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John 3:16-17
We have witnessed devastation so vast that there are some who still don’t believe what has actually happened. The television accounts have allowed us to see a part of what has happened, but there is no account as detailed as that experienced by those who have been in the midst of floods, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis or any other disaster.
Lives have been lost, and uncivilized behavior raised its ugly head, primal behavior driven by desperation and deprivation. All we have is faith – faith that God is still in control; faith that if God’s people who are called by His name would humble themselves and pray and seek His face and turn from their wicked ways, that He will hear from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal the land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
All we have is faith that America will seek God while God may be found – from the White House to the outhouse, from the pulpit to the pew, from the high-rise to the hut. All we have is faith, and it is our faith that helps us dare to hope when we remember that the unfailing love of the Lord never ends! Great is His faithfulness; every morning new mercies we see.
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, mourns for God’s people in the midst of their own destruction and devastation. It is through the prophet Jeremiah that we understand not only God’s judgment, but God’s mercy and hope for humanity. It is through Jeremiah that Israel is called back to God in the midst of destruction.
We find ourselves today as a nation affected by all that has happened as related to economics, catastrophic weather, and employment. We are in a position where only our faith will see us through. Our faith will cause us to stay connected to the call and cause of Christ even in the midst of despair and destruction. Our faith will cause us to examine our lives and our walk with Christ. It is our faith that helps us to continue to walk with Christ and not walk away feeling abandoned and betrayed. After all, scripture tells us that God rewards those who diligently seek Him. Scripture tells us that the righteous have never been forsaken nor their seed begging bread. Scripture tells us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things will be added unto us. It’s in our times of distress and despair that the enemy causes us to question God and His word.
Faith is all that we have. It is in Lamentations 3:19-24 that Jeremiah declares, “The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words. I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:
“The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The LORD is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”
All we have is our faith! Scripture Of The Day:"Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, 'The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!'” - Lamentations 3:23-24 (NLT)
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SCRIPTURE READING: Deut 18:9-12, Isaiah 8:19-20, Lev 20:27 Isa29:4, Lev 19:31, Dan 6:7-9
CONFESSION: Psalm 55: 12-15
For it was not my enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.
PRAISE & WORSHIP:
Prayer:
1. I renounce any involvement with familiar spirits knowingly or unknowingly, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every covenant of death made with any familiar spirit, break, in the name of Jesus.
3. Evil decrees, pronouncements and curses by familiar spirits upon my life/family, I revoke you by the Blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.
4. O God, arise and fight for me, in the name of Jesus.
5. Any weapon of familiar spirit in any form or shape fashion against me/family shall not prosper, therefore backfire and destroy your owner, in the name of Jesus.
6. Any familiar spirit in my root die, die, die, in the name of Jesus.
7. I withdraw the power of any familiar spirits that is being used to torment my life, in the name of Jesus.
8. You familiar spirit in my foundation bringing evil record or evil things to come to pass, die, die, die, in the name of Jesus.
9. You familiar spirit(s) assigned to cut off my expectation, die in the name of Jesus.
10. Any familiar spirit enforcing me to go back to the back seat of life, die, in the name of Jesus.
11. Any familiar spirit from my father’s house/mother’s house that says I will not rise above my root you are a lair, die, die, die, in the name of Jesus.
12. Power of familiar spirit over my life, carry your evil load, in the name of Jesus.
13. Stronghold of familiar spirits in my education, business, career, marriage, home, calling, finances, staff of bread, what are you doing there, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, in the name of Jesus.
14. Any occult power, witchcraft power, familiar spirit, sitting on my marriage, glory, business, promotion, job, be unseated by fire and die, in the name of Jesus.
15. Pick from the list: You spirit of mind destruction I am not your candidate today I separate my self from you and I command you to die, in the name of Jesus. Spirit friend - I’m not your friend Spirit children – I’m not your mother Spirit husband – I’m not your wife Spirit wife - I’m not your husband Spirit boy fiends – I’m not your girl friend Spirit girl friends – I’m not your boy friend Spirit parent – I’m not your child Ancestral spirit – I reject you Spirit guide or teacher – I’m not your student Spirit of untimely death – I’m not your candidate
I believe this prayer has blessed your life. but i want to give this opportunity to someone out there possiblly you have gone through this prayer but you have never entrusted your life to Jesus Christ. why not do it right now. if you are ready say this prayer of commitment with me. say. Dear Jesus, i come to you as a sinner. Forgive my sins . Forgive my sins. right now i repent of all my sins. and i invite you. come into my heart as my Lord and saviour. Amen.
If you said that prayer you are now saved by grace. Find a Bible teaching Church where you can go in order to grow Spiritually. May God bless you
Bril Emma Opanyi
JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVERMORE
Her name is Katie Kirkpatrick, 21 yrs old. Next to her
is her fiancé, Nick, 23.
This picture was taken prior to their wedding January 11th, 2005.
Katie has terminal cancer and spends hours in chemotherapy.
Here Nick awaits while she finishes one of the sessions...
Even in pain and dealing with her organs shutting down, with the help of morphine, Katie took care of every single part of the wedding planning. Her dress had to be adjusted several times due to Katie 's constant weight loss.
An expected guest was her oxygen tank. Katie had to use it during the ceremony and reception. The other couple in this picture is Nick's parents, very emotional with the wedding and to see their son marrying the girl he fell in love when he was an adolescent.
Katie , in a wheel chair listening to her husband and friends singing to her. In the middle of the party, Katie had to rest for a bit and catch her breath. The pain does not allow her to stand for long period of time.
Katie died 5 days after her wedding. To see a fragile woman dress as bride with a beautiful smile makes you think... happiness is always there within reach, no matter how long it lasts..... lets enjoy life and don't live a complicated life. Life is too short.
Work as if it was your first day. Forgive as soon as possible. Love without boundaries... Laugh without control and never stop smiling. Please pray for those suffering from cancer.
We all have close to our heart.
Keep this going.
Prayers are always answered.
Are you threatening to be in a relationship? are you in one or are you married? deos your love for your partner carry meaning like for katie?
Find out for your self and know where to correct things so that your love can light again.
There is no more important time to line up with God’s financial system than now. In this time of financial crisis, many are in fear. They are concerned about how the struggling U.S. economy is affecting them. The thing about fear, though, is that it is selfish. It only thinks about me and mine.
Fear is the opposite of faith, and it is motivated by selfishness which is the opposite of love. Yet, God’s Word teaches us that we receive from him by faith and that our faith works by love.
God’s financial system works for you when you focus on the needs of others rather than your own. Matthew 6:33 teaches us to ‘seek first the kingdom of God’ and then ‘all these things will be added to you.’ Philippians 4:19 has a promise from God to meet all of our needs regardless of what’s going on in the economy.
God’s ultimate goal for your financial life isn’t that you just receive abundantly but that you give abundantly. God’s plan for your life is that you be a generous giver-- someone who is so abundantly blessed that you are able to give abundantly for God’s purposes. Jesus said in Acts 20:35 that it is better to give than to receive.
God wants you going through life experiencing the superior joy that comes from giving and that is one of the reasons why He wants to get abundance to you. Even more importantly, He’s thinking of those who are without in this life, especially those without Him, who will benefit from your generosity.
God understands that for you to be able to give abundantly, you must receive abundantly. You must Get it to Give it! One of my desires is to get to a place financially where I can GIVE $1 million a year for God’s purposes. My goal is to give abundantly, not just receive abundantly for my purposes. And when (not if) the time comes that I am receiving from Him on that level, it will be vitally important that I remember the purpose for it coming into my life.
Whatever God has given you, some of it is in your hands simply for you to give to His purposes. Remembering the purpose for the money God has given you is an important step in lining up with God’s system. It’s when God knows that you truly understand this principle that He will trust you with more.
In this time of recession stop focusing on your financial needs and look around for someone that you can help with whatever God has placed in your hands now. Doing just that will position you to GET even more so you can GIVE more in the days to come! Scripture Of The Day:"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work." - 2 Corinthians 9:8 (NKJV)
Pastor André Butler is the senior pastor of Word of Faith International Christian Center, founded by Bishop Keith A. Butler, in Southfield, Michigan and the former pastor of Faith Christian Center in Smyrna, Georgia. His mission in life is to equip others to experience the future that God has for them. His ministry emphasizes God’s…
The American Heritage Dictionary defines lust as “a sexual craving, especially excessive or unrestrained; any overwhelming desire or craving.” While there are many types of lust, sexual lust is probably one of the most dangerous because it is a seed that, when planted, can produce a harvest of fornication and even death.
James 1:14-15 (AMP) says, “But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.”
Anytime you have an overwhelming sexual desire for someone who is not your spouse, it has the potential to kill you and pull you away from the will of God for your life.
Why do people give in to sexual lust? Because it “feels good” or because they don’t really believe that there are consequences. The truth of the matter is that lust can be difficult to control because it is a desire that cannot be quenched. Lust will never be satisfied; it must always have more.
To combat lust, you must create boundaries in your life that help keep you out of potentially compromising situations. If you’re single, for example, avoid late-night visits and phone conversations with members of the opposite sex.
Or, if you know you are challenged in this area, confide in a friend who can keep you accountable and help you maintain your purity. But the best way to quench the fire of lust is through the Word of God. It is always the best source of power when it comes to defeating any type of sin, including lust. If you are struggling with lust, follow these steps to help you overcome this sin in your life:
1) Focus on the will of God. When you choose to give your attention to anything that opposes God’s Word, you leave yourself vulnerable for lust to enter your mind, body and spirit. It then conceives and brings forth sin, and eventually leads to death. Stay focused on God’s will and plan for your life. Stay on track!
