Welcome to the God's Gunnest Podcast where our mission is to encourage and highlight
God's Gunnest and modern-day miracles.
We are your hosts, Josh and Shelly Hankins.
Today we have with us Pastor Rick Kardell back with some more 20th century adventures in
God.
We're going to be amazed, I'm sure, some more cool stories.
And we'll have him start us off with an opening prayer.
Holy Spirit, we're so dependent upon you.
And we thank you that we have ears to hear.
We have amount to speak and to share the good things that you've given to us and allow us to experience.
So that others can be provoked to faith.
We believe for your nointing upon us that everything will go according to the way that you wanted to go.
And we ask God that you would cause people to tune in and to listen.
We know faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God and we do share your word in these 20th century experiences.
Even though we're in the 21st century, you just keep doing and doing and doing God.
Thank you for blessing Josh and Shelly dear Lord God.
And there could be a goodness to invite me here to talk about you, my favorite subject.
In Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Somewhere would you like to start today, Pastor Rick?
Well, I would like to start with what I call an unusual prophecy where God told me he wanted me to go to school.
School was not one of my favorite things growing up.
As a matter of fact, I skipped school as much as I could in high school.
There was a prayer meeting, after I was saved, you know, I was starting going to prayer meetings and there was a prayer meeting in a home that I went to often.
One particular night I got there late.
The only seat was a chair next to the leader.
I had never seen this happen before or since under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
He pointed to the person on my right and began to prophesy over them for where he was.
That was wonderful.
But he continued to point to the next person and the next person, giving a personal word of encouragement to every person that was there.
Lastly, he pointed to me and said, without knowing how much I hated school.
This is what the Lord said through him.
As much as you don't like school, I want you to go to school.
And in it, I have a purpose that will keep you secure through up.
Well, the next day that prophecy just continued to speak to me.
So I said, okay, Lord, I'm going to open this phone book and put my finger down on the page.
If this is from you, then let my finger fall on the school you want me to go to.
Please remember, I was a very young Christian just learning to walk with the Lord.
I looked down to where my finger was pointing to and it said, do cane university.
So I called and scheduled an interview.
Well, I went on a trip and forgot about the interview that was scheduled for the day that I got home.
So I called and rescheduled.
When I got to the waiting room, I sat down and I read.
The Holy Spirit spoke with me and said, when he, the interviewer, wants to know why Duquesne tell him I said so.
Oh, boy, I thought he's going to think I'm nuts.
But, okay, I'll do it.
The Lord assured me that when he tells us to do something, he has already prepared the way.
I was called in and welcomed by a very big handsome, well-groomed African American man named Bill Nun.
In our conversation, he asked me how I enjoyed my time in the army.
I said that there were good times and bad, but through the worst time I gave my life to Jesus.
He jumped up and said, you mean you're saved?
I shared my story with him and when he asked me why I chose to cane, I told him exactly what the Lord said.
That he said so.
Bill realized we had talked a long time about the Lord and not much about the school.
He was running late for an appointment and he gave me an application saying
to take it home so that I send it in.
So I did.
When I got my transcript of my grades from high school, they were all good grades.
And that was a supernatural phenomenon because I was just an average student.
I had some deas, I had some abs, but God, I don't know how you did it God,
but I had all as and as a band.
That's amazing grace.
Talk about a glitch before they were glitches.
So I went to school on a GI Bill.
Classes began and the money still had not come in for my books.
One day after a few classes, I came into my English class,
being that I couldn't read the homework assignment without a book.
I was at a loss.
The teacher announced,
we are going to write an in-processed theme.
Now, what in the world is an in-processed theme?
Oh, Lord, you told me to come here and I obeyed.
I need your help Holy Spirit.
Please show me what to write and let my paper be the best in the class.
So I wrote and I wrote and the next day in that class,
the papers were handed back.
Wow, this man liked to write with a red ink.
Paper after paper was handed to the classmates with all kinds of notes and corrections.
One lady said to me, how big you got the best one?
I said, yeah, my face I didn't believe it.
