Greetings again my friends. WOW can you believe 2025 will soon slip into time eternal? I have always heard the older we get the faster time flies, well I am here to tell you I am convinced. Now, I do not know how and why, but next year I will be 71 years old and where did time go. Of course, the only answer is into the hands of God. One day when our #2 son Daniel was married and we met his mother-in-law, a Christian, I made the statement you cannot be a Christian unless you have a passport and like to drive, well she jumped me, “show me that in Bible.” I knew then what I had to look forward too, but the point I was making was if traveling is not for you and you really love God then your lack of desire to travel is going to be a problem. Karen does not like to travel she is a home body, but she submits to God and me in this and has been such a blessing to many people around the world, me and God. One of the hallmarks of a Prophet, as we continue to talk about “the Prophet of God” is being a servant, Prophets go wheresoever they are sent by God. In Jeremaiah we read, “Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. 7But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.” (Jeremiah 1:6-7) Here in verse seven we see the sending guidance of God not only for Prophets, but for all children that love Him. Plainly God’s guidance to Jeremaiah and us today, go where I send you and say what I tell you to say. Ministry is not really that tough when we follow the LORD’s guidance. We get into trouble with people and the LORD when we have another idea other than what the LORD said to do or we add a few things to what God says. Now, I am talking out of experience. We try to help God out when we embellish His word and what He is doing. Kathryn Kuhlman a lady evangelist out of Pittsburgh, PA in the 1960s and 70s. Now before I continue my thoughts I would like to share a true story from my mother’s life and Kathryn Kulman. My father was in Vietnam (1968-69 second tour) and my mother came down with cancer. Well, she did not want to disturb my father so she prayed about the cancer and the LORD said go to where Kathryn Kuhlman holds her services and you would be healed. So, my mother being a new Christian and in blind faith called a close friend Kitty Lance who had a car (we had no car) and asked if Bud (Kitty’s husband) could drive her to a Kathry Kuhlman meeting in Pittsburgh, about 3 three hours one way. They said sure we would love to go. So, they loaded my mother up in the back seat of the car with a green and brown discard draining out of her, and they drive the three hours to Pittsburgh. Well, they got there well before the Tuesday night service and wondered what they were going to do so, my mother said let go into the auditorium and wait. The second my mother stepped into the auditorium she felt a warm, strong feeling flowing from her head to her toes and from her toes to her head for a few seconds and she knew she was completely healed from the cancer. So, believe it or not Bud and Kitty Lance and my mother got back in the car that Tuesday afternoon and drove three hours back to Ridgeley, WV. They never stayed for the service: to hear Kathryn Kuhlman preach, they never gave an offering, had Kathryn Kulman lay hands on my mother, oh no, that is not what the LORD told my mother to do. She was told go to the place where Kathryn Kuhlman holds her services and she will be healed. My mother did that which the LORD commanded her and she was healed. She did not add to God’s word or take away from what God said, but did that which He spoke. That is it my friend, just go and do what God tells us to say and where God tells us to go. Now, I know what I am talking about here from experience. Sadly, I have not went, out of fear, where God told me to go and a few times I did not say what God wanted me to say, with the intensity, I sugar-coated it. Verse eight, tells us, “Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.” (Jeremiah 1:8), but I
learned not to do this. To be a true servant of God, when handling the Word of God, we must never look at the faces or see how the people are reacting, but just preach the Word and leave the results in God‘s faithful hands. Last year when I ministered at the Skinia Church in Izmayil, Ukraine I thought I bombed, (no pun intended), I thought my words fell on stony hearts, but to my amazement Bishop Paul got up and took off on what I said and the people where in the aisles. Just speak what God wants. Okay let us go back to Kathryn Kuhlman and ask why God used her in so many miraculously healings in her ministry. Now, I know she was a lighting rod for many people who disagreed with ladies ministers and to be honest I do not know why, but all I know is; God is God and we are not and my mom had cancer and she was miraculously healed because she followed the LORD’s words to her. So, when they asked Kathryn Kuhlman why God uses her in such ways of healings her reply was, “I do not know, but all I do is just share the Gospel.” Next month we will continue looking at the “Prophet of God” as we look at how we must go on whatsoever errands the LORD send us on. Is this you my friend? Are you a Prophet of God? To be a Prophet we must be able to hear His voice. Listen closely and you will. Written by David Stahl