2) Guard your eyes and ears. If you conceive a child, nine months later a child will be born. It is the same way with lust. If you sit up all night watching pornography, for example, that seed will be planted into your spirit and you’ll eventually see the results of it in your life. Make it a point to monitor the material you allow into your spirit through your eyes and ears. It really does have an ability to alter your behavior.
3) Think about the Word. Satan’s most powerful weapon is the power of suggestion. His job is to try to inject a pattern of thinking into your mind that goes against the Word of God. But if you continue to read and study God’s Word, your mind will be better equipped to discern the truth from Satan’s lies.
4) Speak the Word. Try this exercise. Count to yourself from 1 to 10, keeping your mouth closed. Now say out loud, “Glory Hallelujah!” What happened to your counting? It stopped. Why? Because it was captured by what was coming out of your mouth. You can combat lustful thoughts and desires by shifting your focus to the Word of God and making daily verbal confessions over your life about your purity and wholeness in Christ.
Make this confession over your life: Father, I thank You that today I am free from the spirit of lust. I will no longer think lustful thoughts, but instead I will think on things that are true, things that are noble, just and pure (Philippians 4:8).
I walk in complete victory and self-control over my mind and my body in Jesus’ name, amen! Scripture Of The Day:"But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." - Romans 13:14 (ESV)
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There are many traps set for the single individual who is living holy. The Bible tells you what to do in a dating relationship that begins to develop into ungodly behavior. 1 Cor. 6:17 says to flee fornication. What does "flee" mean? Flee doesn't mean, "I can deal with it." Flee means get on your running shoes and run. In other words, when you come into a scenario and sense that there is ungodly potential there, don't hang around. Get out of Dodge. That is how you keep yourself holy.
Prayer is essential for the single individual. You have to be prayed up so that you can see trouble coming, and so that you will have strength to flee. Proverbs 6:27 says, "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?" Flee that situation.
This is one reason why a born again brother may end a relationship with a born again sister. Men know that they cannot deal with holding on to a woman and stay holy. So, if he dates a single woman a couple of times, and she jumps all on him, he is going to cut it short. He is trying to be saved. If this woman keeps on messing with him he knows he is going to get in trouble. So he decides he cannot see her anymore, and ends it.
That goes the other way too. Here is a single woman living holy before God. She is dating this guy. They have only been out once or twice, and he has his paws all over her. Here is what to do with him: "Sorry Charlie. I'm looking for a holy man." She will not deal with him any further. She is looking for somebody who can exhibit control.
Holiness is self-control. The way to get a godly mate is to exhibit self-control in your life. Nothing is worth losing your testimony over. So, stay in prayer and in the Word. It is there that you will be strengthened to keep yourself holy and pure, and to live a life pleasing to God. Scripture Of The Day:"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." - 1 Corinthians 6:17-18 (KJV)
Bishop Keith A. Butler is the founder and pastor of Word of Faith International Christian Center in Southfield, MI, and Word of Faith Christian Center in San Antonio, TX. For more information about Bishop Butler, visit http://www.woficc.com.
Many Christians do not take holiness seriously. They do not realize that to be holy is a commandment from God. Since God has called us to holiness, we have to will ourselves to live the holy life. In 1 Peter 1:13 -16, we see God's call to holiness: "Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" We also find in II Timothy 1:8-9, "...share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began."
Everything that refers to God is holy. Holiness is the very essence of who He is. Our lives should always exemplify what Jesus' life was like when He lived on earth, because He exemplified what God's life is--a life of holiness. This was evident when Satan tempted Him in the wilderness. No matter what Satan tempted Jesus with, or how often Satan tempted Him, Jesus never yielded to him.
Holiness is the quality of life. It should not be confused with two similar terms such as sanctification, which means to be set apart, and righteousness, which means right standing with God. When you were born again, you were made the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.
Paul tells us this in II Corinthians 5:21, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." He also writes in 1 Corinthians 1:2, "... to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints..."
God makes us righteous and sanctifies us through Jesus Christ; those are things that He does. But it is up to us to be obedient to His call to holiness. We do not have to do anything to be sanctified, other than to live a sanctified life. Living the sanctified life is called holiness. This is how our character gets established. So Christians can't do anything to be righteous or sanctified, but everything to be holy.
It may seem difficult, but you can be holy, just as God the Father and Jesus are holy. It will take effort because it does not come overnight. You have to train yourself and remove yourself from unholy people, places, things and actions. You have to will yourself to do it. You have to go in the opposite direction of where your flesh or your mind may want to take you. You must remember that God cannot be involved in any kind of sin or immorality. When you get into sin or immorality, you park His power at the door and enter at your own risk.
Christians should desire to be pleasing to God instead of compromising their standards to please others. They must tell themselves, "I can abstain from fornication; I will not commit adultery; I will not worry; I will not overeat; I will not be jealous; I will not be envious; I will not be full of strife; I will not lie; I will not do anything that Jesus wouldn't do because I am holy."
To be victorious in living a life of holiness, you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. You need the Holy Spirit, the power of God, to help you because Satan will oppose you when you commit to obeying the Word of God. You need the supernatural power of God because Satan is a supernatural enemy. It is a supernatural life that God has called you to. It is a life of joy, peace and fulfillment.
The act of holiness is not an impossible task. God would never tell us to do something or be something that is impossible to accomplish. You can be holy; you can count yourself as dead to sin; you can overcome those temptations just as Jesus did because God has already made a way of escape.
Paul tells us this in 1 Corinthians 10:13, "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."
So, whatever challenge you're faced with, don't give up. It's a fight all your life. It doesn't matter how many times you fall; get up because one of these times, you're going to get the victory over that temptation so you can be right for God and live the life of holiness as you were called to do. Scripture Of The Day: "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." - 1 Corinthians 10:13
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Luke 12:32-34 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (NIV)
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Why does generosity seem to move so slowly in some parts of God's family? It is simple: we are afraid that if we give away our money, food, possessions, time and energy - there will not be enough left to meet our own needs! In these verses we overhear Jesus teaching His disciples not to worry about anything, because Father God is a giver by nature. Romans 8:32 says, "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" In giving Jesus as the Saviour of the world, He also promised to provide for all who believe in Him (John 16:27).
Make no mistake, salvation embraces our guilt and also our need. God cannot allow the subjects of His Kingdom to be destitute. Indeed, He gives to us as His agents of mercy; so that we can pass it on to others too. Retaining it all for ourselves will deprive those around us of what they might need. All that we retain for ourselves will leak away like money in purses with holes; but if given away, the blessing will be multiplied, our daily needs satisfied and God will be glorified. Jesus is not saying that the more you give the more you will get (He does not promise riches but enough for each day). But He is saying that citizens of His kingdom have a responsibility to use the resources He gives us in a way which will honour the King and meet the needs of others.
It starts to go wrong the moment we treasure His gifts as personally ours to retain for ourselves. If we treasure our personal security so much that we can never share, we are not treasuring the Lord who gives us all things. But if we love Him above all else, then what we have will be seen as His treasure to be used for whatever purpose will please Him. That kind of lifestyle will give worry no place to breed. If we trust the Lord for our daily supply then we don't need to spend anxious hours awake at night or be saturated by stress. That will be a great relief to us, and everybody around us too!
Prayer: Gracious Lord. Thank You for this clear command to strengthen our faith by giving away what we night otherwise treasure up for ourselves. Please forgive me for holding on to my money and possessions too tightly, as if I have no loving Father, and no responsibility to share with others. And forgive me for getting so worried that I will not have enough. Please help me to obey Your leading about what I give away and trust You to keep on meeting my needs so that my friends and colleagues will see what a faithful God You are. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Remember you were born at such a time as this to win in life and may you experience countless victories in Jesus name
JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVERMORE
Hello beloved, praise the Lord! A few years ago this Question came to me and not only me but also many people have come to me asking the same. Perhaps you too due to the challenges, and all sorts of negative occurrences you’ve asked yourself the same, I want you to give me your attention as unveil to you an answer to this question.
Many years ago, when I was four years my parents broke up; at a tender age I began a journey of passing through the iron hands and harsh treatment of different step mothers. you can imagine what kind of hell I was in being a son that was greatly loved by my dad, there was no choice for me to survive opposition not forgetting the witchcraft charms I had to eat daily, that would be put in my food to fail me or even kill me.
I was always the best in class but when I came to form four third term, it was like hell was loose on me. My brain was blocked to the point that I narrowly missed my form four final examinations. At that point, every other opportunity, open doors, international connections I had, all got disconnected. I want to tell you that more than a half of this terrible life I spent it when I was saved like you may be. (However what I am sharing about covers both born a gains and non born a gains)
Years later I joined a church which deals with generational foundations and curses and that is Victory Church of Christ ministry Luzira. You may ask and say what does my story got to do with foundations and curses? Yes there’s.
In a number of annual conferences on curses and foundations at Victory Church of Christ, I got to understand why my life had something to do with four. Remember at the age of four my parents broke up and in form four when I was supposed to cross over to a new level I came across a hindrance in that my father refused to pay my school fees because my step mother refused him. Well after wards the issue of school fees was settled by a Good Samaritan.
Due to many hard times I went through, I began to see no head way in life and I remember asking myself why on earth was I born? However, in a stressful and tiresome hunt to know why I was different from the rest I seriously got involved in prayer and fasting through which God began to answer me by revealing to me things that were making me suffer.
