Messages spoken at the Indiana CFO 1955.
Home » The Library » Series » Indiana CFO 1955
Gertrude Dekock Keehn recalls asking “What shall I say, Lord?” before she comforted a young woman facing the amputation of both feet. Speaking to the Indiana CFO in 1955, she also teaches the prayer she asked her own children to pray for her: “Keep my mummy on the perfect way.”
Gertrude Dekock Keehn leads a guided meditation for healing at the Indiana CFO in 1955. She tells of a woman whose arthritic hand straightened during the silence, and of another who found her cancer gone within days of the same meeting.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn preaches on trusting that “all things work together for good” while the trial is still happening, not only in hindsight. She tells how a car she was riding in nearly went over a cliff twice, then struck a stone lodged firmly in the bank. She gave the talk to the Indiana CFO in 1955.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn preaches from 2 Corinthians 6 on being “workers together with him.” She offers a South African pastor who denounced her in print, then unknowingly asked her to help heal his wife, as proof that unanswered criticism does no harm. The talk closes with the call to be “unknown, yet well known,” and she delivered it to the Indiana CFO in 1955.
Ruth Robison walks campers through her own leaflets on prayer and health. She insists that healing rests on each person’s own conviction that God wills them whole, and that every prop must finally be let go. The morning hour at the Indiana CFO in 1955 closes with an elderly friend who asked her to pray him quickly into what he called his “spirit dress.”
The Indiana CFO of 1955 heard Ruth Robison lay out five convictions to hold before praying for anyone who is ill. She then tells how her Richmond prayer group bought a dying seventeen-year-old a light blue satin robe and slippers for the foot of her bed. They refused anything cheaper, because “unless this prayer group can have the faith of a satin robe and satin slippers, she will not get well.”
Doubt is the one thing Ruth Robison names as able to stop a miracle. At the Indiana CFO in 1955, she traces it from Thomas and Judas down to the small daily habits of rushing, criticism and excuse. She retells the man who rebuilt the Johnstown flood defenses, who calmed neighbors pounding on his door with the words “because I built the dam.”
Ruth Robison presses campers past a child’s prayers of adoration and asking, toward prayer offered with the mind, quoting Paul’s “I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the mind also.” She had phoned a neighbor four times about three spools of white thread before she saw that God, like that friend, had promised the first time. That is the lesson she brought to the 1955 Indiana CFO.
Nearly every student who had caught what Glenn Clark calls the deeper life carried a loss in the family, an empty chair. He asks campers at the Indiana CFO in 1955 to let grief and unmet hunger push them toward God rather than away from him.
At the Indiana CFO in 1955, Glenn Clark sketches an ideal college where loving God with the whole self turns campers into heroes, geniuses, prophets and saints. He illustrates it with a shy student whose shout of “go on, go on” revealed his gift. He adds a discouraged runner who was taught to give up the wish to win and simply run.