Messages spoken at the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO
Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO 1957:
12 messages.
The 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO met at Lake Murray, Ardmore, from September 27 to October 3, 1957. The speakers were Cliff Richmond, Ethel Banks and Gertrude Dekock Keehn, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Guidance, Healing, Inner Healing, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Love, Praise & Thanksgiving, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Cliff Richmond describes cursing a ringing telephone for years, until he learned to answer it with “thank you, Jesus,” turning the frustration itself into praise. At the Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO in 1957 he carries the same reframing into resentment and loneliness.
Cliff Richmond cites a documentary about a foundling home where infants had every material comfort and still sickened, many of them dying, because the nurses had no time to hold them. He then works through the Greek words for love. Let Jesus love you into loving, he urges the Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO in 1957.
Before the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO, Ethel Banks hangs a gallery of pictures of Jesus drawn from the I AM sayings in John, ending with the Good Shepherd who calls each sheep by name. She quotes her late husband’s line that “every true thought of God is a healing treatment”.
In this first morning talk of a new camp, Gertrude Dekock Keehn challenges campers to examine whether they are compromising and where their treasure truly lies, drawing on the Sermon on the Mount. She recalls that years of praying for full health did nothing until she prayed instead, “Lord, take the little health I have, and use it,” and healing came. From the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO.
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We choose which world we live in, and Cliff Richmond names the four things that decide it if they are left to themselves: fear, guilt, inferiority and hate. He gives the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO a sundial standing under a thatched roof, the picture of a blessing a person has shut out. He also tells of a sick industrialist who learned to pray past the words he had as a child.
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Cliff Richmond argues at the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO that faith must come before sight in prayer and healing, closing with affirmation, visualization and praise. Somewhere in it a boy’s friendly pet snake strikes only once a biologist names it, and a crowd is fed from two crackers and three sardines.
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Gertrude Dekock Keehn traces for the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO the technique Jesus taught for prayer, from ask, seek and knock through to praying in his name once the Spirit indwells. She recalls smuggling a religious series onto a radio station that forbade religion by calling it “Get the Happy Habit,” then giving her address on air.
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Ethel Banks reports to the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO from an Order of St. Luke healing conference and pictures a prayer group as a pipeline carrying God’s power to those who need it, with Benjamin Franklin’s lightning standing in for heavenly electricity.
Taking Matthew 18 as his text at the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO, Cliff Richmond teaches that agreement in prayer channels God’s power toward other people. A boy is healed of polio at a camp. An operator grips two broken wires to hold a royal broadcast on air, and a closing parable has God saying he has no other plan.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn warns the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO that the broad road is marked by deceptive signposts, among them psychic gifts, telepathy, reincarnation and the flattery of cults, and urges her hearers to test every teaching against Scripture. She describes sending what she called “a tube of love” to her son in a prison camp.
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On a Pentecost night at the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO, Cliff Richmond urges his hearers past “God for us” and “God with us” to “God fully in us”: wanting, asking, yielding, receiving. He sets rowing boats against sailing boats, and a guest who unpacks and settles against one who merely visits.
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Gertrude Dekock Keehn teaches moment-by-moment obedience to the Spirit and gives the three mottoes she lives by, on knowing what to do, what to say and what she needs, and when. She recalls a driverless truck swerving past their car near Port Elizabeth. A talk to the 1957 Oklahoma Ardmore Healing CFO.
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