Sure enough, I got an A plus.
The best paper in the class.
Pretty good for not even knowing what an in-processed theme was.
I still don't know what an in-processed theme is.
But I do know I give God the glory for that one.
Someone invited me to a permitting in Gibsonia,
which I had never attended.
At testimony time, I shared the story that I just shared with you guys.
After the meeting, a couple came over to me and gave me a pen of cost of handship.
Can't shake, you know what that is?
Okay, somebody shakes your hand and you feel money between your hands.
The next day after prayer, the Lord said, go and get your books now.
God sure is a good provider.
So I went to the bookstore and I bought brand new books.
Hallelujah.
Nothing but the best for God's kids, right?
Well being Catholic, I would go to the masses that were offered daily at DuCain.
And one day a very nice young lady waited for me and said,
who are you?
We began to talk.
She had recently been saved and we powed around together and became good friends.
Also, we met other Christians on campus.
We ended up getting married in time.
She was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
I had the greatest in laws anyone could ask for.
And together we had a wonderful son.
Unfortunately after seven years we were divorced.
I said, Lord, you know all things.
You knew how this was going to end up.
Why did you allow us to get married?
And he said that he wanted me to experience all the good that I had in that relationship.
The good is far more valuable than the bad.
So God leads us in ways that are outside the boundaries of our own understanding.
For instance, when I was attending DuCain University, which was right across the street from Mercy Hospital
where my sister, Fran, worked and we both lived in the same house, sound and oakmont,
God led me to hitchhike every day instead of riding with her.
While it was not convenient, it certainly proved to be exciting.
I had numerous daily opportunities to share my faith with people who never would have heard it otherwise.
I know God cared for those people and they needed to meet him as a personal Lord and Savior.
I remember one specific day that my Ryan took me all the way to a place called Bumble of Art.
And before getting out of the car, I noticed a woman and her adult son with a hood of their car up stopped on the road.
The son had used the payphone, remember them, and then left.
I was standing now with my thumb out to get a ride when the Lord said,
go over and lay hands on her car and pray over it.
Oh Lord, I've got to get to my class.
It's my favorite one with Father Nasty.
I did not obey and no cars were stopping to get me a ride.
The Lord spoke again.
You're not going to get a ride until you do what I say.
So I went over to the woman.
She explained that her battery was dead and her son had to leave and go to work.
I asked the woman if she believed in the power of prayer.
She did not answer.
A totaler I was going to pray over her battery and God would start her car.
She thought I was nuts, but what could she do?
So I laid hands on the battery and prayed a health-lord prayer.
You've got to come through here.
Just then a police car pulled up and asked what was going on.
I told them, her battery died and I praying over it.
They smiled and left.
I then asked the woman to start the car.
She replied, I told you, the battery is dead.
It's not going to start.
I said, please try.
She did and started right up.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
She told me to get in and she tried me as far as she was going.
I said, now do you believe in the power of prayer?
She said, sure.
She handed me a watch tower magazine, which is from the Jehovah Witnesses.
I shared my testimony with her, including that I was Catholic.
She began addressing the idolatry issue.
When I had to get out at her turn, I said, lady, if you don't give my Jesus the glory for starting your car,
I don't know how far you're going to get when I get out of this car.
I got out and never looked back.
But I praise the Lord for his love and care for the Jehovah Witness lady that he wanted to hear about his true salvation.
Praise God.
I love how he shows up every time for you.
Always.
Even today.
We have to go ahead and tell about it.
We record at the church sometimes and today the internet went down and so they weren't able to unlock the doors remotely.
So thankfully Pastor Rick had a key from his time when he was on stage.
Did I didn't even know a hat?
Yeah.
Because I turned all my keys in.
So you thought.
Yeah.
And this was the one hidden in your keychain and it worked.
And so we got in and we got to get out of here.
First thing I tried.
Our schedule.
Now how old did you see that key?
Well, I've been here since I've been a staff since 1989.
Yeah.
That's an old key.
It is an old key.
I like keys.
