REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, PART 4

When Life Sprang Forth Out of Death

Sue and I will be married 50 years in May of this year, and about two years into our life and ministry together, we lost everything. We lost our place to live. We lost the place where we were having meetings for the congregation we were planting in eastern Canada.

In the mist of the devastation, I received word that my brother in Oklahoma had been killed in an accident. I flew out to Oklahoma for the funeral and everything stopped on the home front. My mother-in-law later said, “That was when it all died.”

My sister-in-law, who is still a friend and partner in our ministry, asked me to preach the funeral message. I think it was the first time I had preached at a funeral.

The little church in Kiowa, Oklahoma was packed as I shared a message about my brother Harvey and the hope we have because of the Resurrection of Jesus. The presence of the Holy Spirit was manifested in a very tangible way, and I still remember how there was more than a sense of comfort; there was an absolute sense of triumph as I shared about the glory and hope of the Resurrection.

I then returned home to face a different kind of death—the death of a dream and vision. But I discovered, in a dramatic fashion, that the Resurrection is more than a past event and a future hope. It is a present reality in the life of the believer.

After my return, Sue and I met with a couple and their two small children to talk and pray. Ric and Kerry had remined faithful friends through the death and now we sat at a park bench with them and their two small children, David and Cara.

After a time of talking and fellowship, we began lifting our hearts to God in prayer. I still remember their 5-year-old daughter, Cara, sitting with us and praying in other tongues.

Suddenly, out of my innermost being, those rivers of living water that Jesus spoke about in John 7:37-39 began to flow, and I began praying in tongues. This was prayer that I could feel flowing out of my spirit. And all the time I was praying, I could hear the words, “Don’t be afraid of death because I Am the Resurrection.”

 I immediately recognized these as the words that Jesus spoke to Martha just before he raised her brother, Lazarus, from the dead (John 11:25). I knew that the Lord was telling me not to fear the death of the vision and mandate He had given. I knew He was telling me that it would be brought back to life, not by my scheming and planning, but by His resurrection life and power.

A resurrection did occur in our lives and ministry. A yielding to God, a determination not to quit, a step of obedience, and resurrection power flowed forth. God brought a born -again, Spirit-filled Catholic man into our lives who was managing properties for a national organization. He opened a building for us and filled the barrels with heating oil in the midst of winter.

We opened our first service with about four people. But in a few weeks the building was filled and people were standing along the back wall because of no place to sit. Over the next six years, before moving back to Texas, we saw many come to Christ including Sue’s father and two brothers.

Life burst forth out of death and victory out of defeat. The ministry that came forth was not the same as before; for it came forth in His resurrection power and in ways we could never have planned or strategized.  And those words I heard will forever be emblazoned in my mind and heart, “Don’t be afraid of death because I Am the Resurrection.”

Yes, as we approach our 50th wedding anniversary on May 17, I am writing this series of articles remembering and reminiscing about God’s faithfulness through the years. And as I said before, if there is one testimony we would leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been faithful!

Drs. Eddie and Sue Hyatt are still active in ministry and their numerous books are available on Amazon and their websites at http://eddiehyatt.com and http://godswordtowomen.org. Of particular significance at this moment in history is Eddie's book, America's Reawakening, and Sue's book, In the Spirit We're Equal, which contains a message that "has the power to begin a mass movement from Islam to Christianity, beginning with the women."

10 LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA

Derived from America’s Reawakening by Eddie L. Hyatt

1.       The most recognized figure in colonial America was not George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, but a Methodist preacher from Great Britain who preached to massive outdoor crowds from Georgia to Massachusetts until his death in 1770.

2.       The First Great Awakening saw entire towns and cities repent and turn to God as Benjamin Franklin testified of his hometown of Philadelphia.

3.       The First Great Awakening breached the deep theological, cultural and racial divisions in colonial America and made possible the founding of a new nation.

4.       The Continental Congress began every session with Bible reading and prayer and at least 15 times during the Revolutionary War issued a call for a Day of Prayer, Repentance, and Fasting throughout the colonies.

5.       George Washington banned drunkenness and profanity in the Revolutionary Army and ordered that every day was to begin with prayer.

