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AFTER DEATH—WHAT?
When God began to perform mighty miracles in Kathryn Kuhlman's meetings, it would have been easy for her to change her message. Yet she never did.
In virtually every service she called sinners to repentance. Why? Because she knew that physical healing is temporal, salvation is eternal.

In her book A Glimpse into Glory, Kathryn answers the question, "After Death—What?"

As long as I'm still in this body of flesh I am susceptible to sickness, disease, sorrow, and heartbreak. It's a body of corruption. It is a mortal body. But one of these days it shall no
longer be a vile body. It shall be changed from corruption to incorruption. It shall be changed from mortal to immortal. It shall be raised, not as a vile body, but as a body fashioned like unto His body, the body of our wonderful Jesus.

We thrill to the glorious fact that our sins are covered with the Blood. But my redemption will never be perfected until that day when that which is now corruption, that which is now
mortal, shall be raised in incorruption and immortality. One day I shall stand in His glorious presence, with a glorious new body.
When the trump of the Lord shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and those which are still alive shall be caught up to
meet Him in the air, so shall I ever be with Him.
Those who have gone before are not lost, not separated from us permanently. One of these days I'm going to see Papa again.
One of these days I'm going to see Mama again. One of these days I'm going to be with my loved ones.

I won't exchange that glorious hope for a title deed to all the world. My place in heaven is prepared. My hope is secure. I'm ready to go. I'll see you on the other side. For Kathryn Kuhlman, "one of these days" was much closer than she realized.

~ Pastor Benny Hinn || Kathryn Kuhlman her spiritual legacy.
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HOW TO END THE STRUGGLE.
Some years ago, I was pastor of a church in western Pennsylvania. In that church, there was a beautiful young lady, a high school girl, who came to me and said, "Brother Schambach, I've come to tell you good-bye. I am not coming to church any more. I just can't live this life. There are too many pressures in high school. I am not going to be a hypocrite. I
can't live it, and I am not going to come to church and pretend that I am a Christian."

I said to her, "Sit down there. I have something I
want to tell you. I appreciate your honesty, and I am glad that you came and told me instead of just .dropping out. But I want to tell you something about living the Christian life. I can't do it either!"
That almost knocked her off her chair. She said, "What! But you are the preacher! You can't mean that!"
I said, "I am made of the very same stuff that you are, flesh and blood. I learned my lesson a long time ago. There is no way that I can live it, but you can find somebody that will come into your life and live it through you! His name is Jesus!"
Isn't this beautiful?

I believe that we need this kind of teaching. When .you recognize that you can't do it, and turn the whole struggle over to Jesus and let Him do it, He will do it right! That old you has to die! Mortify your members that are upon the earth!
But there are still people in the church that are living like the devil. You know it's the truth!
You say, "But I am doing all I know how!"
Well, now, if we could get by on doing all we know how, Jesus would never have had to die. God was looking for a man that would live this life in the world, but He couldn't find one.

There was David, a man after God's own heart, but you know his story. He got his eyes on another man's wife, and sent that man off to battle and got him killed so that he could marry the woman. David! There is that old battle again. Flesh!

Samson, a man who had supernatural strength, but for the unlawful love of a woman, he lost all his power.
God was looking for a man who would live this
life. Finally, Jesus said, "Father, let me go down there! I will show you how to live this thing!"
Jesus Christ, in the fullness of time, was born of a woman. Mary did not have a husband at the time. He was conceived of Holy Ghost seed.
When He was conceived, Jesus was stripped of His divine power. That statement may amaze you, even shock you, but look at the record.

II Cor. 8:9: "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."

Hebrews 2:17:
"Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be
made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."

Phil. 2:8:
"And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

His life on earth was like your life and mine. As a man, He did not become a miracle worker until after the Holy Ghost came upon Him when He was baptized in Jordan. He suffered temptation as a man, and overcame temptation as a man.

Hebrews 4:15:
"(He) was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin."