Keys are important.
And this place as you can't get unless
you have a key.
Fischer.
We know that.
To the kingdom.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I love it.
It just keeps showing up.
And it's always good.
Yeah.
Let me tell you another story.
Absolutely.
That's when I call the Yorktownian experience.
You know, in John 4 versus 3 and 4,
it says, hey, Jesus left Judea and departed again into Galilee.
And he must need to go through Samaria.
And we know the whole story about that.
You know, that's where he ministered to the woman that the well
and she became one day in Evangelista.
Part of the list.
One time.
He's seen.
Yeah.
So remember Jesus ministered to that woman.
And the whole town ended up getting saved.
Well, in our everyday existence of doing what we need to do,
God has purpose for our lives to touch others.
That in turn, they may reach others for the Lord.
The Lord secured me a job.
I guess it was about a year after I got out of the service.
And it was at the short order cook.
And a nice restaurant in Bar called the Yorktownian.
I'm in Oakmont, PA across from the golf course.
The owners were very nice people.
And I was not quiet about my faith.
And what Jesus had done for me.
I would testify to the waitresses, Maryam and Josie.
They would smoke and blow their cigarettes smoke in my face.
I can tell you this story.
I think I remember Maryam from our first recording with him, maybe.
But it was like, you didn't tell us all the details.
All right. Yeah. Go on with us.
I prayed for them and others there.
Even customers that I knew who were alcoholics.
Because Jesus loves everyone.
He loves sinners.
And everyone in that place was a sinner.
Well, four years after I had left there and moved to the South Hills,
my phone rang.
The Holy Spirit said to me,
that's Maryam, Susseila.
So when I answered the phone, she said,
Ric Cardell, you'll never guess who this is.
I said, Maryam, Susseila.
She said, how'd you know?
I told her that the Lord spoke to me as the phone rang.
She thanked me for witnessing to her in Josie.
And they had both received Jesus as their Lord and Savior,
and were filled with the Holy Spirit.
She was now attending a friend of mine,
Ray Patterson's Church,
that at that time was called Day's Franchitions Center,
located in Tarenna, PA.
Well, Maryam lived in a place called Verona,
about an hour away from where I live now.
And she invited me to come once a month to her house
and teach a papu study.
Her pastor, Ray, approved, and so we began.
Maryam is there was, he's with a Lord now.
She was a Greek woman,
and she loved to feed people.
She would make a nice dinner and invite all kinds of people,
and then we would have a papu study and ministry.
People would get saved, healed, delivered, and filled
with the Holy Spirit with such great memories.
And one of these meetings, a prayer was requested by her brother,
and sister-in-law.
It were in the process of purchasing an old church building in Caysville.
They wanted to make it a home for veterans.
They said they'd have me out for services
because it was to be a ministry,
and they wanted to get them and saved.
The Lord got it for them,
and as different seasons came into our lives,
we weren't in touch.
They never did contact me to do that outreach.
After 12 years, and I love God's timing, perfect timing,
it's, you know, remaything is a long time,
but it's not an old God.
So after 12 years, there was a young woman from our church
who sang in the choir,
and she ended up in a personal care home
out in Caysville, PA,
and I mean, it was way out in the sticks.
I went to visit her,
and it was an old wooden building,
very dimly lit inside,
and the residents, all different ages,
young and old, were so drugged up
that they were like zombies.
I said, hey, when's the last time you had church here?
And the lady who worked there said,
are they going to have church there?
Because no prayer, no preacher will come
all the way out there.
So I said, hey, let's have church now.
So we sang, I shared the Word of God,
and they invited me, the woman invited me to come back.
So we ended up having monthly meetings there.
People got saved, healed, delivered, spirit filled,
hallelujah.
I had a team that came with me,
God played the guitar,
sometimes his wife would bring her bylion.
And it was reliably.
We just really saw God do some wonderful things
in these people's lives.
By the way, that lady who lived there,
she ended up coming to church here a few months ago.
She had gotten married,
and doesn't live all too far.