6.       The First Great Awakening ignited an abolition movement that resulted in virtually every American founder taking a public stand against slavery at a time it was accepted and practiced in most of the world.

7.       America’s founding documents were used by abolitionists in their fight against slavery because they contain no classifications based on race or skin color but state that ALL men are created equal and are endowed with by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

8.       The founders believed that only a moral and religious [Christian] people could maintain the freedoms they had implemented in the U.S. Constitution.

9.       The founding generation had a missionary vision for America, believing that the Gospel would go out from here to the ends of the earth.

10.     George Washington is the only president to receive every electoral vote, not once but twice. 

In his new 216-page book, America’s Reawakening, Dr. Eddie Hyatt discusses in-depth the above facts and so much more. It is available from Amazon and his website at http://eddiehyatt.com.

REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, PART 3

When God Miraculously Delivered Us 
from Death and Our Vehicle from Ruin

It was probably the first year of our marriage and we were in a home prayer meeting in Sue’s hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick when something remarkable and supernatural happened. People were kneeling at chairs and the sofa all around the room when a woman on the opposite of the room from Sue and me began praying in the Spirit—in other tongues.

Such a phenomenon occurs when the Holy Spirit moves on someone to pray about things they know nothing about in their minds (Romans 8:26-27). This is why it is called "prayer in the Spirit" and Paul discusses it in I Corinthians 14.

As she prayed, it seemed as though her prayer was coming across the room in an arc and lighting on me. It powerfully affected me and I began to weep. My heart was melted and I knew on the inside that the prayer was somehow related to me. 

Later, as we were having refreshments and fellowship, I said to this woman, “I felt you were praying for me tonight when you prayed in the Spirit.” She replied, “Yes, I felt that I was praying for you and Sue.”

We left the prayer meeting and stopped for a visit with Sue’s parents before proceeding to our apartment around midnight. I was driving our little VW Bug and as we crossed a 4-lane thoroughfare that ran through the city, I heard Sue exclaiming, “Look out! Look out!”

As I looked to my right, I saw the nose of an 18-wheeler filling the passenger side window of our little Bug, and then the crash. Thankfully, he hit us in the right rear, instead of broadside, knocking us into another vehicle. Sue had some bruises on her leg and hip, but no one was hospitalized.

The rear right side of the little VW was crumpled all around the engine, and the insurance company eventually wrote it off as a total loss. If we had been moving just slightly slower, the truck would have hit us broadside and left us seriously injured or dead.

There is no question in my mind that “prayer in the Spirit” that night preserved our lives. The devil wanted to end our lives before we could get started, but someone was sensitive to the Holy Spirit and bold enough to let the river of Spirit-empowered prayer flow out of their heart (see Romans 8:26-27).

But that is not the end of this story. After the police and everyone left, I tried to start our little Bug, but to no avail. Finally, I discovered that if I continually pumped the gas pedal it would run, but if I ever stopped pumping the gas pedal it would die.

So, we made it to our apartment with the little Bug sputtering and jerking as I frantically pumped the gas pedal. That was our only means of transportation, so it was an everyday experience – until one day God intervened through another woman’s prayer.

Sue and I had stopped in one evening at a Christian coffee shop and upon leaving we gave a ride home to a little old white-haired lady known as “Sister Manetta.” She sat in the front with me as we went along sputtering and jerking as I frantically pumped the gas pedal. Sister Manetta exclaimed, “What is wrong with your car!”

I said, “O, Sister Manetta, this car needs prayer." She immediately laid her hand on the dash and began praying for the vehicle and pleading the blood of Jesus over it. God and Sue are my witnesses. The engine stopped sputtering and jerking. From that time, I no longer had to pump the gas pedal, and it ran as clean and smoothly as ever.

Shortly thereafter, we drove the car to Texas with the rear end crumpled around the engine. I still remember how straight and smooth it ran down the interstate highways. In Texas, my brother, who was a mechanic took that engine, because it ran so well, and put it in another VW with a good body.

What an awesome God we serve! I can never thank Him enough for His goodness and faithfulness to us through the years.

Yes, as we approach our 50th wedding anniversary on May 17, I am writing this series of articles remembering and reminiscing about God’s faithfulness through the years. And as I said before, if there is one testimony we would leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been faithful!

