God's Generals Series - Maria Woodworth Etter — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:08the New York Times report about her
3. 0:11meetings in Indiana and called the
4. 0:12trance evangelist should go to jail
5. 0:14several times for practicing metadata
6. 0:15license throughout the northern part of
7. 0:17America her name is Maria would enter
8. 0:19she was known as the signs and wonders
9. 0:21and became the grandmother of the
10. 0:22Pentecostal movement
11. 0:23I'm Robert surgeon and this is God's
12. 0:25generous
13. 0:26[Music]
14. 0:39in 1844 in Lisbon Ohio or Rio Woodworth
15. 0:43editor was born she'd be the first lady
16. 0:46in Pentecostal circles to be called the
17. 0:48grandmother of the movement
18. 0:50she'd have all nine gifts of the Spirit
19. 0:52practicing divine healing casting out
20. 0:54demons and believed in women preachers
21. 0:56all before the Azusa Street revival of
22. 0:581906 which in history we say is the date
23. 1:01that the modern can the customer begin
24. 1:03but she predates all of it with all the
25. 1:06power signs wonders and controversies
26. 1:08and criticisms and we're gonna enjoy
27. 1:10look in her life because her life also
28. 1:13develops a mantle that lives today in
29. 1:15American religious scenes the great
30. 1:17healing mantle that we've seen on mother
31. 1:19etter
32. 1:20came to a Mesa by McPherson came to
33. 1:22Kathryn Kuhlman and came to Bening in
34. 1:24this mantle of healing has gone from
35. 1:26every generation since its conception in
36. 1:28the life of mrs. ed ER she was not
37. 1:31raised in a Christian family like most
38. 1:33of you and I was she has raised in
39. 1:35agricultural time in American history
40. 1:36and when she was baptized in water they
41. 1:39said a great light came and held over
42. 1:42her for a while which signified did the
43. 1:44country people that there was something
44. 1:46special about this girl that God had
45. 1:48planned for her life when she finally
46. 1:50began to become aware of God in her life
47. 1:52and wanted to seek the Lord her brothers
48. 1:54and sisters told her to quit being so
49. 1:56religious and you know pushed her aside
50. 1:58or made fun of her but she stayed true
51. 2:00to her in her convictions but then one
52. 2:03day she had a vision it's about a
53. 2:04two-and-a-half-hour vision she states in
54. 2:06her journal that she went out into the
55. 2:08spirit and she saw herself standing in a
56. 2:11great field of wheat and all of a sudden
57. 2:13in this vision the wheat begin to fall
58. 2:15all around her to the ground and the
59. 2:17voice the Lord spoke to her and said the
60. 2:19slain of the Lord shall be many through
61. 2:21your ministry she'd come into that wood
62. 2:24to mean two things that people get saved
63. 2:26by the thousands and the phenomenon of
64. 2:28being slain in the spirit
65. 2:30would become one of the unique signs
66. 2:32that would follow her preaching and her
67. 2:34praying and that's the way she believed
68. 2:36that God communicated to her that her
69. 2:38ministry would had these couple of
70. 2:40things happening early to her life she
71. 2:42got married to a Civil War veteran she
72. 2:45tried to be you know like a normal
73. 2:46family husband wife they had six
74. 2:49children they were farmers all
75. 2:51her children died but one her last
76. 2:53daughter Lizzie as they called her lived
77. 2:56but she actually would bury Liz before
78. 2:58she would die so it non-us team
79. 2:59Maria birth enters life all her
80. 3:03husband's were dying all of her kids
81. 3:05would die and then she would die alone
82. 3:07with just her friends and their church
83. 3:09family around her so it's kind of tragic
84. 3:11but before we get into all the ending of
85. 3:13her life let's get her into the ministry
86. 3:16you have to realize too that in the
87. 3:18middle 1800s and the early 1900s women
88. 3:20preachers were not accepted so she began
89. 3:23to pioneer not the power of the Holy
90. 3:26Spirit but also helped pioneer the
91. 3:28acceptance of women ministry when she
92. 3:30finally said yes to call to preach she
93. 3:33told her husband let's go for ministry
94. 3:35the farms not working our children are
95. 3:37going through death and sickness and
96. 3:39things let's go for God so there was no
97. 3:42alternative he said yes so she went and
98. 3:44sold ordination from a little
99. 3:46ministerial group in Ohio and they
100. 3:48thought well since she's being
101. 3:50persistent will ordain her and she'll go
102. 3:51away when they are dangerous she didn't
103. 3:53go away so they thought well let's do
104. 3:55number two maybe this will make her go
