Recordings From the Tennessee CFO Spring Camp 1971

Messages spoken at the 1971 Tennessee CFO Spring Camp

Tennessee CFO Spring Camp 1971:

8 messages.

The 1971 Tennessee CFO Spring Camp met at Rock Eagle 4-H Club Ctr., Eatonton, GA, in April 1971. The speaker was Lester Sumrall, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Healing, Jesus and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.

  1. Electricity You Cannot Store

    Lester Sumrall opens his class on the gifts of the Holy Spirit by describing believers as a channel of electricity that cannot be stored. He closes the session by calling out campers’ pains one by one and declaring them healed in the name of Jesus. The class was given at the 1971 Tennessee CFO.

  2. The Pastor Who Could Not Interpret

    Speaking to the Tennessee CFO in 1971, Lester Sumrall traces the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the ministry of Jesus. His examples run from water turned to wine to a coin found in a fish’s mouth. He also tells how he could not interpret tongues himself until his first Sunday as a new pastor.

  3. A Vision of the Drowning Boat

    Lester Sumrall teaches on the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge at the Tennessee CFO in 1971. He traces a prophecy about Howard Carter that was fulfilled when the two men met by chance in Arkansas. He also recounts a Tulsa woman’s vision of her son’s boat capsizing on a lake, drowning him, his wife, and their two children.

  4. Rocking in a Hammock Half a World Away

    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.

  5. The Haircut That Healed a Quarrel

    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.

  6. Choosing the Bible Over the Coffin

    Lester Sumrall tells his own healing testimony to the 1971 Tennessee CFO. As a dying teenager he saw a coffin and an open Bible in a vision. He describes the choice that sent him out to preach.

  7. The River Runs Clean at the Source

    Lester Sumrall speaks on the birth of the church in Acts 2. He points to a river in Argentina that runs clean at its source, and argues that the church should return to the purity of its early days. He also recalls the night he finally received the Holy Spirit himself, after months of preaching without it. The talk comes from the 1971 Tennessee CFO.

  8. Two Souls Before Breakfast

    Lester Sumrall traces the gifts of the Holy Spirit through the book of Acts. His teaching at the 1971 Tennessee CFO moves from a lame beggar healed at the temple gate to the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira. He closes with an Indonesian believer who refuses breakfast until he has led two people to Christ.