Series: Tennessee CFO 1971

Messages spoken at the Tennessee CFO 1971.

A broken clock kept striking past midnight, until a child said it was “later than it has ever been.” Corrie ten Boom uses the image to warn campers at the Tennessee CFO in 1971 that the signs pointing to the coming of Jesus were multiplying fast.

Bob Mumford preaches on praying in the Spirit. He retells the story of the prophet Balaam and the donkey that saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with sword drawn when Balaam himself could not. What looks like a serpent in answered prayer, he tells the 1971 Tennessee CFO, is often bread.

Wendell Wallace closes the Tennessee CFO in 1971 with a message on “daring faith.” He retells a parable of a man who searched a year for a magic touchstone, only to throw away the very one he found. He recounts a putrefying wound healed at a Manila rally. He also tells of nine hundred Koreans who received the Holy Ghost as he repeated the Korean phrase for “receive ye the Holy Ghost.”

Wendell Wallace answers questions on fasting and healing. Teaching from Isaiah 58, he says that a fast which does not “undo the heavy burdens” and “let the oppressed go free” means nothing to God. He shares his own week of hot lemon water and honey, and the prayer he gave a mother, to “save my son at any cost.” He was speaking to the Tennessee CFO in 1971.

At the Tennessee CFO in 1971, Wendell Wallace teaches on the nine gifts of the Spirit from 1 Corinthians 12. Most believers, he warns, keep their gifts hidden and unused. He then tells how his interracial Portland congregation once lined up before a mob and quoted “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Facing the mob down that way turned back a threatened race riot.

Closing a week-long healing class at the Tennessee CFO in 1971, Anne White brings a witness from minister John Kilpatrick. He was freed from lifelong asthma, and from a bondage traced to a childhood remedy given by a woman reputed for witchcraft. Anne White teaches that for a Christian, death is “going home to the Lord,” not defeat.

Wendell Wallace traces the three flights of Noah’s dove in Genesis 8, reading them as a picture of the Holy Spirit searching for a resting place in the human heart. He illustrates it with a tonsillectomy healed before it could be performed, and with a stranger’s phone call that answered a member’s bankruptcy. The talk comes from the Tennessee CFO in 1971.

Lester Sumrall teaches on the gifts of revelation at the Tennessee CFO in 1971. He describes a preacher who knew that a sick man was resting in a hammock on another continent. He also describes a smooth-talking stranger who posed as a deacon and fled once his lie was exposed.

Lester Sumrall continues his teaching on prophecy, tongues, and interpretation. He recalls a missionary’s dungeon where dripping water reversed itself, and a stranger who paid his train fare in Australia. He also recalls a quarrel with a fellow missionary in China that gave way to his first gift of prophecy, in this session at the 1971 Tennessee CFO.

At the Tennessee CFO in 1971, Anne White opens with the story of kneeling beside her young son’s bed during a severe asthma attack. She forgave a family member she had blamed, and she thanked God before the answer came. Then she watched her son take one deep breath and never suffer an attack again.