Messages spoken at the Michigan CFO 1970.
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Told in prayer to send a friend one hundred and fifty dollars he did not have, Tommy Tyson wrote the check anyway. A gift arrived days later that covered it. At the Michigan CFO in 1970 he argues from it that all of life is a gift received in thanks, and that “the supply is in the act of obedience.”
At the Michigan CFO in 1970, Tommy Tyson teaches that kingdom living is received rather than earned, and that anxiety is what stops a person taking it. He tells how he posted a check for a hundred and fifty dollars he did not have and found it covered by a stranger’s letter and a cottage sold, and how he refused to pray students out of examinations they had not studied for.
Human nature is incomplete by design and only Jesus living inside completes it, not a technique for getting God to move and not an idea of God we have shaped for ourselves. A band director who used to provoke him deliberately before a concert so that he would blow the socks off the horn is one of the pictures Tommy Tyson leaves with the Michigan CFO in 1970.
The last day began at Pentecost and is a present relationship rather than a countdown. Tommy Tyson had just come back from South America with Francis MacNutt, where the people of one Lima district handed back a large gift and built the missionaries a straw house instead, and where he slept a night under armed guard. All of that is what he carries into the 1970 Michigan CFO.
A Spirit-filled life is a growing life and a listening one, and it is not measured by how dramatic the first experience was. Tommy Tyson gives the 1970 Michigan CFO a missionary couple who asked God simply for whichever gift the need in front of them required, and a word given quietly in a men’s prayer group about a man’s brothers.
A quarrel with a neighbor over a tool shed turned into an altar instead, Tommy Tyson tells the Michigan CFO in 1970, once he said out loud that the man mattered more to him than the building. Jesus living inside a person frees them to be themselves and to give themselves away, which is where he takes it next, to a dying woman’s bedside.
An open question session at the 1970 Michigan CFO in which Tommy Tyson works through telling the Spirit’s voice from your own, choosing between several good options, and handing back a burden you have been carrying on someone else’s behalf. Rufus Moseley’s line, that he un-messes the messer, is what he keeps coming back to.