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Friday, October 9, 2026

The Jeffreys Brothers

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

In early 1913, Stephen began preaching at an evangelistic crusade in Swansea, Wales, and the meetings quickly grew in frequency and size. Urgent for help, Stephen called George home from Bible school to help him.

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The meetings went on for seven weeks and officially launched the ministries of both Jeffreys brothers. From there, they preached in other parts of Wales and had scores of converts. 
Their first healing miracle occurred when Edith M. Carr was healed of a diseased foot, which her doctors had planned to amputate. Stephen and George went to her home, anointed her with oil, laid hands on her, and prayed. God answered the prayer of faith and healed her completely. 

She later gave a testimony to the power of God that had touched her as the Jeffreys brothers prayed, saying, “A great light came around me, and filled me with great power, and I arose from the couch and stood on both feet and then walked gently round the room with scarcely any help.”  People came from miles around to see for themselves the woman who had been healed and to hear the Jeffreys brothers preach.

 God’s Generals' (The Healing Evangelists)

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Walking In Christ

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!


We have sought to make it clear that Christian experience does not begin with walking, but with sitting. Every time we reverse the divine order, the result is disaster. The Lord Jesus has done everything for us, and our need now is to rest confidently in Him. He is seated on the throne, so we are carried through in His strength. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that all true spiritual experience begins from rest.

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But it does not end there. Though the Christian life begins with sitting, sitting is always followed by walking. When once we have been well and truly seated and have found our strength in sitting down, then we do in fact begin to walk. Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies.

Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth. As a heavenly people, we are required to bear the stamp of that heavenliness upon us in our earthly conduct, and this raises new problems.

 What then, we must now ask, has Ephesians 4:1-2 to say to us about walking? We shall find that
the epistle urges upon us two things. We will look now at the first of them. “I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, with all lowliness and meekness . . .” 

“This I say . . . that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind” . . . But . . . “that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind” (Ephesians 4:17, 23).

“Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us” (Ephesians 5:2).
“Walk as children of light, . . . proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord ” (Ephesians 5:8–10).

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Eight times in Ephesians the word “walk” is used. It means literally “to walk around” and is used here figuratively by Paul to mean “to comport oneself; to order one’s behavior.” It brings immediately before us the subject of Christian conduct, and the second section of the letter is largely taken up with this.

But we saw earlier that the body of Christ, the fellowship of Christian believers, is another great theme of Ephesians. Now, here in chapter 4, it is in view of such fellowship that we find this matter of a holy walk arises. Paul proceeds, in the light of our heavenly calling, to challenge us upon the whole field of our relationships, both domestic and public, addressing himself to neighbors, to husbands and wives, to parents and children, employers and employed, all in a most realistic way.

Let us be clear that the body of Christ is not something remote and unreal, to be expressed only in heavenly terms. It is very present and practical, finding the real test of our conduct in our relations with others. For while it is true we are a heavenly people, it is no use just to talk of a distant heaven. Unless we bring heavenliness into our dwellings and offices, our shops and kitchens, and practice it there, it will be without meaning.

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May I suggest this, dear friends, that those who are parents and those who are children look through the New Testament to see what parents should be and children should be? We may be surprised, for I fear many of us who say we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ display a very questionable walk in our homes. And husbands too, and wives—there are quite a number of passages for them. 

Read Ephesians 5 and then turn to First Corinthians 7. It would do every husband and every wife good to read the latter chapter carefully to discover what a real married life—a spiritual one before God and not just in theory—demands. You dare not theorize about a thing that is so practical.

Look now, in the field of Christian relationships, how forthright are the commands of God in the section here before us. “Walk . . . with longsuffering, forbearing one another.” “Putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor.” “Be ye angry, and sin not.” “Steal no more.” “Let all bitterness . . . be put away from you.” “Be ye kind . . .forgiving each other.” “Subjecting yourselves to one another.” “Provoke not.” “Be obedient.” “Forbear threatening” (see Eph. 4–6). Nothing could be more realistic than this list of imperatives.

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Let me remind you that the Lord Jesus Himself begins His teaching on this very note. Notice carefully the wording of this passage from His Sermon on the Mount:

"Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same? Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matt. 5:38–48)

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William James Roop





























Friday, October 2, 2026

Howard Carter

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Howard Carter was a true British aristocrat, in every sense of the word—refined, well-educated, and wealthy. Beyond that, he was a vibrant man of God, sold out to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Instead of using his wealth and position for leisure, though, he dedicated it all to the work of the Kingdom of God. His inheritance was willingly invested in the Hampstead Bible College, with much of the money providing free tuition for ministry students in need.

