Messages spoken at the 2001 Florida Family CFO
Florida Family CFO 2001:
8 messages.
The 2001 Florida Family CFO met at Lake Yale Baptist Assembly Grounds, Eustis, in June 2001. The speakers were Colonel Heath "Bo" Bottomly and Rick Sizemore, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Healing, Inner Healing, Integrity, Love, Spiritual Growth and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Speaking on integrity at the 2001 Florida Family CFO, Bo Bottomly tells how in Vietnam in 1967 he believed his own misfired guns had brought down his wingman, Zack Butler, and how he could not bring himself to tell the truth to a general, an intelligence officer or even his own son. Years later the wingman’s widow mailed him the AK-47 bullet that had come back with the remains.
At the Florida Family CFO in 2001, Bo Bottomly recalls standing beside his grandmother as a boy and watching the wind turn a Montana prairie gold and green. That, he says, is the moment he first found God. It came long before his son led him to Christ by phone with the prayer “Lord Jesus, I need you.”
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Bo Bottomly teaches campers to keep a daily journal, reading entries back to age thirteen. He shows how his memory of General MacArthur praying alone before the Leyte Gulf invasion matched MacArthur’s own published diary almost word for word. He brought the message to the Florida Family CFO in 2001.
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Rick Sizemore, teaching at the camps, walks through Hebrews 11:1 to show faith as the way believers “plug into” the resources of heaven, then closes with a guest’s testimony of trusting God through her small daughter’s serious illness. The talk comes from the 2001 Florida Family CFO.
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Given at the 2001 Florida Family CFO. Rick Sizemore teaches five kinds of spiritual stronghold, from harbored grudges to family curses, before leading campers into a healing and blessing service. He recalls praying a young woman in Blacksburg free of a curse of alcoholism by phone, in the middle of the night, without leaving his motel room.
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Bo Bottomly reads from his World War II journal to teach persistence at the 2001 Florida Family CFO. His tentmate Marsh Kyle crashed into a cliff in 1945 and was loaded into a cardboard box as dead while Bo shouted at God, “You’ve taken the wrong one.” Decades later, at a revival in South Carolina, Kyle came down the aisle on crutches to hug him.
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Rick Sizemore teaches from John 14 that “In my Father’s house are many dwelling places” describes the present, not the hereafter: the Greek word means abidings, the same root as “abide in me,” and the Father and Son come to make their home with those who love Jesus. For a fatherless generation, he says, the word “father” can bring hostility instead of comfort, yet the Father’s house is a place of security, provision and comfort where “there’s a gap between believing and knowing” his love. To show what it means to be seated with Christ, he crowns a camper king and his wife queen at the Florida Family CFO in 2001, and explains that she keeps her place beside the king even when she walks among the peasants; forgetting that place, he warns, brings anxiety, fear and comparison. He adds an “ATM card” on “the first bank of heaven,” his daughter’s freedom to interrupt him while he prays, and a woman who stopped smoking during a praise song when she realized “I’m holy,” then closes with prayer for those who do not know who they are in Christ.
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Bo Bottomly closes out the Florida Family CFO in 2001 by urging campers to finish the week strong. He then tells how he sat newly sober on a foggy beach bench, praying. He told a small girl there that he was talking to Jesus, and she stared into his eyes and cried, “I see him. I see him.”
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