At a Ministers' Meeting at Tulare, California, in 1945, while the noon
lunch was being served, I was sitting in the chapel with my head bowed on
the chair in front of me, praying for a certain amount of money, not
expecting any money at that meeting. Soon I felt the confidence that the
Lord had heard prayer and dismissed the matter from my mind. A few minutes
later a man came and sat down beside me and said, "Say, how do you get your
expenses; do you get a salary for traveling around this way?" I answered,
"No, I have no salary; I pay my expenses as the Lord puts it into the
hearts of the brethren to give to me." "Well," he said, "the Lord told me
to come over and give you this."
And he handed me the very amount I had been asking the Lord for!
* * * * *
Brother Renbeck and I were holding a meeting out near Kellys, North Dakota.
After the service one afternoon I saw Brother Renbeck sitting in a corner
of the room weeping. I went over to him and asked him what was the trouble.
He said, "I am weeping because there were not more sinners in the meeting
to get saved, for if there had been more there, more would have been
saved." To which I replied, "Keep on weeping."
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MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH DEVIL POSSESSION
Another time we were holding meetings near and in Fosston, Minnesota. It
was said of us that "those preachers are of the devil." One evening a man
came to the meeting who had blood poisoning in one of his knees. In getting
to the meeting he used a long pole to help support himself. He wanted to
see those preachers who were "of the devil." When he arrived the room was
full and there being no chair for him to sit on, I gave him mine. When we
knelt down to pray I laid my hands on his knee and asked the Lord to heal
him and he was healed instantly.
A few nights later a man came to the service who was possessed with devils.
He was frothing at the mouth and acting like a madman. As I took hold of
him and laid my hands on him we almost wrestled. I commanded the devils to
come out of him, and I told the Lord I would never let Him go until He
delivered the man, and he was finally delivered by the Spirit of the Lord.
Although it was winter time I was as wet as though I had been dipped in the
river. While the struggle was going on all the people ran out of the room.
But the man was fully delivered and then he was saved.
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