{"id":20224,"date":"2025-11-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belovedgallery.org\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:28:51","slug":"iam_beloved-brian-alarid-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belovedgallery.org\/es\/iam_beloved-brian-alarid-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#iam_beloved: Brian Alarid Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Brian Alarid\u2019s 12-year-old daughter Chloe was hospitalized and paralyzed, the worst day of his life became the day God gave him a mission: to pray for every person on earth by name. Now the founder of World Prays, Brian recognized the Jesus he had met in a dream when he stood before Akiane Kramarik\u2019s <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i>. In our latest #iam_beloved story of faith, he shares Chloe\u2019s healing and the peace \u201cno one else can give.\u201d Watch his story below, then read it in his own words.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Brian Alarid was a pastor for 28 years before his family walked through a crisis that reshaped his mission. In 2016, his daughter Chloe was hospitalized, paralyzed, and lost her memory \u2014 yet held onto one thing: that her father loved her. Out of that season, Brian and his wife Mercy founded World Prays and the Pray for All movement, with a vision to pray for all eight billion people on earth by name. Having met Jesus in a dream years earlier, Brian recognized those same eyes in Akiane Kramarik\u2019s <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i>. His #iam_beloved story is about a peace given in the midst of trouble, and learning that love is not something God has but someone God is.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I was a pastor for 28 years. About eight years ago, in 2016, our daughter Chloe was 12 years old, and she got sick \u2014 in and out of hospitals and clinics. One day she woke up and couldn\u2019t walk; she went from active to paralyzed. They hospitalized her again, and over the next six weeks she just got worse and worse. The day came when she couldn\u2019t open her eyelids anymore. And on May 13th, 2016, she had complete amnesia in the hospital. She didn\u2019t know her name, didn\u2019t know the name of her school, didn\u2019t know what a school was, didn\u2019t recognize her mother.<\/span><\/p>

So I held her eyes open. I said, \u201cChloe.\u201d And she said, \u201cI Chloe.\u201d And I said, \u201cYeah, baby, you\u2019re Chloe.\u201d She\u2019s 12 years old. I said, \u201cDo you know who I am?\u201d And she strained, and she said, \u201cYou, Dada \u2014 you love me.\u201d That was her only memory: that I was Dada. She didn\u2019t know her name, but she knew I loved her. The head of neurology said, \u201cYour daughter will never walk again. At some point her eyelids should be able to open, but she\u2019ll be in a wheelchair, in pain, the rest of her life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

That day, May 13th, 2016 \u2014 the worst day of my life \u2014 also became the best day of my life, because that\u2019s what God does. God specializes in turning crucifixions into resurrections. In the hospital He made an assignment for me: pray for everybody in the world. And if I would give Him my daughter and put her on the altar, He would take care of her \u2014 because the way you love your daughter, that\u2019s the way I love everyone, and I want everyone prayed for by name.<\/span><\/p>

So with great pain and discouragement and brokenness, my wife Mercy and I accepted that call to pray for the whole world. Scripture says in 1 Timothy 2 to pray for all people \u2014 because, verse four, God wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of His Son, because God loves the world. About four years ago we set out on a mission called World Prays, and a global prayer movement called Pray for All. Our vision is to pray for every person on the planet \u2014 all eight billion people \u2014 by name, because the Bible says, \u201cI\u2019ve called you by name.\u201d When you have a name, you\u2019re a person. The people who feel invisible, like they don\u2019t matter \u2014 God knows their name and calls them His children.<\/span><\/p>

Years ago in Costa Rica, where we were missionaries, I got water baptized. Two nights later I had a dream, and Jesus appeared to me. We sat on a park bench, and He put His arm around me, looked me in the eyes, and said, \u201cWill you devote your life to preach My word?\u201d When you see those eyes \u2014 so full of love and joy and peace, and you\u2019re seen and known and loved, not judged but embraced \u2014 I said, \u201cLord, I\u2019ll devote my life to preach Your word.\u201d And with His finger He wrote on the bench, and He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to give you a new name.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Now we\u2019re on a mission to pray for everyone by name. Just this year, since January 1st, we\u2019ve prayed for over 500 million people by name. When I looked at the painting, I thought: that is who I saw. It was so powerful. And I love that Akiane called it <\/span>Prince of Peace<\/span><\/i>, because in this world you\u2019re going to have trouble. He said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to take you out of the trouble; I\u2019m going to give you peace in the midst of trouble.\u201d People are looking for something. You might have war in your family, a painful divorce, a loved one with cancer, or you just lost your job \u2014 and you need peace in the midst of turmoil. He offers peace that no one else can give. I think this is the time for this painting to be seen by the world, to communicate God\u2019s love and God\u2019s peace and hope.<\/span><\/p>

It took about six months for Chloe to get out of the wheelchair. It\u2019s been almost eight years now, and Chloe is doing better \u2014 she\u2019s 20 and recovering, and God has been faithful and merciful to her. She wants to go to Bible college next year. When I think of the word beloved, the scripture that comes to mind is 1 John 4:16: God is love, and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them. God loves me, and when I receive His love, I\u2019m able to love others \u2014 my wife, my children, my friends, the world \u2014 the way God loves me. Love isn\u2019t something God has; love is someone God is. The Bible says, \u201cPerfect love casts out fear.\u201d So when I\u2019m really loved, I let go of my fears and my inhibitions, and I\u2019m able to love as I am loved.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Brian Alarid\u2019s 12-year-old daughter Chloe was hospitalized and paralyzed, the worst day of his life became the day God gave him a mission: to pray for every person on earth by name. In our latest #iam_beloved story of faith, he shares Chloe\u2019s healing and the peace \u201cno one else can give.\u201d Brian, a former pastor, recognized the Jesus he met in a dream when he stood before Akiane Kramarik\u2019s *Prince of Peace*. Discover how love transformed their journey and how Brian\u2019s mission to pray for the world unfolded in the midst of unimaginable challenges.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t