Drs. Eddie and Sue Hyatt are still active in ministry and their numerous books are available on Amazon and their websites at http://eddiehyatt.com and http://godswordtowomen.org. Of particular significance at this moment in history is Eddie's book, America's Reawakening, and Sue's book, In the Spirit We're Equal, which contains a message that "has the power to begin a mass movement from Islam to Christianity, beginning with the women."

 

WHY SPIRITUAL AWAKENING CAN BE TROUBLESOME FOR CHURCH TRADITIONALISTS

Some years ago I was invited to speak at a "Dreams & Visions Conference." In my first session I shared a message I sensed the Lord had given me while in prayer for the conference. There was tremendous response with three-quarters of the congregation answering the invitation and coming forward to receive a fresh touch from the Holy Spirit. Many were obviously powerfully impacted.

The next day the pastor rebuked me and reminded me that this was a "Dreams & Visions Conference" and not a "Revival Meeting." He informed me that he planned to have a revival meeting at a later time, but this conference was not about revival. I have to admit I was stunned by his response for I had not preached about revival. I had simply followed the leading of the Holy Spirit in my heart and revival broke forth.

If we are to have true, authentic revival, we must make way for the spontaneous and dynamic workings of the Holy Spirt as Jesus admonished in John 3:8, where he said, The wind blows where it wishes, and you can hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

Jesus is here comparing the work of the Holy Spirit with the wind. In the same way that we cannot control the direction and intensity of the wind, neither can we control and confine the Holy Spirit to our liturgies and religious programs. The wind of the Holy Spirit blows where it wishes, both inside and outside the parameters of our church programs and institutions.  

This is why an Awakening can be troublesome to church traditionalists, because the Holy Spirit will not confine Himself to our well-prepared programs and liturgies. This truth was profoundly expressed by the well-known Christian leader from South Africa, the late David du Plessis. Addressing the 1948 World Pentecostal Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, du Plessis exhorted this international audience,

Nothing can take the place of the Holy Spirit in the church. So let us pray for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit than ever before. And remember, when the flood comes, it will not keep to our well-prepared channels but will overflow and most likely cause chaos in all our programs (Hyatt, America's Reawakening, 211).

Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the liberal Union Theological Seminary, addressed this same issue in a landmark 1958 article in Life magazine entitled “The Third Force.” Van Dusen castigated traditional churchmen for criticizing contemporary revival movements and referring to them as being “on the fringe.”

“On the fringe of what?” Van Dusen asked. “Perhaps on the fringe of traditional churches, but not necessarily on the fringe of Christendom.” Van Dusen then went on to suggest that Peter, Paul and Barnabas would probably feel more at home in one of these revival meetings than in the formalized worship of other churches, Catholic or Protestant.

The well-known Biblical scholar and theologian, R.A. Torrey, stated, "The history of revivals is the history of the church." He believed that the church of Jesus Christ owes its existence to these periodic renewals, noting that whenever the church faced decay or potential shipwreck, God sent revival to save it.

Torrey is right. There is no true church without those Spiritual Awakenings that have, from time to time, breathed new life into Christendom. Without question, the modern church is past due for such an Awakening. 

The only question is, "Are we willing to let go and invite the Holy Spirit  to have free reign and disrupt our cherished liturgies and programs? That is the cost of real revival and how many pastors and churches are willing to pay the price?

This article is derived from Dr. Eddie Hyatt's latest book, America's Reawakening, in which he documents how America was birthed out of a "Great Awakening" and has been sustained through critical moments in his history by subsequent Awakenings. The book is available from Amazon and his website at http://eddiehyatt.com.

REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, PART 2

When God Used Sue and a Group of Women to Impact a Nation

Sue and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage on May 17 and during a recent time of prayer, I experienced a desire to share some personal stories of God’s faithfulness to us through the years. Today I want to share an incredible story of how God used Sue and a small group of women to impact an African nation.

It was the summer of 1984 and Sue had arranged to accompany Daisy Osborn and a small group of women on a trip to Nigeria and Ghana in West Africa. It was a very significant trip on different levels, especially in Ghana where a military coup had just taken over the government when they arrived.

