For King and Country Singer’s Son Brought Back to Life
God gave Courtney Smallbone, who is married to Luke Smallbone of For King and Country, a miracle to show his love for her and her infant son, Leo. She had put her 8-week-old son down for a nap, along with her two other children at the time.
“I finally got all three down, which was like a miracle in and of itself, and I put them down for a nap and you know had the monitor and went out to have a cup of coffee and to read,” she revealed to CBN’s Heaven Meets Earth podcast. “And I was out there for a little while, and I was reading this book, and it’s like my vision kept blurring like I couldn’t focus. And I hear this voice say, ‘Go check on Leo, and don’t believe what you’re going to see.'”
She ran into Leo’s room and found him “blue and gray, cold, sunken-in chest and blood all over his face and limp.” Smallbone grabbed her baby, screamed and ran outside, where Luke was mowing the lawn.
“I remember looking at him, and I tried CPR and nothing, and I just started praying,” she said. I started praying in tongues. And I say very quietly, my hands again off; I’m like, ‘only you can do this. Only you can do this.'”
Immediately, her prayer of surrender was answered. Leo came back to life.
“And literally in that moment, like his chest expands, he starts crying,” Smallbone said.
“It’s when heaven and earth touch. It’s like, this is who Jesus is, but I didn’t expect to see him this way. In my deepest, darkest fear that he would touch my baby, in front of me.”
As her faith has grown, so has Leo. He now is years old and is turning into a bold evangelist. Smallbone even compares his outspoken courage to John the Baptist. “And so, every day is a gift with him,” she said. “ Every day I am so aware, I am so aware that life is a gift. Children are a gift.”
Smallbone said she is a different person after that experience, and through it all, God has taught her to remain humble and surrendered to him. “It keeps you on your face, because you’re like, I’m dead without you,” she said. “I can’t do anything without the presence of God, nor do I want to.”
–Lee Hartman
