Christian Family Services Ministry

02-27-2013 – Six weeks later I was walking home from school. Taking a short cut across and open field and the thought came to mind,  “Do you want me to be your Father?”  The question was a direct statement and came as a thought in my mind.  I knew immediately the source. I had become very familiar with it.  I said that I did. He did. (See article “Blessed are they that Mourn.”)

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02-25-2013 – I was not close to my father, he was partial to my sister, my mother was partial to my twin brother. I will spare the reader the details; however his death was like a death sentence for me. 

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02-23-2013 – I started to cry I knew something had happened. She hung up the phone, turned and said, “Your father has died.” He has been dead several days. We will be going to Oklahoma City the next day.

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02-22-2013 – In mid September 1956, late one evening the phone rang. I was twelve. We were just getting ready to go to bed. Mother answered the phone and said almost nothing.

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02-20-2013 – After my hospitalization at 10 I remained with my mother until I left home at 16. Mother taught us the Word of the Lord diligently. During the time from ten until twelve some of the more important lessons on prayer took place.

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02-19-2013 – From the age of four when my parents divorced, until the age of ten, we were moved from one foster home to another. All were abusive in one manner or another. The moves were interspersed with short stays with our mother often a few weeks or at the most a few months. The abuse, physical, mental and sexual resulted in some difficult consequences in my life. 

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02-18-2013 – I did not originally intend this to be autobiographical. However I see that it is not possible to relate what God has done unless I show you how desperately I needed Him to do something.

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2/15/13 – As my mother later told me it was the second time she had ask the Lord to intervene and save my life.  Not only did he accomplish that but there were no long term effects save one.

These were the first instances that formed my education on just how powerful prayer could be. How, in fact, impossibly powerful our God is.

Thus the purpose of the posts are to share just a few of the wondorous deeds the Lord has done. I can not even start to tell you the things this all powerful God has done in my life and in the life of others in this life time.

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2/12/13 – As she later described it she rushed me to St Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. By then I was semi-conscience. I remember them putting me on a gurney and shoving me in an elevator, pulling my pants down a nurse on one side and a doctor on the other giving me shots just as fast as they could. I past out.

Later I woke up and had an IV in my arm. The diagnosis was polio encephalitis. I was in isolation for some time.

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2/7/13 – I must digress for a moment. Jumping ahead seven years. This is Mary and I’s anniversary, the 49^th. How it came about was, yes you guessed it, by prayer. I was in the military at the time and had come home on leave.  Mother suggested that I go on a hayride that was being held in conjunction with a church in Norman, Oklahoma. I, to say the least did not want to go. Out of deference for her I did.

I ended up sitting by a beautiful young girl whose father was an elder in Norman. I immediately fell in love with her. As I was leaving that evening, turning left on Western towards Oklahoma City, I reminded the Lord of His words in Matthew 7:7 and told Him I wanted to marry Mary. He assured me in that moment I would but I had some maturing to do. We shall return to this subject and the prayers.

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