Chapter Nine

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How Ben Kinchlow Helped Inspire The Writing of These Books

      Some years ago I had a chronic problem in my right eye.  My doctor said that we could control this problem with medication but that it would keep recurring.  The problem was an infection that was not threatening to my vision but was an irritation and a nuisance.  It produced soreness and pain.  My eye would turn red and swell.  It bothered me very much.

     One day I went to the doctor about it and he gave me some medicine for it.  I used the medicine but got no relief.  That night my eye hurt so badly I couldn't sleep.  I got up in the wee hours of the night and turned on the TV.

     I have a large coffee table in my living room.  This table is large enough and strong enough to hold a man's weight.  I was sitting on the edge of this coffee table flipping channels.  One channel I flipped across was the 700 Club.

     I never watched this program before.  I had always thought they were a little "way out".  As a Baptist pastor at that time, I was careful what I watched.  I had no time for these "religious fanatics".  But this time it was different.  This time it was really different.

     As I was flipping across the channels, I was about to move past the 700 Club when Ben Kinchlow said "There is a man sitting on the edge of his coffee table flipping channels who has a problem with his right eye.  I'm going to pray for you right now and God is going to heal your eye."

     You know it!  He had my attention.  It was riveted to him at that very moment.

     He stuck his long, bony finger right into my living room.  It came right into my face.  Then he began to pray.  While he was praying something warm that felt like an electric current went all over me and through me.  I never felt anything like that before.  It was wild.

     I was sitting with both elbows resting on both my knees.  My body formed sort of a tri-pod.  Had I not been propped up like that I would have hit the floor.  I was slain in the spirit and didn't even know what it was.  I had never even heard the expression, "slain in the spirit".

     When this was over, my eye felt different.  I can't describe it.  But I knew something was different about my eye.

     I got up from the coffee table and went into the bathroom and turned on the light.  I walked up to the mirror and looked at my eye.  It was still red.  It was still swollen.  It was still sore.  It still hurt.  But I could tell there was something different about my eye.  What was different, I could not tell at that moment in time, but I could tell there was something different about my eye.

     The next morning my eye was perfectly well.  To this day, years later, I have never had a recurrence of this infection.

     This experience sent this Baptist preacher back to the drawing boards.  Had this not happened to me, it is doubtful if I would have believed it.  After all, any one with any theological education at all, knew that healing went out with the Apostles.  So, it was back to the drawing boards for me.

     At this time in my ministry and for the first time in my ministry, God had me in a small, slow pastorate.  Up until this time I had always been in a booming, fast paced work.  But for the first time in my many years as an evangelist and pastor I had time to slow down and think.  I had time to hear God more clearly than I ever had before.

     I had begun to notice that Jesus had more to say about physical healing than he did about salvation.  This had begun to perplex me.

     In addition, during my sermons I would find words coming out of my mouth that I had not planned to say, words that were definitely not a part of my sermon.  But out of my mouth they came.  I would say things that I personally did not believe because I had been taught differently.  While preaching I would ask myself "Did I say that?"  After the service I would go home and check what I had said against the scripture.  The Lord was giving me revelation knowledge and I didn't know it.

     The Ben Kinchlow experience combined with what God was showing me, led me to ask the Lord some things about the healing that I had never believed but now was forced to believe.  I asked him if this was really so, why have I missed it all these years?  If this is really so, there must be a scriptural frame upon which this truth of healing should be placed.  I wanted to know what this frame was.  The Lord showed me that the frame I was looking for was the Abrahamic Covenant.

     Over the months and years that followed, he revealed to me everything contained in these four volumes.  Sometimes the revelations came in bits and pieces and sometimes they came in torrents.  And as each revelation came, the Lord would have me think deeply about it and search it out in scripture to prove to myself that it was so.

     Then, he showed me that he wanted me to write what he had revealed to me.  He showed me that he wanted me to document what I wrote with Greek grammars and lexicons.  You, dear reader, have the finished product of those years of revelation and instruction in your hands.  These volumes were written in obedience to his instructions.

     Had it not been for Ben Kinchlow's prayer for my eye and its subsequent healing, I don't know if I would have written these books or not.  I guess the blessed Lord knew I needed the experience to back up what he showed me about healing.  At any rate, I thank God for Ben Kinchlow.  God bless you dear brother.

     Another book is on its way concerning using Jesus' name to obtain Abraham's blessings.

     May the good Lord bless you because Galatians 3:9 is yours.

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