When He was offered up on Calvary, His blood became the perfect, acceptable sacrifice for sin because there was no sin, no guilt in that blood. He was a spotless Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world.

I want you know that Jesus lived this human life, from His birth to His crucifixion, without sin. He died, and the grave could not hold Him! Can you say praise the Lord?
He was resurrected in the fullness of time, and took His seat on the right hand of God the Father, where He is now making.intercession for you and for me.
He told the disciples to go to Jerusalem and wait until they received the Holy Ghost. He said, "He can't come until I send Him to you, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me."
Jesus said, "I am going to walk in you and talk in you, and I am going to be your God, and you are going to be my people."

You say, "Well now, if Jesus is the only one that
lived this life, how in the world can you say that I can live it?"
You can't! But when you are dead, crucified with Christ, He will live it through you!

Did you ever hear somebody stand up in church and say, "Thank the Lord, I am saved and sanctified and living holy and blameless. Nobody can point a finger at me!"
I would say, "Why don't you sit down and shut up?
You aren't doing a thing! You are supposed to be dead, crucified. Dead folks don't brag!"
Everything is "I." Let us glory in nothing, save in the cross of Christ.

"Crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life that I
now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
Gal. 2:20.
Then Paul goes on to say,
"I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if
righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (v. 21.)

This is the first step. As a Christian, know that it is not you living it; it is Christ living, walking, talking, moving in you. I learned this secret a long time ago.

I told that young lady who came to me
discouraged, "I know I can't live it, but I have learned that I am to identify myself with Christ, upon that .cross. Jesus not only carried Schambach's sins to the cross; He carried Schambach! I am crucified with
Christ through identification. I have been buried with Him in baptism."
Thank God, when we baptize you, we are not going to leave you under the water. We are going to bring you up. There is a resurrection that takes place.
The old man is left behind, dead. The new man rises to walk in newness of life with Christ Jesus. He said,"I will never leave you nor forsake you, even to the end of the age!"

You say, "Do you mean to tell me that I won't be
tempted any more?"
Of course you will be tempted! You will be
tempted more than ever before. But you can look the devil right in the eye and say, "You are dealing with my big Brother! Go ahead, Jesus! You have been this way before. I am just going to stand here and rejoice while you fight the battle for me!"
When the temptation comes, don't you try to fight it. Remember, Jesus won this battle before, and He is going to win it again.
Newness of life!
Born again!
A child of God!
Now you don't have to struggle, because you have learned that somebody is going to fight your battles for you.