She came on the trolley,
but isn't that neat to see fruit from all those years?
Because it was a good number of years ago.
So after two years of meetings there,
we arrived one day to find that the place was all closed and boarded up.
So I told my team,
we are not wasting this trip all the way out here to Clesville.
We're going to find that stuff,
and minister there, Hallelujah.
So as we went in the door,
we entered playing and singing,
and who was working there,
Maryam Sassaila.
Look at God.
So from then on,
we did monthly meetings there.
Sometimes only a few men came to the service,
but residents and workers began getting saved.
One by one,
some healed, some delivered,
some even filled with a Holy Spirit,
including Maryam's,
a one of Maryam's grandsons.
One day, as we were just beginning our service,
a man excused himself saying he was going outside.
He wanted to smoke.
On to my mouth came these words.
It's amazing how spontaneous these,
I find things coming out of my mouth that I had never planned on saying.
You know,
Jeverke's been saying that all the time.
I mean,
I never really think about what I'd say,
so I can hear it for the first time with everyone else.
Okay.
So out of my mouth came these words,
it's a nice day outside.
Let's all go outside.
We'll have our meeting outside today.
Then I was led to tell everybody,
saying a play has loudest you could.
It's your can.
Okay.
I knew God was up to something good.
He was always up to something good.
The following month,
a woman who worked there said that the old house next door
was a personal care home.
When we sang the last month,
the owner heard us and brought her residents near the windows
to hear us.
They invited us to two meetings there.
So now,
or that time,
for many years,
I'm talking a lot of years.
We had the two meetings.
We went to the vet's home first
and then we went over to the call at Mama's house.
And, but God always confirming
his word,
salvation,
healings,
Holy Spirit Baptisms.
Now,
what fruit we see there
that abounds
just from witnessing to
waitress,
many years before at the Yorktown Inn.
Same courage people.
Always always share your faith,
because only God knows
what that would produce in the years to come.
You got to thought, don't you?
It's just wise words.
You know,
there's too many times that
we overlook the little things
that God is putting so much scrutiny into.
And we are,
like when you write a good review for someplace,
nobody ever remembers.
But if you have a bad review,
everybody remembers.
And so, there's not enough positive praise
coming out at the point of that.
And so, when we are looking at
how God uses us
in the ways of using us,
that we have to always remember to
follow the instructions,
like you've been doing.
Right?
He really shows up
when we're obedient.
Like really shows up.
There's not much
that is,
I believe left chance.
There's not such thing as coincidence.
There's not such thing as luck,
at least for me there.
There's not such a superstition.
And all that's nonsense.
But God does have a plan.
God's plan is absolute.
And it includes us.
And it's easier for him
if we're agreeing.
Right?
It's not impossible for him.
But we can make a take
a long time
if we're not obedient.
We can make a take
a lot longer than it needs to.
You're talking about your fruitfulness.
And I was just thinking of
all the couples.
You've married over the years
and then had that the Valerie
knew all the other day.
That was certainly
need to see the picture.
It's beautiful.
It's shared on social media.
I like to.
I was need to see the couples
that you brought together.
Everything that we do matters.
Hmm.
Just might take a while
for you to see three adults.
Right.
But then when you look back,
oh wow.
I think that would be the most
interesting part about the
judgments of Christ when we're
before him.
And we're already judged
righteousness eyes.
But you know,
it comes out of the rewards.
And as he's looking at us,
how are we going to think we're going to get so little
because we can remember the bad things that we had done.
And how much he's going to start telling us of all the things that we knew nothing about
because it was obedient
because it was a word of encouragement
because it was a word of prayer for someone
and it changed someone's life like you were saying.
And he's going to fill us with this.
And we're not going to realize how much of that.
I mean,
I don't realize how much of it.
I know you don't realize the full extent of what you've done for him.
But he knows.
And it's going to really open our eyes
because I think again,
we like to focus on the bad.
And we want to even be completely surprised by all of this.
I know you did this.
And he said this to her.
And she said this to this person who
said it to this person who saved
350,000 people with my son's name.