In spite of the fact that I suffered, got humiliated, felt rejected and all sorts of ills I went through, I still got the right answer from associating with a local Church of Jesus Christ. And today I am a free man serving God with a good Job not because I was strong but all because God has a purpose why He created me on planet earth. Perhaps you are there depressed, suffering and cornered by the devil from all sides, I want to tell you “Don’t give up” there is a specific purpose and reason why it got to be you. And one of the reasons is to glorify God.
As God was refreshing and flashing this message in my heart to share it with you, He told me to tell someone out there, you are just at the point when you think you will never make it, you feel you are a mistake, and because of all that you have gone through it has made you attempt suicide several times. God told me to tell you ‘It is going to be well with you’. He has been watching your tears. But only believe in Him for this one more time.
And so let’s look at the things that can or may cause us ask ourselves this question why on were we born?
1.Our Foundations.
Our forefathers planted our lives, future and destinies on wrong foundations that do not support good things to come our way. I personally speaking to you I am someone who comes from a background where idolatry and witchcraft are the highest order of the day where our forefathers sacrificed and also serviced these alters that do not glorify God. And so when you got saved, there were so many handwritings of these idols that were made in agreement with your fore fathers. Some of these alters support that you reach a certain limit in life, others support you to live shortly on earth and die while others permit you to live long but also cause you to suffer long and other don’t support prosperity, Marriage and happiness. The foundation which your forefathers laid for you may be a foundation that does not support a good marriage. Good Job, good health or even Children. That’s why when some people cross certain limits that their ancestors laid for them to stop at they begin to experience all kinds of forces fighting them from all sides.
This reminds me of a family where the father used to service a certain alter of witchcraft periodically that kept him wealthy but as time went on the demons began to ask for the blood of one of his relatives which he refused and later these demons killed him. After the death of this man his entire family especially his children begun to experience all terrible things that caused them become inadequate. These Children one by one began developing problems with their wombs and fallopian tubes of which they had to remove their wombs one by one at different intervals some died and only one survived but with no womb . Looking at this family their father in search for wealth laid for them a foundation that does not support continuity. That’s why today I want you to strongly deal with any wrong foundation that has been fighting your destiny and that would have been laid for you by your ancestors, parents or even jealousy people in Jesus name.
2.Our Clan Names.
Here is where most of us all are enslaved ignorantly, the issue of names. Have you ever asked yourself what exactly the clan name you carry means?
In Genesis 32:26-29, there was a man who had great potential and destiny but his name was a doom to his destiny. This man’s name was Jacob meaning “The Sup planter” the Bible tells us that one day Jacob had to wrestle with God’s Angel in a persistent battle until the Angel said: what is your name? Then He replied, Jacob meaning ‘I am the sup planter’ and the Angel told him ‘your name will no longer be called Jacob but Israel’, why? Because you have wrestled with God and man and you have prevailed
Another man is Jabez in 1Choronicles 4:9-10 whose name meant pain. Now what do your name mean? Some of you have names like Tabu, Bizibuu, Achan, Seguya etc.
The Clan names we carry, if not dealt with they go before us announcing the very meaning they carry that’s why if your name is Tabu and you go to an office to ask for a Job, if they ask your name and you say I am Tabu, you are like telling the Human resource manager of that company that I am Mr. or Mrs. Problems. In other words, I am ready to cause as much problems as my name is to the Company. Now who would want to give a key company position to someone called problems? That’s why each time you miss out on a Job interview, fail to marry after introduction, or miss out on any good thing that would have come to you by seconds, then try to reflect on your clan name. What does it mean?
There are many points I would have shared with you but these two however are points I wanted you to deal with as they are major in many people’s continual cycle of problems that make them ask questions like why on earth was I born? Does it have to be me? Why me? And many others.
Let’s look at the remedy to this question and others perhaps you have asked yourself before is that you ask yourself every day.
1.For you to fully get the answer to as why on earth you were born you need to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You also need to repent of unknown and known sins that your forefathers committed and totally cut yourself from them completely. At the end of this message don’t miss out on important prayer points that will guide you through.
2.If you realize the above manifesting in your life then seek for deliverance from a right Church that carries out deliverance prayers and a Church that is built on the foundation of Righteousness. NOTE: Different Churches have different callings and so are the tasks they ought to carry out.
3.Read the Word with understanding and get to know God’s promises for your life. Just as God in Joshua 1:8 says so shall he prosper your ways and make you successful in life.
If you have not yet made Christ as your Lord and savior why not give Him this opportunity to save your life? If you are ready please follow this simple prayer of commitment with me, say:
Dear Jesus, I come to you as a sinner, forgive all my sins. Today I accept the penalty you paid for me and the privilege you gave me through your suffering to become your Child. Today I confess with my heart that I am saved. Amen
PRAYER POINTS
1.Say in the name of Jesus, I cover myself, with the blood of Jesus
2.In the name of Jesus, I pull down every negative stronghold standing against me
3.Every wrong foundation that is meant to destroy my life, die right now in the name of Jesus
4.Every wrong foundation that was operating in my life to hinder my progress, Job, Business, promotion, finances, marriage and destiny be destroyed by fire in Jesus Name.
5.Every wrong foundation (mention that foundation it may be poverty) that my ancestors laid for me, that was monitoring my progress, be destroyed in Jesus name.
6.Every anti-prosperity alter that my forefathers and parents laid for me, die in the name of Jesus.
7.Every evil power from my father’s house, die in the name of Jesus.
8.Every foundational bondage break in the name of Jesus
Now take this time and mention as many as you can that you know were affecting you then there after thank God and also worship Him.
May God grant you in the name of Jesus all the victory that you need and make your ways prosperous again! Remember to thank God and to testify of His goodness. May you have a sweet fellowship with Jesus! Amen
PEOPLE THAT ALL CHRISTIAN LEADERS SHOULD PICK A LEAF FROM. I believe that this story will help describe where you as a leader in the christian fraternity lie.
KATHRYN KUHLMAN ..."THE WOMAN WHO BELIEVED IN MIRACLES"
Hundreds have been healed just sitting quietly in the audience without any demonstration whatsoever. There have been times when not even a song has been sung. No loud demonstration, no loud calling on God as though He were deaf. No screaming, no shouting, within the very quietness of His presence. There were hundreds of times when the presence of the Holy spirit was so real that one could almost hear the rhythm as thousands of hearts beat as one.
In this rapt silence a voice speaks, "I- ah...belieeeeve,- ah- in- ah merrrrricals-!" Suddenly the applause is deafening as thousands watch a tall, slim figure emerge from the shadows in a white gown. She glides to center stage, and another Kathryn Kuhlman Miracle Service is underway.
In her international ministry, Miss Kuhlman laid a foundation for the workings of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Countless thousands throughout the world. Her unique ministry shifted the focus of the body of Christ from the outward show of the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit back to the GIVER of the Gifts, the Holy Spirit of God and Christ.
A prophetic tone in her ministry set the pace for what the Church would be like in times to come. Her ministry was literally a forerunner for the Church of the future.
Though she called herself "an ordinary person", Kathryn was unique. Many have tried to imitate her voice and her theatrical mannerisms, but to no avail. Others have tried to translate her special anointing into techniques and methods without success.
I thank God for Kathryn Kuhlman. She was an example of one who fearlessly paid the price to walk in the service of God. I am grateful for the lessons I have learned through her life. And in this biography I want to share some of those lessons with you, many from her own words. RED HAIR AND FRECKLES
Concordia, Missouri, was settled by German immigrants who began arriving in the late 1880s. Kathryn's mother, Emma Walkenhorst, Married Joseph Kuhlman in 1891. According to her permanent high school record, Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born May 9, 1907, on the family farm about five miles from Concordia. Kathryn was named after both of her grandmothers. She never had a birth certificate since one was not required by Missouri law until 1910.
When Kathryn was two years old, her father sold their 160 acre farm and built a big house in town. This was the house that Kathryn always called "home".
A childhood friend described Kathryn as having "...large features, red hair and freckles." It couldn't be said of Kathryn that she was pretty. She wasn't dainty or appealingly feminine in any sense of the word. She was taller than the rest of "our gang" (five feet eight), and boyish in build, and her long strides kept the rest of us puffing to keep up with her."
As a young girl, Kathryn was also noted for her "independence, self-reliance, and a desire to do things her way.' She managed to twist her "papa" around her little finger, getting almost anything she wanted from him. According to Kathryn, the discipline was always left to her mother, a harsh woman, who never praised Kathryn or gave her any affection. Yet Kathryn never once felt unloved or unwanted. Her papa gave her all the love and affection she ever needed. In fact, she so adored her papa that even thirty years after his death, tears would come into her eyes as she talked about him.
Once, when Kathryn was about nine years old, she wanted to do something nice for her mother's birthday. So she decided she would give her a surprise birthday party.
Well Kathryn never thought about her mother's birthday falling on a Monday, so she went all around to all the neighbors, telling them ALL to show up with a cake.
Mondays were wash days at the Kuhlman household. Every other day of the week, Emma Kuhlman would dress from head to toe in her best clothes. One never knew when an unexpected guest might come by, and she dreaded the idea of anyone seeing her groomed poorly.
So Monday came and Emma Kuhlman was dressed for wash day. As she labored over a hot tub, her hair hung down wrung in the sweat, her clothes were damp and soiled, and she was bare-legged. There was a knock at at the door, and when she opened it - there stood the neighbors all dressed up in their finest attire. And there stood Emma, totally wilted and fatigued from her wash day! Her pride ruined, Emma vowed to Kathryn under her breath that she would take care of her later.
And take care of her she did! In fact Emma Kuhlman made Kathryn stand and eat every one of the birthday cakes the neighbors brought!
