From the salt shaker of life's experiences I will try to draw out some of the things I have experienced, or have learned, or have been interested in. I plan to discuss a variety of things ministerial - a sort of smorgasbord of things hopefully interesting, informative and sometimes personal, as well as meditative, scriptural and doctrinal.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

SUGERY PLANS INTERRUPTED

It's a great advantage to have faith in a God who answers prayer and works miracles. I have never had, or claimed to have, any power to heal; but I do firmly believe in God's Power to heal. This I can say, I have been privileged to be present when healing took place.

I was busy at something, I don't remember just what, when a call came from a nurse at Trinity Hospital. It went something like this: "Brother Holland a young woman on my ward is hemorrhaging badly and is being prepped for surgery. She is very frightened and is unsaved. Come now if you can!"I left at once and found a young mother named Wilma Sutherlin just a described by the nurse. I advised her to be as calm as she could and to trust as we prayed. It was a brief prayer. I simply asked God to save Wilma and to calm her fears and to heal her.

It was as smooth a transition as I ever saw. Her face was radiant, and her faith was strong. Wilma was saved and healed. No need for surgery; no need for anything.

Wilma was the mother of three small children, a little boy named Jan and twins whose names I don't recall. The husband was not interested in church, but for months she and the children were regularly in our church, until a part-time preacher who lived in the same housing complex influenced them to attend his church.

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