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Robin Stephen Aldrich is the Administrator of this personal page and UNITED KINGDOM group page
which is at https://lordsbook.com/groups/United.Kingdom1
"I am a volunteer on the Lordsbook team
I hold British and Canadian citizenships, and have been a Born-Again Christian for 60+years ( 1965 ) My wife and I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and are retired. My wife was a senior Health worker and I was a specialist product Insurance Broker ( previously a central Government Officer in UK ). I have been an evangelist and assistant pastor at various times in my life. We are not strong enough to travel overseas now so we reach other Believers and Nations through the Posts on this Page. We attend Mapleview Community Church in Barrie, Ontario which is affiliated to the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada. I try to Post the live stream of one of our 3 Sunday morning church services starting just before at 10.30 am Eastern Standard Time here in Canada. We have valued friends of many Christian denominations and enjoy serving and worshiping Jesus our Lord and Savior. For us, keeping close to our Lord minute by minute is paramount . We don't always succeed but His Grace is abundant ! We love Him and love to Worship Him. After all ... WORSHIP is the very air... and our occupation, within Heaven. This LORDSBOOK page is devoted to Worship in song with some Encouraging words / Scripture now and again.
Being retired persons with very limited income, we are not a Charity. We cannot give assistance in employment or immigration. We tithe and we restrict our financial support to Missions endorsed and authorized by the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada and those which are subsequently supported by our church of that same denomination.
May we experience His Presence more and more , as we draw close to Him. Amen ! Robin Stephen Aldrich"
  • Retired as Registered Licensed Insurance Broker within Provinces of Ontario and Alberta لدى Toronto office and remotely.
  • يعيش في Barrie, Ontario, Canada
  • من York, England
  • البلد Canada
  • درس Some College لدى Cliff College, Calver, Derbyshire, England. The Faith Mission, Edinburgh, Scotland. Both are Bible Colleges.
  • Male
  • متزوج
  • 05/13/1948
  • متابَع بواسطة 26086 أشخاص
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WELCOME my new Friends and followers of my Page here on Lordsbook.com
***** MY LATEST POSTS ARE BELOW THIS ONE *****
I receive hundreds of Messages, so I regret that I am not able to reply to you as that special and unique individual which of course you are. However despite the limitations of the situation, you are certainly valued.
I am often the second or third person on Lordsbook.com to greet and befriend new members with a range of intentionally Inspirational Christian Posts.
+ + I have provided some of my personal details on the TOP LEFT of my page + +
To review other new members, click onto DIRECTORY + +
Select USERS from the options and then click onto the box marked >> for the latest new users.
THERE WILL BE SOME MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT YET ACTIVATED THEIR ACCOUNTS , OR OUR TEAM REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE ACTIVATION.
You can then EITHER click onto the icon by the person’s name to review their page, and issue a ‘friend invitation’ if you wish, or keep on going backwards from the >> icon to review.
You are welcome to look at the list of my own friends - there are thousands listed there !
++ ARE YOU FROM CANADA, UK, SOUTH AFRICA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS, EGYPT, AUSTRALIA , PHILIPPINES, OR .. INDEED ANY OTHER COUNTRY ? CHECK THE GROUPS TO, SEE IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED. IF SO, JOIN IT AND POST. START A GROUP FOR YOUR COUNTRY + +
~ ~ ~ My group is UNITED KINGDOM at https://lordsbook.com/groups/United.Kingdom1 ~ ~ ~
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ONLY ONE EMAIL ADDRESS MUST BE USED FOR EACH SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
In the DIRECTORY section, you may also click onto the Box named 'GROUPS' to see range of options available.
OCCASIONALLY OUR WEBSITE MAY BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS OR CORRECTION OF TECHNICAL ISSUES. PLEASE BEAR WITH US - WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !
+++ I Post one of our one hour long streamed Sunday morning church services - Every Sunday streaming at 10.30 am Eastern Time. The Youtube link is the first Post of that day and is PINNED on my page for a few hours. It will remain on my page for later viewing after I 'Unpin it' but will be further down my Page +++
Be Blessed by the variety of Posts featured, and feel free to Comment and SHARE any of them.
I do not subscribe to Whatsapp or Instagram or Telegram or share our email address or home phone number..
My wife and I are elderly and retired and we no longer travel overseas.
We have a few health challenges due to our age which is not unexpected.
Our financial resources are already geared to tithing and Gifts to our local church.
We are not in a position to support additional Ministries.
** It is most important that all members carefully read the DISCLAIMER section on Lordsbook **
Sincere Blessings in Jesus Christ, Robin Stephen Aldrich
WELCOME my new Friends and followers of my Page here on Lordsbook.com ***** MY LATEST POSTS ARE BELOW THIS ONE ***** I receive hundreds of Messages, so I regret that I am not able to reply to you as that special and unique individual which of course you are. However despite the limitations of the situation, you are certainly valued. I am often the second or third person on Lordsbook.com to greet and befriend new members with a range of intentionally Inspirational Christian Posts. + + I have provided some of my personal details on the TOP LEFT of my page + + To review other new members, click onto DIRECTORY + + Select USERS from the options and then click onto the box marked >> for the latest new users. THERE WILL BE SOME MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT YET ACTIVATED THEIR ACCOUNTS , OR OUR TEAM REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE ACTIVATION. You can then EITHER click onto the icon by the person’s name to review their page, and issue a ‘friend invitation’ if you wish, or keep on going backwards from the >> icon to review. You are welcome to look at the list of my own friends - there are thousands listed there ! ++ ARE YOU FROM CANADA, UK, SOUTH AFRICA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS, EGYPT, AUSTRALIA , PHILIPPINES, OR .. INDEED ANY OTHER COUNTRY ? CHECK THE GROUPS TO, SEE IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED. IF SO, JOIN IT AND POST. START A GROUP FOR YOUR COUNTRY + + ~ ~ ~ My group is UNITED KINGDOM at https://lordsbook.com/groups/United.Kingdom1 ~ ~ ~ PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ONLY ONE EMAIL ADDRESS MUST BE USED FOR EACH SEPARATE ACCOUNT. In the DIRECTORY section, you may also click onto the Box named 'GROUPS' to see range of options available. OCCASIONALLY OUR WEBSITE MAY BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS OR CORRECTION OF TECHNICAL ISSUES. PLEASE BEAR WITH US - WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ! +++ I Post one of our one hour long streamed Sunday morning church services - Every Sunday streaming at 10.30 am Eastern Time. The Youtube link is the first Post of that day and is PINNED on my page for a few hours. It will remain on my page for later viewing after I 'Unpin it' but will be further down my Page +++ Be Blessed by the variety of Posts featured, and feel free to Comment and SHARE any of them. I do not subscribe to Whatsapp or Instagram or Telegram or share our email address or home phone number.. My wife and I are elderly and retired and we no longer travel overseas. We have a few health challenges due to our age which is not unexpected. Our financial resources are already geared to tithing and Gifts to our local church. We are not in a position to support additional Ministries. ** It is most important that all members carefully read the DISCLAIMER section on Lordsbook ** Sincere Blessings in Jesus Christ, Robin Stephen Aldrich
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    Known on TikTok as “Alex Reads Tarot,” she built an enormous following by creating tarot-related content and performing readings.
