tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34668684421621392652024-03-05T17:28:01.274-08:00Abraham Music MinistriesContemporary Music, Hymns, Southern Gospel, Praise, Worship - sung to the LORD and a blessing to the hearer.Marylynn G. Stultshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06420236320490541720noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3466868442162139265.post-23285922024509400712011-04-01T14:21:00.001-07:002012-02-21T11:26:28.840-08:00UPDATED MARCH 2012 Hope You'll Listen to His MusicJust click on the links above (and more below the picture on the left). It seems like just yesterday, but Michael's been gone two years! His ministry was always to lead people to heaven, while mine has always been about the fullness of life right here on earth. The LORD has spoken to my heart that Mick's music will still draw people to Him, so please enjoy sharing this blog and music. Thank you.Marylynn G. Stultshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06420236320490541720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3466868442162139265.post-14494409957937975772009-06-01T11:20:00.000-07:002011-11-15T15:24:54.157-08:00UPDATE MARCH 30, 2010<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDN34eweUmUrslPdnOz46fpiIkgLp4NSJkUsfIW7K9qnje68hLlZ3jM5ER2Y1bElUgyo3w_3WqKjosho7KdTkh4VZq9OreSAmwPTtvcuahqkKwfcsOHUA3risHHsmvKZCauwy54i0Iys/s1600-h/SONG+CD+label+March+26+2009+color3+without+lines+%282%29+-+Copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342436541227387266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDN34eweUmUrslPdnOz46fpiIkgLp4NSJkUsfIW7K9qnje68hLlZ3jM5ER2Y1bElUgyo3w_3WqKjosho7KdTkh4VZq9OreSAmwPTtvcuahqkKwfcsOHUA3risHHsmvKZCauwy54i0Iys/s320/SONG+CD+label+March+26+2009+color3+without+lines+%282%29+-+Copy.jpg" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51); ">MY HEART MOVED TO HEAVEN!</span> </span></b></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;">My husband, Michael G. Stults, Sr. (the handsome man pictured here), has a new zip code! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;">Before departure, he told me Stephen (Acts 6 and 7) was the biblical character he most desired to emulate, which I believe he accomplished. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;">He left late March 29, 2010 and will return with the saints at the Midnight Call (which he sings on this CD) when Jesus comes to take us home.</span></span></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >We've put some of his music videos on YouTube. Just click on the links above that say "Michael Stults' Testimony and Songs" and/or "Michael Stults' Variety of Songs"</span></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-family:verdana;">We also invite you while you're here to listen to music from "With My Song Will I Praise Him." Just click on any of the links below and follow the easy directions. This is FREE. You may order this last CD (pictured here) of 11 great songs for $15 including S&H. Write me at <a href="mailto:mgstults@gmail.com">mgstults@gmail.com</a>.</span></span></span> </span></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><p><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;">I KNOW JESUS</span> <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/lnof1j53po">http://www.box.net/shared/lnof1j53po</a> </p><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">THE LORD'S PRAYER</span></span> <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/c1uug68n77">http://www.box.net/shared/c1uug68n77</a> </p><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">HALLELUJAH ANYHOW</span></span> <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/r5xzi4d76t">http://www.box.net/shared/r5xzi4d76t</a> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"></span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: rgb(102,0,0)" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">PLEASE NOTE: </span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; COLOR: rgb(102,0,0)" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We invite you to read our posts (see blog archive). If you like what you see and hear and the LORD puts it on your heart, we invite you to:</span></p><ul style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0);font-family:verdana;"><li style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Become a follower of our blog.</span></li><br /><li style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Let others know about this blog.</span></li><br /><li style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Check out www.youtube.com/poppop1949 </span></li><br /><li style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">And don't forget to email us at mgstults@gmail.com to inquire how to purchase a CD.