Kathryn's father taught her the principles of business. He was a stable owner. She loved to go with him as he collected bills, and in later years would give him credit for everything she knew about organization and business. "PAPA! JESUS CAME INTO MY HEART!"
Kathryn was fourteen years old when she was born again. She told the story many times during her life of how she answered what seemed to be a sovereign wooing directly from the Holy Spirit Himself, not from any person. She came from a "religious" background rather than a spiritual one, so the churches she attended never gave altar calls to receive salvation.
Of this, Kathryn would later write: "I was standing beside Mama, and the hands of the church clock were pointed to five minutes before twelve o'clock. I can't remember the minister's name or even one word of his sermon, but something happened to me. It's as real to me right now as it was then- the most real thing that has ever happened to me.
"As I stood there, I began shaking th the extent that I could no longer hold the hymnal, so I laid it on the pew...and sobbed. I was feeling the weight of ( conviction) and I realized that I was a sinner. I felt like the meanest, lowest person in the whole world. Yet I was only a fourteen year old girl.
"...I did the only thing I knew to do: I Slipped out from where I was standing and walked to the front pew and sat down in the corner of the pew and wept. Oh, how I wept!
"...I had become the happiest person in the whole world. The heavy weight had been lifted. I experienced something that has never left me. I had been born again, and the Holy Spirit had done the very thing that Jesus said He would do (John 16:8)."
Kathryn's father was standing in the kitchen when she came running home from church that day to share with him her good news. It was her custom to tell papa everything.
In her words, she rushed up to him and said, "Papa, Jesus has just come into my heart."
Without any emotion he just said "I'm glad."
Kathryn recalls how she was never really sure whether or not her father understood what she meant. She would eventually choose to join her fathers' Baptist church rather than her mama's Methodist church. But even then, she had a mind of her own.
Kathryn says she never was sure if her father was born again. At times, she would speak convincingly that he was. But privately, she sometimes expressed frustration at not knowing for sure.
Kathryn did know, however, that her father had a strong aversion to preachers. Actually, she said that he despised preachers! If Joseph Kuhlman saw a preacher coming down the street, he would cross over to the other side to keep from speaking to him. He thought all preachers were in it for the money."
And the only time he attended church was on holidays or for special services at which Kathryn was giving a recitation . As far as she knew, he never prayed or read the Bible. THEIR FIRST EMBRACE
According to Kathryn, church attendance was just as important as going to work. At first she attended the Methodist church with her mother. It was there, in 1921, that she was born again. But from 1922 in, the entire family was listed as members of the Baptist church. Though she came from a denominational background, her ministry in later years would become ecumenical as she freely moved through all churches from the Pentecostal to the Catholics. No denomination barred the ministry of Kathryn Kuhlman. She refused to be a part of a denomination and gave no organization any credit for her ministry. She gave credit only to God.
Throughout Kathryn's teenage years, her mother taught th Epworth League for young people in the Methodist church. A neighbor said Mrs. Kuhlman was an "Excellent Bible teacher, and Kathryn and her sisters and brother must have received some very find teaching and training at home."
Even though her mother was called an excellent teacher in the Epworth League at church, she was not actually born again until 1935 during one of Kathryn's meetings in Denver.
Kathryn had invited her mother to the meeting. After the close of the first service, Kathryn went into the prayer room behind the pulpit to pray for those who answered the invitation to receive salvation. Later, her mother walked into the prayer room, saying she wanted to know Jesus as Kathryn knew Him.
Kathryn, now choked with tears, reached out and laid her hand on the back of her mama's head. The moment her fingers toucher her mother, Mama began to shake, then cry. It was the same kind of shaking and crying that Kathryn remembered when she had stood beside Mama in tat little Methodist church in Concordia. But this time, there was something new. Mama lifted her head and began to speak, slowly at first, then more rapidly. But the words weren't English, they were clear, bell-tone sounds of an unknown tongue.
"Kathryn fell to her knees beside her weeping and laughing at the same time...when Emma opened her eyes, she reached out for Kathryn and held her tightly. It was the first time that Kathryn could ever remember being embraced by her mother." THE EVANGELISTIC MAID
One characteristic of those greatly used by God is their willingness to drop everything and follow His leading. In 1913, Kathryn's older sister Myrtle married a young, good-looking evangelist who was just finishing his course at Moody Bible Institute. So Myrtle and her new husband, Everett Parrott, began an evangelistic tent ministry. About ten years later, in 1924, she and Myrtle persuaded their parents that it was God's will for Kathryn to travel with them.
At that time, the Parrotts, whose headquarters were in Oregon, were acquainted with Dr. Charles S. Price, who had a healing ministry. He had introduced them to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. However, wonderful as this experience was, the Parrott's marriage had not been a happy one, and now financial strains were adding to the problems.
It would have been easy for Kathryn to slip into self-pity because of these circumstances. Instead, she busied herself around the Parrott house, taking over the washing on Monday and the ironing on Tuesday. A PORTION OF HER CHARACTER
During this time, along with earning the lessons of patience in adversity, Kathryn also learned not to give way to self-pity. Later many of her messages flowed out of her personal spiritual growth in these areas. Self-pity and self-centeredness were the same to Kathryn. Obviously, she determined as a teenager not to allow either of these to have a place in her life, regardless of what happened to her.
"Be careful of the person, whether they're a member of your family, whether you work with them, whether they are an employee, be careful of a person who can't say, "I am sorry." You will find that person very self-centered.
"That is the reason you have heard me say ten thousand times that the only person for whom there is no forgiveness of sins is the person who will not say, "I'm sorry for my sins."... Such a self-centered person usually draws disease to themselves like a magnet."
Kathryn learned early in life that self-centeredness, along with all the other 'self" sins such as self-pity, self-indulgence, or even self-hatred, causes a person to judge or condemn himself. And that this hinders the Holy Spirit's working in his or her life.
Kathryn always said that anyone could experience the operation of the Holy Spirit in his life if he was willing to pay the price.
"Paying the price" is not a one-time experience. It begins with an initial commitment, a determination to follow God each day of your life.
There were many times and places where Kathryn could have chosen not to submit to the correction of the Holy Spirit. But, fortunately for the present-day body of Christ, she made the right choices and is an example for us to follow. THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO PREACH!
Kathryn Spent five years with her sister and brother-in-law, preparing the foundation for her own ministry. She worked in the household to ease any burden her presence might have brought, and spent many hours reading and studying the Word.
In 1928, The Parrotts arrived in Boise, Idaho. By this time they had acquired a tent and a pianist by the name of Helen Gulliford. But their marital problems continued to grow. So they decided that Everett would go on to South Dakota while they would leave Myrtle, Kathryn, and Helen in Boise to conduct a meeting there.
After two weeks the offerings collected weren't enough to pay the rent of the building, their small apartment, or to buy food. They lived meagerly on bread and tuna.
Myrtle soon felt that her only recourse was to rejoin her husband. Kathryn and Helen couldn't see any hope for their future by continuing to travel with the Parrotts. So like Paul and Barnabas in the New Testament church, they decided to part company. A Local pastor in Boise offered them a chance to preach in a small pool hall that had been converted into a mission- and that was the beginning of the Kathryn Kuhlman Ministry!
From the "pool hall" mission, they went to Pocatello, Idaho, where Kathryn preached in an old opera house. The building was filthy and had to be cleaned before they could use it. You can guess who did the cleaning- the evangelist, of course. From there, they went to Twin Falls, Idaho, in the dead of winter where Kathryn slipped on the ice an broke her leg. Though the doctor had told her to not put her foot down for two weeks, she immediately continued to preach with her foot in a cast. She never allowed her flesh to cause her to compromise the will of God.
Kathryn once said: "from that first sermon I preached in Idaho - 'Zacchaeus up a tree', and God knows if anyone was up a tree, I sure was - one thing I knew, I was sold on the things of God. Jesus was real to me. My heart was fixed."
After preaching four or five sermons, she would humorously say: "...I wondered, "what more can I preach about? There isn't anything else in the Bible. I have absolutely exhausted the supply of sermons. For the life of me, I can't think of anything else to preach about." STABLE AND STRONG IN THE TURKEY HOUSE
Many times in those early years, their accommodations were meager, to say the least. On one occasion,t he family with whom she was scheduled to stay didn't have a place for her- until they scrubbed out the turkey house. Kathryn often said she would have gladly slept on a straw stack, because her need to preach was so strong within her. Years later she would often laugh and tell how she would lock th doors and not let anyone out until she was sure they were all saved! That was her joke; however, she would also stay at the altar until the wee hours of the morning praying with anyone who lingered.
Other places Kathryn stayed might have been cleaner than the turkey house, but they weren't as warm. In those days guest rooms weren't heated. Later she would tell how she snuggled under great piles of covers until she got the place warm where she lay. Then she would turn over on her stomach and study the Word of God for hours at a time.
Her heart was "sold out" to the Lord. That was the secret of her ministry. Her heart was fixed on Jesus. She determined to be loyal to Him and to avoid grieving the Holy Spirit.
In Kathryn's early years of ministry, two other characteristics were developed- dedication, and loyalty to God and His people. Kathryn expanded and developed her spiritual understanding from the foundation of character that she developed early in life. KATHRYN'S "LOYALTY"
What keeps a person devoted to their call? Kathryn's answer was "loyalty."
"The word loyalty has little meaning these days because there's so little of it being practiced...Loyalty is something that is intangible...It's like love. You can only understand it as you see it in action...Love is something you DO, and that's also true of loyalty. It means faithfulness. It means allegiance. It means devotion.
