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I was 10 years old the first time I feared for my life.
My family was living in Kuwait as missionaries during the Persian Gulf War when Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded. We were taken hostage.
It was terrifying. My mom, my brother, and I were released after six weeks, but my dad remained a hostage for another three months.
People around the world were praying for his release — literally millions. During a specific week when churches had been especially mobilized to pray, something extraordinary happened. Saddam Hussein began having disturbing dreams — so intense that he couldn’t sleep. He later said that God was troubling his spirit.
At the time, Saddam had taken hostages from Western countries and placed them at military sites across Iraq and Kuwait to use as human shields. It was his last remaining tactic to prevent an invasion of over 500,000 U.S. troops who were waiting in Saudi Arabia. But after these sleepless nights from troubling dreams, Saddam shocked his cabinet by ordering the release of the hostages. The next day, my dad was on a plane back to the United States.
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My family was living in Kuwait as missionaries during the Persian Gulf War when Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded. We were taken hostage.
It was terrifying. My mom, my brother, and I were released after six weeks, but my dad remained a hostage for another three months.
People around the world were praying for his release — literally millions. During a specific week when churches had been especially mobilized to pray, something extraordinary happened. Saddam Hussein began having disturbing dreams — so intense that he couldn’t sleep. He later said that God was troubling his spirit.
At the time, Saddam had taken hostages from Western countries and placed them at military sites across Iraq and Kuwait to use as human shields. It was his last remaining tactic to prevent an invasion of over 500,000 U.S. troops who were waiting in Saudi Arabia. But after these sleepless nights from troubling dreams, Saddam shocked his cabinet by ordering the release of the hostages. The next day, my dad was on a plane back to the United States.
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Saddam Hussein's dreams and the case for supernatural faith
I was 10 years old the first time I feared for my life My family was living in Kuwait as missionaries during the Persian Gulf War when Saddam Hussein s forces invaded We were taken hostage
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