I think we'll never really know the full extent of it.
And tell we are in the kingdom.
Totally in the kingdom.
That's why it's important to just keep going.
Keep pouring into people.
And I heard this thing recently
that you shouldn't judge your life
on the results you're getting.
You should judge your life on the seeds you sow.
This is true.
And we're going to worry about the results.
Keep sowing. Keep sowing.
Every day so seeds somewhere.
Even if it's a kind word,
or that in somebody in a traffic,
that can be hard for some people.
Yeah.
And you know, sometimes,
God has people see good things in you
that you don't see.
And let me tell you a story
about how God made me the president of the full gospel.
And I think that's the first thing that's
about the gospel businessmen's fellowship
international downtown Pittsburgh chapter.
That's a mouthful.
It is.
Yeah.
And I don't know you're probably too young to remember it.
But well, let me just tell the story.
Okay.
One of the most effective ministries
that God used in the 70s
was the full gospel businessmen's fellowship
international FGBMMI.
For sure.
But started by a man named Deemus Shikarian.
A main aspect of their outreach
was to unite businessmen.
Have lunches or dinners,
which featured a testimony
where men and women
would bring their unsafe friends.
And people always got saved.
Always got healed.
Always got filled with the Holy Spirit.
And church is grew
to resolve this power for outreach.
Two very godly men.
This is when I first started coming to the church.
So I wasn't a pastor.
Two very godly men
from this church.
South Hills Assembly of God.
Mike Ford, who's with the Lord now,
and Dave Caris,
approached me one day
to be the president of their downtown Pittsburgh chapter.
They said, the Lord showed them
that I was to be the president.
Well, I immediately said,
I don't think so.
I'm not even a member.
They said, well,
would you at least pray about it?
I told them, I would pray.
Who am I?
I saw it.
These men are so smart.
I'm just the type is that the phone company.
Surely there are more qualified men
who can feel that position.
Now, years before this,
when God called me into the ministry,
I wasn't in again,
but he called me,
and he said that I would go to all nations.
When I asked, how?
He answered,
just be a Christian where you are.
I will open the doors
and you will walk through them.
As I prayed about Mike and Dave's request,
I had a vision of a cloud above me.
And in the cloud was an open door.
And then,
God was telling me that he had opened this door,
and I was to walk through it.
And boy,
Mike,
loud, I did.
It opened many other doors for me,
to minister.
During my years with this group,
many glorious things happened.
One day,
Charles Bowlen,
a wonderful leader of the fellowship,
who headed up our area,
called me to ask me to visit a man
from West Virginia,
who was in the burn unit at West Pen Hospital,
and not expected to make it.
He was burning out of bees nest
that was in the ground.
He poured gasoline over it,
not a good thing to do.
When he lit it,
it exploded,
burning him severely inside and up.
And you know,
I had the hardest time getting to that hospital that night.
When I got there,
it was dark outside.
They let me in for a few moments.
He was in a bed in the burn unit.
It was actually turned upside down.
They had to keep rotating them,
you know,
to help the healing and the blood to get to the tissues
and stuff, I guess.
So,
I talked to him.
I encouraged him with the scriptures,
though he was sedated.
So, he wouldn't feel the pain.
And I reviewed the devil.
I had to clear the healing scriptures over him.
And gently,
annoyed him with oil,
according to James 514.
When I went out,
I met his wife and daughter.
They wanted me to go back in with them and pray.
So, we all had to gown up and wash again.
And I believe they're prayer.
Period.
And then I never heard anything from them.
You know,
I just had the one.
One was one.
Time moments with them.
And so, a good wild past.
And I get another call.
This is while I'm working at Beltaelevon.
I got another call from Charles Bowling,
saying another man
from West Virginia had tried to kill himself.
It was very late at night.
He covered his car with gasoline,
got in and lived it up.
At that very moment, a neighbor,
kid was looking out the window and saw the flames.
He called 911 and they came to God.
And the man didn't die.
They got in.
He was in the burn unit and was spent hospital also.
