Northern Farmer

In this area of diversified small farms and little rural towns, things happen that the world cannot explain. The world brushes them off and the religious say it’s not so. But no matter what the world says, it happens anyhow. The simple people everywhere just don’t listen to the high and mighty, or never get around to caring what they all say. Because the simple folks see things that the worldly people cannot. In churches across the heartland there are healings that match any in the Bible.

A weekend Healing Service goes something like this, Friday evening, Saturday evening, and Sunday regular service. All are three to four hours long and the time just gets away on folks, because when the Spirit is moving time doesn’t mean all that much. The Preaching and Teaching, the Praise and Worship, and the Healings of sickness, disease, and injuries of all sorts.

The Healing Services we had a couple of months ago are still fresh in my memory and I’m thinking about them constantly. It was the last day of March, a Friday evening, in our little church. The Pastor was a guest Pastor with a healing anointing. The service started at seven in the evening with Praise music and after that came the preaching and teaching. Now this teaching was from the Bible, period. No man made rules. And also the speaking of past healing experiences, and that was really interesting. The Pastor was from the town where the Mayo Clinic is, and he routinely is at the Clinic, healing folks. The most interesting experience that I recall is when the Pastor was called to a dying cancer patient, now this man was near the end, in a coma, with hours left to live in a body totally destroyed by cancer. As the Pastor was praying over the almost dead man, the Spirit told him to bless the food. So the Pastor wrapped his hand around the man’s feeding tube and prayed for healing through the nourishment of the body. That was all he could do and he left. A couple of days later he received a call from the man’s family and was told to rush to the Clinic. When he arrived the man was up and about, looking good and the doctors couldn’t find a thing wrong with him. Now years later the man has never even been sick once.

With teachings like this in mind it’s easy to have the Church receive the Spirit in the services. Sometimes we are so hardened off by the world and man’s teachings that it takes a bit to focus back on the Lord, but true preaching and teaching bring it on. For me it was a learning time, having come from the modern luke warm church many months before. But in the months after fleeing the luke warm church our family had already received several divine healings, from deafness to killer disease. I totally believed in Healings, but the Services were something I wouldn’t have missed for anything.

At the end of Friday evenings preaching and teaching the folks started coming up for Healing and some for Salvation. Very few times in my life were more moving than this. Here a person is basically out in a church that’s in a small town that the world passes by and the simple folks are putting all their faith in Jesus.

Saturday evenings Service was even more packed with folks that work nightshifts having the weekend off and being able to come. And that’s the evening our Praise Team sang an Appalachian Folk Gospel song, Healing Waters Flow, and it totally moved me. All the years finding churches empty in Spirit, and to experience what it’s like finally like to see a Church receive the Holy Spirit is just so awesome that it’s hard to describe. The second night was a lot like the first, only more intense in the Gospel teachings. And looking around in church I see an assortment of folks from all walks of life. Some folks I’d never seen before, they’d come because they were drawn to the hope of being healed. And bunches of children including our own, listening to the gospel being preached. And them kids were pretty interested, this wasn’t dry stuff, but then again who says the Gospel is dry. When it’s preached its alive! Again, when the preaching and teaching were done, the healings began with larger lines than the evening before. That went on pretty late, but no one seemed to mind. Even after it was over many of us just sat in the back drinking some coffee, not to worried about it keeping us awake. It’s hard to go home after times like these.

Well, the next morning, Sunday, 4:30 in the morning rolls around pretty quick, but no matter, there’s the last Healing Service to get to. So get them chores done and get cleaned up and hit the road, again with plenty of coffee in the system. Sunday’s service again followed along the same lines, and the preaching and teaching just got more intense. The Praise Team again doing so, so good. I don’t know how they do it, it’s so much preparation and work, but they do. And again when all that was over the healing lines formed. And folks got healed, and folks got saved. Of course the saved part was the most important, a little longer lasting than the healings. The saddest part was when it all came to an end, everyone was in one accord, knowing that they were a part of something very special. But end it did, with many folks including us hanging around for quite some time.

Never in my life had I experienced such a moving time, just like in the Good Book, in the Gospels, in Acts. It’s the same now as it was back then, no matter what the world has to say about it all. Ask and Ye Shall Receive! This all happened while I was on my blogging break and I finally got to putting a bit of it in print. This is a very short and abbreviated version of what I’m going to be writing down in our family’s book of faith. We all seen, we all witnessed, we all felt the Power of God. What the “world” says about it is of no importance to us at all.

So, out here in the back roads, things do happen, mighty things. As the weeks went by after the Services, Praise reports and Healing reports kept pouring in to the Little Bible Believing and Teaching Church in the Hills. People were reporting that their diseases and infirmities were gone, the ones they’d had for years. But this is no surprise to believers in the Word, because all the good that happened was Promised in the Word.

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