Years ago I met a man. He showed up on my doorstep. He was physically hunched over. His life changed by an accident. He said “I heard you would help me to get services”. I invited him in. A friend had told him about me and my wife. As I looked at this broken man I thought something is getting ready to happen. I asked if I could pray for him. As I did I could hear cracks and pops as bones and joints aligned. I was young in the Lord. Send me into a drug den to preach I was good with, but a man who was broken and hurt (One leg had shortened some 5 inches from the encounter of his vehicle and a ten wheeler.)I was not so good with. As I prayed for him he fell forward, across the coffee table (Aren’t people supposed to fall backwards?!?!?)and into my arms. He sounded like a breakfast cereal as snaps, crackles and pops kept coming from his body. I had a moment as his leg grew out. A while later I was looking at a new man. There was no trip to find him services that day or any other. He came to live with my wife and I. One of the many that would live with us over the years. Continue reading “The Happiest Sound” To Be Heard
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A Call To Come In
I think the words of the church initially may be “come on in”. I am not talking about entering the brick and mortar of a building, but coming into fellowship with God Himself and becoming one of His family. Many who come in simply need to get healed and involved in the process of being made whole, so that they can get back out to the world at hand. Continue reading A Call To Come In
Why Would You Do That? More “What If” Thinking
More than once I have been asked that question in my life? Here are a few of the recent ones… Continue reading Why Would You Do That? More “What If” Thinking
A Change Just Happened This Weekend
The meetings were powerful. Each night what appeared to be hundreds and hundreds of people wended their way down the aisles as our team reached out their hands and healed the sick, the lame, the broken. I never saw their faces. They just wept and wept.
Each night I would head back to the place my wife and I were staying. Our grandchildren would be there.
Each morning Jacob would ask me, “did they ALL get healed?” Continue reading A Change Just Happened This Weekend