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I grew up in a christian family, so I always knew and believed in God. But i didn't have a personal relationship with Him until I was 15.That was because something happened in my family that opened my eyes for who God is and wants to be for me.

In the summer of '94 I went to Recklinghausen Germany for a teen conference. I was singing in a teen choir and we were on stage a lot singing. My dad who is a family doctor, worked at the first aid post, so my parents and youngest bro and sis were there too. On the last day something terrible happened. I was at the closing service at that time. My parents and bro and sis were at the campsite. My youngest bro was just 13 months old.
A car drove backwards and didn't see him and he came under the wheel. She drove over his back. Everyone around started screaming, she didn't know what was going on and she drove forwards, standing still on my bro's head:( My dad pushed the car of him, picked him up and started running to the first aid post. He could see in his pupils that he was dying. Then my bro didn't make a sound anymore. They jumped in a car anyway and hurried to the hospital. A colleague of my dad alarmed the meeting and then 3000 teens kneeled and prayed for 15 minutes for my brother! When I think of it now it is awesome to have seen that. When I was told what happened, my heart just broke and my life collapsed :'( There was a woman, head of intercession team, who took care of me and comforted me. She told me to believe and not give up on him.
Meanwhile in the car my parents were also praying for my bro. Then suddenly my bro started to cry softly! They got to the hospital and there they did all sorts of scans and test, but they couldn't find anything! There were NO serious injurie's, only some bruises. His head was ok, no brain damage......and there had been a car wheel on it! God really did a miracle there, he resurrected my brother and healed him completely! Praise God!
My dad came to pick me and my sis up to go see our brother in the hospital. They wanted him to stay there for the night, just to be sure. They couldn't believe that a 13 month old baby had survived a car accident like that. The sight of my bro in the hospital is something i can still picture. He was just laying there in my moms arms, still in a shock I think cause of what happened. Afraid to move. But I also remember the way his eyes where shining.... You could see the light of the Holy Spirit shine through his eyes. It was amazing!

This experience wasn't easy for me. I didn't want to know the details about the accident for a year and walked away everytime my parents would talk about it with someone.
My brother recovered really quick. He was out of the hospital the next day. The only problem a week later was that he still wasn't walking. He could before the accident, but somehow his feet wouldn't carry the weight, or he was to scared... we didn't know and he was to young to tell. Again my dad prayed for it....an hour later my brother was running around again! PTL!

A week after the accident i gave my life to God. He showed me His power and I had no other choice then to surrender to him. I got baptised a few months later. I had blocked out all the feelings about the accident, I didn't want to talk about it. I couldn't talk with my parents anyway they had their own healing process. They saw their child get run over right in front of their eyes...
But bit by bit i learned about the details of the accident, the wheel on his head etc.
A year after the accident God started the healing process in me. I found some good friends to talk with and opened up more to God and receiving emotional healing. I asked Him all the questions I had. Why did it happen to my bro, what had he done to deserve that and stuff. God didn't give me all the answers, but he gave me rest about it. He used my brother to show all those teens his power. I learned that before the conference started, God showed one of the intercessors to pray against the spirit of death... Satan had plans, but God destroyed them!
I learned that God wants a personal relationship with me, that just knowing he exists is not enough. He is a God that is alive and working in our midst. He still does the same miracles described in the bible, even resurrecting people from the dead!
Now, almost 7 yrs later peter, my bro is doing great. He has a little scar on his back as a remembrance of the accident. He is very special to me and we are really close.
I am getting more and more closer to God and getting to know Him better every day.
I can't and won't live without Him anymore!