- RW Schambach ( WHAT WILL THE WELL-
DRESSED CHRISTIAN WEAR?)
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AS A YOUNG missionary with my wife in Africa, I sometimes preached to just five people. My opportunity to see the impact of the glorious Gospel presented in the “proven” tradition of foreign missions had come. But five people? Beyond our mission station there were 450 million souls in Africa, most of who were ignorant of salvation through Jesus Christ. Yes, they could all be evangelized by the way we were tackling it, but only if they obliged us by staying alive for about five thousand years!
However, small audiences did not dismay us. Revival could come, and that would save us a lot of trouble. God could rouse Himself to battle. This hope kept us patient and starry-eyed, for had not our spiritual great grandfathers banked upon this with unquestioning faith?
AN UNPREACHED GOSPEL IS NO GOSPEL
Later, I began questioning this idea. It struck me that the Gospel is not good news to people who do not hear it–that an unpreached Gospel is no gospel at all. Another small ray of understanding penetrated my heart. In the New Testament we never read about God going forth on His own, but that, “They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them” (Mark 16:20, emphasis added). God acted when they acted. Smith Wigglesworth once said, “The Acts of the Apostles was written because the apostles acted!”
Therefore, He is waiting for us to act also! That meant that I had to do something.
I started a Bible correspondence course, and within five years fifty thousand people had enrolled. So many! Like a periscope from a submarine, it revealed that I was submerged in an ocean of salvation-hungry humanity. In addition, a vision followed me. Night after night I saw a map of the entire African continent being washed in the blood of Jesus, country after country, and at the same time the Holy Spirit kept whispering in my ear, “Africa shall be saved!”
Wait for revival? We had waited—persistently and patiently— through a hundred long years of earnest prayer. Surely God must answer now?
Yet, one more fact faced me. There had never been revival without the preaching of the Gospel. So, on a seemingly wild impulse, which proved to be of God, I booked a ten-thousand-seat stadium for a campaign with a church of forty members—and ten thousand people came! It was the first ripe wheat.
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
—MATTHEW 9:37–38
For the first time I witnessed thousands running forward to respond to the call of salvation. God opened my eyes, and I actually saw an invisible, mighty wave of Holy Spirit power arrive in the stadium. A mass baptism in the Holy Spirit, accompanied by many healing miracles, took place. I wept like a baby and vowed to the Lord that in obedience I would move across all of Africa to bring the vision to pass. I reasoned that if God could do that to ten thousand people, He could do it to 450 million.
What we are seeing God do today in Africa is breathtaking. Following in the footsteps of famous missionaries of old, we reap with joy where they had sown in tears. We came to Bukavu, first visited by missionary C. T. Studd, and still remote in the rain forests of Zaire. There we saw seventy thousand people respond to the call of God’s love. David Livingstone prophesied that where he hardly saw a convert, later there would be thousands, and so it was. At Blantyre, Malawi, named after the town in Scotland where Livingstone was born, several hundred thousand responded to the call of salvation.
- Reinhard Bonnke (Evangelism by Fire 🔥)

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Traveling in China in 1934 was fraught with danger. Lester’s life was almost lost on more than one occasion. One time, after drinking water that had not been boiled long enough, he became deathly ill with dysentery and fever. As his conditioned worsened, he began to hemorrhage from his intestines, racked with pain and an ever-rising fever. Lester wasn’t a complainer, though, so Howard Carter had no idea how ill he really was.
The next morning, when the caravan began to move, with Lester’s mule last in line, the hours of diarrhea and lack of food made Lester faint, and he fell off of his mule. Crawling to a bush, he fastened the mule’s rope and then passed into unconsciousness. No one in his party was aware of what had happened. He was left on the road in China to die.
Hours later, Lester woke up alone but was astonished to discover that he was completely well! His fever was gone; his strength was returning. God had healed him as he had slept. Lester remained in that spot until someone from his caravan returned and found him. He then continued on in the journey, rejoicing in God’s faithfulness.
A few years later, while preaching in Mobile, Alabama, Lester discovered what had really happened in the heavenlies that day. The pastor of the church in Mobile, who was also a longtime friend, and his wife shared a strange story. They had been warned by the Holy Spirit one evening that Lester was dying somewhere on the other side of the world. They had fallen on their knees, crying out to the Lord, “Save him. Save him. Don’t let him die.”Later that evening, when Lester checked his diary, he discovered that their prayers on his behalf had been offered at the exact time he had been struggling for his life. He shared this with his friends, and God’s faithfulness once again brought them to their knees in thanksgiving!
- God’s General’s ( Healing Evangelist --Lester Sumrall)
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SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
One Christmas Eve I was busy preparing a sermon.
Later an urgent telephone call came in the early morning hours of Christmas day. A man calling from Seoul National Hospital asked, “Are you Pastor Cho?”
“Yes, I am.”
“One of your members is dying. He was in a car accident. A taxi hit him, then rode around all through the morning with him in the back seat.”
In Korea at that time, if someone was hit and killed by a taxi, the taxi-driver would only have to pay the sum of $2500, and then would be cleared of all financial obligation. However, if
the victim were only injured, then the driver would have to pay for all of the medical and hospital bills. So if a driver hitsomeone and no one saw the accident, he would then drive
that person around until he or she died; it would be cheaper for him.
This member had bought a beautiful hat, with some other articles, for his wife. He was so carried away with the joy of giving these presents, that he jay walked across the street
without watching the light, and was hit by a taxi. Since it was late evening and no one saw, this taxi-driver had carried that man in his car throughout the evening. The man did not die,
and eventually a policeman caught the taxi, and carried the man to a hospital. The impact of the accident had badly impaired his intestines, and his stomach was full of dirt and blood; blood
poisoning had already set in.

