in their life. Even at this critical time. Their baby is in a hospital. Atlanta if you knew where the distance between Atlanta where the baby where Iva was at in the church.

[00:41:29] Ryan Bonnette: [00:41:29] It’s a good hour hour

[00:41:30] Luis Urrego: [00:41:30] and a half maybe drive yet.

[00:41:32] They still in their mind and then their heart they wanted to be in fellowship and they wanted to be in church and I would I would venture to say there’s not that many parents. They would probably do what they did.  Taking that not necessarily say no. It’s a risk but by faith. Exercising your faith.

[00:41:52] That’s what to me that looks that looks like to me and you see by exercising your faith. God took [00:42:00] care of the rest exactly man. So brother Ryan went this time when you came to the realization that that this whole time God was dealing with you with through those versus giving you those Witnesses is that that realization come to you was after I was getting better or was it was before?

[00:42:19] Well.

[00:42:19] Ryan Bonnette: [00:42:19] I knew God was doing something that morning when I read the same verse that it comes to my mind Friday and waited more or less said to me Saturday night same. Concept what exactly the same word for word what Wade said to me for the wait said to me was the same man. Jesus always said Don’t Fear, you know be not afraid but the real realization struck me of what exactly was happening when in the weeks ahead while she was still recovering in the hospital.

[00:42:45] I Was preparing my testimony because I was thinking on these things. That’s my favorite scripture. That’s what it’s based on Philippians 4:8 think on these things and if you look at all the things that that list. It’s our whole new birth Journey from start to finish starting with truth. The first [00:43:00] time we are intercepted in her life by truth all the way up to praise the Capstone headstone praise and got and dwelling.

[00:43:08] I mean everybody it’s always thinking on the whole entire the whole entire everything that happened every little from it being. You know for the numbers for revolving around the whole thing to the scripture the witnesses and everything about it. Every little thing that happened.

[00:43:24] Gabby Bonnette: [00:43:24] Even the nurses names

[00:43:25] Ryan Bonnette: [00:43:25] nurses names.

[00:43:26] Very strange the first four nurses. She had her all Caitlin Kathleen something to do with that. Which means pure if you look at the name Kate or I think it’s kind of lame whichever one all those have some. Reference to Pure. Well, God was purifying our baby from that disease through the care of those nurses.

[00:43:44] I don’t say the nurses held her by any means but that’s when she’s first started turnaround was under the care of those first forward particularly because she started to turn started back the other direction for the first time. Hmm and every little thing we overlooked so many things in our life and think it’s insignificant, but there are so [00:44:00] many got incidents has so many times in our life where we think something.

[00:44:03] So just frivolous than just haphazardly. But it was is actually a week or two after the fact that her turn around then I realized the witnesses and it wasn’t just a just a strange occurrence. I knew in that consultation room that something was happening because I didn’t just happen to read that scripture.

[00:44:20] I remember looking The Guiding saying pointer. I said, well I’m leaving now what came to me Friday wasted last night

[00:44:26] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:26] and I read it and right after I read it finished last sentence here. It came

[00:44:31] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:31] here comes the doctor into the rooms. That’s right down. No pleasantries. Hi. I’m Doctor someone so no, she said your baby’s dying.

[00:44:37] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:37] Well, she did introduce.

[00:44:39] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:39] She said I’m dr. Compton

[00:44:40] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:40] carp in like car and pin your baby’s dying

[00:44:44] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:44] real quick kills real straight to the point my goodness, and

[00:44:47] Luis Urrego: [00:44:47] that’s not what you were expecting to hear.

[00:44:49] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:49] No, not really.

[00:44:50] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:50] No, honestly. I kind of knew something was bad.

[00:44:53] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:53] We know she was dying, but I mean,

[00:44:54] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:54] but when you’re.

[00:44:56] Ryan Bonnette: [00:44:56] As their views to the

[00:44:57] Gabby Bonnette: [00:44:57] Press. Yeah, you suppress it and you know [00:45:00] it inside you don’t want to face it, but when it. You slapped in the face with it. It becomes a reality

[00:45:06] Ryan Bonnette: [00:45:06] or medical professional say because this one was renowned. I mean the doctor that had referred us to her just said this is a big daughter.