    But in 2026, her followers began seeing something very different.
    Alex announced that she had become a Christian.
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    “Alex Belongs to Christ.”
    She had built an audience of nearly one million around tarot.
    Now, she says she is leaving that identity behind because of her faith in Jesus.
    For Christians, her testimony also echoes the dramatic response recorded in Acts when people who embraced the gospel publicly abandoned their former occult practices.
    “A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly.” — Acts 19:19
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    SOURCE: Faithwire, July 2, 2026, reporting on Alex's public announcement and conversion testimony.
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  • WELCOME my new Friends and followers of my Page here on Lordsbook.com
    ***** MY LATEST POSTS ARE BELOW THIS ONE *****
    I receive hundreds of Messages, so I regret that I am not able to reply to you as that special and unique individual which of course you are. However despite the limitations of the situation, you are certainly valued.
    I am often the second or third person on Lordsbook.com to greet and befriend new members with a range of intentionally Inspirational Christian Posts.
    + + I have provided some of my personal details on the TOP LEFT of my page + +
    To review other new members, click onto DIRECTORY + +
    Select USERS from the options and then click onto the box marked >> for the latest new users.
    THERE WILL BE SOME MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT YET ACTIVATED THEIR ACCOUNTS , OR OUR TEAM REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE ACTIVATION.
    You can then EITHER click onto the icon by the person’s name to review their page, and issue a ‘friend invitation’ if you wish, or keep on going backwards from the >> icon to review.
    You are welcome to look at the list of my own friends - there are thousands listed there !
    ++ ARE YOU FROM CANADA, UK, SOUTH AFRICA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS, EGYPT, AUSTRALIA , PHILIPPINES, OR .. INDEED ANY OTHER COUNTRY ? CHECK THE GROUPS TO, SEE IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED. IF SO, JOIN IT AND POST. START A GROUP FOR YOUR COUNTRY + +
    ~ ~ ~ My group is UNITED KINGDOM at https://lordsbook.com/groups/United.Kingdom1 ~ ~ ~
    PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ONLY ONE EMAIL ADDRESS MUST BE USED FOR EACH SEPARATE ACCOUNT.
    In the DIRECTORY section, you may also click onto the Box named 'GROUPS' to see range of options available.
    OCCASIONALLY OUR WEBSITE MAY BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS OR CORRECTION OF TECHNICAL ISSUES. PLEASE BEAR WITH US - WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !
    +++ I Post one of our one hour long streamed Sunday morning church services - Every Sunday streaming at 10.30 am Eastern Time. The Youtube link is the first Post of that day and is PINNED on my page for a few hours. It will remain on my page for later viewing after I 'Unpin it' but will be further down my Page +++
    Be Blessed by the variety of Posts featured, and feel free to Comment and SHARE any of them.
    I do not subscribe to Whatsapp or Instagram or Telegram or share our email address or home phone number..
    My wife and I are elderly and retired and we no longer travel overseas.
    We have a few health challenges due to our age which is not unexpected.
    Our financial resources are already geared to tithing and Gifts to our local church.
    We are not in a position to support additional Ministries.
    ** It is most important that all members carefully read the DISCLAIMER section on Lordsbook **
    Sincere Blessings in Jesus Christ, Robin Stephen Aldrich
    WELCOME my new Friends and followers of my Page here on Lordsbook.com ***** MY LATEST POSTS ARE BELOW THIS ONE ***** I receive hundreds of Messages, so I regret that I am not able to reply to you as that special and unique individual which of course you are. However despite the limitations of the situation, you are certainly valued. I am often the second or third person on Lordsbook.com to greet and befriend new members with a range of intentionally Inspirational Christian Posts. + + I have provided some of my personal details on the TOP LEFT of my page + + To review other new members, click onto DIRECTORY + + Select USERS from the options and then click onto the box marked >> for the latest new users. THERE WILL BE SOME MEMBERS WHO HAVE NOT YET ACTIVATED THEIR ACCOUNTS , OR OUR TEAM REQUIRE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE ACTIVATION. You can then EITHER click onto the icon by the person’s name to review their page, and issue a ‘friend invitation’ if you wish, or keep on going backwards from the >> icon to review. You are welcome to look at the list of my own friends - there are thousands listed there ! ++ ARE YOU FROM CANADA, UK, SOUTH AFRICA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS, EGYPT, AUSTRALIA , PHILIPPINES, OR .. INDEED ANY OTHER COUNTRY ? CHECK THE GROUPS TO, SEE IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED. IF SO, JOIN IT AND POST. START A GROUP FOR YOUR COUNTRY + + ~ ~ ~ My group is UNITED KINGDOM at https://lordsbook.com/groups/United.Kingdom1 ~ ~ ~ PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ONLY ONE EMAIL ADDRESS MUST BE USED FOR EACH SEPARATE ACCOUNT. In the DIRECTORY section, you may also click onto the Box named 'GROUPS' to see range of options available. OCCASIONALLY OUR WEBSITE MAY BE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS OR CORRECTION OF TECHNICAL ISSUES. PLEASE BEAR WITH US - WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ! +++ I Post one of our one hour long streamed Sunday morning church services - Every Sunday streaming at 10.30 am Eastern Time. The Youtube link is the first Post of that day and is PINNED on my page for a few hours. It will remain on my page for later viewing after I 'Unpin it' but will be further down my Page +++ Be Blessed by the variety of Posts featured, and feel free to Comment and SHARE any of them. I do not subscribe to Whatsapp or Instagram or Telegram or share our email address or home phone number.. My wife and I are elderly and retired and we no longer travel overseas. We have a few health challenges due to our age which is not unexpected. Our financial resources are already geared to tithing and Gifts to our local church. We are not in a position to support additional Ministries. ** It is most important that all members carefully read the DISCLAIMER section on Lordsbook ** Sincere Blessings in Jesus Christ, Robin Stephen Aldrich
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  • THE PREACHER THEY HELD FOR 47 DAYS. THEN THEY SHOT HIM.
    Chet Bitterman wasn't even the man they came for.
    When armed guerrillas stormed the Wycliffe Bible Translators guesthouse in Bogotá, Colombia, before dawn on January 19, 1981, they were looking for the mission's director, someone whose captivity could make headlines and force concessions. He wasn't there. Instead, they took Chet.