"My heart is fixed. I'll be loyal to Him at any cost, at any price. Loyalty is much more than a casual interest in someone or something. It's a personal commitment. int he final analysis, it means "Here I am. You can count on me. I won't fail you."
In other words, true loyalty for those called into the ministry would be expressed by their decision never to deviate from God's call. Do not add it to take from it- just do it. According to Kathryn, when people begin to do their own thing, their loyalty changes from God, to themselves. I WANT IT B-I-G!
After preaching all over Idaho, Kathryn and Helen moved into Colorado. Following a six-month revival in Pueblo, they arrived Denver. A businessman, Earl F. Hewitt, had joined her in Pueblo as her business manager. That year of 1933 the Depression was in full swing. Businesses were closed down, millions of people were out of work, and churches were struggling to stay open.
Kathryn was a traveling evangelist without the financial backing of any denomination, yet her belief was in a big God whose resources weren't limited. She believed if you were serving a God of limited finances, then you were serving the wrong god. She lived by the principle of faith and trusted in God.
She told Hewitt to go into Denver and act as if they had a million dollars. When he pointed out that in reality they had only $5 she said:
"He (God) is not limited to what we have or who we are. He can certainly use our five dollars and multiply it just as easily as He multiplied the loaves and fishes...Now go on up to Denver. Find me the biggest building you can. get the finest piano available for Helen. Fill the place up with chairs. Take out a big ad in the Denver Post and get spot announcements on all the radio stations. This is God's business and we're going to do it God's way- big!"
Hewitt took her at her word and followed the instructions. The building had been a Montgomery Ward Company warehouse. The meeting lasted five months, during which time they moved to yet another warehouse. The first night, one hundred twenty-five people were present, the second night, over four hundred people attended. From then on, the warehouse filled to capacity every night. After five months, Kathryn announced that the meeting was over, but the people wouldn't hear of it. One man offered to make the down payment on a permanent building and erect a hugs neon sign over it which would read, "Prayer Changes Things."
People were hungry for the Word of God. However, her main message in those years was salvation. From time to time, pastors were born again at her invitation to receive Jesus as Savior and Lord. Kathryn's was a ministry of hope and faith. During this time, Helen had developed a choir of one hundred voices and composed much of the music they sang.
Because of the response to Kathryn's ministry was so great, she agreed to stay in Denver. Everything seemed to be flawless, so they began to search for a permanent building. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, tragedy struck.. PAPA IS GONE
Kathryn experienced the first real trauma in her life in late December of 1934, when her beloved father was killed in an accident. She learned much later that he had fallen on an icy street and had been struck by a car that swerved to try to miss him in a snowstorm.
Because of the storm, it was hours before a friend could reach Kathryn in Colorado. Upon receiving the news that her father was near death, she started home, driving in blizzard conditions from Denver across Kansas toward Missouri. She said only God knew how fast she drove on icy roads and in near-zero visibility.
On December 30, Kathryn made it to Kansas City. From there she called home to tell her father that she was almost home, only to find that he died early that morning.
She arrived home to find Papa laid out in his casket in the living room with the mourners keeping the traditional vigil. The trauma was almost more than Kathryn could bear. Hate welled up inside her toward the youth who drove the car that struck her father.
"I had always been a happy person, and Papa had helped to make me happy. Now he was gone, and in his place, I was battling unfamiliar strangers of fear and hate. I had the most perfect father a girl ever had. In my eyes, Papa could do no wrong. He was my ideal."
Kathryn had left home more than ten years earlier, visiting only a few times in between. Now her Papa would never be able to hear her preach.Later, she related that the hatred for the young man who killed her father seethed within her, and she spewed out this venom about the accident to everyone- until the day of the funeral.
"Sitting there in the front row of the little Baptist church, I still refused to accept my father's death. It couldn't be...One by one, my family rose from their seats and filed by the coffin. My two sisters. My brother. Only I was left in the pew.
The funeral director walked over and said, "Kathryn would you like to see your father before I close the casket?" "Suddenly I was standing at the front of the church, looking down - my eyes fixed not on Papa's face, but on his shoulder, that shoulder on which I had so often leaned..I leaned over and gently put my hand on that shoulder in the casket. And as I did, something happened. All that my fingers caressed was a suit of clothes...Everything that box contained was simply something discarded, loved once, laid aside now. Papa wasn't there.
"This was the first time the power of the risen, resurrected Christ really came through to me. Suddenly, I was no longer afraid of death.. as my fear disappeared,, so did my hate. Papa wasn't dead. He was alive." RENEWED AND SMILIN'
Kathryn returned to Denver with a new understanding and compassion. Upon her return, a building was found and renovation began in February of 1935. On May 30 of that year, the Denver Revival Tabernacle opened with a huge neon sign over it, as promised- "PRAYER CHANGES THINGS." The auditorium held two thousand seats and the name of the Tabernacle could be seen from a great distance. Thousands of people from the surrounding areas attended Kathryn's meetings over the next four years. Services were conducted nightly except on Monday.
The revival center soon developed into an organized church. There was no denominational affiliation. Ultimately a Sunday school was begun, and buses were in operation to bring people to the services. There were outreaches to prisons and nursing homes. Later on Kathryn began a radio program called, "Smiling Through."
In 1936, many musicians and preachers ministered at the Denver Revival Tabernacle. One of those was Raymond T. Rickey, a prominent evangelist, who spent three weeks at the church. Rickey had been a leading pioneer in America's earlier healing revivals.
Kathryn labeled the trauma of her father's death as her "deepest" valley experience, but there was another valley experience that would prove to be nearly as deep. WHAT A "TRIP"
In 1935 an evangelist named Burroughs A. Waltrip from Austin, Texas, was invited to speak at the Tabernacle. He was an extremely handsome man and eight years older than Kathryn. Soon they found themselves attracted to each other.
The only problem was that he was married and had two little boys. Kathryn seemed to ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit within her telling her that this relationship was a mistake. Shortly after his first visit to Denver, Waltrip divorced his wife and told everyone that his wife left him. However, his ex-wife, Jessie said Waltrip believed that if you didn't' love your spouse at the time of marriage, then there was no covenant, making a person free to divorce and remarry. After Waltrip left his wife, he never returned home to her, and his two little boys never saw their father again. MISTER IS SPELLED M-I-S-T-A-K-E
After leaving his family, Waltrip moved to Mason City, Iowa, representing himself as as single man, to begin a revival center called Radio Chapel. He was known to be a dramatic and sensational evangelist and began daily radio broadcasts from the Chapel. Kathryn and Helen came into town to help him raise funds for his ministry.
Soon, the romantic involvement became publicly known between Kathryn and Wlatrip, whom she nicknamed , "Mister." Helen and other friends from Denver sincerely advised Kathryn not to marry the handsome evangelist, but she reasoned that his wife had left him, making him free to marry.
It should be noted that the details of Waltrip's separation from his wife and the timing of Kuhlman's involvement are not clear. Those who loved and appreciated her ministry kept these things quiet. Obviously, they felt that God had forgiven Kathryn of any mistakes in this relationship, so the details weren't important.
On October 16, 1938, Kathryn announced to her Denver congregation that she planned to join the ministry with "Mister" in Mason City, Iowa. Two days later on October 18th, almost sixteen months after Waltrip's uncontested divorce, Kathryn and Burroughs were secretly married in Mason City. WHAT IS THE ISSUE ANYWAY?
If you made a decision regarding divorce that didn't line up with the Word of God, there is forgiveness and restoration and a new and clean beginning waiting for you. Self-righteous people and certain denominations may not give you a new beginning, but God can help you if you seek Him.
Kathryn found herself in a situation where there were lying and deceiving spirits in operation . Wlatrip left his wife in Texas and divorced her, which was his first mistake. Then, he tried to cover it by embracing a deceiving doctrine and lied about it to those around him. the Kuhlman-Waltrip marriage was totally wrong from the start! SHE ALMOST DID IT...
Kathryn chose to believe this man's story that his wife left him. However, her heart was constantly troubled throughout their wedding plans. She found no peace in her spirit. Most people say that "Mister" didn't love Kathryn at all. Instead, he loved her ability to draw a crowd and raise money. He was well known for his greed and extravagant lifestyle. When he married Kathryn, people in eight different states were "hounding" him for money.
Even "Mister's " mother begged Kathryn not to marry her son. She had hoped he would come to his senses and re-unite with his wife and sons. You may ask then, WHY Did Kathryn go ahead with the marriage?
Before the scheduled marriage in mason City, Kathryn discussed the issue with her friends, Lottie Anthony and Helen. Lottie remembers Kathryn saying, "I just can't seem to find the will of God in this matter." The women tried to convince Kathryn to wait and follow the peace of God. But she would not listen to them.
When the three women arrived is Des Moines on the way to Mason City, Helen announced to Kathryn that she wouldn't go through with it. She remained at their hotel. Lottie agreed with Helen and also refused to attend the wedding.
But Kathryn found another friend to witness the marriage between her and Waltrip. Kathryn fainted during the ceremony. Waltrip helped to revive her so that she could finish the vows. The deliberate decision to step out of the will of God obviously weighed heavily upon her.
As the newlyweds drove back to Des Moines from the ceremony, Kathryn did an odd thing. After the couple checked into their hotel, Kathryn refused to stay with her new husband. Her close friend Lottie Anthony states that Kathryn jumped in the car and drove to her and Helen's hotel.
Kathryn sat in their hotel room, weeping and admitting she had made a mistake with the marriage and would get an annulment. Lottie called Waltrip, informing him of Kathryn's plans. As Waltrip complained of losing his wife, Lottie snapped, "She was never yours in the first place!"