</span></li></ul><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0);font-size:85%;">May the LORD bless you abundantly in Christ Jesus. </span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,0);font-size:85%;">Thank you, Marylynn Stults. </span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal" face="verdana"></p>Marylynn G. Stultshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06420236320490541720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3466868442162139265.post-56977228959751788372009-02-13T19:42:00.000-08:002011-11-15T15:05:56.986-08:00Testimony<div style="text-align: justify;"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: verdana;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CMarylynn%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: verdana;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: verdana;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: verdana;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype style="font-family: verdana;" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520078593 -1073717157 41 0 66047 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.0in right 6.0in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:.7in .7in .7in .7in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;">Miraculous Testimony of Michael G. Stults, Christian Singer</span><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">I am a grateful, living, breathing testimony to the truthfu</span><span style="font-size:130%;">lness and usefulness of Jesus’ command in Matthew 10:8: <span style=""> </span>“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils.”<span style=""> </span>I have been healed, cleansed, delivered of demons, and raised from the dead in the name of Jesus’ twice.<span style=""> </span>And that’s just the beginning of a journey of life and death, life and death, life and near death and, at last, abundant life!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">At 16, I had a serious auto accident, flipping my car end-over-end and banging my head inside the car while I was rolling around.<span style=""> </span>I was hospitalized with a large hematoma and over one hundred stitches were required in my head.<span style=""> </span>This is very important to keep in mind as you read on.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">From that time until recently, I was in business as a contractor and professional musician.<span style=""> </span>I wasn’t living for God as I should have been, so there was never enough.<span style=""> </span>The Scripture, Haggai 1:6, which says that while you have sown much, you bring in little and he that earns wages, earns wages to put them in a bag with holes.<span style=""> </span>This exemplified my career.<span style=""> </span>No matter how much I made, it was never enough.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Things Started to Happen...</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">In 2001, my health also started to go downhill and things started to happen to me.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">I was redoing a large banquet floor in an old theatre (that’s a story in itself; the building had a very dark history). My wife, Marylynn, had a check in her spirit that I should not do it and, within two weeks, I was in the hospital with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure.<span style=""> </span>A few days after I was sent home with a pharmacy of drugs and a lousy prognosis, I went to a healing service at Harvest Prayer Center where Sister Wanda Studdard prayed a </span><span style="font-size:130%;">violent and </span><span style="font-size:130%;">powerful prayer and I was completely delivered and healed – even went back to the hospital for a check-up and could walk long distances problem-free which I could not do before.<span style=""> </span>A few days later, I went back to that same church for a meeting.<span style=""> </span>On the way home, a woman turned directly in front of our car and my wife, Marylynn, immediately prayed, “LORD, please protect my husband!”<span style=""> My head </span>went through the windshield and I was again rushed to the hospital, however I was quickly released.<span style=""> </span>To this day, I have not had a stiff neck or headache.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Returning from Cape Cod to bury Marylynn’s cousin, we stopped at my mom’s house outside of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Columbus</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Ohio</st1:state></st1:place> for a visit.<span style=""> </span>As we packed the car to go, a Dalmatian which Mom didn’t recognize pranced up to Marylynn.<span style=""> </span>He begin to dash back and forth between her and the door, so she checked his tag and went in to call his owner, just in time to see our dog, Alex, devouring rat poison.<span style=""> </span>Marylynn ran back outside to get help from Mom and me, as the Dalmatian loped off down the street.<span style=""> </span>Alex had eaten the whole box, but thanks to the other dog - which none of us ever saw before or since - we’d caught her in time to save her from a hideous death from internal bleeding.<span style=""> </span>If the LORD sends a salvation Dalmatian to save a dog, what will He do – what <i style="">did </i>He do – to save our skins?<span style=""> </span>He certainly went to great lengths to save mine!<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">In October 2003, everything broke loose because I, again, did a couple of things I now know God did not want me to do – not things that were obviously bad or evil, but just things that weren't right.<span style=""> </span>For example, I was getting in the way of His correction for a friend while thinking I was helping him out.