And I was asked to go pray with him.
Before I hung up, I remembered the previous man that was some time ago.
And reminded Charles asking him if he had ever heard anything from that man's family.
He said he had not.
I hung up the phone.
I'm working at Beltaelevon.
On this call,
I hung up the phone.
And I know sooner took my hand off the receiver when it rang.
And would you believe the lady who called said,
Mr. Cardell, this is Mrs. Soon.
So from West Virginia,
I don't know if you remember or not,
but some time ago you went and prayed for my husband in the burn unit at West Penn Hospital.
I was just walking through my house and the Lord reminded me that we never let you know what happened.
She said the next day he was well.
I said, well, where is he now?
She said, he's not cutting grass.
He did have some minor skin grass.
And they gave all the glory to God and so did I.
So I don't know why all these calls from West Virginia,
but another time a lady called from there to see if I would go visit her brother,
who went into one of our hospitals for a minor surgery.
Something unbodged, and now he was paralyzed from the waist down.
He was very despondent and angry with God.
She said he wasn't saved.
So I committed it to God,
but I wasn't let to go until about a week later.
When I did, he would not talk to me.
As a matter of fact, he turned his head away from me
to the other side of the bed.
I did pray and I told him, he would walk again,
and I left it and God's hands believing.
A number of years later, I was at a full gospel businessmen's meeting in Eerie, PA.
Another man was the speaker.
He saw me there and he told me to stand up.
He, this is what he said.
I was at a dinner meeting recently.
When a lady from West Virginia told me,
he called you once and asked you to visit a brother
who had a botched operation leaving him paralyzed.
She said that you had waited until he was almost dead before visiting him.
But he was miraculously healed and living for God.
It is so important that we visit and we pray for the sick.
It doesn't matter how far gone people are
because Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever.
So I encourage all you people that are hearing me
to take God's healing word to them.
If you don't, you're not being obedient to God.
How can the sign of healing the sick be evident in your life
if you don't step out and pray for sick people?
Now go and do the right thing.
One more of these many full gospel businessmen's stories
is this from the moment I heard about Charles and Francis Hunter.
Do you know who they are?
Where tremendous people, the happy hunters,
they came to the Lord later in life,
but God used them phenomenally.
I loved them.
I received much from their teaching and preaching
and once again I got a call from Charles Bowelman
who said, Charles and Francis Hunter,
want you to have lunch with them.
Well as it turned out,
they wanted to have lunch with local pastors and leaders.
So there were many of us there.
They wanted to share a vision God gave them.
This is way back.
Of the first healing explosion to be held
on the Fourth of July at the,
what was the civic arena in Pittsburgh.
Everyone caught the vision and we had a pat out arena
where they taught that Jesus wanted every believer
to heal the sick.
It was a huge success
and they began having healing explosions everywhere.
And what a gift to the body of Christ
and to the world, Charles and Francis Hunter were.
You can still get their books.
Many are healed today because they obeyed God.
So we thank you Lord for your faithful servants.
I thought you'd be blessed by another God story
involving full gospel businessman.
This I wrote down back in July 18, 1988.
And this is a weekend that I went to San Vasque,
Ohio, to minister at a meeting.
A couple of the saints went with me.
Two ladies actually who were intercessors.
And when we pulled off the turnpike at a rest stop to eat,
the car would not start.
Well what we do, we praise God for whatever good he was going to bring on of it.
We called the trip away, had our picnic lunch.
And we were also filled with the peace of God.
And even though we had to be in San Vasque,
which was still a couple hours away,
we trusted God that he would get us there on time.
The car had to be towed, a big husky driver
who had an obvious sign that he was unsafe
hanging from his rear room here.
Had the three of us ride in his truck with him.
We talked with him and he began talking about
we began talking about Jesus.
We met him where he was and we knew that God was in this.
He was so nice to us.
Well we prayed and confessed the word of God before we left.
We were surrounded by God's divine favor like a shield
according to Psalm 5.
12.
Before I left home, the Holy Spirit told me to take.
