The Triumphant Churchstarted coming to be loosened in the loosening services!
In these loosening services, we also had every kind of a
manifestation and every kind of a physical
demonstration you could ever think to mention and
some you wouldn't want to mention.
Then the novelty of those loosening services began
to play out and wane too. So I announced that we were
going to start having "getting-free" services. Every
Saturday night was going to be a "get-free" service.
Everyone who had come four, five, or six months before
to get delivered and then to be loosened started coming
to get free. So we went along in those "getting free"
services for a while, and then the novelty of those
services began to wear off too.
I may be slow to catch on, but I finally said to
myself, This is not working. These people are not free. I
knew these people weren't any more set free than they
had been before any of these services began. I lived
among these people. I was their pastor. I visited them
in their homes; I knew they weren't set free.
I would go out to their farms, and I'd help the
farmers pick a little cotton as we walked up and down
the rows talking. We would walk along the corn rows
together talking as we threw the ears of corn into the
wagon. And I could tell that these people hadn't been
set free from anything. They still had the same
problems and bondages they had before.
I would also visit them in the evenings in their
homes, and I could see that the people were no more
delivered, no more loosened, no more set free than they
were before we began all those meetings. And yet we
had all those physical demonstrations! In fact, we had
just about every kind of physical manifestation you
could think of.