A Testimony

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Francis Hunter's testimony.

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I was a wild sinner when I got saved! I was smoking five packages of cigarettes a day, drinking martinis like they were going out of style, was the life of every cocktail party because I knew more dirty jokes that anyone else, and couldn’t open my mouth and say four words unless one of them was a swear word!

Then I met Jesus! 

And He turned my world around! I went to an altar a wild sinner, and because we’re called to be saints, I rose up a saint of God! God placed in my heart an instant hate for evil. I looked at sin and it made me sick, so I turned and ran as fast as I could in the opposite direction. My life was completely transformed in that one single moment of time.

When I stood up from the altar, even though no one counseled with me and no one prayed with me, I was an “instant” fanatic. In the twinkling of an eye, I had become a brand new creature in Christ! Somehow in a supernatural way which I do not understand to this day, God allowed me to instantly grasp and comprehend the principles of the Bible, even though I had never read it.I understood there was no room for sin in the life of a Christian.

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 I immediately understood that I had to die to self because Jesus had come to live inside of me. He was in my heart and I knew it! I had an instant revelation that I had to give away to everyone I met, what God had given to me. All of this had to be a supernatural revelation of the Holy Spirit, but whatever it was, I knew that holy living and total commitment were the only way to go.

I had stood there just moments before, totally oblivious to everything that surrounded me, only aware of the fact that I had made contact with a living God. I said, “God, I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll give you ALL of me, for all of YOU!” He accepted my offer and I gave away my total being to serve Him. Never again did the woman named Frances Gardner (my name at that time) live. It was a totally new creature who stood up with the knowledge branded on my heart that Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, was actually living His life in and through me.

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That new creature took off like a rocket that day! My daughter and I got into the car together and I drove down the highway toward the shopping center where my printing company was located. I literally tried to “beat” Jesus Christ into the head of every person I met. Something had happened to me, and I had this zealous desire in me to give it away to everybody. I have often said, “Jesus Christ opened my mouth, and I haven’t shut it since, and I don’t intend to ever shut it where He’s concerned!”

I could not contain within myself the wonderful thing that happened to me. I was not a “silent”

witness. There had been such a radical change in my life that I wanted every person with whom I came in contact to experience the same thing. There was a peace, a calm, a joy, a happiness, a zeal, and a fervor to share what had happened to me that could not be stopped! And I’m still the same way today!

- Francis Hunter ( His Power Through You )

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The Power Of A Testimony

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Here is a true story about the power of a testimony. Enjoy.

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He Preached Some Of His Best Sermons Through The Lips Of Other Men 

STAUNCH WILLIAM BOOTH was about his doctrine, he was just the opposite when it came to his methods. Given his aim of saving the lost, there were few things he wasn’t willing to try. In one meeting at which the crowd seemed to have little interest in his preaching, he decided to turn the floor over to a Gypsy hawker who had recently been saved. Almost as soon as this man started to give his testimony, the crowd was transformed and seemed to hang on his every word. From that day forward, testimonies from new converts were given at almost every meeting. 

William also started to delegate responsibility to new converts at each meeting. He found their enthusiasm to be contagious, and as they served at each gathering, prospective converts became even more receptive to the gospel message. It later became a saying in the Army that William preached some of his best sermons through the lips of other men. “He never monopolized the meetings. He made others help him—they were as much theirs, as his. This helped to make them attractive as well as effective.”

- God’s Generals ( The Revivalists ) 

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William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

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Brother Roop teaches the Bible

Evangelist T. W. McConnell's Testimony

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This is a true testimony, told at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California in 1906. It was published by William j Seymour in his book, "The Azusa Street Papers," in 1906.

About 28 years ago, I went into a meeting to break it up, And the Lord broke me up. My conversion I never could doubt.  I was called to preach and refused, and went on for a number of years trying to get away from the call.  Finally I obey the Lord, and started in to work for Him, but not to preach.  The Lord sanctified my soul.  Did I commence to try to preach.  About two years after, The Lord appeared to me in a dream.  He's so filled me with His Spirit that people were not able to stand up before me, for a time.  A few days after, He told me to give up my business, And make my wants known to Him, and not to man.  I obeyed.  The Lord supplied my every need, and was with me in revival meetings and in healing many that I prayed for.  But heard of people receiving the Holy Ghost and speaking with tongues.  I came to Los Angeles to investigate, and found it was a fact, and earnestly commence to seek the Lord for the baptism with the Holy Ghost.  And the Lord, Knowing my heart, Came and took possession of me and spoke with my tongue.  I want to say to every person, test God and you will never deny the baptism with the Holy Ghost.

William James Roop, MABS

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