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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.