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During World War I, Howard had been arrested and imprisoned for a time as a conscientious objector. As other powerhouse believers of the past, Howard had used his time in prison to meditate deeply on God’s Word. He’d yearned to grasp the contemporary purpose and place of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 

After studying at great length, he wrote an important book, Questions and Answers on Spiritual Gifts, about the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. This work became a foundation for the early twentieth-century Pentecostal movement and is still the basis of much of our understanding of the gifts of the Spirit today.


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William James Roop




























Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Your Switch Of Faith

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

KEEP YOUR SWITCH OF FAITH TURNED ON!

We read in Acts 19:12 that the Apostle Paul was anointed with the heavenly power or anointing and that “. . . from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."

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We already know that Paul was anointed in a similar manner as Jesus was anointed. And there’s no doubt about it — as soon as the diseases departed from those who came in contact with the handkerchiefs of Paul, the bodies of those who were sick started getting well.

Many times people fail to realize that it takes time for bodies to respond after disease has departed from them. Even after the diseases have departed, especially in cancer cases, the symptoms will often persist because damage has already been done to the bodies.

Sometimes a person’s body is healed instantly, but sometimes it just heals up gradually by itself. On many occasions, I’ve ministered to sick people, and I’ve known that their diseases had departed. Yet the people still had their symptoms for a little while. Sometimes it was ten minutes, an hour, or maybe three days before a person was all right. But I knew all the while that the disease had departed.

People need to be taught properly so they can keep the switch of faith turned on, because if they begin to doubt, the disease will come back.

As I said, when I minister the healing anointing to a person, and he receives the anointing in faith, the healing may be manifested right away or it may not be manifested right away. That’s the reason I’ve said to people, “Keep the switch of faith turned on.”

I didn’t think up that phrase “Keep the switch of faith turned on” on my own. It just sprung up in my spirit during a meeting my wife and I held several years ago. The meeting was held in a certain denominational church in which several hundred members of the congregation had received the baptism in the Holy Ghost and turned Charismatic! 

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We laid hands on the sick each night during the meeting, and one particular night, there was a blind woman in the healing line. I laid hands on her, and she fell on the floor under the power of God. When she got up, you didn’t have to ask her if she received. Her face was lit up like a neon sign in the dark, and she was shouting, “I can see! I can see!”

We learned later that she’d been blind for three years. She’d been able to detect an object if it was in front of her, but she couldn’t tell if it was a man, woman, boy, girl, horse, cow, or automobile. That was pretty blind, wasn’t it? But after I laid hands on her, she could see clearly! She was instantly healed!.

That same night, a young couple brought their only child to be prayed for. Both of his little feet were clubbed — deformed. I held those little feet in my hands and ministered God’s healing power to them. When I opened my eyes, I saw that those feet looked just as crippled as they were to begin with.

I said to the parents, “If it will help you any, I’ll tell you this: I have a stronger anointing on me right now than I had when I laid hands on that woman who was blind. I’m just going to hold these little feet in my hands for a few moments.” After I did that, those feet looked just as crippled and deformed as they ever were.

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Well, what are you going to tell people in a situation like that? I said to them, “All I know is what Jesus told me when He appeared to me in the vision and gave me a special anointing to minister to the sick. He told me, ‘When you feel that power go out of your hands into them, you know they’re healed.’”

I continued: “I felt that power go out of my hands into the child’s feet. So keep the switch of faith turned on. Every time you think of it, say, ‘The healing power of God has been ministered to those feet, and the power is working in them right now.’”

That was on a Thursday night, and we closed the meeting on the following Sunday and went on our way. Several months later, the son of the pastor of that church was in one of our meetings. He said, “That couple came back to church the following Sunday, came up to the platform, and asked for the privilege to show the child to the congregation. They held the child up so everyone could see, and both of his feet were perfect!”

Well, that couple kept the switch of faith turned on!

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This is their testimony:
“We did just what Brother Hagin said to do.” (Actually, it wasn’t me who said it; it was the Holy Ghost. I didn’t even know I was going to say it. It just came up out of my spirit: “Keep the switch of faith turned on.”)

This young couple said, “Every time we looked at our son’s feet, we’d say, ‘Thank God, the healing power of God was ministered to those feet Thursday night, and that power is working in those feet now to effect a healing and a cure.’

“We kept saying that morning and night — every time we thought about it. After three days, his feet started changing. It wasn’t instant, but little by little over the next three or four days, they continued to change until they were just as perfect as feet can be!”

Well, Mark 16:18 said, “. . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they SHALL RECOVER.” Now that blind woman in my meeting was healed instantly, but the young couple kept the switch of faith turned on, and their son recovered!