The three women left Des Moines, hoping to explain the situation away to the Denver congregation. But the congregation never gave her a chance. They were furious with her for taking the situation so lightly and for the secrecy of the marriage. Lottie said that the Denver congregation "drove her back into Waltrips' arms." THE SHATTERED DREAMS
The work Kathryn had so diligently built over the previous five years quickly disintegrated. Hewitt bought out Kathryn's share of the building and Helen went to work for a smaller church in Denver. The "Sheep" scattered. Because of this grievous mistake, Kathryn lost her church, her close friends, and her ministry. Even her relationship with God suffered because Kathryn put "mister" and his desires over her passion for God.
Kathryn Kuhlman, the woman some had worshiped as a "perfect Madonna" was actually a human being, subject to human temptations. She was a great woman of God, but what made her great was her choice and action to recover from her mistake. In spite of the looks, the whispers, and the whole-sale rejection, it took great faith and dogged determination to restore Kathryn's ministry. It is said that her own mistakes produced the powerful revelation behind her sermons of temptation, forgiveness, and victory.
But this action and revelation didn't come overnight. Kathryn spent the next eight years in oblivion as far as major ministry was concerned. Six years were spent in the marriage and the next two she spent trying to find her way back to full-time ministry. Friends who traveled to Mason City the year Kathryn lived there said she would sit on the platform behind her husband and weep while he preached.
When the people of Mason City learned that Waltrip had lied about his first marriage, they stopped attending, and Radio Chapel soon closed. The few times Waltrip allowed Kathryn to minister alone were in places where no one knew she was married. At least once, a series of meetings were canceled at the last moment after ht pastor who invited her was told by a member of his congregation of Kathryn's marriage to a divorced man. THE PAIN OF DYING
Kathryn left Waltrip in 1944 while they were living in Los Angeles, but they didn't get a divorce until 1947.
On one of the rare occasions when she would talk of those years and what happened, she said:
"I had to make a choice. Would I serve the man I loved, or the God I loved? I knew I couldn't serve God and live with Mister. No one will ever know the pain of dying like I know it, for I loved him more than I loved life itself. And for a time, I loved him even more than God. I finally told him I had to leave, for God had never released me from my original call. Not only did I live with him I had to live with my conscience, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit was almost unbearable. I was tired of trying to justify myself."
In one of her final appearances, in a question and answer session, a young man asked her how she "met her death." He had heard her speak of this death several times.
She answered:
It came through a great disappointment, a great disappointment, and I felt like my whole world had come to an end. You know, it's not what happens to you, it's what you do with the things after it happens. and that goes back to the will of the Lord.
"At that time, I felt that which had happened to me was the greatest tragedy of my life. I thought I would never rise again, never, never. No one will ever know- if you've never died- what I'm talking about...Today, I feel it was a part of God's perfect will for my life."
Kathryn commented several times how she suffered for the sake of the ministry. But actually, there were other people who suffered also. There was a wife who had been left in Texas with two small boys, needing an explanation of why they would never see their dad again. The ordeal brought great heartache to everyone who knew and loved the couple. BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN
But from the moment she made her decision, Kathryn Kuhlman never wavered from answering the call on her life, never deviated from the path God had set for her, and never saw "Mister" again. She bought a one-way ticket to Franklin, Pennsylvania, and never turned back.
Kathryn was totally restored in her life with God. Though this was difficult time for Kathryn, the blessings of God soon followed her. But the fate of Waltrip was uncertain. He simply dropped out of sigh, not even contacting his family. According to his ex-wife Jessie, it was years later that his brother, James Waltrip, sadly discovered that Burroughs had eventually met his death in a California prison, convicted of stealing money from a woman. OUT OF THE CAVE
No one ever seemed to know why Kathryn picked Franklin, Pennsylvania, to begin her "come back." Franklin was a coal-mining city, settled by German immigrants. Perhaps she felt at home there. Perhaps it was because they accept her there. Whatever the reason, it worked!
From Pennsylvania she went through the mid-western states and the south into West Virginia, Virginia, and the Carolinas. In some places, she was quickly accepted, in others, her past surfaced quickly and the meetings were closed. In Georgia, a newspaper took hold of the story concerning her marriage to a divorced man and printed it. Kathryn then took a bus back to Franklin.
In 1946, Kathryn came out of her "wilderness" and moved into the "Promised Land" of her real ministry. After an unsuccessful tour of the South, she was invited to hold a series of meetings in the fifteen hundred seat Gospel Tabernacle located in Franklin, Pennsylvania. The Tabernacle had been famous in circles since Billy Sunday preached there. And Kathryn's meetings were so glorious in this building that it was as if the last eight years never existed. THE MANY VOICES
Not too long after she opened her meetings at the Tabernacle, she began daily radio broadcasts from WKRZ Radio in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Response had been so great, that within a few months, she added a station in Pittsburgh.
Instead of being shunned, Kathryn was now being inundated with mail. The Oil City station finally had to bar visitors from the studio because they hindered the staff's work.
World War II had just ended, and many luxuries were still scarce. One day, Kathryn casually mentioned over the air that she had made a run in her last pair of stockings, and soon afterwards the station was deluged with packages of nylon stockings.
The Holy Spirit moved in the days surrounding the end of the war to restore the body of Christ through the gift of healing. The great healing revivals were in full swing, and great healings were manifested through the ministries of such men as Oral Roberts, William Branham, and the late Jack Coe. The late Gordon Lindsey, founder of the THE VOICE OF HEALING magazine, and Christ for the Nations Bible School, published the news of these great revivals in the VOICE OF HEALING magazine.
At this time, Kathryn was still praying mainly for people to receive salvation. But she was beginning to pray and lay hands on people who came for healing. Though she despised the term "faith healer" she attended the meetings of these ministers hoping to find out more about this phenomenon of god. Kathryn didn't have the slightest idea that a "healing ministry" would bring her international fame.
As she observed various tent meetings, Kathryn walked away with greater understanding. Though she always had unanswered questions about diving healing, she did establish a standard for her ministry:
"In the early part of my ministry, I was greatly disturbed over much that I saw occurring in the field of divine healing. I was confused by many methods that I saw employed. I was disgusted with the unwise performances that I witnessed, none of which I could associate in any way whatsoever with either the action of the Holy Spirit of the nature of God.
"To this very day, there is nothing more repulsive to me than the lack of wisdom. There is one thing I can't stand, and that is fanaticism - the manifestations of the flesh that bring a reproach on something that is so marvelous, something that is so sacred."
Kathryn went on to speak of her heartache while watching these meetings. For the rest of her life, she exhorted the people to focus and concentrate on Jesus, and nothing else. After attending a tent meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania, she said:
"I began to weep. I couldn't stop. Those looks of despair and disappointment on the faces I had seen, when told that their lack of faith was keeping them from God, were to haunt me for weeks. Was this the God of all mercy and great compassion? I left the tent, and with hot tears streaming down my face, I looked up and cried " they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him."
It is interesting to note that Kathryn Kuhlman chose not to associate her ministry with Gordon Lindsey's VOICE OF HEALING publication. The publication was the promotional outlet for the healing evangelists of that era, and Kuhlman chose not to be a part of it . HERE COME THE MIRACLES!
The moment Kathryn saw in God's Word that healing was provided for the believer at the same time as salvation, she began to understand the Christian's relationship with the Holy Spirit. In 1947 she began teaching a series on the Holy Spirit. Some of the things she said during the first night of her teaching were revelations even to her. Later she spoke of being awake all that night, praying and reading more in the Word.
The second night of her meeting was a momentous occasion. A unique testimony had been given by someone who was healed in a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting. A woman stood up and told of having been healed while Kathryn preached the night before. Without anyone laying hands on her and without Kathryn even being aware of what was happening, this woman was healed of a tumor. The woman had gone to her doctor to confirm her healing before the evening service.
On the following Sunday, the second miracle occurred. A World War I veteran who had been declared legally blind from an industrial accident, had 85 percent of his vision restored in the permanently impaired eye, and perfect eyesight restored to his other eye. SHARK, SHERIFF, AND GLORY
Once the healing and miracles began to take place, the crowds at the Tabernacle were even larger than those brought in by Billy Sunday. God began to prosper Kathryn's ministry greatly, but the devil's adversaries had now stepped in, attempting to undermine the working and flow of the Holy Spirit in Kathryn's ministry.
The attack came through M. J. Maloney and the Tabernacle trustees. Maloney insisted that he receive a certain percentage of all the ministry revenue, including that which came from the radio broadcasts and mail-outs. Kathryn balked and Maloney threatened to sue her.
The activities surrounding this "showdown" included Maloney's locking her out of the building. A fight ensued between Kathryn and her coal miner followers and Maloney's men, ending in Kathryn's partisans breaking off the padlocks so services could continue. It only ended when Kathryn's supports raised $10,000 and purchased an old roller skating rink in nearby Sugar Creek. They named that roller rink Faith Temple. It was twice th size of Maloney's building and was packed from the first service.
Ironically, during this hectic and crucial time of 1947, another amazing thing happened. One night, Kathryn heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened the door, there stood the sheriff dressed in street clothes. He proceeded to tell her that "Mister" had filed for divorce in Nevada and his office had received the papers that morning, naming her as the defendant.
Kathryn looked down and saw the papers in his hand. Her head remained bowed. Seeing her shame and disappointment, the sheriff reached out and touched her arm, for he had been attending Kathryn 's services and knew she had been sent by God to their area. Knowing that names of famous persons on divorce papers were often given to the media for press release, the sheriff made sure the papers remained private by delivering them personally.
