John said his time in the hospital gave him fresh perspective on life and faith. "Wherever you are in your life and you feel like it's over, I need you to understand, it's not," she told the church during her welcome. At one point, Aventer wiped tears from her eyes as she was seated on the front row. Worshippers and staff were visibly emotional during the service. Congregants shouted, clapped and danced to the worship music. "My goals have become very small," he said. John preached a sermon titled "I thought you were dead," a play on a comment that his friend made when John first left the hospital, he said. John also thanked his wife, his church and his doctors for helping him with a speedy recovery.ĭespite returning to his church, John is no longer interested in "business as usual," he said. His first words from the stage: "there is nothing God can't do." When John returned to church Sunday, he was greeted with rejoicing and thunderous applause from his congregation and staff. "And to the people of God that have prayed and interceded, pushed and fought and cried and literally banged on the doors of Heaven and was like: 'Lord, not him, not now and not from this,' Thank you.He'd suffered from a saddle pulmonary embolism, a rare type of blockage of an artery in the lungs that can be life-threatening, according to his wife, Aventer Gray. Aventer said John's situation was "life or death," and that if the embolism had moved to the left of John's body, it would have affected his heart, and if it moved to right, it would have affected his lungs and blood flow. And for this and every other blessing, I say thank you," he continued. "What was scheduled in Hell, for me to be in a, … but I'm on this platform right here because You willed it to be so. It was at one point highly unlikely that I would be carrying or holding a mic again," John Gray said in another prayer in front of his congregation on Sunday. And I thank you for bringing me back to this place.
"Lord Jesus, get the glory from this moment in a way that you never have before.
13 Instagram post, giving credit to the Lord for her husband's recovery using the Hebrew words for "the God that heals."Īventer Gray reportedly sat in the front row, teary-eyed on Sunday as her husband preached. … All I know is Jehovah Rapha … He becomes what we need when we need it," wrote Aventer Gray in an Aug. You and I should have been cut off, but he missed."ĭoctors told Gray that if the blood clot deviated in any way, he could have died. "People used to say a lot 'the devil should have killed me when he had the chance.' I actually mean it. He shared that God "will not allow demonic things to happen to children unless it's meant to be for good." In a prayer before his sermon, Gray suggested that he has developed a better perspective on God's protection and on God's constant interference in life affairs to protect His followers from the plots and schemes of Satan, who "comes to steal, kill and destroy."Īdditionally, Gray noted that "the devil cannot do anything in our lives without express permission from God." 14 sermon preached at the Greenville-based church. … And I'm not the same which was the purpose of the season," John Gray said at the start of the Aug. "It's been close to two months since I've stood here. This past Sunday, as the pastor took to the stage at his church to preach a sermon for the first time since his sick leave, his congregation immediately burst into a roar of cheering and applause. After his wife, Aventer, encouraged his congregation to pray, Gray was released from the hospital after over a week. At times, Gray was "unable to move," and his oxygen fell well below the normal mark.
The condition could lead to sudden hemodynamic collapse and death. Gray had suffered a rare and very severe saddle pulmonary embolism, a term used to describe when a blood clot gets lodged at the intersection where the main pulmonary artery branches into the lungs.
On July 7, the 49-year-old pastor stood "in need of a miracle" after being admitted to the cardiac care unit of a local hospital after dealing with chest pain for a month. South Carolina megachurch Pastor John Gray returned to the pulpit Sunday after he was hospitalized for a pulmonary embolism last month, thanking God for keeping him from a death that had been "scheduled in Hell." 14, 2022, after being hospitalized a month earlier with a saddle pulmonary embolism. Pastor John Gray returns to the pulpit at Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, on Aug.
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