FrankLee
Member
I was the sinner and if one ever needed capturing and brought to God's mercy seat it was me. How blessed are those raised in a Christian home that knew and followed after Jesus from their youth. Alas, I was not. Always a loner, I never joined anything and rarely anyone. Soft hearted I put a hard veneer over myself to try and protect myself from the world. It didn't work though and I was just wounded even more. My home was dysfunctional to say the least. I idolized my father until as a teen I came in one day and found him with the neighbor's wife. He's forgiven now and died a Christian, but I despised him for years and we had no real relationship. Sin makes big waves that touch a lot of lives. Before I was saved I realized that I was no better than him and it was no relief.
SALVATION, THE GREAT MYSTERY
God saved me but I don't know how except I had one uncle that prayed for me constantly. All of a sudden my name came up on God's calendar and I began to change. It was the early fall of 1977. I don't know what day or even what month I was saved, but saved I certainly was.
All of a sudden I was a new man that didn't want to do the same things as before. I couldn't stand to be alone with me because there was nothing in me that I liked. His conviction was very strong and went on for weeks even after I asked Him to save and forgive me. As I drove to work He would remind me of past deeds and I'd have to pull over, pray and weep for awhile before I could continue. Some of it was the condemnation of the adversary no doubt but it did cause me to be in continual prayer.
Deuteronomy 7:22 KJVS
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Those beasts I was certainly aware of. I was going to need a lot of healing and deliverance. I can look back and see that I needed setting free from a spirit of fear and all kinds of other things even as a child in a home that understood nothing about God, well not much.
I was saved but still very troubled. We were going to a little country Baptist church and I'd ask brothers there if they'd ever experienced any of the things I was going through. They all said no and just went back to discussing other things. This just discouraged me and gave the enemy ammunition. Being a new Christian alone is difficult. One morning, perhaps in October, I was watching a religious program on TV that had Shirley Boone on as a guest. She described an experience she had with God. Shirley and Pat were going through hard times caused by the Hollywood lifestyle. She thought herself to be very close to God but found their troubles to be overwhelming. She went to pour her heart out to God in prayer and then noticed that she had been speaking in some language she'd never learned for the past twenty minutes.
BAPTISM NO. 1
I'd never heard of such a thing and just went on to work. I came home early that day and was working in the attic of a room I was building. I began to pray and weep before God for help, since no man, even the church pastor could help me or even knew what to say or do, and as I prayed I thought of Shirley Boone. I was so ignorant of God's ways I thought that "well, I can see God doing something special for a movie star's wife". As I wept a thought drifted through my spirit, "if God did that thing for that woman maybe He'd do it for you too". Outside of any church there in the wilderness God had visited a poor ignorant sinner, saved and filled him with His blessed Holy Spirit - and fire!
I didn't know what that thing was but in childlike faith I began to make up words, baby talk and anything at all and speak it. In a minute or two I didn't have to make it up! I had ignorantly asked God to baptize me with the Holy Ghost and fire and He had. He also gave me the gift of tongues. "what is this", I didn't know anything but started reading all the old and new testament scriptures on the subject. There are a lot of them.
Zephaniah 3:9 KJVS
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord , to serve him with one consent.
Jeremiah 31:2 KJVS
Thus saith the Lord , The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
I've had ignorant people, allegedly Christians, infer that I was not saved and my experiences were demonic. Thank God for faith, those words might have been devastating otherwise! Funny thing, for the 33 years I was a confirmed sinner I never had any such things happen. I had cried out to God and my answers were from Him. Oh yes, and the Lord told me that He wanted to start living His life in me at 33, the same age as Jesus when He was put to death on the cross. If I had been saturated in some denomination's "God doesn't" doctrine I'd have missed all of the wonderful works of God that my aging eyeballs have beheld. I needed real help from God, not some doctrinal statement.
DANCING ON THE PIANO
We started attending the Christian Center, a church that was in Levy, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Gene Mullenax was pastor. Gene was an ex Nazarene church member that was saved but had to have a lung removed due to a bleeding cyst. He was useless for work and for nearly everything else. He'd walk ten feet and be out of breath. He did not believe in God's gifts but was about to!
Out of sheer desperation Gene went to an A.A. Allen tent meeting to be prayed for. He hated the whole idea, but when your life is on the line you'll try anything. In that prayer line there was a woman in front of him holding a baby. That baby had a large growth on it's lip and Gene thought to himself "I don't care how crooked they are, they can't con this baby into getting healed"! That was a real seeker.
When the mother and her baby came up for prayer Mr. Allen didn't even touch the child but asked the congregation, which has was mostly black, to stretch out their hands towards the baby and pray. Gene was watching closely and in the very blink of an eye the growth was gone. Gene's turn for prayer now. After hearing the need, again Mr. Allen asked the people to pray. Gene was a racist at that time and hated black people. But all he saw was many many black outstretched hands. It's hard to hate people that are praying for you! The first thing was it felt as if someone had poured a bucket of warm oil over his head. He made a fist and turned around to hit the person but no one was there. Next it seemed like an air hose had been placed in his chest and had blown him up like a balloon. His slumped shoulder raised up to the level of the other one.
Going back to his doctors for an x-ray they found that Gene somehow had gotten brand new lung to fill the void in his chest. God's sense of humor was apparent in that the new lung was slightly larger than his existing one. Later the FBI was investigating for fraud by Mr. Allen and so they requested Gene's x-rays. After taking them nothing more was heard from them. You can't argue, after all, with a nice new lung!
Gene's gone to glory now but my fondest memory of him is a mental picture of him dancing on the church piano and praising God one Sunday morning. If anyone had a right to be that joyful certainly it was Gene Mullenax, ex-racist, new disciple. I can still share his wonderful testimony.
