The Triumphant Church
of the time praying in other tongues as I went about my
daily business. And every now and then I'd think to
myself, The Lord must he preparing me for my service
tomorrow. It's going to be a "stem-winder"!
You see, the Bible says, "For if I pray in an
unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth ..." (1 Cor. 14:14).
And in Jude 20 it says, ... building up yourselves on
your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." So I
knew God was preparing me and getting me ready for
something, but I thought it was for my Sunday service.
Then about two o'clock, that insane woman was brought
to our parsonage by her sister. She acted like a robot;
she just stared straight ahead like she was in another
world, except that her mouth was continually moving,
almost involuntarily.
When her sister mentioned that I was a preacher,
immediately the insane woman began to quote
scriptures; the Word just started running out of her
mouth like water out of a faucet, her eyes just blazing
the entire time. The Word wasn't coming out of her
mind, because she was mentally incompetent;
scriptures were coming up out of her recreated, born-
again spirit.
I'd never seen anyone like this before, and I didn't
know what to do. I made the comment, "Anyone who
can quote Scripture like that must really know the
Lord."
When I said that, her eyes looked like they flashed
fire. I was standing right in front of her, and, eyes
blazing, she reached up and grabbed her hair and began
pulling it, screaming, "Oh, no, no! No! No! I couldn't
know God! No! No! No! I've committed the
unpardonable sin! No! No!" And her sister had to get
ahold of her and shake her to try to get her calmed