His doctor knew me and called, saying, “Dr. Cho, should we operate on him? Medically speaking, it’s hopeless. He was without medical attention for such a long time that blood poisoning has set in. There will be no way for us to cure him?”
But I said, “You go ahead and operate on him, and as soon as I finish the Christmas sermon, I’ll run to the hospital.”
After the Christmas service I rushed to the emergency room of Seoul National University Hospital, and there he was, totally unconscious.

The doctor again said there would be no hope,
“Reverend, don’t expect anything. He is dying. We could do nothing. When we opened his stomach,there were three places
where the intestines were completely cut off, and these areas were filled with his excrement and dirt. There is no hope.”I replied, “Well, I’ll try to do my best.”
When I went in he was in a deep coma. I knelt beside him and said, “Lord God, give me only five minutes, then I will try.
Let him come out of the coma for five minutes, then I will try.”
As I was praying I felt something moving. I opened my eyes, and the man opened his eyes.
“So listen to me. Picture a young man. He says good-bye to his wife. He’s full of beauty and health. He goes to his office, and completes his business successfully.
“All the people respect and admire him. Evening arrives and he buys nice gifts for his wife, who is waiting for him to come home and eat supper. When he arrives she rushes out to the gate and welcomes him with a big hug and kiss. They go into the house, share a delicious meal together, and a quiet evening at home.
“Oh pastor, I’m dying,” he cried.
I knew then that I had five minutes. I replied, “You can’t say that. As long as you keep saying that you will die, then I can’t help you. You must change your imagination and thinking. Change your vision and dream, for the only way to
carry out dominion over this third dimension material world is through your imagination, your visions and dreams.“The man I am talking about is no stranger. That man is you! Think of that man! Draw that picture in your mind. Look at that man and say in your heart, that man is me!
“Don’t draw a picture of death. Don’t draw a picture of a dead corpse. Keep on dreaming about that man, and I’ll do the praying. You just draw a mental picture, and leave the praying
to me. Will you do that?”
“Yes, pastor, I’ll change my dream. I’ll change my thinking.
I’ll say that I’m that man. I’ll try to make that vision and dream a reality… I see it!” he cried.
While we were talking this surgeon had come in with his nurses. They started giggling and laughing at me, and thought that I had lost my mind. But I was serious, for I knew the law of
the Spirit’s fourth dimension, and that man had begun to speak the language of the Holy Spirit. Like a missionary on a foreign field who gains a deeper level of communication with the local
people of that country by learning to speak their language directly, instead of using an interpreter, so that dying man had learned the deeper language of the Holy Spirit.

As I knelt down and grabbed hold of his bed, I prayed,
“Dear Holy Spirit, now he speaks your language. He has a vision and a dream. Rush into his physical body, and carry out your dominion. I command this man to be whole and to be filled with healing power!”Suddenly the group of unbelieving nurses said, “This room is too hot. The heat is too high.”
But the weather was very cold. There was no heat; it was the power of the Holy Spirit giving off all the heat. The surgeon and those nurses began to feel fire. Their ears turned red, and
the power of God became so strong that we even felt the bed trembling.

Amazingly, in one week that man rose up and walked out of the hospital. He is now in the chemical business, doing wonderfully. Whenever I see him on Sunday morning, sitting in the balcony, I say to myself, “Praise God! We spoke the Holy Spirit’s language. We created. Hallelujah

- Pastor David Yongi Cho (The Fourth Dimension)
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