105. 3:56away let's send her to the worst place
106. 3:58we know and let her go try to do a
107. 4:00revival meeting there they called the
108. 4:03place The Devil's dim so she goes there
109. 4:05and starts a meeting of the preachers
110. 4:08and tried their best preachers that
111. 4:10tried to hold revival meetings and
112. 4:12planted shirts there and they all failed
113. 4:13so the brother and thought this would be
114. 4:15a sure way to get rid of mother enter
115. 4:17she goes there and starts preaching
116. 4:20nothing happens but one unique thing is
117. 4:22happening it's a woman preacher so the
118. 4:25crowd comes realize folks there's no TV
119. 4:27there's no radio there's no internet and
120. 4:29there is no anything so when there's the
121. 4:31oddity of a woman preacher in town you
122. 4:34show up because that's town
123. 4:35entertainment so they begin to come to
124. 4:38see the woman preacher and slowly
125. 4:40breakthrough happens and she stays there
126. 4:43long enough to establish a church and a
127. 4:45sunday-school
128. 4:46of over 200 people now in those days
129. 4:49Sunday school was like today the cell
130. 4:51group ministry is today all over the
131. 4:53world the cell ministry is exploding and
132. 4:55it's going it's a way that the triggers
133. 4:57are growing and extending the ministry
134. 4:59of Christ in the earth in those days the
135. 5:01concept of Sunday school was brand-new
136. 5:03so for the
137. 5:04woman to establish a church and a
138. 5:06successful sunny school in The Devil's
139. 5:08Den made this cliff burger say got us
140. 5:11with this woman their attitude change
141. 5:13they begin to get behind her and she
142. 5:15became their number one church planner
143. 5:17in this network of churches in the state
144. 5:20of Ohio in Indiana when we come back
145. 5:22we're gonna start talking about the
146. 5:23miracles and the unusual manifestations
147. 5:25that God did through her after she
148. 5:27became successful as a church planter
149. 5:29with the group of ministers that she was
150. 5:30with in Ohio and throughout Indiana she
151. 5:33began to travel to other states and her
152. 5:36notoriety begin to green in the national
153. 5:38consciousness of America she was looked
154. 5:41upon as one of the top ten preachers of
155. 5:42that time period now to explain whether
156. 5:45editors of life in ministry we have to
157. 5:47kind of picture for a moment what a
158. 5:49meeting would be like in those days
159. 5:50number one they were in a tent like we
160. 5:53are here today and they do not have
161. 5:55hotels or microphones they drove the
162. 5:57old-timey cars and they had the old-time
163. 5:59big trucks and if there was not a home
164. 6:02for her to stay in she had put up her
165. 6:04own tent outside the big tent and that's
166. 6:06where she would sleep her meetings would
167. 6:08go from seven weeks to seven months
168. 6:10every night and every morning now some
169. 6:13of us get commonly have to go to church
170. 6:15three times a week or we go to church
171. 6:17and the preacher preaches an extra hour
172. 6:18or 30 minutes or it goes up beyond our
173. 6:21normal Sunday morning comfort but can
174. 6:23you imagine her meetings go from seven
175. 6:25weeks to seven months and it would start
176. 6:28at nine o'clock in the morning and
177. 6:29something we're not in until midnight
178. 6:31and there was no break so she would just
179. 6:33roll them all day long and just keep
180. 6:35going and let the Spirit of God moved
181. 6:37now there'd be singing of course there'd
182. 6:39be preaching but then the Spirit of God
183. 6:42began to do different things in the
184. 6:45crowd healings would take place demons
185. 6:48would be cast out now the unique thing
186. 6:50that happened would be people would fall
187. 6:52into trances now that's why she got
188. 6:55called by dowling others who became her
189. 6:57critics this trance evangelists our
190. 7:00evangelism they thought was of the devil
191. 7:02now what would happen in her meetings
192. 7:04why she'd be preaching people that were
193. 7:06Christians and then we're not Christians
194. 7:08both men and women young and old anybody
195. 7:10the Spirit of God would come on and they
196. 7:13would go into a trance now our trance is
197. 7:15something where your body freezes
198. 7:18and you go out and you see something
199. 7:21that God wants you to see maybe would
200. 7:23see heaven they would see hell angels
201. 7:25demons or pictures from their life that
202. 7:26God would show them and they would come
203. 7:28back and talk about it or want to get