    Chet Bitterman was 28 years old, a linguist with Wycliffe Bible Translators, working to translate Scripture for the Carijona people deep in the Colombian jungle. He had a wife, Brenda, and two young daughters. His life's work had barely begun.
    His captors belonged to M-19, a Colombian guerrilla movement. They accused Wycliffe of being a front for American intelligence and demanded the organization withdraw all 209 of its missionaries from Colombia, or Chet would be killed.
    Wycliffe refused. Not out of indifference, but out of principle: giving in would put every missionary in the country at risk of the same fate.
    For 47 days, Chet was held hostage. What he did with those days is part of what makes his story remarkable. Rather than despair, he spent his captivity recalling Scripture he had memorized years earlier, verses he could recite from memory with nothing else to hold onto. Word of what he was doing reached the outside world through letters his captors allowed out. Colombian newspapers began printing the very Bible verses he'd quoted. A hostage crisis meant to silence the gospel was instead spreading it across the country.
    On the morning of March 7, 1981, that ended. Chet was shot once in the chest. Investigators later found signs he had been sedated beforehand, he may not have felt what was coming. His body was wrapped in a guerrilla flag and left inside an abandoned bus, where it was found the next day.
    He never came home to his wife and daughters.
    His younger brother, Craig, spoke publicly just days after Chet's death. He said his own grief mattered less than the fact that Chet was now with Christ, and that his death might still serve a greater purpose for the gospel in South America.
    Wycliffe never withdrew from Colombia.
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    - Some principles are worth holding even when the cost is unbearable
    - What captors mean for silence, God can turn into a message that spreads further
    - Faith memorized in seasons of peace becomes strength in seasons of suffering
    - A short life fully surrendered can outlast the ones who tried to end it
    "My suffering and hurt is not important, the thing to look at is Chet is finally glorified with Christ." — Craig Bitterman, Chet's younger brother
    "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Revelation 2:10
    They held him 47 days. They shot him on a quiet March morning. But the words he carried in captivity are still being read today.
    What would you hold onto, if everything else was taken from you?
    Follow this page for more forgotten stories of faith, sacrifice, and the people history left behind.
    Researched and written by Christian Ekeneme
    THE PREACHER THEY HELD FOR 47 DAYS. THEN THEY SHOT HIM. Chet Bitterman wasn't even the man they came for. When armed guerrillas stormed the Wycliffe Bible Translators guesthouse in Bogotá, Colombia, before dawn on January 19, 1981, they were looking for the mission's director, someone whose captivity could make headlines and force concessions. He wasn't there. Instead, they took Chet. Chet Bitterman was 28 years old, a linguist with Wycliffe Bible Translators, working to translate Scripture for the Carijona people deep in the Colombian jungle. He had a wife, Brenda, and two young daughters. His life's work had barely begun. His captors belonged to M-19, a Colombian guerrilla movement. They accused Wycliffe of being a front for American intelligence and demanded the organization withdraw all 209 of its missionaries from Colombia, or Chet would be killed. Wycliffe refused. Not out of indifference, but out of principle: giving in would put every missionary in the country at risk of the same fate. For 47 days, Chet was held hostage. What he did with those days is part of what makes his story remarkable. Rather than despair, he spent his captivity recalling Scripture he had memorized years earlier, verses he could recite from memory with nothing else to hold onto. Word of what he was doing reached the outside world through letters his captors allowed out. Colombian newspapers began printing the very Bible verses he'd quoted. A hostage crisis meant to silence the gospel was instead spreading it across the country. On the morning of March 7, 1981, that ended. Chet was shot once in the chest. Investigators later found signs he had been sedated beforehand, he may not have felt what was coming. His body was wrapped in a guerrilla flag and left inside an abandoned bus, where it was found the next day. He never came home to his wife and daughters. His younger brother, Craig, spoke publicly just days after Chet's death. He said his own grief mattered less than the fact that Chet was now with Christ, and that his death might still serve a greater purpose for the gospel in South America. Wycliffe never withdrew from Colombia. Lessons From His Life: - Some principles are worth holding even when the cost is unbearable - What captors mean for silence, God can turn into a message that spreads further - Faith memorized in seasons of peace becomes strength in seasons of suffering - A short life fully surrendered can outlast the ones who tried to end it "My suffering and hurt is not important, the thing to look at is Chet is finally glorified with Christ." — Craig Bitterman, Chet's younger brother "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Revelation 2:10 They held him 47 days. They shot him on a quiet March morning. But the words he carried in captivity are still being read today. What would you hold onto, if everything else was taken from you? Follow this page for more forgotten stories of faith, sacrifice, and the people history left behind. Researched and written by Christian Ekeneme
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  • ME AND MY BIG MOUTH
    One evening I was looking for something in my house and having a difficult time finding it. At the same time various family members were asking for my help with different things they were doing. I could feel the pressure mounting, and we all know that when pressure mounts up, the mouth flies open.
    In my frustration, I blurted out, "This place drives me crazy!
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    Instantly, God called my attention to my words. He had me examine exactly what I had just said. First of all, I had lied. He told me, because I can and do find things that I am looking for in my house all the time. Just because I could not find something one time does not mean I can never find things.
    We all have a great tendency to exaggerate horribly when we feel pressured. We magnify things, blowing them all out of proportion and making them sound much worse than what they really are.
    The careless words we speak in the heat of the moment may not mean much to us, but they definitely carry weight in the spiritual realm.
    The Lord further said to me, "Joyce, not only is it a lie that you never find anything, but it is also untrue that you are going crazy!
    Your house is not going to drive you crazy. But if you keep saying it often enough, it just might."
    If a person has had any mental illness in their family bloodline, the enemy would love for them to open a door to continue the curse by such foolish talk.
    If you notice, a lot of people make negative statements about their mental capacity and condition:
    "That just blows my mind."
    "I feel like I'm losing my mind."
    "Sometimes it seems like I'm going crazy."
    "My brain just won't work right."
    "I forget things all the time."
    "I can't remember anything anymore; I must be getting Alzheimer's Disease."
    "If this continues I just know I'll have a nervous breakdown."
    "I am so dumb, so ignorant, so stupid!"
    Just listen to other people, and yourself, and you will soon see what I mean.
    One day my husband Dave and I played golf with a man who must have called himself "dummy" a dozen times in the course of four hours. I thought, "Mister, if you had any idea how you're cursing your own life, you would stop that."
    If you ever do feel that you're having problems with your mind, pray about it, then prophesy good things about your mental capacity so your future can be different from the past.
    What most of us have done in the past is pray about it, and then negate our own prayers with a negative confession.
    Speak Life, Not Death!
    It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver];
    the flesh conveys no benefit whatever [there is no profit in it]. The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life.