[00:45:13] She’s wrote books. She’s renowned throughout the whole Southeast not just in Georgia from Texas to the Eastern Seaboard. She’s in been a lot of well-known in the Pediatric Community. Basically a very well-known doctor and I thought well, this is a big hot flue and doctor. She had to come in and move the night evidently for our baby.

[00:45:30] This must be bad, you know, and now she’s telling us that our baby’s dying, you know, and it was just so many things of fear tactics of the Devil’s Hole that was you know, still no need to fear.

[00:45:40] Luis Urrego: [00:45:40] Yeah. What does the number for to you? Represent being? I know being she’s in fourth child.

[00:45:49] Ryan Bonnette: [00:45:49] Watch out.

[00:45:49] There was four nurses.

[00:45:50] Luis Urrego: [00:45:50] Yeah. I

[00:45:52] Ryan Bonnette: [00:45:52] just want Four Minutes to Midnight on the fourth day of the week Wednesday night, and it was on the first second [00:46:00] third day of her life. She got sicker and sicker and sicker but on the fourth day Resurrection Day Sunday the day we honor the resurrection is when she started turn around.

[00:46:08] All those four words to me in the Bible. There’s bending Force symbolizing Deliverance the children of Israel from the fiery furnace the three Hebrew children, I mean three Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and I think was king of never stood up to several like those flaws Fourth Man in the fire. I can’t remember off hand all the other instances in the Bible about before that.

[00:46:28] It always seems symbolic of Deliverance. And that was God delivering our baby from sickness and Me From Fear simultaneously, I was so afraid it’s I can’t put into words. I wanted God to just knock me out and wake me up when it’s over and tell me she lived or not. That’s all I know. Is she going to make it?

[00:46:46] Yeah, it didn’t bother me that she was dying. It bothered me that I don’t know. She’s going to live. Yeah, and I won’t say a word to me about whether she was going to live. He just don’t fear but all the fours at seems to stand out.

[00:47:00] [00:47:00] Luis Urrego: [00:47:00] It’s it’s very it’s awesome that you. Through the trial to trial you’re learning this lesson not to fear meaning obviously.

[00:47:09] It’s a lesson that Christ would always try to get his disciples. Don’t fear. Don’t fear no matter and even in the midst in the middle of the storm. Yeah, but you needed you needed that because later on, I mean just recently I’ve had an episode to happen again through her

[00:47:27] Gabby Bonnette: [00:47:27] right for Ryan. He had a confirmation right after she got

[00:47:31] Luis Urrego: [00:47:31] home.

[00:47:32] Our third

[00:47:33] Gabby Bonnette: [00:47:33] child had a seizure at church

[00:47:35] Ryan Bonnette: [00:47:35] and

[00:47:36] Gabby Bonnette: [00:47:36] we’ve been told febrile. She’s okay all that kind of stuff. Well, I had taken one kid to the bathroom or something like that and she starts season but I already gave him the heads-up. She was feverish I gave her some medicine just watch her. Well, then it happens.

[00:47:51] Mmm. Thankfully there was a lot of sisters that have nurses that were there that helped pull her out of it and get her calm down and all that kind of [00:48:00] stuff but then. Back to the force last year December 2nd 3rd, something like that. It was a Monday. I was four years old. She had a seizure but leading up to this what I haven’t shared with anybody was that I always had this strange feeling that I was going to come out from go in the bathroom taking a shower, whatever.

[00:48:30] And find something wrong with her just this nagging feeling and I couldn’t shake it.

[00:48:34] Ryan Bonnette: [00:48:34] Well, it

[00:48:36] Gabby Bonnette: [00:48:36] happened and every time I got that feeling I just pray, you know, it’s just Lord just take that thoughts wait for me and I was just my imagination. Well that Monday morning we were. Getting ready to go shopping.

[00:48:51] She sat down on the couch and was just going to wait for me to get my shower and all that kind of stuff. So when I come back out, she was [00:49:00] sitting on couch, but she had fallen forward. Hmm. I thought that’s a funny way to go back to sleep.

[00:49:06] Ryan Bonnette: [00:49:06] Yeah,

[00:49:07] Gabby Bonnette: [00:49:07] so open the curtains and then I look at her and I’m like wait, she’s got her eyes open I go and check on her and she’s just staring at me like a dead stare and.

[00:49:18] Trying to get her attention white kind of wake her up out of it, but she wasn’t moving wasn’t responding then I get her lair in the floor and then she starts actually physically seizing where you could see the twitch and everything.  And I noticed you had already wet herself all that kind of stuff.

