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Evelyn Carter Spencer preaches from Hebrews 13 that God has said “I will not fail you.” The whole weight of the Godhead stands behind that promise, and chewing on it, she says, is as sweet as sucking a honey drop. The talk closes out the South Florida CFO in 1974.
The night before, at the 1974 South Florida CFO, Evelyn Carter Spencer preached outdoors under stage lights. She describes trusting God the way she trusts food to digest without her help, and tells of a fogged-in flight she was told in prayer she would miss. She also tells of a teenage boy whose hands shook with power the first time he prayed over her twisted ankle.
Evelyn Carter Spencer tells campers to put on their spiritual armor and then stand still, because, as she puts it, “the battle ain’t yours, it’s mine.” She calls them to be strong in the Lord rather than in their own strength, and to carry that same devotion home into marriage and daily chores. The talk closes the 1974 South Florida CFO.
Evelyn Carter Spencer urges hearers to stop believing they are “no good” and to let their minds be renewed instead. She pictures that change as a move from the basement of old thinking up to the penthouse of new consciousness. Her example is a preacher who loses his audience by explaining a message from his own memory instead of letting the Spirit interpret it. She was preaching at the South Florida CFO in 1974.
Evelyn Carter Spencer builds her message on a play of her own coining. Jesus is not a “PMD,” a powerful medical doctor, but a preserver, maintainer, and deliverer. He secures believers the way an orange tree keeps bearing fruit long after the man who planted it is gone. This talk follows the one she gave the previous night at the 1974 South Florida CFO.