Messages spoken at the 2005 Florida Family CFO
Florida Family CFO 2005:
11 messages.
The 2005 Florida Family CFO met at Lake Yale Baptist Assembly Grounds, Eustis, from July 3 to July 8, 2005. The speakers were Dr. Bill Reed and Lee Kizer, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Forgiveness, Healing, Inner Healing, Jesus, Joy, Kingdom Living, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Bill Reed and Lee Kizer share the platform at the 2005 Florida Family CFO. Kizer traces a prophecy that pulled his family into youth ministry. Reed retells a colleague’s brush with death, a vision of Jesus, and recovery from a heart attack, and he speaks of grieving his wife, who died a month before this talk.
Bill Reed recalls a childhood circus clown who was pulled from the band for playing out of tune. He uses the memory to press for unity and for total transformation of the mind under the Holy Spirit, citing Romans 12. He was speaking at the Florida Family CFO in 2005.
At the Florida Family CFO in 2005, Bill Reed speaks through grief for his late wife. He describes how he wore his stethoscope like a priest’s stole while caring for her. He returns to a story from that morning about a hospital chief who told a resident to “comfort her” instead of just reciting a patient’s chart.
At the Florida Family CFO in 2005, Bill Reed reads a poem he wrote called “Sight.” He insists that true seeing happens with the heart rather than the eyes. He closes by picturing campers glimpsing heaven here on earth before it is theirs forever.
At the 2005 Florida Family CFO, Bill Reed tells campers how he begged Jesus to give his infant son Robbie back when the boy stopped breathing in Bay City. Years later he prayed the same prayer over a toddler already pronounced dead, and her heart started again under his stethoscope.
Bill Reed tells how a pathologist named Ruth Wannstrom once asked whether he believed Jesus still heals today. He also tells how an old friend, Eric Kast, later stopped him in a hotel hallway to ask, “Bill, does your heart sing?” Both stories come from the 2005 Florida Family CFO.
Lee Kizer opened the 2005 Florida Family CFO on two points, that God wills our change and that God is able to bring it about. He credits his own conversion to the visible change in his wife after she rededicated her life, and tells of the huge protester who called off the mob surrounding his FBI car, and then matched no undercover agent the Chicago office could name.
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Change means rooting out and pulling down long before anything is built or planted, Lee Kizer argues from Jeremiah 1, using the vine-covered house he and his wife are remodeling as the picture. God is growing “oak trees, not squash,” he adds, so the work takes time, in a Monday night session of the 2005 Florida Family CFO.
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Lee Kizer tells the healing service of the 2005 Florida Family CFO that “all we have done so far is looked at the menu,” and that it is time to eat. He turns to the bronze serpent Moses raised on a pole in Numbers 21, where only those who kept looking lived, and tells how forgiving the elders who pushed him out of the church he built took nine months of praying every morning.
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The Greek behind “compassion” means “eager yearning,” Lee Kizer says, and he traces it from Jesus healing the crowds to the scourging post and the darkness at noon. Campers at the 2005 Florida Family CFO also hear the Boynton Beach kidnapping he worked as an FBI agent, and how the murdered girl’s parents visited her killer in prison until he came to Christ.
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Lee Kizer closes the 2005 Florida Family CFO by mapping the Christian life onto Israel’s route from Egypt through the wilderness into Canaan, arguing that the life of Christ, not only his death, is what changes us. From his FBI years, he tells of a bank robber convicted by ten fingerprints left on the tape he had wrapped around his fingers to avoid leaving prints, then asks whether our lives leave that much evidence.
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