The sheriff went on to reassure Kathryn that no one but the two of them would ever know of this legal action. Kathryn told the sheriff she would be grateful to him for the rest of her life.
His goodness saved Kathryn from great heartache. Seven years later reporters did find out about it, but by that time, Kathryn 's ministry had so advanced, it was not affected by old news.
Great healing services continued at the renovated roller rink, and additional services expanded into neighboring towns and to Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, Ohio. The Holy Spirit had found a ministry that wouldn't try to take the credit for His deeds, nor the glory from the results of His operations. A former secretary remembered:
"Miss Kuhlman was so tender toward God. I was standing in the Tabernacle after a service and could see into the radio room. There Miss Kuhlman, unaware that anyone could see her, was on her knees praising God for the service.
As her ministry developed, she put less emphasis on faith and more emphasis on the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit. In her meetings, there were no prayer cards, no invalid tents, and no long lines of sick people waiting for her to lay hands on them. She never accused people who failed to receive healing of being weak in their faith. It seemed that the healings took place anywhere throughout the auditorium while the people sat in their seats, looking toward Heaven and focusing on Jesus. THE ROOF FELL IN!
At her first meeting in the Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh, the custodian told her that even opera stars couldn't fill it, but she insisted that enough chairs be set up to fill the auditorium. It was a good thing she did, because every chair was filled.
The first service was in the afternoon, and the Hall was packed. A second meeting was held that evening to accommodate the throng. Jimmy Miller and Charles Beebee ministered in music at these services, and remained in ministry with Kathryn till the end.
The radio ministry continued to expand, and by November of 1950, the people began to urge Kathryn to relocate to Pittsburgh permanently. Even Maggie Hartner, the woman who became her "right arm" agreed they should move. Kathryn was reluctant, feeling committed to the people in Franklin who had stood by her and supported her, and had taken her in and loved her when no one else would.
But signs from heaven would urge Kathryn to move to Pittsburgh. In response to please that she move, Kathryn announced:
"No! The roof on Faith Temple literally would have to cave in before I'd believed God wanted me to move to Pittsburgh." On thanksgiving, 1950, the temple's roof fell in under the weight of the greatest snowfall in area history.
Three weeks later, Kathryn moved to a Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel, where she lived until her death. "I WANT TO BE LIKE AIMEE"
In 1950, a worldwide ministry began to develop. In later years, Kathryn said that God didn't call her to build a church, maintaining that her ministry was not to be isolated to any one building. Some may be called to build buildings, but she wasn't one of those.
The fact that she did build churches was largely overshadowed by the publicity of the miracle services. The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation, established in Pittsburgh, financed more than twenty churches in foreign mission fields with nations as pastors.
Many called her "pastor" out of love and respect, but Kathryn was never ordained to the office of pastor. After her stay in Denver, she never pastored a church. Kathryn said she was not called to a five-fold office, i. e. Ephesians 4:11. She walked in the simplicity of being a "handmaiden " of the Lord.
It is said by those closest to her, that Kathryn announced at the very beginning of her ministry, that she would be the next Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the Four Square denomination. Aimee was definitely Kathryn's role model. When the flamboyant "Sister" built Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, Kathryn was present during its highest popularity. It is said that Kathryn attended Aimee's Bible school, and sat in the balcony of her church, taking in every aspect of the anointed messages and theatrics of "Sister." Unlike the other L. I. F. E. Bible School students, Kathryn chose not to stay with the Four Square denomination. She chose an independent roust. it is interesting to note that Rolf McPherson, Aimee's son, doesn't remember Kathryn being a student at the school.
Though she never met Aimee personally, the effects of her ministry rubbed off on Kathryn . There was a major difference between the two: Aimee taught people to seek for the baptism in the Holy Spirit; Kathryn thought to "seek for it" was a divisive practice. Kathryn was Pentecostal but didn't make an issue of it. People had always compared Kathryn with Aimee, but it was six years after Aimee's premature death before Kathryn made the national headlines. A MEDIA CHURCH
Kathryns' messages were heard all over the US and various places overseas, via short-wave radio broadcast. It seemed that America could hardly wait to hear that warm, pleasant voice ask listeners at the beginning of her program, "Hello, there, and have you been waiting for me?"
Her radio program was not religious or stuffy. Instead, the program made a person feel as though Kathryn Kuhlman had just dropped by for coffee. She ministered to the needs, concerns, and hurts of her audience, and her encouragement changed lives. She frequently chuckled, making the listener feel as though they had just had a heart-to-heart talk with her. If she wanted to cry- she cried; if she wanted to sing- she sang. Kathryn had the ability to minister over radio just as she ministered in public. Not many could do that , but Kathryn did. By popular demand, the Kuhlman foundation was requested to supply her old-recorded tapes to the radio stations for six years after her death!
For more than eight years before her death, her weekly television program was aired nationwide. At the time, her program was the longest running half-hour series produced in the CBS studios, though it didn't air on the CBS network. IT HAD TO BE "KATHRYN'S WAY"
Her meetings were moved from Carnegie Hall to the First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, and for years these sessions were attended by some of the most elite Bible Scholars in Pittsburgh. For the last ten years of her life, she held monthly services at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where she ministered to countless thousands, and hundreds were healed. She also spoke at large churches, conferences, and international meetings. She especially enjoyed ministering at the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, a layman's organization founded by Demos Shakarian in Los Angeles.
It was several years before Kathryn would consent to integrate the miracle services with other conferences. She felt the confinements of a general conference, with schedules and time limits, might restrict the liberty of the Spirit that was so a part of her meetings.
If another group wanted Kathryn to speak for them, they had to adjust their program to fit her style. She knew that God had called her to minister a certain way, and there would be no changes. If it looked like she wouldn't have freedom, or if questionable people were present who might taint her ministry, she canceled. It has been said that even "those in charge were not in charge" when Kathryn was present. SHE DIED A THOUSAND TIMES
Kathryn never preached against smoking or drinking alcoholic beverages. She didn't advocate their use, but she refused to alienate people. Also, she didn't like the way that some of the healing evangelists ministered. Kathryn felt it was "rough" and she would not support that type of ministry.
She never taught that sickness was from the devil. She avoided the subject, instead pointing to how big God is. She felt if she could turn the eyes of the people toward God, then everything would fall into place. Early in her ministry, she encouraged people to leave their denomination. In her later years, Kathryn encouraged them to return and be a shining light and a healing force.
It is said that Kathryn's life was a prayer. traveling constantly, she didn't have conventional times of devotion, so she learned to make wherever she was her prayer closet. Before her meetings, Kathryn would be seen "Pacing back and forth, head up, head down, arms flung into the air, hands clasped behind her back." Her face would be covered in tears. It seemed she was pleading with the Lord, saying, "Gentle Jesus , take not Your Holy Spirit from me."
Though this depth of prayer would seem to be a personal thing, it wasn't so with Kathryn. Many times, she would be interrupted with a question, which she would answer, then she would resume the same depth of prayer at the point of interruption. Oral Roberts described her relationships with the Spirit this way:
"It was like they were talking back and forth to each other, and you couldn't tell where Kathryn started and the Holy Spirit left off. It was a oneness."
People from 11 walks of life and denominations came to her meetings: Catholics, Episcopals, Baptists, Pentecostals , drunkards, the sick, the dying, the deeply spiritual and the unconverted. And Kathryn knew she was the vessel who would point them to God. In some way, she could cross every barrier and bring them all to the same level of understanding. How could she do this? I believe it was because she lived in such surrender to the Holy Spirit. She always said " I die a thousand deaths before every service."
Being an ecumenical evangelist, Kathryn never permitted the spiritual gifts of tongues, the gifts of interpretation, or prophecy to operate in her service. If someone repeatedly spoke in tongues loudly enough to disturb, she discreetly had them removed from the service. Kanthryn believed in all the gifts of the Spirit, but didn't want to do anything that would hinder or distract the uninitiated from a simple belief in God.
However, she did allow people to be "slain in the Spirit". Many came to believe in the awesome power of God from witnessing this manifestation alone. Kathryn offered this simple explanation:
"All I can believe is that our spiritual beings are not wired for God's full power, and when we plug into that power, we just can't survive it. We are wired for low voltage, God is high voltage though the Holy Spirit."
She never left the platform, even when a musician or soloist ministered. She usually stepped to the side, but always remained in the view of the audience. Standing, smiling, and lifting her hand to God.
Kathryn was always aware that she would, one day, stand before the Lord and give an account for her ministry. She never believed she had been God's first choice for the ministry. She believed a man had been called to do it, but was not willing to pay the price. She was never quite sure if she was even second choice or third choice, but she did know that she answered "yes" to the Lord. Her ministry stands out as one of the leading ministries, if not THE leading ministry, of the Charismatic Movement. TOO MANY TO NAME....
What were some of the outstanding miracles? Though there were thousands upon thousands of miracles, the greatest miracle to Kathryn was when a person became born again. On one occasion a five-year-old boy, crippled from birth, walked to Kathryn's platform without assistance. Another, a woman, who had been crippled and confined to a wheelchair for twelve years, walked to the platform without aid from her husband. A man in Philadelphia, who had received a pacemaker eight months earlier, felt intense pain in his chest after Kathryn laid hands on him. Returning home, he found the scar gone from his chest where the pacemaker had been implanted, and he couldn't tell if the pacemaker was functioning. Later, when the doctor took X-rays, he discovered the pacemaker was gone and the man's heart healed!
