I want to share with you a letter that I received
from Northridge, California. Dear Miss Kuhlman,
for the first time last night, I accidentally
turned on your program and I was so emotionally
glued to every word you said that I have just
thought and thought about it all day. I had heard
of you several years ago, a friend. had purchased
your book, I Believe in Miracles. Since that
time, I had forgotten your name. But last night,
it was quite an experience for me to listen to
your program. I was so deeply touched by the
lady who went through such turmoil with her little
son who had the club foot. In fact, as I just
stated, I thought about it all day long. It seems
I've had just one thing after another in my own
life, illness and then financial troubles. I
feel I must tell you first of all that I am a
Catholic. I not only go to church every Sunday,
I go to Mass every day. Yes, I'm a firm believer
in prayer, but I have prayed so long. I have
prayed so hard for many things that seem to never
come true. And I so often wonder if God hears
me. I'm writing to you, Miss Kuhlman, to explain
to me just what you meant Sunday night by praying
to God. She realized that she had been praying
wrong. This is the part... I didn't understand.
She went on to say that the day her son walked,
she was talking to God and didn't realize that
her son had walked across the floor. Now I'm
wondering if I am praying wrong. Would you please,
Miss Kuhlman, just take a moment and tell me
how to pray. Thank you so much for a most inspirational
hour. I look forward to it sincerely. And the
woman signs her full name, gives her full address.
Perhaps the other day you were listening to one
of our radio broadcasts and you will remember
a man and his wife were talking. Oh, his wife
had received this wonderful healing. And it was,
it was a real miracle. The gentleman himself
was telling of a healing that he had received,
a physical healing. And then he turned, and I
shall never forget his face. His eyes brimming
with tears when he said, but the... greatest
thing of it all was the fact that you taught
me how to pray. I shall never forget that man's
words as long as I live. Never. I shall never
forget the look on his face. I shall never forget.
But in that moment, what he was saying affected
me. But the greatest thing of all, you taught
me how to pray. Consider something. Prayer is
the greatest power that God has given to you,
that God has given to me. There is no greater
power that God has given to human beings than
the power of prayer. But there can be no real
praying, and you cannot know how to pray until,
first of all, you realize that wonderful relationship
that you have with God the Father, Jesus Christ
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Oh, prayer is much
more than saying prayers. You'd be amazed how
many people would write to me and say, would
you please send me that prayer that you prayed?
You'd be amazed. And in a very simple way, I'm
just sitting here talking to you and I close
my eyes and how often I even pray with my eyes
open. It's something that comes from away deep
on the inside of me. Nothing has been written
out. Nothing has been memorized. It's not saying
prayers. It's not giving audible expression to
something that I have memorized. That's not praying.
Saying something you have memorized or saying
something that someone else has written is not...
really praying. These things can help you to
become God conscious. They can create an attitude.
But they're not really praying. Pause just a
minute. I'm going to make this just as simple
as I possibly can. You must realize that there
is is a relationship that you have with God.
One thing that all human beings have in common
when it comes to God, and that is the fact that
He is our Creator. But not everyone has that
gross relationship with Him as a Heavenly Father.
This relationship must begin in accepting Jesus
Christ, the divine Son of God, as your personal
Savior. Not everyone can come into His presence
and say, Father, my Heavenly Father, because
He does not become one's Heavenly Father. There
cannot be that relationship. Accept there be
that spiritual experience first of being born
again. Accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior,
we call that experience that new birth experience.
And when you have that spiritual experience,
in accepting Jesus Christ and what Jesus did
for you on the cross, It's all bought and paid
for. All on earth that you have to do is by faith
reach out and accept it. It's yours. This very
moment, all that you have to do is just look
up and say, Wonderful Jesus, I accept for myself
that which you did for me on the cross. Him that
cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out. But
perhaps there has never been that personal transaction.
You have never personally reached out and accepted
what Jesus did for you personally. And then when
that transaction takes place, God the Creator
becomes your heavenly friend. Father. Then you
can say, Father. And that's the very first thing
that Jesus taught when he taught us how to pray.
In the sixth chapter of Matthew, we call it the
Lord's Prayer, but it isn't really the Lord's
Prayer. It is the prayer that Jesus taught. you
and taught me to pray. And this is what he said.
After this manner, therefore, pray ye. And then
he begins, Our Father, which art in heaven. That
relationship. When we pray, it's so easy to pray.
If you find it hard to pray, it's because you
have never really recognized this wonderful relationship.
Do you say that it's the most difficult thing
in the world for you to come into the presence
of your earthly parent and converse with him?
