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EXPERIENCED DEATH & CAME BACK TO LIFE
BY:ROD GERARD F. PORTELLI JR.
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TABLE OF CONTENTSWhy I Wrote This Book
Why You Should Read This Book
Chapter 1. The Word
Chapter 2. True Life "NDE"
Chapter 3. Memory
Chapter 4. Prayer of Salvation
Chapter 5. About The Author
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WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
I wrote this book because, I want to tell the world of my Testimony of when I actually died and Flat Lined. When we slip out of our bodies at the end of our lives we spend eternity with all of our Sense's. This is what I want to share with you. Please read what happens in the After Life & please consider seriously. Thank you and Enjoy.
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CHAPTER 1
THE WORD JOHN 6:63 (NLT)
63 THE SPIRIT ALONE GIVES ETERNAL LIFE. HUMAN EFFORT ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING. AND THE VERY WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO
YOU ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE.
I Believe if you will open your heart today, the Holy Spirit will talk to you. I'm speaking what the Lord Jesus has put on my heart to say. For the Spirit alone gives eternal life. The flesh profits nothing. John 6:63Rod will show you the word of God as a support system to tell you his testimony. The flesh profits nothing, but it's the words that our Heavenly father speaks to us through his word are spirit and they are life. If you speak God's words you'll be speaking life to others, fill your heart with the word of God.
JAMES 1:21B (NLT)
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21 SO GET RID OF ALL THE FILTH AND EVIL IN YOUR LIVES, AND HUMBLY ACCEPT THE WORD GOD HAS PLANTED IN YOUR HEARTS, FOR
IT HAS THE POWER TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.
The word is defined in Webster's Dictionary as the expressed or manifested mind and will of God putting one's feelings into words. God uses words to transfer his thoughts with our thoughts so we can think what God is thinking, so that our thoughts will line up with God's word. Words are the vehicle to transfer ones thoughts to another's thought life, words are just a vehicle or vessel to transfers ones thoughts into another's thought life. Amen? Words come from a belief, and beliefs come from continual thoughts. You choose which thoughts to think on, If a thought enters your head and mind and it does not line up with the word of God, then cast it down.
2 Corinthians 10:5 Webster's Bible TranslationCasting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
A Thought is a spiritual seed.How do you get and think on the right thoughts? Well the Bible which is the word of God tells us in the book of Philippians.
PHILIPPIANS 4:8 (NIV) 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is
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lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Okay, now you are thinking on the right thoughts. And you now understand how to cast down vain imaginations or thoughts if they do not line up with the word of God. Now let's look into saying, how your words have power.
Mark 11:22-24 (NIV)22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
JESUS CURSES A FIG TREE
(MARK 11:12-14)
12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
Your words have power, you will have what you say. There is power in the name of Jesus Christ.Let's look at the victory we have in Jesus, and how Jesus has the keys to hell and death. When Jesus died on the cross and spent three days in hell, God raised Jesus from the dead.
ROMANS 10:9 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)
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9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
So Praise God, He is the most High God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Heaven and hell are real and when you die you will go up or down depending on your decision towards God and Jesus hear and now on this earth while you are living here. Praise God.
A LIVING SACRIFICE TO GOD ROMANS 12:2 NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (NLT)
2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.Well How is God going to transform you? It's by Words, and how are you going to change the way you Think? Changing the way you think comes from reading His Word, The Word of God. Also hearing the Word of God, by getting His Word into your heart.
PROVERBS 18 NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (NLT)
20 Wise words satisfy like a good meal; the right words bring satisfaction.
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CHAPTER 2
TRUE LIFE "NDE"
PSALM 107:13-15A13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.14 He brought them out of darkness, the utter
darkness, and broke away their chains. 15 Let them give
thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind,
Well That's exactly what God did for me when I cried out to God to save me, and by that cry to God after I died was saved back to life. I am here today to tell you what God and Jesus Christ did for me by the Holy Spirit. By and In the Name of Jesus Christ.
I was living in Toronto Ontario Canada at the time in 1987. In October it's cold, I do not miss the cold and snow and everything that comes from living in the east coast.