<span style=""> </span>My health started to worsen again.<span style=""> </span>Like in Numbers 20:11, Moses got angry and smote the rock twice to get water after God had said to <b style="">speak </b>to it.<span style=""> </span>While God is certainly a God of grace, He is also a very precise Father.<span style=""> </span>I got in His way and He took me out of His way!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">First, I lost all of my energy and started retaining water which is typical for someone with my diagnosis.<span style=""> </span>We had prayed that away, though, and claimed my healing.<span style=""> </span>Then, in April, 2004, Satan started coming after me, but I didn’t admit it because I was always so sure I was right.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"You Shall Not Be Moved"</span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Now, to show God is a God of every detail: one night when Marylynn and I were going to bed, she had just washed a steamer trunk at the foot of our bed.<span style=""> </span>It had a strong odor of the cleanser which bothered me and I couldn’t go to sleep, so she moved it out to the hall.<span style=""> </span>In the middle of the night, I leaped out of bed and collapsed where that trunk would normally have been.<span style=""> </span>I believe I’d have been physically injured, as well, if it had been there, but as it was, I had, simply, dropped dead.<span style=""> </span>Literally.<span style=""> </span>With a huge thud!<span style=""> </span>(Later, a bruise appeared of solid black and purple from my waist to my knee.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Marylynn had awakened just in time to see it all and she ran around the bed, knowing I was gone.<span style=""> </span>Our son heard her words from the next room; she shouted, “Oh, no you don’t!<span style=""> </span>You get back here right now!”<span style=""> </span>Then, she commanded me back in the almighty, all powerful name of Jesus and life came back into me just as it is written in Matthew 10:8: “Raise the dead.”<span style=""> </span>(She prays a lot.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">On May 22<sup>nd</sup> of the same year, she’d received in prayer that I was being refined, and that she was not to get in the way of the refining process or she, too, would be burned. She had my earlier experience as an example.<span style=""> </span>The LORD had also told her she was not to be moved by the circumstances she saw.<span style=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">“You shall not be moved”</span> were the </span><span style="font-size:130%;">actual </span><span style="font-size:130%;">words of the command He had put upon her heart.<span style=""> </span>Emotion was effectively removed from her so that she could, genuinely, walk by faith and not by sight because the trauma I was experiencing had become quite ugly and unceasing.<span style=""> </span>24/7 I was vomiting, swollen, and covered in a complete body rash which the doctors attributed to medical reactions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Then, early on July 5<sup>th</sup>, I jumped out of bed once again and dove at the wall, this time knocking pictures off a bookcase and crushing one between my head and the wall.<span style=""> </span>It took more prayer to bring me back this than the first time.<span style=""> </span>Marylynn caught me, saw my eyes roll back in my head and, again, I expired.<span style=""> </span>Once more, I was gone, only for longer this time.<span style=""> </span>Over and over, she used her faith and prayed repeatedly as directed by the Holy Spirit: “IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”<span style=""> </span>The name of the LORD is sufficient.<span style=""> </span>He had been teaching her this truth for a couple of weeks previously, and the fullness of Colossians 3:17:<b style=""><i style=""><u> And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the LORD Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.</u></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">After a while, I came back… and yelled at her in a shrill <b style=""><i style="">woman’s </i></b>voice!<span style=""> </span>She – Marylynn, that is – was physically quite exhausted and had to rest to regain her faith because fear had begun to creep in, it was all so overwhelming.<span style=""> </span>She was thinking, “Death had to bow to the name of Jesus, but what’s going on here?”<span style=""> </span>I didn’t appear to be at all well, although I had come back to life.<span style=""> </span>She knew that everyone Jesus or the apostles raised from the dead came back healed.<span style=""> </span>After we rested for a while, I asked her if she’d heard the voice that came out of my mouth – that it was not mine, but a woman’s.<span style=""> </span>We started praying for deliverance.<span style=""> </span>After praying and denouncing Satan for quite some time, another voice came out of me telling her she wasn’t strong enough to perform this deliverance, which was, of course, a lie; she had all the ability she needed IN THE NAME OF JESUS, but <i style="">I </i>was getting discouraged and exhausted so, in the morning, instead of going to the hospital, we went to our pastor’s house just for prayer.