Daisy and her husband, T. L. Osborn, had become very well known throughout Africa for their giant evangelistic crusades on that continent. Hundreds of thousands would attend these outdoor gospel crusades and thousands would dedicate their lives to Christ, and many would testify to having been miraculously healed.

Daisy was around 60 years old at the time and Sue was around 38. Sue considered it an honor and great opportunity to travel with this veteran minister and missionary. The scheduled itinerary had Sue flying from our home in New Brunswick, Canada to Houston where she would meet up with the group and they would all proceed from there to Nigeria and then Ghana.

But before I tell how God used them to impact nation of Ghana, I must tell the miracle of God's last-minute provision for the trip.

Sue had been advised to have at least $500.00 with her in addition to her round-trip ticket. The day arrived for her departure, and she only had 30 Canadian dollars. Nonetheless, she was at peace and held those promises in her heart that God had given us that, “You have no lack.”

Since she needed to exchange her Canadian dollars into U.S. dollars, we stopped at the bank on our way to the airport. As we stood in line, I told Sue I would go across the street to the post office and pick up our mail. I was blown away by what I found in our box.

In the mail was a totally unexpected envelope and in it a check for over $400.00. I hurried back to the bank, arriving just as Sue was stepping up to the cashier and handing her the $30.00 to be exchanged. I handed the check to the cashier and said, “Add this to the amount for exchange.”

Because the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American dollar at the time, Sue received back more than the $500.00 she was supposed to have with her. Hallelujah!

Interestingly, the check was from a Baptist church and pastor in another city. He explained that they had just completed a conference and they exceeded their financial budget for the conference, and he wanted to send the excess to us. It was the right amount that came just at the right time. Is that not a miracle!

After a time of ministry in Nigeria at a massive church founded and pastored by Benson Idahosa (now in heaven), they made plans to proceed to Ghana. It was at this point that Daisy advised the group that a military coup had just overthrown the government in Ghana, and since it was a tumultuous and unknown situation, anyone was welcome to return home if they desired.

Everyone agreed to continue to Ghana and when they arrived, it seemed there were soldiers everywhere. Sue said they could hear soldiers marching during the night outside their hotel rooms. The coup was led by a young army officer named Jerry Rawlings who was now the acting president.

Daisy had scheduled a conference in the Parliament building and the new government leaders allowed it to continue. Sue was one of the speakers at this conference where they were able to encourage the people and much joy and praise was expressed despite the political uncertainty of the time.

During the conference, the new leader, Jerry Rawlings, sent word that he would like to speak to Daisy “as a mother.” He was obviously aware of the Osborns reputation and love for the African people.

Daisy asked Sue and two other women to accompany her to “the Castle,” the headquarters for the new regime. At the Castle, they were served tea and treated as dignitaries while waiting for the new president to arrive. Rawlings eventually arrived and they had a cordial conversation in which Daisy talked to him and exhorted him about truly caring for the people of his country.

She then asked Rawlings if they could pray for him and he said, “yes.” Sue and Daisy and the others then laid their hands on him and prayed, asking God’s blessing and wisdom for him and peace for his country

After the prayer, he asked Sue, Daisy and one or two others to go on the state-run radio and address the nation. So, Sue shared the Good News of Jesus with the nation of Ghana, all orchestrated by that Almighty hand that guides the course of history and nations.

They did not realize it at the time, but something was obviously unleashed by their presence, words, and prayers. It may have been a year or so afterwards that we were elated to see an article in our Canadian newspaper about the unexplained change that had come over the troubled nation of Ghana. According to the article, peace had returned to the nation, the economy was booming, and the harvests had been unusually good.

Yes, if we are available, God will arrange our paths and use us to impact both individuals and nations for His name and honor.

It was also during this trip that Sue solidified a friendship with Valarie Owen who was also a part of the group. Valarie, a gifted Bible teacher and woman of faith, became a dear friend and ministry partner and served on the board of God’s Word to Women until her passing in 2023.

Yes, as we approach our 50^th wedding anniversary on May 17, I am writing this series of articles remembering and reminiscing about God’s faithfulness through the years. And as I said before, if there is one testimony we would leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been faithful!

Drs. Eddie and Sue Hyatt are still active in ministry and their numerous books are available on Amazon and their websites at http://eddiehyatt.com and http://godswordtowomen.org. Of particular significance at this moment in history is Eddie's book, America's Reawakening, and Sue's book, In the Spirit We're Equal, which contains a message that "has the power to begin a mass movement from Islam to Christianity, beginning with the women."