It was called a voice magazine
because I went and counter someone that I was to give it to.
I knew that this was the man.
So he was so nice.
He could not do enough to help us.
I was led to give him a nice tip in the magazine.
I asked him before he left.
If he had ever made Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior.
He paused and then honestly answered,
no.
So I encourage him to do so soon.
He said he would read the magazine and thank me.
I know he will, I knew at that time
that he would give us heart to the Lord at some point.
At the garage of the Tota's tomb, there were so many cars
that had broken down on the highway.
I called the President of the chapter where we were headed.
There was a two-hour drive each way.
The one lady who had come with us had relatives
that she wanted to come to the meeting
that lived in Cleveland,
but they could not come.
But this situation got used.
We called them because they were only a half an hour away
from where this garage was.
We called them and we explained our dilemma.
They graciously said they would come and get us
to take us to San Dusky.
The man, our leader,
was on permanent disabilities for his back.
He was also an alcoholic.
They had a number of problems in their family
and we could see God's hand in this.
How he orchestrated every single move.
I invited Jerry and June to stay for dinner
and they accepted.
Now, I must say here that San Dusky is a tourist area
and the meeting was at the Sheraton.
Our lean and lube had gotten a cheaper room
some distance away, but now that we had to leave the car
at the garage to be fixed,
they had to call for a room at the Sheraton.
They got one right away.
However, when we arrived,
they said they did not have a room for me.
That's supernatural peace prevailed.
And by the time the meeting was over,
they would have a room for me.
By the way, we arrived at 6.30 p.m.
right in time for the dinner.
Praise the Lord.
The brothers explained the room situation.
They said that usually because they had the banquet there,
the Sheraton gives them a room at enough season rate,
but there had been an oversight on the hotel's part
and they were booked full.
After the meeting, one of the brothers came to me
with a room key explaining how the situation was
and the rooms were $100 and night.
And this was way back.
But tonight, it was complimentary from the hotel
because of their oversight.
Look at God.
Surely God is in control of our lives.
Also, the brothers gave me an extra check
for a good amount to help with the car expenses.
And it took care of all the $15.
Glory to God and bless those dear Saints.
May God supply all of our needs
according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
I'll tell you the rest of the story.
Next time.
I'll make sure you tune into this.
Keep up your time.
I really love how God shows up in your life
in such tangible ways.
It's not just the physical evidence
of speaking and tongues.
You're the physical evidence of him intervening
in your life.
Sure, do that.
Not just key places, but always at the right time,
always at the right place.
I can't imagine playing chess
and being five moves ahead
because it's just not how I play.
And not only does God not play that way,
but he already knows everything.
Right, he already knows all the pieces
where they've gone.
You know, I know the Calvinists like to think of
the pre-destination and the Bible does mention it.
But I think compared to God's manifold wisdom
and limitless intellect,
where He stands outside of times,
may it's in matter that it just looks like predestination
to somebody who doesn't understand
that God's already seen the outcome of every choice
that you did make.
Right, you did make those choices.
He didn't stop you from it.
He's not predestining you to make certain choices.
You know, you make bad decisions,
and it's not on him.
That's on you.
If you make good decisions, that's on him.
Because everything good is from God.
And I think it's clearly loved to show you
and for the message that He gave you that,
you were going to tell your story to the world.
Right, and here you are.
A man who does not do a lot of anything with digital media
or anything to do with social media or technology,
you know, landline for your house phone.
Right, okay.
That's my only phone.
And so I can see right away.
Wonder how you could get your message.
Say everybody.
And here God is putting a podcast in your lap.
Free to get your message out to how many countries now?
At least 28.
At least 28 countries at this point.
So look how he's using you guys to how this.
I'm a human.
From the very beginning, we had no idea what's related.
How could we?
God did.
Yeah.
He knew when he put her in your mother's home.
He knew.
He's like, she's going to be a talker and bring people together
in my name.
Thank you, Jesus.
It's so good all these stories.
And just the everyday matters.
He just keeps showing up.
I love it.
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