    John 6:63
    When I suggest that you prophesy your future, I am not talking about telling others what you believe you are going to do or have.
    There may be a time for that, but not at this stage. I am talking about prophesying to yourself first while driving to work, cleaning the house, doing yard work, working on the car, or going about your daily routine.
    Speak out faith-filled words, believing, as Jesus said, that the words you speak are spirit and life.
    Speak life into your life, not death.
    When you enter a crowded restaurant, do you say, "We probably won't get a table, and if we do it will be a bad one with poor service"? Or do you say, "I believe that I have favor in this restaurant and that we will get a good table and excellent service"?
    You might ask, "Joyce, does that really work for you?"
    I cannot honestly say that it always works for me, but I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results.
    An additional benefit is that when I am positive I am happier, and people enjoy being around me more.
    Take just thirty seconds a day to declare that God gives you favor everywhere you go; the results may astound you.
    I remember going in a store and looking at coats. Many of them were on sale at 50 percent off. I found one I really liked but did not see a sale sticker on it. I asked the clerk if it was on sale, and she answered, "No, it isn't." Then she looked at me and said, "But if you want it for half price, I'll let you have it. I wouldn't do that for anybody else, but I'll do it for you." I didn't know this woman, and she didn't know me, so there was no "earthly" reason for her to do what she did.
    God delights in giving His children favor. What He did for me, He will do for you too. Line your mouth up with His Word and get ready to be blessed. Always remember to return the praise and thanksgiving to Him.
    God is good, and several times a day we should tell Him that we realize that fact.
    -Joyce Meyer (ME AND MY BIG MOUTH)
    ME AND MY BIG MOUTH 👄 One evening I was looking for something in my house and having a difficult time finding it. At the same time various family members were asking for my help with different things they were doing. I could feel the pressure mounting, and we all know that when pressure mounts up, the mouth flies open. In my frustration, I blurted out, "This place drives me crazy! I can never find anything around here!" Instantly, God called my attention to my words. He had me examine exactly what I had just said. First of all, I had lied. He told me, because I can and do find things that I am looking for in my house all the time. Just because I could not find something one time does not mean I can never find things. We all have a great tendency to exaggerate horribly when we feel pressured. We magnify things, blowing them all out of proportion and making them sound much worse than what they really are. The careless words we speak in the heat of the moment may not mean much to us, but they definitely carry weight in the spiritual realm. The Lord further said to me, "Joyce, not only is it a lie that you never find anything, but it is also untrue that you are going crazy! Your house is not going to drive you crazy. But if you keep saying it often enough, it just might." If a person has had any mental illness in their family bloodline, the enemy would love for them to open a door to continue the curse by such foolish talk. If you notice, a lot of people make negative statements about their mental capacity and condition: "That just blows my mind." "I feel like I'm losing my mind." "Sometimes it seems like I'm going crazy." "My brain just won't work right." "I forget things all the time." "I can't remember anything anymore; I must be getting Alzheimer's Disease." "If this continues I just know I'll have a nervous breakdown." "I am so dumb, so ignorant, so stupid!" Just listen to other people, and yourself, and you will soon see what I mean. One day my husband Dave and I played golf with a man who must have called himself "dummy" a dozen times in the course of four hours. I thought, "Mister, if you had any idea how you're cursing your own life, you would stop that." If you ever do feel that you're having problems with your mind, pray about it, then prophesy good things about your mental capacity so your future can be different from the past. What most of us have done in the past is pray about it, and then negate our own prayers with a negative confession. Speak Life, Not Death! It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver]; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever [there is no profit in it]. The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life. John 6:63 When I suggest that you prophesy your future, I am not talking about telling others what you believe you are going to do or have. There may be a time for that, but not at this stage. I am talking about prophesying to yourself first while driving to work, cleaning the house, doing yard work, working on the car, or going about your daily routine. Speak out faith-filled words, believing, as Jesus said, that the words you speak are spirit and life. Speak life into your life, not death. When you enter a crowded restaurant, do you say, "We probably won't get a table, and if we do it will be a bad one with poor service"? Or do you say, "I believe that I have favor in this restaurant and that we will get a good table and excellent service"? You might ask, "Joyce, does that really work for you?" I cannot honestly say that it always works for me, but I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results. An additional benefit is that when I am positive I am happier, and people enjoy being around me more. Take just thirty seconds a day to declare that God gives you favor everywhere you go; the results may astound you. I remember going in a store and looking at coats. Many of them were on sale at 50 percent off. I found one I really liked but did not see a sale sticker on it. I asked the clerk if it was on sale, and she answered, "No, it isn't." Then she looked at me and said, "But if you want it for half price, I'll let you have it. I wouldn't do that for anybody else, but I'll do it for you." I didn't know this woman, and she didn't know me, so there was no "earthly" reason for her to do what she did. God delights in giving His children favor. What He did for me, He will do for you too. Line your mouth up with His Word and get ready to be blessed. Always remember to return the praise and thanksgiving to Him. God is good, and several times a day we should tell Him that we realize that fact. -Joyce Meyer (ME AND MY BIG MOUTH)
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  • Tortured for Five Years: Venezuelan Anglican Bishop Freed After Toenails Pulled, Chest Burned by Guards
    Venezuela has released Anglican Bishop Dr. Jylman Red Jurado Farfán from Rodeo III Prison in Miranda State after more than five years behind bars — a captivity marked, he says, by brutal torture at the hands of prison guards. He was one of 81 prisoners freed on August 14, according to the UK-based human rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).
    Authorities arrested Bishop Jurado Farfán on July 30, 2021, after summoning him under false pretenses. He had been called in to explain an academic project — a leadership and civic values program — that he had been developing. He was subsequently charged with terrorism, criminal association and conspiracy, with authorities accusing his social ministry work of being an attempt to destabilize the state. Prior to his arrest, the bishop led an active social ministry providing free legal assistance to political prisoners and running community soup kitchens.
    The judicial process against him was marred by serious irregularities, including his case file being withheld for nearly ten months, and his trial being suspended after almost two years of hearings without any conclusive evidence presented. Concerns for his welfare heightened this past June, when he reported serious health issues including atypical pneumonia, intercostal neuritis, and gastrointestinal bleeding. During his time in custody, he says guards pulled out his toenails and burned an open wound on his chest with electricity.
    Following his release, the bishop offered a statement of gratitude and faith. "My beloved brothers and sisters in the unity of the body of Christ, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, my fraternal hugs; and I bless God for the feeling and the desire that God placed in your hearts so that this liberation would be possible, where the Lord broke the chains of oppression, of fear, of torture, and gave us physical freedom," he said.