WHY ISLAM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH AMERICA'S FOUNDING DOCUMENTS

Islam is incompatible with America’s founding documents and system of government. America is a Constitutional Republic with a constitution that guarantees certain rights to all citizens, including those who are a minority. She has a representative form of government in which laws are enacted by legislators who are elected by the people. Abraham Lincoln described it as a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Islam, on the other hand, is a theocracy in which the state and the religion are merged, and religious clerics claim to rule with authority directly from God. Wherever Islam is in the majority, the rights of Christians and other minorities are either totally denied or greatly diminished, and Sharia Law is imposed upon the masses.

In sharp contrast, America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and values, but not as a theocracy. Theocratic rulers claim a Divine right to rule over their subjects. America’s Founders held no such grandiose view of themselves or of any human being. They had rejected the theocratic claims of monarchs, popes and despots, but they had not rejected Christianity

In 18th century Europe, nations such as Italy, England, and Germany were theocracies in which the state and a cultural form of Christianity had been merged. In Italy and other European states, it was Roman Catholicism that was the state religion and imposed on the populace. In England, it was the Anglican Church, also called the Church of England. In Germany, it was Lutheran Church that was merged with the state.

America’s Founders, for the most part, identified with the mindset of those they called “dissenting Protestants.” Benjamin Franklin referred to his parents and grandparents, on both sides of the family, as “dissenting Protestants.” Virginia was founded as an Anglican colony but according to Thomas Jefferson, by the time of the American Revolution three-quarters of Virginia’s population were “dissenting Protestants"  (Hyatt, America's Reawakening, 182).

The dissenting Protestant emphasized Jesus' rejection of “power” and His emphasis on the equality of all believers. (Matt. 20:25-28; 23:8-11). "But you," Jesus said, "Do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher and you are all brethren" (Matt. 23:6). It was the teachings of Jesus in these and like passages that led the Founders to include a ban on aristocracy and honorific titles in the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 10.

The dissenting Protestant saw everyone on the same level with leaders deriving their right to govern, not from God, but from the people. The Declaration of Independence declares that Governments are instituted in the earth to secure for the people their God-given rights such as Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. And those governments derive the right to govern, "from the consent of the governed.”

America’s Founders insisted, therefore, that civil government should have no power or role in the church, nor in matters of individual faith and conscience. Freedom from government tyranny in matters of faith was an ideal that pervaded the thinking of America’s Founders. This is in sharp contrast to Islam.

The Founders realized that for there to be liberty without licentiousness and freedom without chaos, the populace would have to be governed from within by virtuous values. And they all agreed that only Christianity provided the moral values and intellectual underpinnings for a stable and prosperous nation. This is why President John Adams declared in 1798,

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious [Christian} people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other  (Hyatt, America's Reawakening, 168).

Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans eventually came to see the genius of the American experiment in freedom. Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) understood this and emphasized that America must never lose sight of her origins. He wrote,

The continuing success of American democracy depends on the degree to which each new generation, native-born and immigrant, makes its own the moral truths on which the Founding Fathers staked the future of your Republic (Hyatt, America's Reawakening, 13).

As Christians, we should be friendly and kind to individual Muslims. We should pray for them that they will be converted to Christ and find the wonderful freedom that only comes through knowing Him. At the same time, we must never be fooled into thinking that the theocratic political system of Islam is in any way compatible with America’s Constitutional Republic.

Yes, America was founded as a Christian nation, but not by a legislative or judicial decree. America was founded as a Christian nation because the founding generation had been transformed by a  great Spiritual Awakening. She has been preserved to this time by subsequent Awakenings at critical moments in her history. 

America can expect to enjoy the freedoms that came with her founding only so long as there is an Awakened form of Christianity spreading its sweet aroma throughout the culture. This is why we must all, regardless of denomination or affiliation, embrace the current Spiritual Awakening that has begun to sweep across the land.

This article was derived from Dr. Eddie Hyatt's latest book, America's Reawakening, available in paperback, kindle, and audio from Amazon. It is also available from his website at http://www.eddiehyatt.com.

REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, PART 1

An Amazing Personal Story of How God Confirmed His Promise to Us

By Eddie L.. Hyatt

Sue and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage on May 17 and during prayer this morning I experienced a desire to share some personal stories of God’s faithfulness to us through the years. Today I want to share an incredible story of how God spoke to us, and confirmed, that we would have “No Lack” in our life together.

Shortly after our marriage, Sue told me that God had given her three promises from Scripture for our life together: Psalm 34:10, Psalm 84: 11 and Philippians 4:19. Each of these is a promise of “No Lack.”

For example, Psalm 34:10 says, The young lions lack and suffer hunger but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing. Psalm 84:11 says, No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly before him. And Philippians 4:19 says, And My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory.

Those promises became an important part of our lives and we incorporated them into our prayers and confession of faith. About two years into our marriage, God confirmed and highlighted those promises to us in a very dramatic way.

It was probably 1978 and we decided to attend the Summer Seminar at Christ for the Nations in Dallas where we had met. This was a week-long event with services throughout the day and a great time to reconnect with former classmates and meet new friends.

At the time, we had begun a new ministry in Sue’s hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick. We did not have the money for the trip, but decided we needed the break and would go, trusting God to provide along the way. We told no one, except God, of the need.

We had no credit cards and only enough cash to make it to Dallas and register for the seminar, which included housing on campus and two meals per day in the campus cafeteria. We enjoyed eating out, especially at Wyatt’s Cafeteria, but by midweek we were down to $2.00 with a 2000-mile trip awaiting us. 

I was preparing to go to an afternoon service when Sue said to me, “I am starting to feel discouraged; why isn’t God coming through?” Half serious and half-joking, I replied, “I am claiming a meal for us at Wyatt’s today.”

I went to the afternoon service where Dick Mills was the guest speaker. Mills had a unique prophetic gift. He had memorized over 7000 promises in the Bible and when he would pray with someone, the Holy Spirit would often flood his mind with promises that were particularly relevant to that person.

After his message, he asked Freda Lindsay, the president and co-founder of Christ for the Nations, to come up beside him and pick out people from the congregation to be prayed over. She came up and, lo and behold, picked me out of that audience of at least 500 people and asked me to stand.

I stood up and Dick Mills rattled off those same three Scriptures that Sue and I had made a part of our lives and daily spoke in prayer. He then added a fourth one: Luke 22:35 where Jesus asked His disciples, “When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?” So they said, “Nothing.”e th

Mills then said, “This is God’s word to you. You lack nothing.” He went on to say, “This will get you through World War III if it has to.” So, here I am standing there with $2.00 in my pocket and 2000 miles from home and God confirms the promises he had given Sue that, “You lack nothing.” God obviously wanted me more preoccupied with Him and His promise than my empty pocketbook.

I went out from that meeting and a missionary to Mexico came to me and said, “God has been speaking to me for three days to give you this.” He then reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out two traveler’s checks for $50.00 each and handed them to me. I went back to our apartment and said to Sue, “Get dressed we are going to Wyatt’s.”😃

The seminar ended and we headed for Canada with not nearly enough money to buy gasoline, much less food and hotels. We stopped in Kiowa, Oklahoma where my older brother had arranged for me to speak in the small Assembly of God church he and his family attended.

I had preached in this church before I met Sue, and they might have 20 people on a Sunday morning. They would receive a “love offering” for the guest speaker and if it was as much as $50.00 it was considered almost miraculous. Now, it seemed the crowd was even smaller with only about 8-10 people in the Sunday night service.

After the service, as the pastor’s wife was giving me the “love offering” they had received for us, she said. “You know, we take up a missionary offering every month, but we don’t have a missionary to send it to, and it has been accumulating in a separate account. Would it be OK if we gave it to you?” I replied, "yes."

I don’t recall the amount, but it was very significant for us at the time and resulted in us returning home with more money than when we left. But even more important was the fact that God had confirmed His promise to us: “You have no lack.”  Hallelujah!!

Does this mean we have never had any financial challenges? No! We have had some incredible challenges during our 50 years, but God has always come through, usually in ways we could never have imagined. We have travelled around the world and found Him always faithful. If there is one testimony we would leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been faithful!

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