Messages spoken at the 1959 California Healing CFO
California Healing CFO 1959:
12 messages.
The 1959 California Healing CFO met at Forest Home Christian Conference Grounds, from October 5 to October 11, 1959. The speakers were Emily Gardiner Neal, Genevieve Parkhurst, Norman Elliott and Starr Daily, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Forgiveness, Healing, Inner Healing, Peace, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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At the 1959 California Healing CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst tells of a mother who slapped her disrespectful son. The mother then realized she had really struck out at a brother she was never allowed to hit forty years earlier. Parkhurst gives the illustration to show how old, unforgiven hurts erupt onto those nearest us.
Teaching at the 1959 California Healing CFO, Genevieve Parkhurst says the Holy Spirit gives both gifts and fruits. The gifts are like a bridegroom’s wedding presents. The fruits are the nine children of love, joy, peace, and more, and they remain even after any gift is lost.
From the 1959 California Healing CFO. A man boasted to Starr Daily that he had read the Bible cover to cover six times. The answer came back: “all he has left are the covers.” On the opening night of one of the camps, Starr Daily urges reading a verse or a good book slowly enough that it turns into prayer.
Starr Daily teaches the campers how to go to church: enter as a little child, keep a secret prayer life, and bring reverence instead of criticism. This comes from the 1959 California Healing CFO. He remembers a prison chaplain broken by his daughter’s name in gangster headlines. The chaplain told the men “I can’t preach this morning,” and instead laid a hand on each of the two hundred who came forward.
Starr Daily calls Jesus “the contact man.” He tells the campers that the power of God is neutral, running a refrigerator or an electric chair according to what we hook it to. He gives four ways to make and keep that contact, ending in a meditation that breathes in light and breathes out love. Given at the 1959 California Healing CFO.
Norman Elliott reads John 11 as a lesson in God’s timing: faith means acting to the limit of what you know and letting Jesus take it from there. He tells the 1959 California Healing CFO of a Mississippi widow who kept a crumpled letter of condolence for months, reading it over and over.
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A man had lain ill thirty-eight years at the pool of Bethesda, and Norman Elliott uses him to argue that God’s power is tied to no ritual, place or method. He also tells the 1959 California Healing CFO of a ward of paralyzed patients, who got up on the spot when a snake escaped in the hospital.
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Opening with three chaplains caught at a poker game, Norman Elliott moves the 1959 California Healing CFO from Jesus healing through forgiveness to the harder work of forgiving oneself, one’s parents, even God, by way of a woman who blessed her own body back to health and George Mueller’s nickel-to-million-dollar faith.
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Tracing how humanity’s picture of God grew from a fearsome tribal deity into the consistently loving Father of Jesus, Norman Elliott tells the 1959 California Healing CFO that healing begins with trusting that consistency. He talks about a cancer patient tormented by talk of God’s will, and about an old Indian who chose the day of his death.
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A woman with breast cancer told Emily Gardiner Neal her faith was the size of a pinhead, which turned out to be enough. Seeking the kingdom first is the master key to healing, she tells the California Healing CFO in 1959, and she remembers a widow who demanded to know why that God of hers had singled out her husband.
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At the California Healing CFO in 1959, a poodle straining against the rope a leash law obliged its owner to use becomes Norman Elliott’s picture of liberty won through discipline. Then there is Glenn Clark, up at three in the morning for fifteen years, filling notebooks.
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Abiding in Christ is the whole secret of victorious living as Norman Elliott presents it at the California Healing CFO in 1959, a matter of dwelling and resting in him moment by moment rather than striving. David Livingstone in captivity and a divorced woman alone in a motel room are his two stories.
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