    Bishop Jurado Farfán serves in the Archdiocese of Venezuela of the Holy Spirit, part of the independent Latin American Anglican Church, based in Caracas — a body with no affiliation to the Church of England or the global Anglican Communion. CSW's Director of Advocacy, Anna Lee Stangl, condemned the treatment he endured and called on Venezuela to end its harassment of religious leaders.
    #JylmanJuradoFarfan #Venezuela #ChristianPersecution #ReligiousFreedom #AnglicanChurch #FreedomFromTyranny #ChristianMessenger #ProphecyNews
    Tortured for Five Years: Venezuelan Anglican Bishop Freed After Toenails Pulled, Chest Burned by Guards Venezuela has released Anglican Bishop Dr. Jylman Red Jurado Farfán from Rodeo III Prison in Miranda State after more than five years behind bars — a captivity marked, he says, by brutal torture at the hands of prison guards. He was one of 81 prisoners freed on August 14, according to the UK-based human rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). Authorities arrested Bishop Jurado Farfán on July 30, 2021, after summoning him under false pretenses. He had been called in to explain an academic project — a leadership and civic values program — that he had been developing. He was subsequently charged with terrorism, criminal association and conspiracy, with authorities accusing his social ministry work of being an attempt to destabilize the state. Prior to his arrest, the bishop led an active social ministry providing free legal assistance to political prisoners and running community soup kitchens. The judicial process against him was marred by serious irregularities, including his case file being withheld for nearly ten months, and his trial being suspended after almost two years of hearings without any conclusive evidence presented. Concerns for his welfare heightened this past June, when he reported serious health issues including atypical pneumonia, intercostal neuritis, and gastrointestinal bleeding. During his time in custody, he says guards pulled out his toenails and burned an open wound on his chest with electricity. Following his release, the bishop offered a statement of gratitude and faith. "My beloved brothers and sisters in the unity of the body of Christ, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, my fraternal hugs; and I bless God for the feeling and the desire that God placed in your hearts so that this liberation would be possible, where the Lord broke the chains of oppression, of fear, of torture, and gave us physical freedom," he said. Bishop Jurado Farfán serves in the Archdiocese of Venezuela of the Holy Spirit, part of the independent Latin American Anglican Church, based in Caracas — a body with no affiliation to the Church of England or the global Anglican Communion. CSW's Director of Advocacy, Anna Lee Stangl, condemned the treatment he endured and called on Venezuela to end its harassment of religious leaders. #JylmanJuradoFarfan #Venezuela #ChristianPersecution #ReligiousFreedom #AnglicanChurch #FreedomFromTyranny #ChristianMessenger #ProphecyNews
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  • Christian baker Jack Phillips has won a major victory after more than a decade of legal battles over his refusal to create cakes carrying messages that violated his Christian convictions.
    The Colorado Supreme Court vacated lower-court rulings against Phillips and dismissed the lawsuit brought after he declined to create a pink-and-blue cake celebrating a gender transition.
    Phillips has remained clear about his position: Masterpiece Cakeshop serves everyone, but he cannot create every message customers request when that message conflicts with his faith.
    After years of being dragged through court, Phillips credited God for sustaining him. “God is in control of all these issues,” he said, explaining that trusting Him is what kept him going.
    Phillips said Christians must remain faithful despite opposition: “We have to stand for what we believe,” adding that those beliefs come from God’s Word, the Bible.
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    Christian baker Jack Phillips has won a major victory after more than a decade of legal battles over his refusal to create cakes carrying messages that violated his Christian convictions. The Colorado Supreme Court vacated lower-court rulings against Phillips and dismissed the lawsuit brought after he declined to create a pink-and-blue cake celebrating a gender transition. Phillips has remained clear about his position: Masterpiece Cakeshop serves everyone, but he cannot create every message customers request when that message conflicts with his faith. After years of being dragged through court, Phillips credited God for sustaining him. “God is in control of all these issues,” he said, explaining that trusting Him is what kept him going. Phillips said Christians must remain faithful despite opposition: “We have to stand for what we believe,” adding that those beliefs come from God’s Word, the Bible. Photo: YouTube
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  • I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
    (November 11, 1922)
    We have in this precious Word a real basis for the truth of healing. In this scripture God gives very definite instructions to the sick. If you are sick, your part is to call for the elders of the church; it is their part to anoint and pray for you in faith, and then the whole situation rests with the Lord. When you have been anointed and prayed for, you can rest assured that the Lord will raise you up. It is the Word of God.
    I believe that we all can see that the church cannot play with this business. If any turn away from these clear instructions they are in a place of tremendous danger. Those who refuse to obey do so to their unspeakable loss.
    James tells us in connection with this, " .. .if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death ... " (James 5:19,20). Many turn away from the Lord like King Asa, who sought the physicians in his sickness and consequently died, and I take it that this passage means that if one induces another to turn back to the Lord, he will save such from death and God will forgive a multitude of sins that they have committed. This scripture can also have a large application on the line of salvation. If you turn away from any part of God's truth, the enemy will certainly get an advantage over you.
    Does the Lord meet those who look to Him for healing and obey the instructions set forth in James? Most assuredly. Let me tell you a story to show how He will undertake for the most extreme case.
    One day I had been visiting the sick, and was with a friend of mine, an architect, when I saw a young man from his office coming down the road in a car holding in his hand a telegram. It contained a very urgent request that we go immediately and pray for a man who was dying. We went off in an auto as fast as possible and in about an hour and a half reached a large house in the country where the man who was dying resided. There were two staircases in that house, and it was extremely convenient, for the doctors could go up and down one, and my friend and I could go up and down the other, and so we had no occasion to meet one another.
    I found on arrival that it was a case of this sort. The man's body had been broken, he was ruptured, and his bowels had been punctured in two places. The discharge from the bowels had formed abscesses and blood poisoning had set in. The man's face had turned green. Two doctors were in attendance, but they saw that the case was beyond their power. They had telegraphed to London for a great specialist, and, when we arrived, they were at the railway station awaiting his arrival.
    The man was very near death and could not speak. I said to his wife, "If you desire, we will anoint and pray for him." She said, "That is why I sent for you." I anointed him in the name of the Lord and asked the Lord to raise him up. Apparently there was no change. God often hides what He does. From day to day we find that God is doing wonderful things, and we receive reports of healings that have taken place that we heard nothing about at the time of our meetings. Only last night a woman came into the meeting suffering terribly. Her whole arm was filled with poison, and her blood was so poisoned that it was certain to bring her to her death. We rebuked the thing, and she was here this morning and told us that she was without pain and had slept all night, a thing she had not done for two months. To God be all the praise. You will find He will do this kind of thing all along.
