see what God can do for us. He de-
sires to carry us out so quickly into
the depths that we will look at one
another in amazement.
Another brother sent a fax. He had been healed in our meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. He fell out under the power several times in the service that night. When he got home and was undressing, he discov- ered gold dust on the inside of his shirt. He hadnt realized at the time what God was doing for him and only saw it later.
That morning we heard the same news from three different cities. Gods Spirit is not being poured out in isolated cases. He is doing it everywhere people are hungry.
In November of 1997, during one of our weekend revival meetings in Ashland, I stepped up to the
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pulpit to preach one night and was suddenly car- ried away in the Spirit. I could feel myself being rapidly lifted upward. I must have been carried away for at least a half hour to forty-five minutes and during that time everything in the meeting just stopped.
When I came to myself there was a rhythm that was repeating itself over and over in my spirit. Very slowly I heard myself saying, The eyes of the blind shall see; the ears of the deaf shall hear; and the dead shall be raised to life again. Again, The eyes of the blind shall see; the ears of the deaf shall hear; and the dead shall be raised to life again.
The people had been sitting all this time in the glory, and some later said that it was the greatest glory they had ever experienced. Still, it was a strange experience. One would naturally think that if the Lord had wanted to carry me away, why had He not done it while I was sitting on the platform earlier in the service? The fact that He had waited until I was at the pulpit showed me that He obvi- ously wanted everything to come to a stop and for that great glory to come in.
There were other things that the Lord showed me that night, but less than a week later we took sev- eral carloads of our camp people to the funeral of a pastor in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Just before the funeral service started, my associate, Ruth Carneal,
who was seated next to me on the front row, turned to me and asked where the rest room was. I pointed it out at the back of the church.
Would I have time to go before the service be- gins? she asked.
Please do, I answered her.
When she didnt return I assumed that she had taken a seat farther back in the sanctuary.
Im not sure how much time elapsed. I had a part in the ceremony and several other pastors read scrip- ture portions. After a time, however (probably fifteen or twenty minutes), someone tapped me on the shoulder and said, Sister Ruth Carneal is on the floor at the back. I got up and went back qui- etly, not wanting to disturb the service. When I saw Ruth stretched out on the floor, I knew immediately that she was dead.
My first thought was not to spoil the funeral, so I got two brothers to pick her up, one by the feet and the other by the shoulders, and to carry her into a side room. It was a small room, and there wasnt enough space to stretch her body out completely, so the men sat her up on a chair. Her head was fall- ing to one side, so I reached over to support her head and neck.
Until that moment, my only concern had been to get her away from the funeral service so that it would not be disturbed. As I placed my hand on Ruths neck, suddenly those rhythms from the week
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before returned to my spirit. The words came to me just as slowly and distinctly and powerfully as they had that night: The eyes of the blind shall see; the ears of the deaf shall hear; and the dead shall be raised to life again. I was not saying the words out loud; they were going over and over in my spirit. The eyes of the blind shall see; the ears of the deaf shall hear; and the dead shall be raised to life again. When I said it the second time within myself, she gasped and her spirit came back into her.
Someone had called an ambulance and by this time it had arrived. The paramedics quickly placed Ruth into the ambulance and headed for the hospi- tal. I was able to ride in the front seat of the ambulance with them. In the rear they were doing a preliminary examination of Ruth and they found that all her vital signs were normal. When we ar- rived at the Emergency Room and doctors had thoroughly examined Ruth, they discovered that when she had gone to the rest room she had suf- fered a severe hemorrhage and lost fully a third of her blood. This had caused her to faint and die as she came out of the rest room.
It had been an awesome experience when I was first carried away and again that day when the rhythms of the river came to me, but the most amaz- ing thing about this experience came to me later. I had never actually prayed for her to come back to life. The miracle happened in the flow of the river.
Recently, Ruth was in a meeting in the Royal The- atre in New Castle in Australia. In the morning service, everyone present heard the audible voice of the Lord coming through the public address sys- tem. He was saying, This will be a revival of signs. Thank me. They all sat in amazement, seeing that no one was speaking into the microphones and re- alizing that they had heard the audible voice of the Lord. In describing His voice, they said it had fire on it.