It was common for tumors to dissolve, cancers to fall off, the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Migraine headaches were healed instantly. Even teeth were miraculously filled. It would be impossible to list the miracles that the ministry of Kathryn Kuhlman witnessed! God alone knows.
Kathryn was known to weep for joy as she watched the thousands being healed through the power of God. Some even remember her teardrops falling on their hands.
It is also said that Kathryn would weep as she watched the people leave who remained sick or in wheel chairs. She never tried to explain why some received their healing and some did not. She believed the responsibility remained with God. She liked to refer to herself as in sales, not management. Whatever Management decided to do, she would have to oblige. But she did say it would be one of he first questions she would ask God when she got to haven! NORTHERN EXPOSURE
In August of 1952, Kathryn preached to over fifteen thousand under Rex Humbard's tent in Akron, Ohio. On the pre-dawn hours before Kathryn's first Sunday service, the Humbard's were awakened by a loud knock on their mobile home door. It was a policeman who said,' Reverend Humbard you're gonna have to do something, there's nearly 18,000 people out at that tent." It was 4:00 am in the morning and the service was not scheduled to start until 11:00 that morning.
Kathryn, being used to crowds of people who couldn't all fit under one roof or into one tent, told Humbard there was only one thing to do, they would have to start the service at 8:00 AM. And that's what they did! Maude Aimee, Rex's wife, remembered that Kathryn ministered until 2:30PM that afternoon.
After these meetings, the Humbards parked their mobile home in Akron and subsequently built one of the largest churches and television ministries of that era - the 1960s and 1970s. Kathryn and the Humbards also built a life-long friendship as a result of their Akron experience.
Around this time, Kathryn was diagnosed with suffering from an enlarged heart and defective mitral valve. Yet, she kept going, remaining entirely dependent upon the Holy Spirit. GLITTER AND THE FALLING STARS
By now, Kathryn had become a celebrity figure in the Christian as well as the secular world. Screen stars were coming to her meetings. Even comedienne Phyllis Diller recommended one of Kathryn's books to a dying fan. The Pope granted Kathryn a private audience in the Vatican, and gave her a pendant engraved with a dove. The largest cities in America were presenting her with the "key" to their cities. Even the nation of Viet Nam gave her a Medal of Honor for her contributions to the hurting.
Of course, in the midst of honor came attacks. Some she was able to ignore. But there were others that wounded her deeply. Among those were the betrayals of her employees, Dino Kartsonakis and his brother-in-law, Paul Bartholomew. In short, Dino and his brother-in-law demanded a high pay increase in their contracts after they discovered the Kuhlman Foundation had signed a multi-media contract. Kathryn had greatly enjoyed Dino's company. No doubt many of her crusade audiences remember how she fondly introduced him, saying with a great sweep of her arms, "And now, heeer's DeeeNo!" Kathryn had taken Kartsonakis out of obscurity and launched him in the finest of clothes and exalted his name constantly before the media.
But Dino seemed to have fallen under the influence of his brother-in-law, Paul Batholomew. Though Bartholomew had been the highest paid person on staff, he wanted more, and eventually sued Kathryn for an outrageous sum of money. And when Kathryn didn't approve of Dino's publicized relationship with a secular show-girl, he became bitter and also demanded more money. As a result, Kathryn fired them both. But not before they made many public accusations concerning her character that were heard around the world.
In her later years, Kathryn didn't spend much time analyzing the character of her staff members. Instead, she chose people she simply enjoyed, but often the enjoyment she received was short-lived and heartache followed. It is possible that her mistakes in hiring came from her physical and mental exhaustion. Her schedule was tremendously hectic. Though she was warned that the hiring of Bartholomew and Kartsonakis was a mistake, Kathryn hired them anyway, resulting in the foregoing fiasco.
Though there may have been mistakes made in judgment, lack of understanding, and mistakes made though the people around her, she never allowed flesh to participate in any of the movings of the Holy Spirit, and she never took any of the credit. Kathryn Kuhlman always gave the glory to God.
With the ministry continuing in full swing, major denominations gave Kathryn credit for having the purest ministry of the Holy Spirit in their time. Kathryn had no hidden agendas and no ulterior motives, what you saw was what you got. She never pretended to have answers that she didn't have, and she was always concerned that she might grieve the Holy Spirit. She remained committed, submitted, honest and sincere as long as she lived. HOW CAN YOU MISS THE BLEACHERS? In 1968, Kathryn ministered for Pat Robertson and his associate, Jim Bakker, to a crowd of over three thousand people. Shortly after the meeting began, a row of bleachers broke loose and fell back against the wall. Many fell to the floor or were suspended in the air. The emergency squad arrived and carried some away on stretchers. Folding chairs replaced the bleachers, and the meeting finally returned to normal- yet Miss Kuhlman oblivious to it all, was half-way through her sermon!
During 1968, Kathryn traveled internationally to Israel, Finland, and Sweden. She was a guest on the Johnny Carson show, The Dinah Shore show, and many others. Though Kathryn was very diplomatic and accepted among all kinds of people, she still manifested the power of the Holy Spirit i n her life on all of these media programs. It was said that the employees for CBS studios always knew when Kathryn entered the building, because th whole atmosphere seemed to change.
In 1975, though now in her late sixties and weakened from her physical ailment, Kathryn made a ministry trip to Jerusalem to speak at the Second World Conference on the Holy Spirit. Despite her age and ailments, she was still spunky when it came to ministry.
Kathryn had heard that Bob Mumford was going to be a featured speaker there, and threatened to cancel her appearance because of it. She said his teachings on discipleship were complete heresy and she wouldn't participate. In the end though, Kathryn went to Israel and helped many of the Middle Easterners experience the ministry of hate Holy Spirit. IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
The last miracle service of Kathryn Kuhlman's ministry was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on November 16, 1975. As she left the building, an employee in Miss Kuhlman's Hollywood office saw something she would never forget.
As everyone left the auditorium, Kathryn walked quietly to the end of the stage. She raised her head slowly and scanned the balcony, as if she was gazing at every seat. It seemed like an eternity. Then, Kathryn dropped her gaze to the second balcony, following every row and every seat with her eyes. Then, she looked at the ground floor, studying every seat.
We can only imagine what was going through Kathryn's mind, the memories, the victories, the healings, the laughter, and the tears. Was it possible that Kathryn knew she wouldn't ever return to the platform? Was it possible, that, at that moment, she said goodbye to her earthly ministry?
In just a little over 3 weekends from that November date, Kathryn lay dying in the Hillcrest Medical Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma, after open-heart surgery.
By now, Kathryn had given complete control of her ministry to Tink Wilkerson, formerly in the automobile business in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wilkerson is the son of the late Jeannie Wilkerson, who was [reported to be] a true prophetess of the Lord.
Wilkerson was with Kathryn for only a short ten months. She trusted Wilkerson. He was the one who chose where she would have the heart surgery. After her death, she left the majority of her estate to him. When the former Kuhlman staff was questioned about him, there was division. Some felt Wilkerson deceived Kathryn, others felt he was sent by God for her final hour. However, the media ran rampant with questions of why Wilkerson received so much of Kathryn's estate, and Maggie Hartner, her associate for years, received so little.
In 1992, Wilkerson was convicted in two US district Courts in Oklahoma for fraud in a former auto business. He was scheduled for release from prison in the summer of 1993 at which time he planned to write a book on his and hi wife's friendship with Kathryn. Wilkerson has kept quiet for all these years, possibly out of respect. I believe he has a story that needs to be told. I WANT TO GO HOME
Oral an Evelyn Roberts were among a few of ht visitors permitted to see Kathryn in Hillcrest Medical Center. As they walked into her r oom and went to her bedside to pray for her healing, Oral remembers a significant occurrence. "When Kathryn recognized that we were there to pray for her recovery, she put her hands out like a barrier and then pointed toward heaven." Evelyn Roberts looked at Oral and said "She doesn't want out prayers, She wants to go home.
Kathryn's sister Myrtle received the same message from Kathryn. She told Wilkerson, "Kathryn wants to go home."
The wonderful red-headed lady who introduced the ministry of the Holy Spirit to our generation and thrilled the hearts of millions, finally received her heart's desire. It was said that the Holy Spirit descended upon her one more time and her face began to shine. The nurse in her room noticed a glow that enveloped her bed, creating an indescribable peace. At 8:20 PM on Friday, February 20, 1976, Kathryn Kuhlman went home to be with Jesus. She was 68 years old.
Oral Robert's presided over her funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA. Kathryn was buried in the same cemetery a half mile from Aimee Semple McPherson's vault. Oral had a vision, at Kathryn's death, that God would raise up and spread similar ministries throughout the world making the magnitude of God's power greater than He did through Kathryn's life.
Kathryn Kuhlman was a special treasure. Her ministry pioneered the way for us to know Jesus through the Holy Spirit in our generation. She attempted to show us how to fellowship with Him and how to love Him. She truly had the ability to reveal the Holy Spirit to us as our Friend. So no one can close this biography as well as she:
"The world called me a fool for having given my entire life to One whom I've never seen. I know exactly what I'm going to say when I stand in His presence. When I look upon that wonderful face of Jesus, I'll have just one thing to say: ' I tried.' I gave of myself the best I knew how. My redemption will have been perfected when I stand and see Him who made it all possible."
---Written by Roberts LiardonJESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVERMORE
Dr. Marvin Moss is senior pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Pastor Moss is extremely active within the Atlanta community, and serves on the Board of Trustees at Gammon Theological Seminary. For more information about Pastor Moss, log onto http://www.cascadeumc.org.