[00:49:40] So that told me it has already been going on for quite some time. Yeah. So I layer in the floor. My first thoughts is I start getting feeling fear. Like I’m not we’ve been through this it why myself getting this feeling and I just cast it down. I’ll call Ryan and I’m like we need to pray I was having a [00:50:00] seizure.

[00:50:00] Mmm-hmm. And of course at the time I had Facebook and stuff because my just recently lost my mom and want to stay in touch with my family. So I started posting, you know asking everybody on the church group to pray. Because she was having a seizure. She’s never done that before. Hmm so called upon everybody to pray.

[00:50:21] Ron was on the phone. We were praying laying hands on her he gets home and we don’t arrive to the hospital until the hour later.

[00:50:29] Ryan Bonnette: [00:50:29] So she had

[00:50:30] Luis Urrego: [00:50:30] never had a seizure before it was it was the third child that that’s happened before

[00:50:37] Gabby Bonnette: [00:50:37] quite a few and.  we get to the hospital and she still Cece.

[00:50:44] Ryan Bonnette: [00:50:44] Okay,

[00:50:45] Gabby Bonnette: [00:50:45] and they brush your in there into the actual triage room one of the real emergency cases and all of a sudden this room fills up with everybody the paramedics that were there the.

[00:50:58] We hadn’t taken her by ambulance. By the [00:51:00] way. This is just one’s hanging out at the hospital because I just dropped off a patient. It was all hands on deck all the nurses all doctors paramedics everybody just rushing in there to her is something you see on like a movie like in your movie and they just, you know, rushing in there and tending to her and they kept on giving her the medicine to try to make it stop they maxed out on.

[00:51:26] It would not stop. Wow. They had to sedate her to get it to even stop. Hmm. So they put her on the breathing machines again, the tubes and stuff like that and then our test her blood they did a spinal tap to see if was meningitis because meningitis was going around at that time, and then they tell us that she was going to have to be airlifted to a children’s hospital mine again.

[00:51:54] Because they are. Hospital could not handle such an intense care [00:52:00] like hers.

[00:52:01] Ryan Bonnette: [00:52:01] So that

[00:52:02] Gabby Bonnette: [00:52:02] airlifter to a children’s hospital in the mind after I saw her on the machines in the tubes again, it’s like we’ve been here before and I’ve seen God do pull her out of this and I said how watching do it again?

[00:52:15] Luis Urrego: [00:52:15] Yeah. So they say doesn’t that’s what I was getting to that the fact that you’ve been through this already. So now there’s more of a boldness now to take God’s word more with in faith you we’ve seen God work before people like you said, we will see him work again.

[00:52:32] Ryan Bonnette: [00:52:32] Yeah. Nearby when we walked in there.

[00:52:34] They were kind of looking at our faces and I was kind of college just like anybody with a seizure nothing but she was seizing in my arms like this is famous TV. What are y’all looking at? And I set her down and everybody just attacks her and cuts her clothes off of her and just gives her all these medicines like.

[00:52:51] Why are so many people I was still bumfuzzled about why I was such a big deal because we dealt with seizures seizures so many times with you Le and then the [00:53:00] chaplain in the hospital comes up to us. He’s watches from a distance. Just observing us things up Catholicism one said somebody’s been so calm.

[00:53:06] Yeah, I’m always tell Caesar before we must wait wait wait,

[00:53:09] Gabby Bonnette: [00:53:09] we explained to him that we’ve seen this with another child. She’s.  and I even told the chaplain I was like she was born early. She’s been on machines before I’ve seen God move for before. I know he’ll do it again. And I said I as mother I’m little bit tore up but I don’t fear what’s gonna happen because I know she’s gonna be okay, but I was nervous because of all the commotion and

[00:53:34] Ryan Bonnette: [00:53:34] saying that’s gonna have to airlift

[00:53:35] Gabby Bonnette: [00:53:35] that yeah are lifting her in just a mother the mother in me.

[00:53:39] Absolutely. That was my baby and I couldn’t stay in the same room. So your mom I’ll do this to my baby cousin. The mother in me couldn’t handle that.

[00:53:46] Luis Urrego: [00:53:46] Yeah,

[00:53:47] Gabby Bonnette: [00:53:47] but I was trusting God the whole entire time. So what’s so funny about it just like after we get down to Atlanta and they sedate her for like 24 hours.

