Hey Pastor John,
Last night I was reading more in the George C. Clark stories and read “Not Healed”, the story about when a woman had come to your father for healing but she wasn’t healed. Your father was troubled about it and asked Brother Hunnings about it, and he reminded your father of times when Jesus “could do no mighty miracles” because of unbelief. That settled it in your fathers heart, and he returned to his work of healing. Then I read this, and it has weighed on my heart:
“How much faith and how much power Brother Clark must have begun to exercise if what surprised him was not when miracles happened but when they did not! Who in our time is surprised and perplexed when someone’s prayer to be healed is not answered?
Somewhere in the saints’ march through time, we have been deceived and robbed of the glory Jesus died for us to possess. The body of Christ has clearly lost something that must be regained if we ever hope to be the community of faith that Jesus wants us to be. That something was touched on by Brother Creech, Brother Clark, and a number of other Pentecostal ministers in the early part of the twentieth century. May God help us to regain it and, this time, cling to it unto perfection.”
Then this morning going to work I was listening to the cd from 7/22/15, “Gods Above it All”, when Brother Earl was telling his dream and the experience he had. What stuck out to me is when Brother Earl said that in the beginning of the dream he was trying to convince the people of the power of God and how “The word of God can come to you and it can convince you! There is something more that comes deeper with healing.”
It really fit with what I have been reading about your father.
It really stirred up some feelings when you wrote that saints’ through the time have been deceived and robbed of the glory that Jesus died for us to possess.
Michelle
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Hi Michelle,
Pray for the Lord Jesus to again fulfill the scripture that says, “Then I restored what I did not take away.” He has returned to his people the blessings they threw away many times, and unfortunately, we need him to do it again.
Pastor John