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Thursday, January 5, 2017

This Little Girl's Bold Proclamation Will Leave You With Chills - CBN News

This Little Girl's Bold Proclamation Will Leave You With Chills - CBN News 01.05.17

Whether or not you believe in the rapture, the end times, or the final tribulation, a YouTube video is gaining popularity for its recording of a child believed to be prophesying about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

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Lily Grace was two years old when her mother captured her on video speaking about going up to be with Jesus.

"The King is coming," she said.

It was January 2015, just around midnight, when her mother, Chelsea Rebecca, said Lily was knocking and talking at her door.

"She was saying, with urgency, 'Something's coming! Something's coming!'" Rebecca wrote on her YouTube channel. "She elaborated on her dream vision later in the day."

Chelsea managed to capture that on video and it is going viral.

The child's words are barely understandable as she says things like "The King," "Abba up, push you up" and "join Abba up."

In her YouTube post, Chelsea squelches any criticism of her daughter's account. She explains that she has not taught her toddler much about the Bible.

"No, I couldn't teach her this. She JUST turned 2 and is just starting to really come up with diverse words and sentences clearly," she wrote. "Her best understanding of God prior to this was nightly bedtime prayers, and we had yet to discuss the rapture or His second coming with her (being that she is of course so young)."

The mother said she feels God has confirmed her child's account.

She references the Bible in Joel 2:28, where the prophet says, "It shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."

Chelsea said this is not the only time her daughter has had a divine experience.

In a video posted in February 2016, Lily can be seen describing an encounter with Jesus.

"Was He like daddy?" Chelsea is heard asking.

"No!! Not like daddy, like JESUS. He is THE KING! King Abba! He's like Abba! Jesus King Abba," Lily said.

Friday, March 18, 2016

What God Told This Little Girl When She Went to Heaven - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

What God Told This Little Girl When She Went to Heaven

Photo above: The Beam sisters playing, with Annabel center. (Courtesy/Beam family)

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What do you do when your daughter lies dying in a hospital bed? How do you pray when she looks at you to say, "Mommy, I want to die and go to heaven and be with Jesus where there is no pain ... you would kill yourself and go with me"?

Christy Beam's heart broke in that moment.

"I felt sick, felt like throwing up," Beam says. "What that meant to me wasn't the loss of me, too, but it meant she had processed it, that daddy will be here to take care of other girls, they will be fine. She wasn't going to go without me. It wasn't a fleeting thought, it was a thought she had taken to process the execution. ... It terrified me."

The Beam family's faith is chronicled in Miracles From Heaven by producers like T.D. Jakes and DeVon Franklin out now.

READ: 'Miracles From Heaven': The Film That Does Everything Right

Annabel Beam is a ray of sunshine for her family. The girl who plays the French horn because it has the same word as french fry is the second child for Christy and Kevin. Her story begins with a childhood diagnosis with life-threatening digestive conditions.

She was 4 when she started having "tummy toubles" as her mother called them, 5 when the nightmares of surgeries and going from doctor to doctor, hospital to hospital began. Each day, Kevin and Christy watched their mellow little girl fall deeper into herself, losing the vibrancy that used to envelop her.

It was during those hospital visits that Christy found her faith being challenged and her hope waning. At times, she was almost silent in her communication with God, afraid that His answer to her prayers would be "No." And then the Lord spoke to her.

"You need to start reaffirming who you know God is, need to start praying for things in a way you know God can do," Christy says. "He is a mighty God, an almighty and amazing God—not a vending machine."

But God also spoke to Annabel, the girl says, and told her something astounding: "I believe that I was cured because whenever I went to Heaven I asked Jesus if I could stay with him and he said, 'No Annabel, I have plans for you on Earth.'"

When Christy prayed for Annabel's healing, it came about in a way that may have cost her life.

Annabel was climbing a tree with her sister one afternoon when she fell. And not just a little slip. Annabel tumbled 30 feet into a hollowed-out cottonwood tree. After rescuing her, the Beams made their way to the all-too-familiar hospital. Test after test revealed there was nothing wrong with Annabel—nothing including the subsiding of her debilitating illness.

That was in 2011.

The now 12-year-old is a source of joy for all who meet her, and not just because of her gratitude for life. She's a deep thinker, Christy says, but the word "chicken" can send her into giggle fits.

But more than anything, Annabel is physical proof of God's faithfulness.

"I really feel like God has called me to be hyper aware and encourage others to be aware, to not only recognize acts of faith by Christ in our lives, but realize what are our acts of faithfulness back," Christy says. "What are we doing to show Him? ... I feel like, we say God is faithful, I feel like that's an adjective, and it should be a verb."

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Monday, November 16, 2015

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN - What Happened After This Little Girl Visited Heaven Could Change Your Theology - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

'Miracles in Heaven' cast (YouTube)

What Happened After This Little Girl Visited Heaven Could Change Your Theology

Christy Beam's heart broke in that moment.

"I felt sick, felt like throwing up," Beam says. "What that meant to me wasn't the loss of me, too, but it meant she had processed it, that Daddy will be here to take care of other girls, they will be fine. She wasn't going to go without me. It wasn't a fleeting thought, it was a thought she had taken to process the execution ... It terrified me."

Now, the Beam's story is hitting the big screen, with Jennifer Garner portraying Christy and Kylie Rodgers taking on the role of Annabel, though Annabel herself would have preferred Selena Gomez.

Watch the trailer for Miracles from Heaven and let us know what you think.

Jessilyn Justice is the assistant news editor for Charisma. Born and raised in a pastor's family in Alabama, she went to Lee University and the Washington Journalism Center. She's passionate about the church, jogging, news and cupcakes not necessarily in that order. Tell her what you think of this story on Twitter@jessilynjustice.