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In 1987 I flat lined, I died while I was in the garage at home. I pulled into the garage and shut the garage door behind me and parked inside my home garage. I intentionally left my car's engine running so I can work on my blazer and have my car's radio playing music so that my battery would not die. Well trying to not let my car battery die, I died rather than my battery. For the sake of playing my car's stereo and my in car phone on, I did not want my battery to die with no one home to give me a boost if after I finished working on my blazer I wanted to go back out. The irony of leaving my car's engine running in the garage with the garage door closed and shut to prevent my battery from dying, I died.
I am in the garage with the door closed and my car's engine still running filling the entire garage with exhaust fumes. That is how I died, by the car's engine exhaust,
'CO'-carbon monoxide. It puts you to sleep painlessly. This is my Testimony.
It started off with dizziness and then an overwhelming tiredness or I became very sleepy. It would be like taking a Ambien going to sleep and then it kicks in while your laying
in bed while watching TV, and you try to fight the effects of the sleeping pill you just took going to bed, but you
can't fight it. It over takes you and you fall asleep, comfortably. Well that's the best way I can describe how it
felt in thegarage on the cold concrete floor with the engine running and the door shut closed.
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It felt like the prescription strength sleeping pill or even over the counter sleeping pill I took kicked in and I could not fight the drowsy feeling so I had to give in to the feeling of going to sleep. I fell to the cold concrete garage cement floor. At that time I did not realize what was happening to me and I did not put two and two together. I would have shut the car engine off sooner and open the garage door before I died, and I would have crawled outside for fresh air. As cold as it was in Toronto at that time of year. It was like five degrees below zero, and with the wind chill factor it could be minus twelve degrees outside.
Enough with the weather conditions. Now parked in the garage and my engine running and the door shut. I am now inside breathing in the exhaust fumes for a while now.
Well eventually I died by just falling asleep from the scenario of carbon monoxide. More on 'CO' in the next chapter. So as I died or flat lined, I found myself in the next realm called the spirit realm. I had all my sense's about me and in fact all my sense's were sharper. From falling asleep to the next moment I realized that I was not alive on this earth any more. I suddenly was in this deep blackness that was surrounding me and I was being pulled downward toward hell. I could not stop my decent, I had my arms outstretched to try to stop or slow my decent down. But with my arms outstretched trying to grab onto something to stop myself from falling or being pulled down. I knew now at that point that I was dead and not on this earth anymore, I was not alive anymore. I am in the next spirit
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realm being pull downward by a strong force that I had no control of. I was scared in this next realm and this blackness surrounding me, I was scared beyond belief. I was fully aware of what was happening to me because I still had all my sense's and I still had my mind and I was able to think.
In John 20:29 "You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me."
Now I was a sinner, I never accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I remember coming home and my mother would be upstairs in her bedroom praying out loud, "In the Name of Jesus we are healed" In the name of Jesus, so and so. I just remembered my mom praying out loud using the name of Jesus. In the spirit realm where I am on my back in a blackness of atmosphere, being pulled down. Then all of a sudden I remember the words of my mother praying out loud, In The Name of Jesus, etc. So I spoke out in death with a force pulling me downward I used my memory on earth to call out to God in the name of Jesus. I called out to Jesus, and I said in my decent to hell,
"God save me I don't want to die, In the Name of Jesus save me". Then that power pulling me down was instantly released and I started to glide peacefully and gently back up toward my body. Even though I'm still in this blackness encompassing me I now had a overwhelming peace about me after I called and asked God to save me in the name of Jesus. There is power in the Name of Jesus. His name saved me when I called and prayed or cried out to God in the name of
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Jesus. Jesus I don't want to die save me Jesus. Then Boom, that power pulling me downwards was released by and in the name of Jesus. Now I'm gently gliding back up to my body with peace knowing that it's going to be okay now. This is so powerful. After I cried out to Jesus to save me that power was released in Jesus name. That fear that gripped me on the way down and getting stronger on the way down was now gone, Praise God.