204. 7:31saved or they have some type of thing
205. 7:33they need to talk about and get right
206. 7:34with God and so that's how it would
207. 7:37begin to happen now these people go into
208. 7:39trances as some would go for 10 minutes
209. 7:41she'd say 30 minutes all day all night
210. 7:44and some longer she wrote about so we
211. 7:46have all different types of lengths of
212. 7:49these trances and manifestations of
213. 7:52God's power that would happen in Maria's
214. 7:54meetings now she did not orchestrate
215. 7:57that she was probably in the beginning
216. 7:59the most shocked by it even when it
217. 8:01happened to her and so what happens was
218. 8:04when this will begin to take place and
219. 8:06begin to get talked about in the
220. 8:07newspaper as a noise about some of the
221. 8:10holiness preachers moved away from her
222. 8:11he thought she was crazy
223. 8:12but the crowds kept coming now you win a
224. 8:15nation by the common man you don't want
225. 8:19spend time answering the academic
226. 8:21critics or your skeptics who don't want
227. 8:23an answer Jesus won by talking to the
228. 8:27common middle class man of society and
229. 8:30that's where Maria wouldn't enter one
230. 8:32her case her crowds grew her excitement
231. 8:36grew among that group of people now
232. 8:38she'd be arrested a couple of times in
233. 8:40her life because at this time in America
234. 8:43they used the law that Dowie
235. 8:45would change in his court trial of
236. 8:47practicing medicine without a license
237. 8:49the last time she was arrested she was
238. 8:5169 years old in the Peron trial and in
239. 8:54this book here and she wrote about four
240. 8:56books and it's like reading the book of
241. 8:58Acts forgiven because it's a meeting by
242. 9:00meeting the Canon of what happened good
243. 9:02bad and ugly and in this book care from
244. 9:051916 she wrote about the court case and
245. 9:08the trial and the questions and answers
246. 9:09and it's very interesting well when did
247. 9:11this begin to happen she's able to begin
248. 9:13to happen in the early days and they
249. 9:15thought she was into hypnosis and she
250. 9:17studied that and all that she does I did
251. 9:19not study any of that I was preaching
252. 9:21and it began to happen and at first it
253. 9:24caught her off-guard now the thing I
254. 9:26want to also sir about is in the Bible
255. 9:28we have trances being listed that's more
256. 9:31the kinds of visions that God gives
257. 9:33there's the invert vision there is the
258. 9:35open vision there is the trance and
259. 9:37there's a night vision or the dream and
260. 9:39so Peter went up on the rooftop while
261. 9:42they were fixing lunch the book of
262. 9:43access and he fell into a trance and he
263. 9:46saw the sheet come down with the unclean
264. 9:48creatures on it and the voice of God
265. 9:50said kill and eat now that's where the
266. 9:53Bible records an example of a biblical
267. 9:54record of God putting a person in a
268. 9:57trance and talking to them so this is
269. 9:59some of the things that Maria was dealt
270. 10:02with throughout the whole life and John
271. 10:04G Lake said I always found it
272. 10:05interesting that he said to his young
273. 10:07crowd and his own disciples pray like
274. 10:10mother etter would pray another editor
275. 10:12was not a present-day nice little seeker
276. 10:15friendly church prayer warrior she was a
277. 10:17very forceful very strong very
278. 10:20authoritative and very direct type of
279. 10:22Prayer and she walked back and forth
280. 10:24across the stage praying and praising
281. 10:26God with her hand up in the air
282. 10:27encouraging people to get right with God
283. 10:29and to move as a Spirit of God moved her
284. 10:31to speak and to say things to the crowd
285. 10:34or to individuals so she's about five
286. 10:36foot three about the same height of John
287. 10:39Wesley the founder the Methodist Church
288. 10:40and she comes out of holding his own she
289. 10:42wore very plain clothes and did the
290. 10:44little bun in her hair as you'll see in
291. 10:46the pictures and that's the way that she
292. 10:48would travel and work now in her in her
293. 10:50life and ministry she had to defend
294. 10:52herself to some degree by being a woman
295. 10:54preacher remember women preachers at
296. 10:57this time were not something that the
297. 10:59church accepted very readily but when
298. 11:01God's with you you can make it she did
299. 11:04not spend a lot of time to fit in
300. 11:06herself she'd preach sermons once in a
301. 11:07while that God used women in the Old
302. 11:09Testament the New Testament and he'll