[00:53:58] They finally get her off of the sedation [00:54:00] and the tubes and stuff first words out of my mouth. Where’s my clothes? We go shopping.

[00:54:05] Ryan Bonnette: [00:54:05] I still remember the day before which is on the couch. Now, she’s been airlifted. She didn’t know she had always nurses and things were going on her, you know where she was and her mind she was still on that couch Monday.

[00:54:15] It was mine. Yeah announced Tuesday and she’s finally waking up. She said I’m like some Coke,

[00:54:22] Luis Urrego: [00:54:22] but at this point they didn’t know what was causing the seizures. You didn’t know

[00:54:26] Gabby Bonnette: [00:54:26] you don’t know

[00:54:27] Luis Urrego: [00:54:27] and they still do this. Wow,

[00:54:29] Gabby Bonnette: [00:54:29] and then we have. We saw the neurologist and stuff when you explain what happened and showed him the video because I remember our third child Eula had to see a neurologist for all the seizure.

[00:54:44] She had they told us it was nothing. It was febrile all that kind of stuff, but they said what helps them the most to really determine and diagnosed such things is to get video. So that’s what I did. I didn’t hesitate with Ava I [00:55:00] was like, I don’t care. Even if she’s not seen a neurologist this isn’t her this isn’t normal.

[00:55:05] I’m getting a video. I got a video and then showed it to him and stuff and they told us it was started in one side of her brain move to the other side. It wasn’t all over the brain it just you know moved from side to side.  And it’s mostly like her right side of her brain is that affects the left side?

[00:55:27] That’s where the season? Happens and all that and all that electrical malfunction and stuff like that and they really didn’t do any testing any scans or what they did scans at the hospital and everything came back clear the test that they said that monitors brain waves. They said that was a little bit slow because of all the sedation but no seizing nothing.

[00:55:54] There’s no brain damage because she sees so long. [00:56:00] There dumbfounded honestly, really they have her on medication. But other than that, they don’t know what’s causing it. They had did had to in have to increase her dosage because she had a growth spurt and had a minor seizure when I was waking her up.

[00:56:17] Just a slight twitch on her left side of her face, but.  Other than that, there’s no testing. Just totally clueless. They don’t know trigger. They don’t know nothing, but we went to.  Have her checked into school ever a little physical done and they discovered a heart murmur. So we take her to get that checked out by a cardiologist said it was just an extra sound and then he’s fixing to let us go out of the room and then just let me listen one more time.

[00:56:49] So he listens again. A device in the room makes noise and they discover. She hasn’t extra heartbeat

[00:56:56] Luis Urrego: [00:56:56] know

[00:56:57] Gabby Bonnette: [00:56:57] everything seem normal. At first you said and then all of [00:57:00] a sudden she has this heart extra heartbeat because let me send you home with this little monitor. They put her on a monitor and then discover that she’s having quite a lot that needs medication.

[00:57:10] Luis Urrego: [00:57:10] Hmm

[00:57:11] Gabby Bonnette: [00:57:11] But.  still like after we got the news for just like. Here’s another thing we have to face God’s gonna handle

[00:57:18] Luis Urrego: [00:57:18] it. Hey, man, I’m in because I mean God took care of her even from from the beginning. There was a purpose for that. There’s a purpose for her. So, I’m sure that that’s probably hey Lord.

[00:57:35] The Lord is a logo take care of these other items.

[00:57:38] Ryan Bonnette: [00:57:38] They don’t control and even if you take sore from a sometime, you know, he didn’t know where to us in the first place. I mean, she’s been Grace all the way. I mean all of our children have been God’s grace to us, but we named her eye. But before we knew that the be so much grace involved with her whole life and everything so much God’s grace and her name either means god is gracious.

[00:57:57] We didn’t realize that when we picked the [00:58:00] name.

[00:58:00] Luis Urrego: [00:58:00] So since that time just recently she hasn’t had any more seizures since then

[00:58:05] Gabby Bonnette: [00:58:05] no major ones just a little minor Twitter, but

[00:58:09] Luis Urrego: [00:58:09] but that’s not it they don’t say if that’s anything related to when she was first born.

[00:58:14] Gabby Bonnette: [00:58:14] I even asked him that and they said she was not early enough for that.

[00:58:18] Luis Urrego: [00:58:18] Really?

