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At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on her son. She mustered all her faith and strength into one force and cried out to God in a loud voice to save him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiraculously, her son's heart immediately started beating again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the coming days, John would defy every expert, every case history, and every scientific prediction. Sixteen days after falling through the ice and being clinically dead for an hour, he walked out of the hospital under his own power, completely healed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBREAKTHROUGH is about a profound truth: prayer really does work. 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