303. 11:11use woman in the last days and she was a
304. 11:13part of the last days army and she was
305. 11:15glad to be one of God's generals moving
306. 11:17the troops and getting people ready for
307. 11:18the coming of the Lord so I'm very happy
308. 11:20to say I believe in women preachers
309. 11:22women preachers have always been in the
310. 11:24kingdom of God's work and they'll remain
311. 11:26so if you're watching me today and you
312. 11:28don't believe in women preachers and get
313. 11:29over it they're here and they're here to
314. 11:31stay and they're going to get louder and
315. 11:33there will be more of them if you are a
316. 11:35woman preacher do not let people take
317. 11:38away from you
318. 11:39who you are how God called you and what
319. 11:41you're supposed to do just go do it and
320. 11:43enjoy it
321. 11:45answer the critics let your fruit answer
322. 11:47all their questions now Murray award
323. 11:49would enter had a desire to go to the
324. 11:51west coast she always felt like the
325. 11:54governor a special meeting in California
326. 11:56or Washington Oregon most of her
327. 11:58meetings at this time of the den in the
328. 12:00Midwest and out east and the south but
329. 12:02finally she got an invitation go to
330. 12:04Oakland California so she takes her tint
331. 12:06and takes her team and drives of
332. 12:08California and this happens to be the
333. 12:11worst meeting of her entire life and so
334. 12:14she goes out there sets up the tent
335. 12:16begins to preach people begin to get
336. 12:18saved and healing and trances start and
337. 12:20the city people begin to fight her that
338. 12:22was her first war the city people had
339. 12:24given her permit thinking she was just
340. 12:26gonna be a nice little Christian meeting
341. 12:28and she would just preach Jesus and go
342. 12:30away well they didn't know that a force
343. 12:33of change had come to the city and she
344. 12:36was not quiet and she wouldn't go away
345. 12:38and so they tried to take her permit
346. 12:40away but she won that case then the
347. 12:43hoodlums as they would say around the
348. 12:44town will came and begin to cut the
349. 12:46ropes while the people were inside
350. 12:47worshiping and praising God and having
351. 12:49this service they cut the ropes and the
352. 12:51tip would fall on them so had to stop
353. 12:53the meeting set the tip back up and and
354. 12:55they wouldn't send policemen to help her
355. 12:56cause the town wanted to get rid of her
356. 12:58well when that didn't happen and to
357. 13:00close it down they thought well let's
358. 13:03bring the insane people so they went out
359. 13:05into the hospitals for the insane people
360. 13:08and brought them into the tent and
361. 13:09released them into the tent so you had
362. 13:12mentally ill people manifesting reacting
363. 13:16doing all kinds of things along with the
364. 13:18hoodlums along with the demons along
365. 13:20with the power of God that was doing
366. 13:21good things all at the same time and she
367. 13:24didn't give up she kept going now that's
368. 13:25not the worst case here comes some more
369. 13:28why she's going through all of this
370. 13:29keeps going and keeps preaching
371. 13:31something about these old-time preachers
372. 13:34that we need today they don't get
373. 13:35bothered enough to quit or give up when
374. 13:38things go bad or themes don't go good
375. 13:41they know how to persevere and go
376. 13:42forward they stay in a place until the
377. 13:45breakthrough happens of the heavens and
378. 13:46the earth well then one of the great
379. 13:48trials begins to happen in her personal
380. 13:50life her husband has an affair with an
381. 13:52african-american woman now an affair is
382. 13:55bad enough but
383. 13:56it's an african-american woman at this
384. 13:58time period in American history that's
385. 14:00also another degree of depth to the
386. 14:03scandal so her husband has an affair
387. 14:06runs off with this woman dear in this
388. 14:09California meeting and ends up leaving
389. 14:11her and they end up getting divorced so
390. 14:13that happens during the case Dahle had
391. 14:15come over befriended her and then turned
392. 14:18against her and got the papers to fight
393. 14:19her then she gives a prophecy that if
394. 14:22Oakland in San Francisco does not get
395. 14:25right with God there was going to come
396. 14:26some type of City judgement because
397. 14:28other rebellion against God well her
398. 14:31followers like any followers can take
399. 14:33what you say and to it or say it in a
400. 14:36different way that makes it mean