    As soon as we anointed and prayed for this brother we went down the back staircase and the three doctors came up the front staircase. As we arrived downstairs, I said to my friend who had come with me, "Friend, let me have hold of your hands." We held each other's hands, and I said to him, "Look into my face and let us agree together according to Matthew18:19that this man should be brought out of this death." We laid the whole matter before God, and said, "Father, we believe."
    Then the conflict began. The wife came down to us and said, "The doctors have got all their instruments out and they are about to operate." I cried, "What? Look here, he's your husband, and I tell you this, if those men operate on him, he will die. Go back and tell them you cannot allow it." She went back to the doctors and said, "Give me ten minutes." They said, "We can't afford to, the man is dying and it is your husband's only chance." She said, "I want ten minutes, and you don't touch his body until I have had them."
    They went downstairs by one staircase and we went up by the other. I said to the woman, "This man is your husband, and he cannot speak for himself. It is now the time for you to put your whole trust in God and prove Him wholly true. You can save him from a thousand doctors. You must stand with God and for God in this critical hour." After that, we came down and the doctors went up. The wife faced those three doctors and said, "You shan't touch this man's body. He is my husband. I am sure that if you operate on him he will die, but he will live if you don't touch him."
    Suddenly the man in the bed spoke. "God has done it," he said. They rolled back the bed clothes and the doctors examined him, and the abscesses were cut clear away. The nurse cleaned the place where they had been. The doctors could see the bowels still open and they said to the wife, "We know that you have great faith, and we can see that a miracle has taken place. But you must let us unite these broken parts and put in silver tubes, and we know that your husband will be all right after that, and it need not interfere with your faith at all." She said to them, "God has done the first thing and He can do the rest. No man shall touch him now." And God healed the whole thing. And that man is well and strong today. I can give his name and address to any who want it.
    Do you ask by what power this was done? I would answer in the words of Peter, " ... his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong ... " (Acts3:16). The anointing was done in the name of the Lord. And it is written, "The Lord shall raise him up." And He provides the double cure; even if sin has been the cause of the sickness, His Word declares, "If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven."
    You ask, "What is faith?" Faith is the principle of the Word of God. The Holy Spirit, who inspired the Word, is called the Spirit of Truth, and, as we receive with meekness the engrafted Word, faith springs up in our heart - faith in the sacrifice of Calvary; faith in the shed blood of Jesus; faith in the fact that He took our weakness upon Himself, has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains, and that He is our life today.
    God has chosen us to help one another. We dare not be independent. He brings us to a place where we submit ourselves to one another. If we refuse to do this, we get away from the Word of God and out of the place of faith. I have been in this place once and I trust I shall never be there again. I went one time to a meeting. I was very, very sick, and I got worse and worse. I knew the perfect will of God was for me to humble myself and ask the elders to pray for me. I put it off and the meeting finished. I went home without being anointed and prayed with, and everyone in the house caught the thing I was suffering with.
    My boys did not know anything else but to trust the Lord as the family Physician, and my youngest boy, George, cried out from the attic, "Dadda, come." I cried, "I cannot come. The whole thing is from me. I shall have to repent and ask the Lord to forgive me." I made up my mind to humble myself before the whole church. Then I rushed to the attic and laid my hands on my boy in the name of Jesus. I placed my hands on his head and the pain left and went lower down; he cried again, "Put your hands still lower." At last the pain went right down to the feet and as I placed my hand on the feet he was completely delivered. Some evil power had evidently gotten hold and as I laid my hands on the different parts of the body it left. (We have to see the difference between anointing the sick and casting out demons.) God will always be gracious when we humble ourselves before Him and come to a place of brokenness of spirit.
    I was at a place one time ministering to a sick woman, and she said, "I'm very sick. I become all right for an hour, and then I have another attack." I saw that it was an evil power that was attacking her, and I learned something in that hour that I had never learned before. As I moved my hand down her body in the name of the Lord that evil power seemed to move just ahead of my hands and as I moved them down further and further the evil power went right out of her body and never returned.
    I was in Havre in France and the power of God was being mightily manifested. A Greek named Felix attended the meeting and become very zealous for God. He was very anxious to get all the Catholics he could to the meeting in order that they should see that God was graciously visiting France. He found a certain bedridden woman who was fixed in a certain position and could not move, and he told her about the Lord healing at the meetings and that he would get me to come if she wished. She said, "My husband is a Catholic and he would never allow anyone who was not a Catholic to see me."
    She asked her husband to allow me to come and told him what Felix had told her about the power of God working in our midst. He said, "I will have no Protestant enter my house." She said, "You know that the doctors cannot help me, and the priests cannot help, won't you let this man of God pray for me?" He finally consented and I went to the house. The simplicity of this woman and her childlike faith was beautiful to see.
    I showed her my oil bottle and said to her, "Here is oil. It is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. When that comes upon you, the Holy Ghost will begin to work, and the Lord will raise you up." And God did something the moment the oil fell upon her. I looked toward the window and I saw Jesus. (I have seen Him often. There is no painting that is a bit like Him; no artist can ever depict the beauty of my lovely Lord.) The woman felt the power of God in her body and cried, "I'm free, my hands are free, my shoulders are free, and oh, I see Jesus! I'm free! I'm free!"
    The vision vanished and the woman sat up in bed. Her legs were still bound, and I said to her, "I'll put my hands over your legs and you will be free entirely." And as I put my hands on those legs covered with bed clothes, I looked and saw the Lord again. She saw Him too and cried, "He's there again. I'm free! I'm free!" She rose from her bed and walked round the room praising God, and we were all in tears as we saw His wonderful works. The Lord shall raise them up when conditions are met.
    When I was a young man I always loved the fellowship of old men, and was always careful to hear what they had to say. I had a friend, an old Baptist minister who was a wonderful preacher. I spent much of my time with him. One day he came to me and said, "My wife is dying." I said, "Brother Clark, why don't you believe God? God can raise her up if you will only believe Him." He asked me to come to his house, and I looked for someone to go with me.
    I went to a certain rich man who was very zealous for God, and spent much money in opening up rescue missions, and I asked him to go with me. He said, "Never you mind me. You go yourself, but I don't take to this kind of business." Then I thought of a man who could pray by the hour. When he was on his knees he could go round the world three times and come out at the same place. I asked him to go with me and said to him, "You'll have a real chance this time. Keep at it, and quit when you're through." (Some go on longer after they are through.)
    Brother Nichols, for that was his name, went with me and started praying. He asked the Lord to comfort the husband in his great bereavement and prayed for the orphans and a lot more on this line. I cried, "Oh, my God, stop this man." But there was no stopping him and he went on praying and there was not a particle of faith in anything he uttered. He did stop at last, and I said, "Brother Clark, it's now turn to pray." He started, "Lord, answer the prayer of my brother and comfort me in this great bereavement and sorrow. Prepare me to face this great trial." I cried out, "My God, stop this man." The whole atmosphere was being charged with unbelief.
