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Showing posts with label dying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dying. Show all posts

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Grave Robbery!

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

In 1705, there was a woman in Ireland named Marjorie McCall. She had been praying for two young men, who lived down the road, next to their little village. She was praying for their salvation. 


But one day Marjorie got sick and caught an illness. She had a very high fever and soon died.  Her family was afraid that her illness would spread to the townspeople, so they buried her very quickly in the village cemetery.  

A few days later two grave robbers came to dig up the newly buried corpse, to see if there is anything of value in the coffin.  The dug out Marjorie's grave, opened up a coffin, and to their surprise and joy discovered her wedding ring was  still on her finger.


They tried and tried to pull the ring off but her finger was too swollen, and the ring would not come off! So they decided to cut the ring off! The person was dead, so they thought, what would it matter?

As they maneuvered the arm out of the coffin, so that they can cut the finger off, Marjorie started moaning and moving!  The two grave robbers saw this, and was terrified, and quickly ran away.  It appears that Marjorie was not dead after all,  but was just in a coma from the illness!

Marjorie got out of the coffin and slowly walked back to her home. She knocked on the door, her husband and children were inside the little house. Her husband said if it wasn't because we just buried your mother, I would swore that was her knock! He opened the door and saw his "dead" wife standing there!

It took a few more weeks for Marjorie to recover from her illness. But when she did, she went straight to church and found out those two young grave robbers had been saved and sanctified.  Her prayers had been answered!

Marjorie lived a long life afterwards, and even had another child. Seeing your prayers answered, and in your presence, is very exciting but you gotta be careful what you're pray for!

William James Roop,  M.A.B.S.

Friday, March 31, 2023

How To Spend Your Last Years?

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Today I found that a missionary friend, Allen Stone, passed away in the country of Guatemala.  He had battled heart disease for years, and knew he would die soon.  He could have been living in comfort here in the States, but decided to live his last remaining years helping children, in a children's home in the mountains of Guatemala. 


 A month ago he came to the States to visit family, and then he returned back to the children's home. He also spent time visiting friends there as well.  Two days ago he had a massive heart attack while there! Today, he passed away in a Guatemalan hospital, and now has moved on to his eternal reward in Glory!

He knew he would die soon from heart failure. But he made the choice to live life to the fullest, working for the Lord with the few remaining years he had left. Allen was in his late seventies when I was there, maybe now he was eighty. Either way he lived full and blessed life. 


Some people would have spent their last years in and out of hospitals,  being stuck with needles,  and being operated on. He chose to live his life to the fullest,  overseas loving the abused children in the home. He chose to have a positive last year of his life and working in the Kingdom. 

How do you want to spend your last years of life? In and out of hospitals? Allen chose to trust in the Lord, working for Him. I think that I will follow Allen's example. 

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.








Monday, June 28, 2021

Love Sets You Free

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

This is two separate testimonies that was recorded and printed by the Azusa Street Mission, In Los Angeles, California, in their newsletter in November of1906.


The First One

A sister who had been healed and baptized with the Holy Ghost related the following vision, "Two days ago the power of God came over me and He said. 'whatsoever ye asked in my name believing, ye shall receive.' I said 'give wisdom to speak to the people,' immediately I was in a great hall with tables spread all about, And the Lord was the waiter, and I saw His beautiful, smiling face.

He spoke to me and said, 'I have called my friends and they did not come, therefore go out and ask everyone you find to come to the wedding.' as I looked around to see something beautiful, The scene changed and I was in a hospital and saw poor creatures dying, looking like skeletons. I thought my call was to the hospital and telephone to know when it was open for visitors, but the Lord revealed to me that it meant all those who are sick in their souls."


The Second One

"He took me into his banqueting house, And the banner over me was love." A brother says the Lord gave him a vision of the banqueting house. He passed under the great arches. Each one had a name upon it. The first was love, then there was joy, peace, And among the others he saw, "Independence." He asked what that meant. The answer was, "Is it not wonderful to be free?" Dear saints, this is one of the sweetest arches in the banqueting house. This bondage to love sets me perfectly free.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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