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Christopher Gunderson spent the first 16 years of his life unable to eat and in desperate need of medical intervention for survival.<\/p>\n
But Gunderson, born with chronic pseudo-obstruction syndrome, an ailment in which the gastrointestinal tracts can\u2019t appropriately absorb food, experienced a miracle that changed everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was born \u2026 basically, where my stomach was completely paralyzed,\u201d he told CBN News. \u201cThey call it complete gastroparesis, and it wouldn\u2019t pump anything from my stomach to my small intestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
This meant Gunderson, whose story is briefly told in\u00a0CBN\u2019s new documentary \u201cInvestigating the Supernatural: Miracles,\u201d\u00a0would vomit whenever he ate, making nourishment near-impossible.<\/p>\n
WANT MORE MIRACLE STORIES? STREAM CBN\u2019S NEW FILM, \u201cINVESTIGATING THE SUPERNATURAL: MIRACLES\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt took my parents and the doctors several studies and diagnostic tests to figure out that that was truly the case that I had complete gastroparesis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Doctors were forced to insert two tubes into his body. One, which went into his stomach, decompressed everything he swallowed to try and help process it through.<\/p>\n Another tube, connected to Gunderson\u2019s small intestine, allowed him to get nutrition from formula \u2014 something he relied on for nutrients throughout the first 16 years of his life. As he got older and more active, the situation became tougher to navigate.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have bile actually back up into my stomach and cause severe heartburn on a daily basis,\u201d Gunderson said. \u201cI\u2019d have to constantly drain that out throughout the night and throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n Eventually, doctors came to fear what might happen due to the lack of nourishment and complications.<\/p>\n \u201cMy parents were told multiple times that the doctors didn\u2019t know how long I was going to live for,\u201d Gunderson said, noting he went septic in the past and had infections. \u201cThey never exposed that to me, which I\u2019m grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n Gunderson was raised in a Christian household but was skeptical that miracles are still unfolding. Despite that belief, he and his family found themselves at a 2011 event featuring Bruce Van Natta, a ministry leader whose\u00a0own miracle healing story\u00a0of being crushed by a truck and surviving has led to speeches, addresses, and books.<\/p>\n \u201cMy mom was hearing his testimony, and during the whole time that Bruce was talking my mom was hearing God tell her to go talk to him,\u201d Gunderson said. \u201cHe was saying a lot of familiar medical terminology that most people wouldn\u2019t really know because of what Bruce had gone through and what I\u2019ve gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n His mom ended up approaching Van Natta. While Gunderson wasn\u2019t there at the time, she asked Van Natta if he would pray for her son. Van Natta agreed and told the mother to bring her son the next day to hear him speak \u2014 so they did.<\/p>\n Little did the family know, but something big was on the horizon.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were there at that church the next day I had this pulsating sensation in my abdomen that I hadn\u2019t had before,\u201d Gunderson said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018What\u2019s going on?\u2019 And God said, He\u2019s preparing me. And I haven\u2019t really ever heard from God too much before in my spirit. I didn\u2019t know how to \u2026 listen to his voice, listen to the Holy Spirit\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n In those moments of dialogue with God, Gunderson said he made a promise.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring that time that I was having that pulsating sensation \u2026 I said, \u2018If you heal me, I will not be quiet about it. I\u2019ll tell anyone and everyone about this testimony, about this miracle that you did for me,’\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n After Van Natta spoke, Gunderson and his family went up to him and Van Natta put his hand on his shoulders and started to pray \u2014 and that\u2019s when Gunderson believes a real-life miracle unfolded.<\/p>\n \u201cHe started to pray for me, and I started to feel that pulsating sensation that I was talking about before, but to like the 10th degree,\u201d Gunderson said. \u201cIt feels like when you flex your abdomen, which is like over, and over, and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cAnd, then, about halfway through the prayer, I actually felt this lightning bolt electric shock go from my right shoulder, down through my chest, and down through my abdomen, and I felt like God jumpstarted my stomach back up with a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n Gunderson described the experience as \u201cpretty painful,\u201d with Van Natta noting that they needed to continue praying. Once those prayers were over, Gunderson wasn\u2019t sure what to think.<\/p>\n \u201cI actually had a basketball game that night,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, then, after the basketball game, we went out for dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n But something was quite different about this dinner. Gunderson swallowed the entire meal without any abdominal pain \u2014 the first full meal he had ever eaten.<\/p>\n \u201cMy small intestine had never had to take anything on aside from just formula,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t scared. I was more filled with excitement and joy, and it felt like it was very surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the next few weeks, Gunderson was cautious but soon came to believe that God had healed him. Soon, he weaned off of his tubes and eventually had them removed.<\/p>\n Doctors were shocked \u2014 and even skeptical \u2014 to hear Gunderson was off his feeding tubes and eating. Over time, though, it became apparent something had changed and doctors were elated, despite being unable to explain what unfolded.<\/p>\n Gunderson, though, knows a miracle took place. The experience totally changed his heart and mind.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore my tubes, I saw God as this higher being that\u2019s just kind of up there and not really having a deep, meaningful relationship with us,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, now, I actually have this inner dialect with Him.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch him tell the full story. For more journeys like this, stream \u201cInvestigating the Supernatural: Miracles.\u201d We\u2019ll leave you with the trailer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christopher Gunderson spent the first 16 years of his life unable to eat and in desperate need of medical intervention for survival. 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