Part 6 (1/2)
One evening Brother Ahrendt said to s; let's pray the Lord to send us sos out here? I haven't seen any chickens around here, nor in the bush where I have been” ”Well,” he said, ”the Lord can bring the fro on the table covered with a newspaper Brother Ahrendt lifted the paper and found a tiny basket with five eggs in it! I said, ”You get three of them; you prayed and had faith while I only said, amen”
THE READING ON THE SIGN POST CHANGED(?)
One day Bro Ahrendt was out advertising theHis last call was at a schoolhouse, and fro to take a short cut through the brush to the highway On co in the direction he was going, which read, ”One ing the road signs?” He walked on a few steps and saw a little town not far away, then he realized that he had been going north while he thought he was going south The boys had not done any harm He was mistaken in his sense of direction
One year Brother H A Sheras the evangelist at the Minnesota State Cae, roo was used for the services The heat was record-breaking that year, and on one of the hottest afternoons when Brother Sheras expecting to preach as usual, the heat was so intense that he was physically unequal to the occasion, and so it caent request, Brother Allison F Barnard (ith Mrs Barnard, was attending the ) consented to preach in his stead that afternoon
As Bro Barnard came into the pulpit the Holy Spirit caation in such a way and in such measure as I had never seen in any service The heat in the chapel moderated at once, but outside it was as hot as ever It was as though the dear man was ”out of the body”
and there was no trouble at the altar of prayer for seeking souls to receive their heart's desire They prayed through! So, again, the Scripture was fulfilled, ”Not by ht, nor by power, but byof Brother Sherwood, I loved that big little elist at Morden, Manitoba, Canada
The Lord used hied that wife and I should take him with us in our car to Grand Forks, North Dakota It started to rain and did really pour down The first forty-five ht gallons of gas driving that forty-fiveall the tiet stuck in the ravel road in North Dakota he said, ”Brother Susag, will you stop awhile so we can have a thanksgiving ht here, that the Lord has heard prayer and protected our lives!” And that is e did Brother Sherwood then said, ”Bro Susag, will you accept an ader man than yourself?” I answered, ”Any time, Brother” And he said, ”This is the second worst automobile ride I ever had in allwhen the road is as bad as this?” My reply was: ”hello! hello! hello! Who is this? Brother Sherwood?
What do you want? Your wife sick? What, dying? Yes, I' as fast as I can” Whereupon Brother Sherwood reached out his hand and said, ”Brother Susag, forgive me; how quick a !”
Once I was called to attend anorth of St Cloud, Minnesota There were about thirteena people ere called, ”The Free” So brethren had heard the Truth, and they were the ones who had sent for me to come The ministers and the s When the offering was divided a the ave me 3800
But after I had taken the money I could not keep it on my person I tried my best, but even when in ave it back to the brethren A brother was going to drive me to the nearest railroad station, and when I had taken o to town, these three brethren caiventhan that,” and they felt that the fifteen dollars would not burn me So I took the money and thanked them for it and ent on our way to town As I put the ain and lay it on the bottoy I told the driver to take it back and return it to the brethren He said, ”They will not knohat to do with it now that theminister as sick and in need--to take thethe money badly, even the 3800, as I ithout money to payinto the town near the depot, I asked theup to the station abeside me and pressed a five dollar bill into h to take me home! A nu
THE LORD STILL HEARS PRAYER
At a Ministers' Meeting at Tulare, California, in 1945, while the noon lunch was being served, I was sitting in the chapel withfor a certain a Soon I felt the confidence that the Lord had heard prayer and dismissed the matter from my mind A few minutes later a et your expenses; do you get a salary for traveling around this way?” I answered, ”No, I have no salary; I pay my expenses as the Lord puts it into the hearts of the brethren to give to ive you this”
And he handedthe Lord for!
Brother Renbeck and I were holding aout near Kellys, North Dakota
After the service one afternoon I saw Brother Renbeck sitting in a corner of the roo I went over to him and asked hi because there were not et saved, for if there had been more there, more would have been saved” To which I replied, ”Keep on weeping”
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH DEVIL POSSESSION
Another tis near and in Fosston, Minnesota It was said of us that ”those preachers are of the devil” One evening ain one of his knees In getting to thepole to help support himself He wanted to see those preachers ere ”of the devil” When he arrived the rooave him mine When we knelt down to pray I laid my hands on his knee and asked the Lord to heal hihts later a man came to the service as possessed with devils
He was frothing at thelike a madman As I took hold of him and laid my hands on him we almost wrestled I commanded the devils to coo until He delivered the man, and he was finally delivered by the Spirit of the Lord