Camps Farthest Out messages on the subject of Prayer.
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At the 1984 Florida Family CFO, Barbara Ann Chase leads campers in prayer for the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem. She recounts two years of praying for a Lebanese army commander named Haddad, and describes projects that brought an oil well and a flock of sheep back to Israel.
Barbara Brunner compares the flow of God’s power to household electricity. Sin loosens the plug, and unconfessed resistance dims the light. She also describes how prayer carried her through her parents’ deaths from cancer five months apart, in a talk to the California Ocean Pines CFO in 1992.
Bernie Warfield tells the camps that no one’s prayer life can be copied from someone else. He says, “you’ve got to make it for yourself.” He points to an elderly woman he calls “old lady Yancey” as proof that a plain, unschooled prayer can carry the unmistakable power of God.
Audrey Eddings recounts an audible voice that warned her mid-book against a novel later linked to a teenager’s suicide pact. She also describes a dream that named a mole on her toe for a doctor to remove. She offered both to the 1990 California Ocean Pines CFO as examples of how God speaks.
At the Missouri CFO in 1978, Anne Waite leads campers through a guided relaxation and a visualization of a clear stream where Jesus meets them. He washes away their burdens and says, “I am well pleased.” The campers then head into their prayer groups for the world broadcast.
A child gives her teacher a melted icicle because she had seen a rainbow inside it, and Ruth Robison asks campers to carry home the rainbow rather than the experience. On communion night at the West Virginia Capon Springs CFO in 1967, she holds that communion is itself God’s healing service, and she tells of a woman quieted before cancer surgery.
Steady rain had campers ready to pack up and leave. Ruth Robison asked anyone who could not pray in agreement to step quietly into the next room, and the sun broke through before the prayers of thanks had ended. She uses that to open a list of the ways Jesus used his Father’s power, from scripture and the spoken word to weather, food, and healing. She tells campers of the movement that no one ever leaves home, since home is wherever the Lord is.
Ruth Carter Stapleton describes a moment when her home Bible class at Fort Bragg broke into spontaneous prayer for one another, an experience she likens to a game of “fruit basket turnover.” She also recounts a fulfilled prophecy, and a prayer partner who quietly interceded in tongues for the movement while teaching piano lessons back home.
Roshan Rinker opens with Hannah Hurnard’s “Hind’s Feet on High Places,” in which Little Much Afraid escapes her tormentors simply by speaking the name of Jesus. Rinker then sketches a straight line for relationship with Christ above a crooked daily line for fellowship with him. The talk was given at the Nebraska CFO in 1964.
On a Sunday morning in the camps, Ruth Robison picks up an empty sewing spool. She asks campers to unwind their lives onto it so God can wind a new film. Her three-year-old granddaughter, asked to pray over a crushed foot, refused to ask Jesus and offered to ask God instead. That answer opens her case for knowing the Father and not only the Son.