Let Your Soul Awake 10/23 Tuesday Truth

An old brother who was recently healed was a Methodist local preacher. He was 73 years old. He said to me with tears, "I have spent almost my little all on the doctors, medicine, etc., during the last four years of my sickness. My wife and I are old. We have gone past the time when I can earn any more money." And he was troubled. He said, "I would give the little all I have left if I could be well."


I said, "Brother, how long have you been preaching the Gospel?"

He said, "Fifty years." Think of that -- a half century.

I said, "Brother, haven't you been in the habit of calling on God and getting answers to your prayers?"

He said, "Yes, I have."

I said, "Well Brother, why have you not called on God to take away this evil thing, this sickness that is on your life?"

His old eyes opened with wonder and he said, "I never thought of it."

He went home amazed. He and his old wife came back every few days, and they said it was such an awakening that he could look up to God to take away his sickness the same as he could pray about anything else. Yet he had been preaching the Gospel fifty years.

Men are looked upon as strange when they turn their faith to Christ and come back to the Gospel. To him, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight," was to let his soul awake to Christ's purpose to save and to bless in every department of his life.



-- John G. Lake