There in that excellent church my wife and I received prayers and healing. She was saved and then received the baptism of God's Holy Spirit. We brought my sister and she was saved and also filled with the Spirit. My brother's wife was saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit at home. He was saved too.
God has worked mightily in our family and receives all glory!
Isaiah 9:2 KJVS
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
SALVATION, THE GREAT MYSTERY
God saved me but I don't know how except I had one uncle that prayed for me constantly. All of a sudden my name came up on God's calendar and I began to change. It was the early fall of 1977. I don't know what day or even what month I was saved, but saved I certainly was.
All of a sudden I was a new man that didn't want to do the same things as before. I couldn't stand to be alone with me because there was nothing in me that I liked. His conviction was very strong and went on for weeks even after I asked Him to save and forgive me. As I drove to work He would remind me of past deeds and I'd have to pull over, pray and weep for awhile before I could continue. Some of it was the condemnation of the adversary no doubt but it did cause me to be in continual prayer.
Deuteronomy 7:22 KJVS
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Those beasts I was certainly aware of. I was going to need a lot of healing and deliverance. I can look back and see that I needed setting free from a spirit of fear and all kinds of other things even as a child in a home that understood nothing about God, well not much.
I was saved but still very troubled. We were going to a little country Baptist church and I'd ask brothers there if they'd ever experienced any of the things I was going through. They all said no and just went back to discussing other things. This just discouraged me and gave the enemy ammunition. Being a new Christian alone is difficult. One morning, perhaps in October, I was watching a religious program on TV that had Shirley Boone on as a guest. She described an experience she had with God. Shirley and Pat were going through hard times caused by the Hollywood lifestyle. She thought herself to be very close to God but found their troubles to be overwhelming. She went to pour her heart out to God in prayer and then noticed that she had been speaking in some language she'd never learned for the past twenty minutes.
BAPTISM NO. 1
I'd never heard of such a thing and just went on to work. I came home early that day and was working in the attic of a room I was building. I began to pray and weep before God for help, since no man, even the church pastor could help me or even knew what to say or do, and as I prayed I thought of Shirley Boone. I was so ignorant of God's ways I thought that "well, I can see God doing something special for a movie star's wife". As I wept a thought drifted through my spirit, "if God did that thing for that woman maybe He'd do it for you too". Outside of any church there in the wilderness God had visited a poor ignorant sinner, saved and filled him with His blessed Holy Spirit - and fire!
I didn't know what that thing was but in childlike faith I began to make up words, baby talk and anything at all and speak it. In a minute or two I didn't have to make it up! I had ignorantly asked God to baptize me with the Holy Ghost and fire and He had. He also gave me the gift of tongues. "what is this", I didn't know anything but started reading all the old and new testament scriptures on the subject. There are a lot of them.
Zephaniah 3:9 KJVS
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord , to serve him with one consent.
Jeremiah 31:2 KJVS
Thus saith the Lord , The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
I've had ignorant people, allegedly Christians, infer that I was not saved and my experiences were demonic. Thank God for faith, those words might have been devastating otherwise! Funny thing, for the 33 years I was a confirmed sinner I never had any such things happen. I had cried out to God and my answers were from Him. Oh yes, and the Lord told me that He wanted to start living His life in me at 33, the same age as Jesus when He was put to death on the cross. If I had been saturated in some denomination's "God doesn't" doctrine I'd have missed all of the wonderful works of God that my aging eyeballs have beheld. I needed real help from God, not some doctrinal statement.
DANCING ON THE PIANO
We started attending the Christian Center, a church that was in Levy, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Gene Mullenax was pastor. Gene was an ex Nazarene church member that was saved but had to have a lung removed due to a bleeding cyst. He was useless for work and for nearly everything else. He'd walk ten feet and be out of breath. He did not believe in God's gifts but was about to!
Out of sheer desperation Gene went to an A.A. Allen tent meeting to be prayed for. He hated the whole idea, but when your life is on the line you'll try anything. In that prayer line there was a woman in front of him holding a baby. That baby had a large growth on it's lip and Gene thought to himself "I don't care how crooked they are, they can't con this baby into getting healed"! That was a real seeker.
When the mother and her baby came up for prayer Mr. Allen didn't even touch the child but asked the congregation, which has was mostly black, to stretch out their hands towards the baby and pray. Gene was watching closely and in the very blink of an eye the growth was gone. Gene's turn for prayer now. After hearing the need, again Mr. Allen asked the people to pray. Gene was a racist at that time and hated black people. But all he saw was many many black outstretched hands. It's hard to hate people that are praying for you! The first thing was it felt as if someone had poured a bucket of warm oil over his head. He made a fist and turned around to hit the person but no one was there. Next it seemed like an air hose had been placed in his chest and had blown him up like a balloon. His slumped shoulder raised up to the level of the other one.
Going back to his doctors for an x-ray they found that Gene somehow had gotten brand new lung to fill the void in his chest. God's sense of humor was apparent in that the new lung was slightly larger than his existing one. Later the FBI was investigating for fraud by Mr. Allen and so they requested Gene's x-rays. After taking them nothing more was heard from them. You can't argue, after all, with a nice new lung!
Gene's gone to glory now but my fondest memory of him is a mental picture of him dancing on the church piano and praising God one Sunday morning. If anyone had a right to be that joyful certainly it was Gene Mullenax, ex-racist, new disciple. I can still share his wonderful testimony.
There in that excellent church my wife and I received prayers and healing. She was saved and then received the baptism of God's Holy Spirit. We brought my sister and she was saved and also filled with the Spirit. My brother's wife was saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit at home. He was saved too.
God has worked mightily in our family and receives all glory!
Isaiah 9:2 KJVS
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.