    I had a glass bottle full of oil and I went up to the woman and poured the whole lot on her in the name of Jesus. Suddenly Jesus appeared, standing at the foot of the bed. He smiled and vanished. The woman stood up, perfectly healed, and she is a strong woman today.
    We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. We have a glorious Comforter. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The Word of God is living and powerful and in its treasures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this wonderful Lord, the Lord of life, you will find in Him everything you need.
    So many are tampering with drugs, quacks, pills and plasters. Clear them all out and believe God. It is sufficient to believe God. You will find that if you dare trust Him, He will never fail. "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." Do you trust Him/ He is worthy to be trusted.
    I was one time asked to go to Weston-super-mare, a seaside resort in the West of England. I learned from a telegram that a man had lost his reason and had become a raving maniac, and they wanted me to go to pray for him. I arrived at the place, and the wife said to me, "Will you sleep with my husband!" I agreed, and in the middle of the night an evil power laid hold of him. It was awful. I put my hand on his head and his hair was like a lot of sticks. God gave deliverance - a temporary deliverance. At 6 o'clock the next morning, I felt that it was necessary that I should get out of that house for a short time.
    The man saw me going and cried out, "If you leave me, there is no hope." But I felt that I had to go. As I went out I saw a woman with a Salvation Army bonnet on and I knew that she was going to their seven o'clock prayer meeting. I said to the Captain who was in charge of the meeting, when I saw he was about to give out a hymn, "Captain, don't sing. Let's get to prayer." He agreed, and I prayed my heart out, and then I grabbed my hat and rushed out of the hall. They all thought they had a madman in their prayer meeting that morning.
    I went down to the end of the parade, and there was the man I had spent the night with, rushing down toward the sea, without a particle of clothing on, about to drown himself. I cried, "In the name ofJesus, come out of him." The man fell full length on the ground and that evil power went out of him never to return. His wife came rushing after him, and the husband was restored to her in a perfect mental condition.
    There are evil powers, but Jesus is greater than all evil powers. There are tremendous diseases, but Jesus is healer. There is no case too hard for Him. The Lion ofJudah shall break every chain. He came to relieve the oppressed and to set the captive free. He came to bring redemption, to make us as perfect as man was before the fall.
    People want to know how to be kept by the power of God. Every position of grace into which you are led - forgiveness, healing, deliverance of any kind - will be contested by Satan. He will contend for your body. When you are saved, Satan will come round and say, "See, you are not saved." The devil is a liar. If he says you are not saved, it is a sure sign that you are.
    You will remember the story of the man who was swept and garnished. The evil power had been swept out of him. But the man remained in a stationary position. If the Lord heals you, you dare not remain in a stationary position. The evil spirit came back to that man and found the house swept, and took seven others worse than himself, and the last stage of that man was worse than the first. Be sure and get filled with God. Get an Occupier. Be filled with the Spirit.
    God has a million ways of undertaking for those who go to Him for help. He has deliverance for every captive. He loves you so much that He even says, "Before they call, I will answer." Don't turn Him away.
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    I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee (November 11, 1922) We have in this precious Word a real basis for the truth of healing. In this scripture God gives very definite instructions to the sick. If you are sick, your part is to call for the elders of the church; it is their part to anoint and pray for you in faith, and then the whole situation rests with the Lord. When you have been anointed and prayed for, you can rest assured that the Lord will raise you up. It is the Word of God. I believe that we all can see that the church cannot play with this business. If any turn away from these clear instructions they are in a place of tremendous danger. Those who refuse to obey do so to their unspeakable loss. James tells us in connection with this, " .. .if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death ... " (James 5:19,20). Many turn away from the Lord like King Asa, who sought the physicians in his sickness and consequently died, and I take it that this passage means that if one induces another to turn back to the Lord, he will save such from death and God will forgive a multitude of sins that they have committed. This scripture can also have a large application on the line of salvation. If you turn away from any part of God's truth, the enemy will certainly get an advantage over you. Does the Lord meet those who look to Him for healing and obey the instructions set forth in James? Most assuredly. Let me tell you a story to show how He will undertake for the most extreme case. One day I had been visiting the sick, and was with a friend of mine, an architect, when I saw a young man from his office coming down the road in a car holding in his hand a telegram. It contained a very urgent request that we go immediately and pray for a man who was dying. We went off in an auto as fast as possible and in about an hour and a half reached a large house in the country where the man who was dying resided. There were two staircases in that house, and it was extremely convenient, for the doctors could go up and down one, and my friend and I could go up and down the other, and so we had no occasion to meet one another. I found on arrival that it was a case of this sort. The man's body had been broken, he was ruptured, and his bowels had been punctured in two places. The discharge from the bowels had formed abscesses and blood poisoning had set in. The man's face had turned green. Two doctors were in attendance, but they saw that the case was beyond their power. They had telegraphed to London for a great specialist, and, when we arrived, they were at the railway station awaiting his arrival. The man was very near death and could not speak. I said to his wife, "If you desire, we will anoint and pray for him." She said, "That is why I sent for you." I anointed him in the name of the Lord and asked the Lord to raise him up. Apparently there was no change. God often hides what He does. From day to day we find that God is doing wonderful things, and we receive reports of healings that have taken place that we heard nothing about at the time of our meetings. Only last night a woman came into the meeting suffering terribly. Her whole arm was filled with poison, and her blood was so poisoned that it was certain to bring her to her death. We rebuked the thing, and she was here this morning and told us that she was without pain and had slept all night, a thing she had not done for two months. To God be all the praise. You will find He will do this kind of thing all along. As soon as we anointed and prayed for this brother we went down the back staircase and the three doctors came up the front staircase. As we arrived downstairs, I said to my friend who had come with me, "Friend, let me have hold of your hands." We held each other's hands, and I said to him, "Look into my face and let us agree together according to Matthew18:19that this man should be brought out of this death." We laid the whole matter before God, and said, "Father, we believe." Then the conflict began. The wife came down to us and said, "The doctors have got all their instruments out and they are about to operate." I cried, "What? Look here, he's your husband, and I tell you this, if those men operate on him, he will die. Go back and tell them you cannot allow it." She went back to the doctors and said, "Give me ten minutes." They said, "We can't afford to, the man is dying and it is your husband's only chance." She said, "I want ten minutes, and you don't touch his body until I have had them." They went downstairs by one staircase and we went up by the other. I said to the woman, "This man is your husband, and he cannot speak for himself. It is now the time for you to put your whole trust in God and prove Him wholly true. You can save him from a thousand doctors. You must stand with God and for God in this critical hour." After that, we came down and the doctors went up. The wife faced those three doctors and said, "You shan't touch this man's body. He is my husband. I