[00:58:19] Gabby Bonnette: [00:58:19] Okay, and then they even when I found out she had a heart condition, they even took called to her heart doctor and it’s like can these be related or not? They don’t know why her heart’s acting up the way it is. They don’t know what’s causing the seizures unrelated unconnected. Yeah, her birth had nothing to do with it.

[00:58:40] It sounds

[00:58:40] Luis Urrego: [00:58:40] well to the to the listeners. If you look at Iva. She looks like a normal child. She doesn’t look you up and you know abnormal or anything like that. She just looks like a little happy

[00:58:51] Ryan Bonnette: [00:58:51] beautiful

[00:58:51] Luis Urrego: [00:58:51] girl all three all four of their daughters are beautiful and the god certainly blessed them and [00:59:00] but we just.

[00:59:03] I wanted them to share this because having gone through almost losing a child even after after given birth to the child is one thing to lose a child may be at Birth, you know, or even within the womb but then to have it be born and you actually see in her and and going through this process on I’ve never been through it but.

[00:59:28] I’m sure they could be something worried such as desperate situation, but when you put God in your life and when you put God first and you put the word before you just as David said I always put the Lord before me he’ll fight our battles. And so praise the Lord. All right in there. You have the second part of brother Ryan and sister Gabby Barnett’s testimony.

[00:59:51] I hope that you were blessed by it. And one of the things the main things that I got out of speaking to them and in this is something [01:00:00] that I’m known being that I go to church with them, but they are truly given in to studying and prayer. And reading the word of God many times. They’ve even shared with us that even sermons that they listen to at our church, even if they were present there at church.

[01:00:24] They go back and re-listen to them on their own because they feel that. They cannot get everything just there at this at the at the day when the sermon was preached and I think that’s so important, you know, because that that is so that’s so awesome to see that they want to get everything they can out of out of the ministry and out of out of what God has for them.

[01:00:58] And [01:01:00] and it’s what you put into it that. That what that’s what you’re going to get out of out of the word of God. And the more time you put into the word of God the more you’re going to get out of the word of God. It’s a very simple law but we don’t do it many of us have such a hard time doing that a very simple thing yet that we have hard time and I believe Satan tries to hinder us from.

[01:01:23] From doing those things that’s going to help us grow more into the stature of a perfect man. And so that’s one thing that really impressed upon my heart is that. For that that for them is to always seek. Ye first the kingdom of God, and I don’t my remember what when sister Gabby she was expressed and how even she may have she knows that she’s probably going to lose sleep, but it was it’s so important for her to have that personal time with God to spend time in prayer and to spend time [01:02:00] in reading the word of God and you know, what, Because she puts in for that time when in her mind and maybe in many people’s minds and think oh my goodness even I asked her the question what looks like you’re losing sleep out of it, but she says the sleep that I get that I do get it is such restful sleep.

[01:02:22] And so God is going God. Will you put in your apart? God’s gonna do the rest God’s going to put in his part. You just try God. He said try me. And see if I don’t if I don’t make it rain if I don’t pour out a blessing upon upon you so that’s one thing that really has impressed upon my heart and upon my life and my family’s life about brother Ryan sister Gabby and their family.

[01:02:51] So I hope that you pray for them and. And I trust that what you’ve heard today has blessed you and has [01:03:00] helped you draw closer to our Lord Jesus Christ that you see that my goodness someone that is just as common as as as brother his brother Ryan and sister Gabby our humble Meek brother Ryan just just a daily worker in a month since you Gabby a mom and a wife.

[01:03:22] And if and if God has done great things in their life, just like just like God has done in their life by them putting God first. How much more can God not do the same for you and all you have to do is just try try it try God try try him. And as he said in his word as I mentioned while ago you won’t you see if you try that if you do those things that God won’t pour out a blessing upon your life.

[01:03:50] Amen, so may God bless you. Thank you once again for tuning in. And until next episode we have another special guest that will [01:04:00] be announcing on the next episode and it’s a special guest that is closer to my home. I’ll just leave it at that. But I appreciate each and every one of you once again share the podcast with those any with everybody that you can so if you’ve been blessed that others may be blessed.

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[01:04:50] So make sure that your soul is is is is is full of Faith. Amen. Make sure that it’s full of Faith [01:05:00] No doubting because your soul is worth more than you think. May God bless you until the next time you take care.

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