Roberts Liardon tells us that our God is not a God of coincidence! Oral had finally reached the place where he’d stopped running from God, and so God began to “run” toward him with one personal miracle after another. During the same time that Oral was saved, a healing evangelist named Brother George W. Moncey [...]
For the next ten years, Lester Sumrall split his ministry time between his renewed pastorate in South Bend, Indiana, and his unquenchable call to minister to the lost overseas. In 1956, Lester felt a call to Israel and moved his family to Jerusalem. In that same year, the Sinai War was waged between Israel and [...]
The healings and miracles continued as Lester and Howard entered the country of Manchuria. On the day after their arrival, Lester noticed the terrible diseases that seemed to abound throughout this poor country. The next day, he and Howard announced a special healing service, and many people came forward to be healed of all sorts [...]
After Lester had conducted six weeks of revival services, the newly saved began asking for water baptism. More than sixty people walked to the local creek and were baptized by the skinny “Little Preacher,” as they called him.97 Recalling what he had seen other ministers do in the past, Lester baptized these people in the [...]
One writer noted, “Phillips believed that his task was to protect the churches from the force of Jeffreys’ personality.” The Holy Spirit had moved powerfully through Jeffreys for decades. Was Jeffreys’ appeal now just the power of human personality, as Phillips suggested? It is hard to believe that that was so. The healings that took [...]
James later recalled, “When he laid his hands upon me I felt as if a dozen hands were placed all over my body, and I felt every bone going back into place. I was instantly released and I was completely healed.” Over the next two weeks, James gained strength and put on thirty-three pounds! Soon, [...]
During this time, Bosworth adopted a controversial view called British Israelism, a concept that gained popularity in the early twentieth century and continues to be accepted by some people today. British Israelism maintains that Western Europeans, particularly those from Great Britain, are direct descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel who were taken into [...]
As suddenly as the beating had begun, it stopped. The mob, tired of its sport, picked up Bosworth and demanded that he leave town immediately rather than wait for the next train. Bleeding, and with his wrist pounding with pain, Bosworth picked up his suitcase with his other hand and began walking toward Dallas. An [...]
At times in my life there has come what I call multiple warheads. The devil can’t get me with just one bomb anymore so he comes at me in multiples. Have you ever experienced those kinds of attacks? Roberts Liardon tells us that after a few heated battles, you’ll become a veteran in war and [...]
Sometimes I hear people say, “That scripture jumped off the page at me!” I don’t normally look for glowing scriptures for my guidance, but if one glows, I’ll receive it! Roberts Liardon tells us that when the Holy Spirit illuminates a scripture to you, it becomes a specific word from God. Praying in tongues helps [...]