am sure that if you operate on him he will die, but he will live if you don't touch him." Suddenly the man in the bed spoke. "God has done it," he said. They rolled back the bed clothes and the doctors examined him, and the abscesses were cut clear away. The nurse cleaned the place where they had been. The doctors could see the bowels still open and they said to the wife, "We know that you have great faith, and we can see that a miracle has taken place. But you must let us unite these broken parts and put in silver tubes, and we know that your husband will be all right after that, and it need not interfere with your faith at all." She said to them, "God has done the first thing and He can do the rest. No man shall touch him now." And God healed the whole thing. And that man is well and strong today. I can give his name and address to any who want it. Do you ask by what power this was done? I would answer in the words of Peter, " ... his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong ... " (Acts3:16). The anointing was done in the name of the Lord. And it is written, "The Lord shall raise him up." And He provides the double cure; even if sin has been the cause of the sickness, His Word declares, "If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven." You ask, "What is faith?" Faith is the principle of the Word of God. The Holy Spirit, who inspired the Word, is called the Spirit of Truth, and, as we receive with meekness the engrafted Word, faith springs up in our heart - faith in the sacrifice of Calvary; faith in the shed blood of Jesus; faith in the fact that He took our weakness upon Himself, has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains, and that He is our life today. God has chosen us to help one another. We dare not be independent. He brings us to a place where we submit ourselves to one another. If we refuse to do this, we get away from the Word of God and out of the place of faith. I have been in this place once and I trust I shall never be there again. I went one time to a meeting. I was very, very sick, and I got worse and worse. I knew the perfect will of God was for me to humble myself and ask the elders to pray for me. I put it off and the meeting finished. I went home without being anointed and prayed with, and everyone in the house caught the thing I was suffering with. My boys did not know anything else but to trust the Lord as the family Physician, and my youngest boy, George, cried out from the attic, "Dadda, come." I cried, "I cannot come. The whole thing is from me. I shall have to repent and ask the Lord to forgive me." I made up my mind to humble myself before the whole church. Then I rushed to the attic and laid my hands on my boy in the name of Jesus. I placed my hands on his head and the pain left and went lower down; he cried again, "Put your hands still lower." At last the pain went right down to the feet and as I placed my hand on the feet he was completely delivered. Some evil power had evidently gotten hold and as I laid my hands on the different parts of the body it left. (We have to see the difference between anointing the sick and casting out demons.) God will always be gracious when we humble ourselves before Him and come to a place of brokenness of spirit. I was at a place one time ministering to a sick woman, and she said, "I'm very sick. I become all right for an hour, and then I have another attack." I saw that it was an evil power that was attacking her, and I learned something in that hour that I had never learned before. As I moved my hand down her body in the name of the Lord that evil power seemed to move just ahead of my hands and as I moved them down further and further the evil power went right out of her body and never returned. I was in Havre in France and the power of God was being mightily manifested. A Greek named Felix attended the meeting and become very zealous for God. He was very anxious to get all the Catholics he could to the meeting in order that they should see that God was graciously visiting France. He found a certain bedridden woman who was fixed in a certain position and could not move, and he told her about the Lord healing at the meetings and that he would get me to come if she wished. She said, "My husband is a Catholic and he would never allow anyone who was not a Catholic to see me." She asked her husband to allow me to come and told him what Felix had told her about the power of God working in our midst. He said, "I will have no Protestant enter my house." She said, "You know that the doctors cannot help me, and the priests cannot help, won't you let this man of God pray for me?" He finally consented and I went to the house. The simplicity of this woman and her childlike faith was beautiful to see. I showed her my oil bottle and said to her, "Here is oil. It is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. When that comes upon you, the Holy Ghost will begin to work, and the Lord will raise you up." And God did something the moment the oil fell upon her. I looked toward the window and I saw Jesus. (I have seen Him often. There is no painting that is a bit like Him; no artist can ever depict the beauty of my lovely Lord.) The woman felt the power of God in her body and cried, "I'm free, my hands are free, my shoulders are free, and oh, I see Jesus! I'm free! I'm free!" The vision vanished and the woman sat up in bed. Her legs were still bound, and I said to her, "I'll put my hands over your legs and you will be free entirely." And as I put my hands on those legs covered with bed clothes, I looked and saw the Lord again. She saw Him too and cried, "He's there again. I'm free! I'm free!" She rose from her bed and walked round the room praising God, and we were all in tears as we saw His wonderful works. The Lord shall raise them up when conditions are met. When I was a young man I always loved the fellowship of old men, and was always careful to hear what they had to say. I had a friend, an old Baptist minister who was a wonderful preacher. I spent much of my time with him. One day he came to me and said, "My wife is dying." I said, "Brother Clark, why don't you believe God? God can raise her up if you will only believe Him." He asked me to come to his house, and I looked for someone to go with me. I went to a certain rich man who was very zealous for God, and spent much money in opening up rescue missions, and I asked him to go with me. He said, "Never you mind me. You go yourself, but I don't take to this kind of business." Then I thought of a man who could pray by the hour. When he was on his knees he could go round the world three times and come out at the same place. I asked him to go with me and said to him, "You'll have a real chance this time. Keep at it, and quit when you're through." (Some go on longer after they are through.) Brother Nichols, for that was his name, went with me and started praying. He asked the Lord to comfort the husband in his great bereavement and prayed for the orphans and a lot more on this line. I cried, "Oh, my God, stop this man." But there was no stopping him and he went on praying and there was not a particle of faith in anything he uttered. He did stop at last, and I said, "Brother Clark, it's now turn to pray." He started, "Lord, answer the prayer of my brother and comfort me in this great bereavement and sorrow. Prepare me to face this great trial." I cried out, "My God, stop this man." The whole atmosphere was being charged with unbelief. I had a glass bottle full of oil and I went up to the woman and poured the whole lot on her in the name of Jesus. Suddenly Jesus appeared, standing at the foot of the bed. He smiled and vanished. The woman stood up, perfectly healed, and she is a strong woman today. We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. We have a glorious Comforter. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The Word of God is living and powerful and in its treasures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this wonderful Lord, the Lord of life, you will find in Him everything you need. So many are tampering with drugs, quacks, pills and plasters. Clear them all out and believe God. It is sufficient to believe God. You will find that if you dare trust Him, He will never fail. "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." Do you trust Him/ He is worthy to be trusted. I was one time asked to go to Weston-super-mare, a seaside resort in the West of England. I learned from a telegram that a man had lost his reason and had become a raving maniac, and they wanted me to go to pray for him. I arrived at the place, and the wife said to me, "Will you sleep with my husband!" I agreed, and in the middle of the night an evil power laid hold of him. It was awful. I put my hand on his head and his hair was like a lot of sticks. God gave deliverance - a temporary deliverance. 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