You will recall the testimony of Polly Simchen who came to me with a handkerchief and said, "Would you pray over this? We're going to cut it up and put a piece everywhere our son goes. We're going to hide it everywhere we can." As she shared earlier, Polly would come...
Alertness is imperative. The failure of the United States at Pearl Harbor is a tragic picture of failed watchmen. United States officials and commanders failed to pay attention in the critical weeks, days and hours prior to 7:55 A.M., December 7, 1941. If those in...
Several years ago the Holy Spirit spoke a phrase to my heart that tremendously helped me understand this process. I was thinking about John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Knowing this verse was speaking about the truth of His...
As I shared in Intercessory Prayer, several years ago my wife, Ceci, developed a pain in her abdomen. An ovarian cyst was discovered, and she was advised to have surgery. However, her doctor was a believer and, being confident this was not life threatening, agreed to...
Eva Popham from Ohio shared the following testimony with me of this very thing happening to a lady to whom she ministered: When Sandra Sims and I first saw Mary in the nursing home, she was demon possessed. Whenever we would come down the hall toward her, she would...
Two or three years ago a lady, we'll call Sarah, related to me a testimony of praying for her sister and brother-in-law. Although generally nice people, "they were very anti-Christian, and were my husband's and my greatest persecutors spiritually, mocking and making...
George Muller, the great Victorian Christian and social reformer, tells a story of persistent prayer in his diary:In November 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without a single intermission, whether sick or in health, on...