<span style=""> </span>I ended up staying there for several days, “staying the course.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">In the name of Jesus, my pastor, Charles Spradlin, has healed the sick, cast out devils, and raised 13+ people from the dead.<span style=""> </span>At his home, I was up every day, then kept up all night by what we now realize were the demons tormenting me.<span style=""> </span>After eight days of prayer and deliverance, there were no positive, lasting results.<span style=""> </span>At one point, I looked at my wife and told her I was double-minded but I didn’t know what to do about it (as in James 1:6-8: <b style=""><i style=""><u>But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.<span style=""> </span>For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.<span style=""> </span>For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.<span style=""> </span>A double-minded man is unstable in all his way.”</u></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">At the Hospital</span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style=""><i style=""><u><br /></u></i></b></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">I was taken to the hospital.<span style=""> </span>After several hours in the emergency room and tests being run, I was moved to intensive care.<span style=""> </span>(Now remember, Marylynn, Pastor Spradlin, his family, a beloved sister in Christ, Connie Myers, and others had been praying diligently and persistently.)<span style=""> </span>Once in ICU, I coded: this means all my vitals dropped and I started dying once again.<span style=""> </span>They told my wife all of my major organs had failed and my legs didn’t work, so I would not walk any more.<span style=""> </span>Many medical people began working on me and they ran her out of the room.<span style=""> </span>Next, I heard them ask if the priest was there.<span style=""> </span>I asked, “Why?<span style=""> </span>I’m not going to die” and if I needed prayer, they should get my pastor who was out in the hall.<span style=""> </span>Then I laid back and started to pray in God’s heavenly language.<span style=""> </span>Within just a few minutes, I was stabilized and not in as much immediate danger NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID BECAUSE THEY HAD PRETTY WELL GIVEN UP ON ME, BUT BECAUSE OF MY PRAYERS AND THE PRAYERS OF OTHERS.<span style=""> </span>(They had called my heart specialist at home and told him he needed to get to the hospital quickly because one of his patients would be dead by morning.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">They got my pastor and my wife.<span style=""> </span>The LORD had told Pastor Spradlin to ask me what the sin was in my heart.<span style=""> </span>He was waiting for something huge, but I had already told and repented for all the big ones, so I looked at Marylynn and asked, “Should I tell him about the disability?”<span style=""> </span>She replied emphatically, “Good God, yes, if that’s what’s bothering you!”<span style=""> </span>I told him I had filed for disability and I felt guilty about it.<span style=""> </span>He was shocked; it wasn’t the size or the substance of the “sin” but my perception, my guilt about it that was killing me.<span style=""> </span>He said we have the ability to forgive, then asked, “Do you repent?”<span style=""> (even though filing for disability isn't a sin, I felt it was for me, at the time). </span>I did, and we agreed I was forgiven.<span style=""> </span>Within two or three minutes, all my vitals were back to within normal range.<span style=""> </span>The doctors and nurses were astonished.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Marylynn had called my mother, a diligent prayer warrior and reader of the Word, who lives in <st1:state st="on">Ohio</st1:state> and my sister, Connie, in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region> and suggested they should come, but to come believing in my full recovery of health and wholeness in the name of Jesus.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">They came.<span style=""> </span>After a couple of days there, I got bold with Connie because I have always worried about her salvation.<span style=""> </span>I asked her if she died today, would she go to heaven and had she given her heart to the LORD?<span style=""> </span>She answered, “Yes.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Later that day, she took Marylynn aside and told her of something I had done when I was 16.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Remember the car accident?</b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">I had promised God that if He would save me, I would serve Him, serve Him with my life and my voice.<span style=""> </span>I was healed.<span style=""> </span>He did His part; I did not do mine.<span style=""> </span>I started a rock band doing danced, bars, and show clubs, and the occasional church.<span style=""> </span>Apparently, I was <i style="">always </i>double-minded, and I had made a vow to God I subsequently made no effort to remember or keep.<span style=""> </span>Until Now.<span style=""> </span>I had lied to God.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">At Last...<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Yes, at last, the sin that had held me in bondage for 38 years was known.