So if you get an instant healing, just thank God for it. But if you don’t, don’t turn off the switch of faith! Keep saying, “The power of God is working in me,” and keep the switch of faith turned on.


































Friday, September 25, 2026

Confidence In God's Word

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

I remember a denominational minister in my home county — just a country preacher — who never had an opportunity to pastor a very large church. Most of his churches were small community churches. His limited high school education prevented any promotion by his denomination that he might otherwise have had.

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However, this preacher was in constant demand for revival meetings because of his success in soul winning. He would go to a church where no one was being saved, where no one had been saved for years, and would have a landslide meeting and many people would be brought into the Kingdom of God. You can understand why he was in demand.

I talked to him when he was in his early sixties, and he was still having phenomenal success in revival meetings winning the lost. In his own churches he had altar services as we used to have in Pentecostal circles. He would get the people in his church on their knees, praying.

He said, “People are always asking me my secret. It is a very simple thing. I just apply faith in the area of soul winning like I apply faith in the areas of healing or whatever I am believing God for. It never entered my mind to doubt that people will come to be saved. If the doubt does try to come, I resist it in the Name of Jesus. It is just that simple.”

He said, “I don’t do a great deal of praying, any more than others do, but I do pray. I do seek God. However, I attribute my success to that one point — I just have confidence that people will come to be saved. By the eye of faith, I see the people coming to my services; I see the altar filling up with those who want to be saved."

“If the meetings aren’t going like I think they should and people aren’t coming forward like at other times, I don’t necessarily increase my praying or seeking God about it; I just exercise more faith. When I begin to give the invitation, I can just see the people coming, and they come.”

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What this minister said and did was an expression of his confidence and his faith in God. He had prayed, all right, but not excessively. Many times in our praying, we keep looking at the wrong things. We keep looking at the circumstances, and we keep looking at what is not happening.
Someone might say, “Well, hardly anyone came to the meeting last night, and people probably won’t come tonight either.”

Or in the area of finances, someone might say, “Well, the finances haven’t manifested yet. When I get the money, then I’ll believe I have it.”

Or if it is in the area of praying for the lost, someone might say, “Well, when I see my family and friends saved, or when I see a change in them, then I’ll believe God has heard my prayer and is dealing with them.”

You see, that kind of attitude doesn’t demonstrate any confidence in God’s Word. That kind of attitude isn’t letting the Word of God dwell in you at all. That attitude or way of thinking is nothing more than having faith in what you see.

Oftentimes people undo all of their prayers by doing that very thing — by walking by sight when they should be walking by faith in God’s Word. But instead of looking at the circumstances when they pray and looking at what is not happening, they should be seeing with the eye of faith what God’s doing on their behalf in answer to their prayers.


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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Elwood Engle Testimony

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

My wife and I have just recently moved to central Wisconsin from Texas. We settled in a very cute small town.

My wife started to get a little bored in this small town and wanted to get a little job to soak up some of her time. So she was hired to deliver meals to the elderly inches area.

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On her route she met Elwood Engle and his wife of 67 years! A beautiful elderly couple who had a wonderful testimony about one of their sons.

About 47 years ago, their son was a talented high school athlete. But one day his left leg started to hurt. The pain would not go away. So, they took him to the hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be examined. 

After many tests were completed, the doctor came out and spoke in a low, but serious voice. He said, "your son has terminal stage four bone cancer, you need to plan his funeral!"

They were all just devastated! But when all seems lost, that's the best time to go to the Lord! They prayed Isaiah 53:1-5 twice a day. Then they got some fellow church members to pray with them. In short order they had Christians in eight states praying for their son.

When they next went to the hospital for more tests, the report was that all of the cancer was miraculously gone! All of the tests were clear of the disease!

All of the doctors and hospital staff were amazed when it was revealed that hundreds of people in eight states had prayed for this young man, and the Lord healed him.

To build up his strength they had him ride a stationary bike. Then a real bike, with some of the hospital staff following with him. In this whole time of healing and physical therapy, many were convicted and gave their hearts to Jesus.


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Friday, September 18, 2026

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!


Here is a wonderful poem that I found and wanted to share with everyone.  I do not know who has written it, if I find out I will put the credits here.

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WHEN TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME

When tomorrow starts without me,
please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name,
and took me by the hand;

The angel said that my place was ready,
In Heaven far above,
And that I'd have to leave behind,
all those I dearly loved.

But when I walked through Heavens Gates,
I felt so much at home,
for God looked down, smiled at me,
and told me "Welcome Home."

So when tomorrow starts without me,
Don't think that were far apart,
for every time you think of me,
I'm right there in your heart.

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William James Roop