Messages given at the Montana Camps Farthest Out
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Reg Goff tells of two church members swindled into buying a worthless oil rig. He and three friends fasted and prayed, and within two weeks a buyer from another state called, wanting that exact broken rig to cap a well. At the Montana CFO in 1964, he offers it as proof that power flows only when called for.
Reg Goff teaches the Montana CFO in 1964 on redemptive prayer and on giving God our whole will. He describes an alcoholic friend who set two chairs in an empty room. For six months the man prayed, “God, if there is a God, I am praying to you,” until it dawned on him that God had been there all along.
Marcia Brown draws on decades spent preparing microscope slides. Being filled with Christ, she tells the Montana CFO in 1970, is like paraffin soaking into every cell of a specimen, “so close that you can’t tell where you stop and He begins.”
At the Montana CFO in 1960, Roland Brown tells of an English schoolteacher who spent years turning his own life inside out. The man came back each year to report on his tiny chapel: a rebuilt floor, a new wing, seven young people entering the ministry. He always greeted Roland Brown with “the third chapter is more wonderful.”
Roland Brown describes for the Montana CFO in 1960 one night of itemized confession: an impatient word to his wife, a flash of temper with his small son. The words “cleanse us from all unrighteousness” walked him through it until all he could say was “I guess you win, Lord.” He calls it the turning point.
Roland Brown pairs troubled emotions with their scriptural cures: perfect love casting out fear, gratitude dissolving anxiety. He also describes weighing whether to press on into a country gripped by riots, watching for what he calls a red light from God. He gave the talk to the Montana CFO in 1960.
Thelma Lee likens the Holy Spirit to the trusted servant in Genesis 24, sent to find a bride for his master’s son, whose whole mission was to introduce her to that son rather than draw attention to himself. She teaches that the Spirit works differently through each personality. The talk closes a week of teaching at the Montana CFO in 1972.
Thelma Lee prayed that her newly drafted son would be kept stateside, then learned he had been sent to Germany alone, and the jolt reshaped how she prayed. At the 1972 Montana CFO she teaches campers to add “that the Father may be glorified” to every request. She illustrates it with a courtroom scare that followed a car accident in Mexico.
Thelma Lee opens with her son’s story of honking at a car’s “honk if you love Jesus” bumper sticker and getting an angry reply. She then walks the group at the 1972 Montana CFO through promises of Jesus, among them Christ standing and knocking in Revelation 3:20 and the rest promised in Matthew 11:28.
Ruth Martin likens small daily habits to gravel clogging the channel God prays through. She tells of praying for a niece, and then of her son dying in a plane crash and of the deafness her grief brought on. After that she heard, “when you really contact me, all you love are blessed.” She was speaking at the 1970 Montana CFO.