I believe that a lot of people who die and now being in the next realm, they have called out to Jesus to save them on their way to hell. After calling to God and Jesus they Were saved and now are in Heaven. Praise God, the most High God.
I believe that is when I became born again, in the death of my body and in the spirit realm I called to God in the name of Jesus save me I don't want to die. That is when I became born again. Since coming back to life, I saw the world differently and sin was not the same. Sin had no punch to it. The power in the name of Jesus in the spirit realm is immediate and faster than the speed of light in the next realm where when you die you will spend eternity in this next realm. If you ask Jesus to save you here and now on this earth your name will be written in the lambs book of life.
JOHN 20:31 (NLT) 31 But these are written so that you may continue to believe[d] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.
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CHAPTER 3
MEMORY As a Teenager I would hear my mom upstairs in her bedroom or my parents bedroom praying out loud, She would be praying out loud. In the name of Jesus I rebuke you Satan, In the Name of Jesus we are blessed, etc. And so on and so on.
So that memory of my mom praying by saying out loud so I could hear her say In The Name of Jesus, I pulled that from my memory after I died and being pulled down ward in this thick Blackness and darkness. It was so dark I could not see anything but I could see and hear in the next spirit realm. So Being pulled down without being able to stop myself with my arms out stretched to grab onto something to stop myself from this magnetic pull down. Praise God.
BEING PULLED DOWN WARDS BY A MAGNETIC FORCE
So I am dead and going down towards hell and I was scared. During this down ward decent in the spirit realm I said out loud in the next spirit realm, "GOD HELP ME, I DON'T WANT
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TO DIE SAVE ME IN THE NAME OF JESUS SAVE ME". God almighty heard my pray but Looking back and after graduating from Rhema Bible College and training center I know that it was the POWER OF THE NAME OF JESUS that saved me and caused me to start ascending and now I'm going back up to my body on earth in this natural realm. Peace came over me while I was still in the spirit realm. Praise God for the name of Jesus, Praise God for the word that became flesh and dwelt among us on this earth. The word became Flesh, (John 1:1)
JOHN 1AMPLIFIED BIBLE (AMP)
THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST
1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. 2 He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God. 3 All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being. 4 In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].
There is Power in the Name of Jesus Christ. It was the name of Jesus that saved me and the power in the name of Jesus when I said In the Name of Jesus Save me I don't want to die. When God speaks it happens, Every time. And according to the word of God it says that we are
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created in the image of God and we are created in the likeness of God. Which means that God made us humans to be like God himself. So if God Spoke the planet earth into existence then we have the word of God to speak towards our lives and we can create by speaking our lives into action.
So back to my flat lined experience. After and as soon as I said in the next spirit realm, God save me I don't want to die in the name of Jesus save me. That is when that power pulling me downward was released, the name of Jesus is so power full that in Philippians chapter 2 and verse 9 to 11 it says;
PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 (AMP)
9 For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW [in submission], of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father.
It's amazing to think that in one moment I was in my garage alive and the next second I'm not alive anymore and I'm in the spirit realm. I slipped out of my natural, physical body into the next realm. When a person dies there soul and spirit continues to live on for all of eternity.
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CHAPTER 4
PRAYER OF SALVATIONROMANS 10:9-10 (NLT)
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
It's so easy, To receive Jesus Christ into your heart Pray this out loud with your mouth. And you will be Saved and your name will be written in the Lambs book of Life for all Eternity.
Heavenly Father, I am a sinner. Right now I confess that Jesus is Lord. I believe in my heart
that God raised Jesus from the dead, and is alive and seated in Heaven at your right hand. Lord
Jesus come into my heart and live in me and through me. I make you my lord and savior.
Thank you Father God that I am saved and born again right now. Thank you Jesus for dying for
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my sins and cleansing me from all unrighteousness. I am saved, Thank you Jesus.
Amen.
CHAPTER 5
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROD G.-PORTELLI JR. is author of God's Revelation. Publishing Many Books and How To Use Your Words to Steer Your life in the direction you need. He lives in Boulder City, Nv. with his family. Rod loves educating and inspiring People and the world to succeed and live the life God Almighty has for them.
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