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Remember the prayer and deliverance of my pastor, my wife, and numerous others?<span style=""> </span>No matter how hard everyone – including me – prayed and believed with all faith, I could not be delivered because I had this large unforgiven sin in my heart.<span style=""> </span>God WAS answering the prayers.<span style=""> </span>We <b style=""><i style="">knew </i></b>that He was, but we could just not see how.<span style=""> </span>2 Corinthians 5:7 is a requirement: <b style=""><i style=""><u>For we walk by faith, not by sight.</u></i></b><span style=""> </span>That is how we live our lives.<span style=""> </span><b style="">HE </b>puts everything together, when we just let Him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">So, Marylynn and I got together in my room and prayed a prayer of repentance that I would be forgiven for this sin that He’d had to bring my sister from <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region> to remind me about.<span style=""> </span>After that, improvement sped up rapidly and, within 24 hours, all but one of my IVs were unhooked.<span style=""> </span>Two days later, I was taken out of ICU to a room where they could still watch me but I could get up and walk around.<span style=""> </span>Four days later, I went home – a grand total of ten days after the doctors had given me no hope whatsoever to even live.<span style=""> </span>All of my organs were back functioning and I was walking on those dead legs, all because of prayers and faith in the name of the LORD Jesus Christ!<span style=""> </span> I am doing great!</span></p><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">A Last Relevant and Imperative Note<br /></span></span></p><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Both Marylynn and Pastor Spradlin were aware I needed to hear the Word, only they just didn’t know how <i style="">much</i>.<span style=""> </span>You see, up until the hospitalization, although I attended church faithfully every Wednesday and Sunday, I never opened my Bible through the week.<span style=""> </span>Both of them brought in tape and CD players so they could play the Bible in my room around the clock only, interestingly, none of the units they brought in would work.<span style=""> </span>The LORD spoke to Marylynn and said, “Michael has to initiate this himself.”<span style=""> </span>No longer would I be carried along solely by others’ prayers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Now, I read the Word daily and am serving Him, as I promised over 40 years ago, willingly, cleansed, and with my whole new heart that He has given me.<span style=""> </span>Now since my recovery, I have been going into churches and before groups such as Full Gospel Business Men’s meetings with Word and with music.<span style=""> N</span>ow God has also given me a great word of encouragement for others in my personal testimony as to His faithfulness, grace, and mercy to go along with His word and music.<span style=""> </span>Thank You, Jesus, and thank You for working through the ministries and persons of Pastor Charles Spradlin, Sister Denzil Totman, Dr. Richard Bootz, and Pastor Max Colver, as well as Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, Myles Munroe, Jesse Duplantis, and more. God bless them all.<br /></span></p><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">*******************<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">An Important P.S. from Marylynn:</span><br /><br />God does not punish us with sickness or disease. After "the fall," sin AND sickness (to death) became a regular part of the scene here on Planet Earth. God makes it quite clear that "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest... shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22) and "...whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Galatians 6:7). You don't plant tomatoes and get watermelons. That's what caused all of this that happened to my husband, Michael; all that which happens to all of us. It's the way it is. Ah! But, Jesus! He came and <span style="font-style: italic;">over</span>came! Yes, but Jesus didn't come to destroy the laws of God, but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17). As long as we are still in our flesh suits, flesh things are going to happen. Jesus has now, already, given us EVERYTHING <span style="font-style: italic;">we </span>need to overcome all evil that was brought upon the earth by the actions in the garden, but it ain't automatic. While the gift of God is free, do we not have some responsibilities? Jesus Himself said that DAILY we must deny ourselves and pick up <span style="font-style: italic;">our </span>cross, and follow Him. Then - yes, even now, while we are still in this flesh - we can wal</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">k in the fullness of the Truth of the Word of God which declares that by His stripes we were healed, (1 Peter 2:24), Amen in Jesus' name.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><p face="verdana" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Marylynn G. Stultshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06420236320490541720noreply@blogger.com1