Maybe this thing is so real to me because of
my relationship with Papa. If you know me very
well, you know that of all human beings that
I have known and that have entered into my life,
my relationship with Papa was the greatest. Oh,
I would hang on him. I would love him. Mama would
say to me, stop it. Hanging on top. Dear me,
he was carrying me when my legs were so long
that they would drag on this pavement. And he
was still carrying me, you know. It just kind
of like that. He would no sooner than hang up
his coat when he'd get home. Before he would
even have a chance to wash his hands and comb
his hair. I was still hanging on him. He'd sit.
down, oh poor Papa. He would sit down to rest
a minute and I was all over him, my arms around
his neck, yacking, chatting, never shutting my
mouth. My words were coming so fast and Mama
would say, can't you just be quiet, Papa's tired.
Just sit down and be quiet. Well, there was so
much to talk about, so much had happened. I had
to tell Papa everything. Papa had to know. I
knew that Papa wanted to know. There wasn't a
thing that happened that day, but what I was
telling Papa was coming rolling out of my mouth.
There never was a person that was easier for
me to converse with than it was Papa. It was
so natural. When something would happen, just
instinctively, I would think, I must tell Papa.
To this day, yet, there are things, and Papa's
been gone a long time, that I wish I could run
and tell Papa. That's why this relationship with
our Heavenly Father is just as real and just
as personal. Why I never memorized anything to
tell Papa. It came so spontaneous. It was...
And that's the way it is with our Heavenly Father,
our Father which art in Heaven. And then you'll
remember the experience that Jesus had, the same
wonderful experience when He prayed. And as you
well know, His prayer, the real Lord's prayer,
is in the 17th chapter of John. These words spake
Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,
Father. He's talking to the heavenly father too.
And he begins with, Father, the hour is come.
Glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify
thee. There must be the knowledge of that relationship
between yourself and your Heavenly Father. And
when you talk to Him, you must be conscious of
His power. He's all -powerful. Not only that,
He's concerned about every detail in that life
of yours. I wish somehow I had the vocabulary.
I wish I had the... in this little heart -to
-heart talk to get you to understand once and
for all that he is interested in you as an individual.
Your needs, your troubles, your heartbreak. When
those tears roll down your cheeks, he sees those
falling tears. And he's interested. He's concerned.
I want you to know that. In the midnight hour
when you feel there isn't a soul who cares, the
rest of the family are asleep. And you feel so
all alone. You can hear the breathing of the
one next to you. Or you can hear the restlessness
of the child in the next room. And yet you are
the only one who may be awake. He's there, closer
to you than the next beat of your heart. You
may be a mother and you have a son in service
away out there, thousands of miles away. And
in your home and in that midnight hour, you're
praying that prayer for his protection. He'll
not only hear that prayer that you're praying.
But he's concerned about that boy of yours, that
son of yours. He'll put that wall of fire around
about that son. He'll give his angels charge
over that boy of yours. He'll not mock the desire
of your heart. He'll not turn a deafened ear
to the cry of your heart. I promise you. He loves
you. He's concerned about you and your need.
That man who's so steeped in sin. You've tried
everything under God's heaven. And you want deliverance.
There's a heavenly father who's concerned in
all that he wants you to do. He's waiting for
you to come into his presence. And through...
Jesus Christ, his only begotten son. Pray that
prayer of confession and he'll set you free if
you really want to be set free and you really
want deliverance. When we come before the Father's
throne, we have a great mediator. We have a great
high priest, Jesus Christ. And we come before
the Father's throne in the name of Jesus. Before
Jesus went back to heaven, that's one thing he
made very clear, that he was leaving us his name
to use. How often? Someone gave me a card and
said, Now, Miss Kuman, when you get to such and
such a place, and I shall never forget, a precious
Chinese lady, when I went to Hong Kong the last
time, gave me the card of her brother, a very
prominent businessman in Hong Kong, and said,
You know, Catherine Kuman, All on earth that
you have to do is to take this card and present
it to my brother, and he'll do anything in the
world for you. And that's all that I had to do.
Jesus left us his name to use. All that we have
to do is to present his name before the throne
of God. And we have a hearing. And God sees you
and he sees me perfect and righteous and holy.
And he hears our prayer when we come in the name
of Jesus. Any man, any woman who will come for
the throne of God in the presence of Almighty
God, through the person of God's only begotten
Son, through the person of Jesus, will have a
hearing. Father, in Jesus' name. And then there's
the mighty Holy Spirit, the mighty power of the
Trinity, the Holy Spirit who is here on this
earth. And in that moment, when we come in the
name of Jesus before the throne of God, God hears
us, and then he gives the nod, and the Holy Spirit
will answer that prayer. It's that simple. It's
that easy. taught you the simplicity of coming
before the throne in the name of Jesus and teaching
you how to pray.