Hearing Restored

Our tree guy stopped by to look at some work we need done. He said he had been sick for a week with a bad earache. He went to four doctors and his ear was still totally stopped up and painful. So we prayed for him in our driveway. He said he felt his ear pop, and he had goose bumps all over. He said he could hear out of it again! Thank You, Lord!

We recently purchased a house that had a fair amount of past due maintenance. One of the issues is overgrown, very large trees crowding the perimeter of the back yard and perhaps threatening the house.

So we left a message for a tree guy we had used once before.

About ten days later, he finally called. He began by apologizing for the delay in returning our call. He said he had been sick in bed for at least five days with a bad earache. This was the first day he had been able to get out and bid on work.

I was surprised that he went on about his ear issue. He said his ear still felt like it had concrete in it. He couldn't hear a thing out of it and after seeing four doctors, it still was not improved.

I gave him the address of the house. He happened to be nearby, and I happened to be at the house doing some work. He said he would stop by shortly.

After I hung up the phone and got back to work, I couldn't get his situation off my mind. I began to come against that sickness in his ear. By the time he arrived, I was anxious to pray for him in person. We walked around the yard to look at the tree situation. He gave us the bid and again began to talk about his ear.

I said, we will pray for you. My husband was in front of him, and for some reason I got behind him and touched the area behind his ear. This guy who climbs and cuts up giant trees for a living closed his eyes and bowed his head while we commanded all infection and infirmity to GO! When we finished, he opened his eyes and said he had goose bumps all over. It was at least 90 degrees that day, so it wasn't the temperature!

He also said he felt a pop in his ear while we prayed.

Hubby asked, "you can hear now, too, can't you?" 

He said, "yeah, I can!"

He told us he was baptized in a Baptist church when he was 8 but he later wandered off. 

We talked a bit more before he left. He thanked us for praying.

A couple days later, I called to see when he could start the work. As soon as he realized who I was, he thanked me profusely for "what you did for me the other day." I asked if his ear was feeling better. He said it was still a little stopped up but, "I can HEAR!"

After we talked about the work, he thanked me again before hanging up. 

This was such an encouragement to us. Thank You, Lord, for healing his ear and for letting him know how much You love us all.

Higher Ground Hymn

This past week was met with several discouraging situations, confusion, and frustration. Yesterday afternoon I decided to lie down for a bit to rest and regroup. As I almost drifted off to sleep, a few phrases of this old hymn went through my mind. I believe it was the Holy Spirit so I looked up the lyrics. It is a good prayer for me. My heart has no desire to stay where I've been tempted to camp out this week...

Lyrics:
I'm pressing on the upward way
New heights I'm gaining every day
Still praying as I onward bound
"Lord, plant my feet on higher ground."

Chorus:

Lord, lift me up and let me stand
By faith on heaven's table land
A higher plain than I have found
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay
Tho' some may dwell where these abound
My prayer, my aim is higher ground.

I want to live above the world
Tho' satan's darts at me are hurled
For faith has caught the joyful sound
The song of saints on higher ground.

I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright
But still I'll pray till heaven I've found
"Lord, lead me on to higher ground."

1968 Prophecy by a 90 Year Old Norwegian Woman

This prophecy was given by a 90 yr. old woman in Norway 42 years ago about events leading up to the second coming of Christ. An Evangelist by the name of Emanuel Minos wrote this prophecy down in 1968 and thought it was so extreme that he put it away. He recently reviewed the prophecy and was amazed that it is not "extreme" anymore--but the norm in our society. Read the prophecy below.

An old woman of 90 from Valdres in Norway had a vision from God in 1968. The evangelist Emanuel Minos had meetings (services) where she lived. He had the opportunity to meet her, and she told him what she had seen. He wrote it down, but thought it to be so unintelligible that he put it in a drawer. Now, almost 30 years later, he understands he has to share the vision with others.

The woman from Valdres was a very alert, reliable, awake and credible Christian, with a good reputation among all who knew her. This is what she saw:

"I saw the time just before the coming of Jesus and the outbreak of the Third World War. I saw the events with my natural eyes. I saw the world like a kind of a globe and saw Europe, land by land. I saw Scandinavia. I saw Norway. I saw certain things that would take place just before the return of Jesus, and just before the last calamity happens, a calamity the likes of which we have never before experienced.

She mentioned four waves:

1. "First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War breaks out there will be a ‘détente’ like we have never had before. There will be peace between the super powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long peace. (Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war was at its highest. E. Minos) In this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated - and from an unexpected place.

2. "A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity. Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness) Christianity.

"The important thing will be to have success, to be something; to have material things, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and follow Jesus, - entertainment, art and culture will invade the churches where there should have been gatherings for repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just before the return of Jesus.

3. "There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has never experienced the likes of. People will live together like married without being married. (I do not believe the concept ‘co-habitor’? existed in 1968 - E. Minos.) Much uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage will become the natural (the common), and it will be justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian circles and we pet it - even sin against nature. Just before Jesus return there will be TV- programs like we have never experienced. (TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. E. Minos)

"TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one ‘station’ on TV, it will be filled with ‘stations.’ (She did not know the word ‘channel’ which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. E. Minos.) TV will be just like the radio where we have many ‘stations,’ and it will be filled with violence. People will use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction one of the other, and this will spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the screen, the most intimate things that takes place in a marriage." (I protested and said, we have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing. E. Minos.) There the old woman said: "It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had before will be broken down, and the most indecent things will pass before our eyes."

4. "People from poor countries will stream to Europe. (In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration. E. Minos.) They will also come to Scandinavia - and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them. They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached (I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time. E. Minos.)

The tears streamed from the old woman’s eyes down her cheeks. "I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly, Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will be a short war." (She saw it in the vision.)

"All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.

"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you must take courage and tell this. I have received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.

"The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe."

WHEN THE OIL FLOWS

An elder in the Pentecostal Church at Moss, Norway, Martin Andersen, heard the following prophecy in 1937, in Moss:

‘When oil comes out of the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast, things will begin to happen, and the return of Jesus is approaching.’

When these words had been proclaimed, people stood up in the congregation and asked the man to sit down and not speak such nonsense. In 1937 it was indeed nonsense to talk about oil being pumped along the Norwegian coast. Today all the world’s big oil companies are pumping oil along the coast of Norway. Norway is the world’s second greatest exporter of oil - after Saudi Arabia.

The sum of it all is: Jesus is coming soon (suddenly).