401. 14:38something totally different so what
402. 14:40happens when that prophecy or that
403. 14:41urgency comes forth as a warning to not
404. 14:44reject God but to to warm up to him and
405. 14:47to give their life to government and to
406. 14:49live right her followers begin to put a
407. 14:52date when this is going to happen and
408. 14:53what its gonna be is a great earthquake
409. 14:55and it's gonna destroy San Francisco and
410. 14:58so the newspapers take this and begin to
411. 15:00spin it into new degrees of persecution
412. 15:03and so I've gone through the research
413. 15:06she never put a date on it she just said
414. 15:08here's what she felt here's what she
415. 15:10since her followers did so the date came
416. 15:13and there was no earthquake the
417. 15:15followers and her all looked like a
418. 15:17bunch of fanatical weirdos and
419. 15:19everything but she didn't give up and
420. 15:21did she felt that she'd finished her
421. 15:22purpose in that meeting one of the
422. 15:24unusual miracles that happened during
423. 15:26this meeting in California among the
424. 15:28other things that we could talk about is
425. 15:30there was a man that came and began to
426. 15:32heckler her and disturb the crowd and
427. 15:36she warned him if he didn't stop but God
428. 15:37was going to judge him and so he kept
429. 15:40mocking her and making fun of all the
430. 15:41things that she was saying that she
431. 15:42couldn't be a woman preacher and this
432. 15:44was a bunch of fanaticism and it was of
433. 15:46the devil and all that stuff and all of
434. 15:48a sudden she just said well God's got a
435. 15:50judging you've crossed the line and
436. 15:52that's it all of a sudden and see we're
437. 15:54still trying to heckle her and disturb
438. 15:56the crowd and clothes I mean his tongue
439. 15:58begin to swell up to where he could not
440. 16:00talk and he ran out of the tent and fear
441. 16:02and as he went on his way home he said
442. 16:05his tongue swelled up to touch where his
443. 16:07tongue hung on the outside of his mouth
444. 16:08down to about here
445. 16:09miss Qin and it wouldn't go down so
446. 16:12after several days of his tongue being
447. 16:14like that where he couldn't drink much
448. 16:16and he couldn't talk and he couldn't eat
449. 16:18he got scared and his family kind of
450. 16:20well you better go back and talk to that
451. 16:22woman and ask her to fix you you know he
452. 16:25didn't want you I guess but when your
453. 16:26tongue hangs out like that for a day or
454. 16:28two you start checking your heart in
455. 16:30your mind so he comes back into the tent
456. 16:33and and motions to her that he needed
457. 16:35her help and she stops the meeting and
458. 16:37and he says she says what do you want
459. 16:39and he kind of communicated her I want
460. 16:43to be fixed and he's she said I'm not
461. 16:45gonna pray for you to get fix unless you
462. 16:46get right with God and get right with
463. 16:47him now and so he got ready to get right
464. 16:50with God and she let him in the sinner's
465. 16:52prayer and he mumbled it out the best
466. 16:54that he could and then she hauled off
467. 16:56and slapped his face and his tongue went
468. 16:58down and became normal that to me was
469. 17:00one of the most of unusual miracles in
470. 17:02that meeting with all the disasters
471. 17:04going on there was that one like that
472. 17:05and that man later becomes a pastor in
473. 17:08his life and serves Lord for the rest of
474. 17:09his life and so that's a great story
475. 17:12that I like can you imagine you somebody
476. 17:14heckling you and your tongue swells up
477. 17:16and it won't go down and you get right
478. 17:17that would have bless a few people in
479. 17:19some places around America today or in
480. 17:21the world today to make people get right
481. 17:23just something I didn't happen I
482. 17:24wouldn't mind God doing that in a few of
483. 17:26my meetings and it would put some fear
484. 17:28in the right parts it'd be good there's
485. 17:31so much to tell about Maria with header
486. 17:32in her life and all the stories she
487. 17:34wrote for big books and it's like
488. 17:36reading the book of Acts again she wrote
489. 17:39about each meaning what happened good
490. 17:40what happened bad who got healed if
491. 17:43there was a struggle what it was and we
492. 17:45hope that you will find them and read
493. 17:47them they are ones called signs and
494. 17:49wonders islands marvels and miracles act
495. 17:512 the Holy Ghost and the fourth one was
496. 17:54a little book she wrote but when she was
497. 17:56just mr. Witt when she was mrs.
