From Witchcraft, to Clinically Dead, to an Encounter with Jesus!

“I think they chalked a lot of it up to me just having panic attacks and thinking that I was dying. And in a sense, I knew that I was, because I knew that my body was literally deteriorating.” 

It was 2013 and 17-year-old Savannah Muse was tormented as a recent rape survivor. She found no relief in her Christian upbringing and had lost her love for life. Anxious and withdrawn she looked for answers in witchcraft. 

Savannah said, “I think it was feeding my soul somehow, because it was like an addiction.” 
In time, she found it even more destructive.
“I would start hearing voices. I would always look over my shoulder. I felt like things were watching me.” 

“Like, just the, the anxiety, the intrusive thoughts, everything's just getting worse.”

By her late 20’s, her health was declining and she spent hours in the fetal position in tremendous abdominal pain. Visits to the ER were frequent, yet unproductive. 

Savanah said, “I begged them, please keep me. Please admit me. Please give me an IV, please do something.” 

Then, on August 14, 2023, Savannah was found by her mother unconscious. She was rushed by ambulance to Augusta Health Medical Center in Fisherville, Virginia. At the hospital, Savannah went into cardiac arrest. The ER medical team worked on her and finally got her stable. They put Savannah on life support unsure if she would recover. At that time, Savannah said, she was no longer in pain.

“I don't know that I realized that I was in heaven,” said Savannah. “I just knew that I was somewhere better.”

“I’m sitting there and I’m looking at the trees, the grass the water. I look over to my left and there was Jesus, I mean, right there, all His glory. And He was so beautiful. He had the bluest eyes I had ever seen. I mean, they were like illuminating. And the light that was off of Him, it was just so beautiful. He was perfect. And He just looked at me and He said, I love you so much. You are mine. I love you. He just kept saying, I love you. You were mine.” 

Savannah said, “I was just so mesmerized and just in awe. And I just felt so free. I felt every chain was broken off. I didn't feel sick. There was no pain.” 

“And that moment I knew Jesus Christ was Lord and Savior.” 

As Savannah walked with Jesus, His love transformed her.  She also said, she remembers visiting with Christian relatives who had died. 

“And that's the last thing I remember from being up there. And just like that I was back alert asking for a Dr. Pepper.” 

Waking up after 10 days in a coma, Savannah learned about her condition. She was in renal failure and had a traumatic brain injury.  

She said, “A little bit confused. Especially when they told me that I had had a heart attack, and then when they told me that they lost me for 16 minutes. 

So, I immediately knew that I had gone to heaven.”

Savannah knew what she needed to do. She renounced witchcraft, gave her life to God and made plans to get baptized once she was discharged. A month later, Savannah did just that. 

“I rolled in in my wheelchair, and I was met with more love than I’d ever felt on this side of heaven. It was incredible,” said Savannah. 

Savannah spent the next six months in a wheelchair and after three months of dialysis, her kidneys were fully healed.   

“They tell me that it's, it's a miracle. It's amazing, never would've thought like, look, look at you. Go look, look at you. Look at who you were. Look at who you are now,” said Savannah. 

Today, there is still no medical explanation for Savannah’s health crisis. However, she is quick to share with anyone her experience in heaven, emphasizing the life-changing love of Jesus Christ. 

“He replaced all of that darkness and despair with just love, love, a love for life. Not in a selfish way, but a love for myself again,” said Savannah. 

“The way I see it, in some sense, it needed to happen for, for me to be saved. Like things are getting so dark and I was on such a dark path. Like, I, I should be in hell. And I'm not, I'm sitting here talking to you. I shouldn't have gotten to go to heaven, but He, He let me. And for that, I mean, the word thankful doesn't even sum it up,” said Savannah.

“I feel like I got a second chance and why would I not tell people what God did for me?”