- All the things that Ithought were just some

crazy old legend, it's real.

It's a dimension that exists.

Something far beyond anythingI could have ever imagined

was happening to me.

- [Reporter] Jim Woodford,an ambitious, self-made man

earned the nickname Diamond Jim.

He was focused on providing alife of luxury for his family.

- Nothing was too big.

If I have a problem, he could fix it.

- I thought that thatwas my way of showing her

how much I loved herand cared for our family

just by providing everything that I could.

- [Reporter] But Lorraine, a Christian,

prayed for something more.

- God, please change his heart.

Bring him to know Jesus Christ

and just make a change in him

and deal with this materialistic way.

- [Reporter] Over the years,the money and materialism

had started to consume Jim,

as he pulled away from his family.

- I'd wake up in the middleof the night and I would

say to myself, "Is this all there is?"

- [Reporter] At 61-years-old,Jim was diagnosed

with Guillain-Barre syndrome,a rare, incurable disease

resulting in chronic pain.

- Unremitting, electrical current pain

in every part of my bodyaccompanied with paralyzing

inability to move.

- [Reporter] For the nextfive years, Jim relied on

prescription meds to manage the pain.

- He was just getting tobe a very angry person.

The pain was consuming him.

- Never once, and thisspeaks to the arrogance,

did I reach inside or lookup to the sky and say,

"God, if you exist, help me out here."

Not me, not Diamond Jim.

- [Reporter] In April 2014,Lorraine said a desperate

prayer for Jim's heart.

- I said, "God, I've been praying

but I haven't seen any change.

Maybe you just have tobreak him to remake him.

But, be careful what you pray for.

- [Reporter] Later thatmonth after taking more than

four times his dosage, Jimwent to inspect a field

he was planning to sell.

He says while sitting in his truck,

he felt a growing, burningsensation in his legs.

- Suddenly, I realized I couldn't breathe.

It was as though the cab of the truck

was filling with water.

As I'm about to draw my last breath,

from somewhere inside of methat I didn't even know existed,

I cried out,

"God, forgive me.

"Forgive me."

- [Reporter] When Jim didn't come home,

Lorraine called the police.

He was found in his truck unresponsive

and was rushed to the hospital.

Lorraine rallied friendsand family to pray.

- The head doctor come out and he said,

"Your husband is severely brain damaged.

"There's no brain activitythere and he said,

"We have him on full life support because

"his organs have all shut down."

He said, "There is noway to bring him back."

I was apologizing forpraying when I prayed

but I didn't know it would come to this.

- [Reporter] There wassomething else she didn't know.

Since the attack, Jimhad been experiencing

a very different reality.

- I looked to the right andthere's this incredible vista

of beautiful flowers and meadows.

I turn my vision to theleft and that beautiful

green grass went from greento brown to scorch to black

and dropped off at a crevasse.

I saw the most hideouscreature you could ever imagine

and I fell back in abject terror,

the look of hatred in its eyesfor me and all of mankind.

At this point, I turned toward the light

and I raised both handsthis time and I cried out,

"God, help me!

"Help me."

- [Reporter] Then, Jimsays three angels came

and took him through Heaven.

- And I realized I waslooking at none other than

Jesus Christ, the son of God,

and he looked at me with those violet eyes

and all I heard was,

"James, what did you do

"with the life my master gave you?"

I had no answer.

But as I looked into hiseyes and he smiled at me,

he smiled at me, he knew me.

I saw such intense loveand forgiveness for me,

for me who deserved nothing

and that was the moment I was His forever,

whatever was about to become of me.

I was His.

I loved Him and He loved me.

- [Reporter] Jim says he wanted to stay

but Jesus had other plans for him.

- "Go back and tell yourbrothers and sisters

"of the wonders we have shown you."

Suddenly, I'm in a coldhospital room on a gurney

screaming at the top of my lungs,

scared the daylights outof some of the nurses.

- And a nurse came outand said, "Mrs. Woodford,

"can you come here with me?"

And I thought, "He's gone."

- I'm just overwhelmed thatI'm seeing Lorraine again.

I said, "Lorraine, I saw Jesus

"And Jesus has horses (laughs)."

- The more I could talk to himand know that he was saying,

I knew God had restored him.

- [Reporter] Lorrainerealized God had also

answered her prayer tobreak Jim to remake him.

- He was focused on Jesusand he became much gentler.

- [Reporter] While Jimstill has the markers of

Guillain-Barre syndrome, hehas been completely pain free.

Today, Jim is intent ontelling everyone he can

about salvation in Jesus Christ.

- You have to open the doorof your heart to let him in

and the door of my hearthas now been opened.