Then I got a text. I looked at my watch and it was eleven o'clock. I knew
the pastor had to be home at 12:30, but I forgot all about it, and not a
person moved, not even the little children, while I preached. When I quit I
thought it would be around 12:10 or 12:15, but on looking at my watch it
was 3:15 in the afternoon. I had preached for four hours and fifteen
minutes and the pastor and audience declared there must be something wrong
with our watches! It seemed as if we must have been pretty close to the
third heaven!
* * * * *
On one occasion while I was in Europe I visited at my wife's request, a
cousin of hers who had been ill and confined to her bed for twenty-one
years. She had become bedfast when she was nineteen. When I first visited
her, as she did not understand anything about divine healing, she got quite
peeved at the instructions I gave her. However her father, my wife's uncle,
got gloriously saved. Two weeks later I got a letter from the woman asking
me to come again and I went. Then she repented and turned to the Lord. I
prayed for her and the Lord raised her up.
* * * * *
Once in a city called Stavanger, Norway, I was asked to come and pray for a
sister who was in the last stages of tuberculosis of the lungs. As some of
the people over there teach that it is witchcraft to heal by the word of
God and prayer, a mob had gathered to stone me, and the folks called me and
asked me not to anoint and pray for fear the people might do me bodily
harm. I told them that I was not any better than the apostles or any other
of God's ministers, and if that was to be my lot I would be willing to die
for the gospel's sake.
I anointed and prayed for the woman and the Lord raised her up to the great
astonishment of the people and no bodily harm came to me.
I met her twin sister several years later who said she had been well ever
since, healthy and strong.
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