498. 17:57Woodworth and so those are great books
499. 18:00I've read all of them and there are
500. 18:02phenomenal stories I need to bring this
501. 18:05to a close very fast but there's so much
502. 18:06to tell when I come back we're gonna
503. 18:08talk about the latter part of her life
504. 18:09for she builds the Eider tabernacle in
505. 18:11Indiana
506. 18:11she meets a nice little McPherson she
507. 18:14buries her last daughter a little bit
508. 18:16sadness of her life and then I'm gonna
509. 18:18have something very special for you I've
510. 18:20found the only filmed footage that is
511. 18:22known to Berea
512. 18:23birth editor about a year before she
513. 18:25died so we're gonna be able to show you
514. 18:26her walking there's no there's no voice
515. 18:29at least it's silent film footage of
516. 18:30mrs. editors everybody has a great
517. 18:32meeting and everybody has a terrible
518. 18:34meeting mother Eddard just finished the
519. 18:37worst mean of her life of an Oakland
520. 18:38California where Dowie came against her
521. 18:41the city came against her they brought
522. 18:42them in Lille and released them in the
523. 18:44tenth the hoodlums cut down the ropes
524. 18:46made the tent fall on the people her
525. 18:48husband runs off with a woman has an
526. 18:51affair and then they have a prophecy
527. 18:53that her followers take out of context
528. 18:55and because of scandal so it could be
529. 18:57one of those things where you almost
530. 18:58want to quit and give up but she goes to
531. 19:00st. Louis after that and has one of her
532. 19:02great salvation healing meetings where
533. 19:04she baptizes people in the river and she
534. 19:06falls into a trance that lasts for three
535. 19:08days and three nights kenneth hagin
536. 19:09records reading about and one of the
537. 19:11christian p articles of the time can you
538. 19:13imagine being in a trance for three days
539. 19:16and three nights they bring in the
540. 19:18doctor as they poke her with pins the
541. 19:20smelling salts they slap her but when
542. 19:22you're out you're out
543. 19:23they say when she came back she picked
544. 19:26up in the sentence where she left off
545. 19:28and kept preaching and did not know that
546. 19:29she'd been gone for that amount of time
547. 19:31when they asked her you know where'd you
548. 19:34go what she sees when out communing with
549. 19:36the father seeing heaven and seeing the
550. 19:37future and seeing different things I
551. 19:39would have been more detailed when I
552. 19:41wrote a whole chapter in a book about
553. 19:42what she saw while she was gone for that
554. 19:44length of time in her life after that
555. 19:46she remarries a man named Samuel editor
556. 19:48now semi editor was known as a holy call
557. 19:52today a minute of helps person mister
558. 19:55Woodworth was not acquired of the same
559. 19:56disposition senator loved helping people
560. 19:59in the altar setting the tin up sound
561. 20:02the refreshments selling the books
562. 20:03helping in any way he could help his
563. 20:07wife and the people seeking salvation
564. 20:08and healing people loved him in her
565. 20:11journals she only writes about him a
566. 20:15little bit and then there's what we call
567. 20:16the 7th years in her life I think it's
568. 20:19about 14 years where she does not record
569. 20:21much of her preaching her Crusades were
570. 20:24a medium that she did in the other
571. 20:25times of her life I think what happened
572. 20:27she had a good marriage good thing to
573. 20:30begin to happen and she just relaxed and
574. 20:32enjoyed life and the meeting she had
575. 20:34were just the ones that she had and she
576. 20:35did not rewrite about them as some type
577. 20:36of big campaign or big crusade at this
578. 20:40time she's become the great mother of
579. 20:42the Pentecostal movement the Pentecostal
580. 20:44movement is a baby in an infant stage
581. 20:46she's senior she's mature she's the
582. 20:49elder statesman and all the young
583. 20:51Pentecostals look to her as someone that
584. 20:53can follow get advice from and how to
585. 20:56work with the gifts of the Spirit how to
586. 20:57flow and healing how to cast out Devils
587. 21:00and how to have successful healing
588. 21:01campaigns she would go to Dallas and
589. 21:03work with MF Bosworth to help build the
590. 21:05first Assemblies of God Church there but
591. 21:07as she gets older she has two tragedies
592. 21:10that happen same letter passes away she
593. 21:13buries him and then went back in
594. 21:15Indianapolis Indiana where her
595. 21:17headquarters are her daughter's walking
596. 21:19across the street one day and get hit by
597. 21:20car and she dies so when mother enters
598. 21:23life she buries both husbands and all of
599. 21:27her children before she dies that's
600. 21:29really not the way life should be lived
601. 21:30or how the natural flow of life should
602. 21:32be done can you imagine the tragedy and
603. 21:35the heartbreak when she saw that her
604. 21:37only living daughter she had to do the
605. 21:38fueler for and buried her so if she got
606. 21:41older she not travel much she built a
607. 21:43big church that they called the enter
608. 21:45Tabernacle today it's the greatest image
609. 21:47of God in church and in empaths Indiana
610. 21:49I think it's called Lakeview christian
611. 21:51centers what it's called and in her
612. 21:53older years she's you begin to lose the
613. 21:55strength to walk and to stand so before
614. 21:58church they would get her dressed and
615. 22:00put her in her chair and they'd a walker
616. 22:02across what calls her house and the
617. 22:03church right next door to each other and
618. 22:05then Walker across him and in the chair
619. 22:07and place her in the chair on the podium
620. 22:10or on the platform and when the
621. 22:11anointing when it comes he would stand
622. 22:13up and preach like she had no problems
623. 22:15and whenever to live she'd get back in
624. 22:16the chair and then carry her back across
625. 22:18and put her to bed that's how she lived
626. 22:20out the latter part of her life mrs.
627. 22:22aider is one of those people but if you
628. 22:24want to follow somebody's faith and know
629. 22:26that there's not gonna be a great
630. 22:28problem it is her mother editors were
631. 22:30those whose doctrines were great to the
632. 22:32end her Morrow life was great to the end
633. 22:34she overcame the problems that she faced
634. 22:37with class and we
635. 22:39the clarity and with the decision not to
636. 22:41give up nor how bad it was we can follow
637. 22:44her natural example and her spiritual
638. 22:46example hope you'll spend time and read
639. 22:49more of her books and moreover sermons
640. 22:51and understand here was a lady and that
641. 22:53all nine gifts of the Spirit spoke in
642. 22:55tongues got people healed cast out
643. 22:57Devils all the four phases of Street
644. 23:00revival she predates the outpouring of
645. 23:02modern Pentecost and she becomes the
646. 23:04grandmother of the great movement of
647. 23:06Pentecost and we're so thankful she
648. 23:08lived she obeyed and she didn't quit
649. 23:11when things got rough one of the great
650. 23:13things we can learn from mother errors
651. 23:15life is when she goes through hard times
652. 23:17when she went through that great
653. 23:19terrible meeting when she went to jail
654. 23:21for practice a minute without a license
655. 23:22when she buried both of her husbands and
656. 23:25all of her kids died she didn't get mad
657. 23:27at God she didn't give up she didn't
658. 23:29walk away she stayed faithful to recall
659. 23:31faithful to her faith in Christ and made
660. 23:34the devil suffer because she kept doing
661. 23:36what was right
662. 23:36kept preaching keppo Bain when you go
663. 23:39through a trial when you go through a
664. 23:41problem don't let the emotions dictate
665. 23:43to you let your decisions of your heart
666. 23:45dictate to you and always make the devil
667. 23:48to pay by doing good things for Jesus
668. 23:50represent him with boldness with no
669. 23:52shame and no fear and finish your course
670. 23:55on earth with everything complete so
671. 23:58when it's time to go you finish your
672. 24:00course and you're ready to leave and
673. 24:01there's no regret and there's no
674. 24:04complaint about what you've done what
675. 24:07you be free
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