Camps Farthest Out messages on the subject of Victorious Living.
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At the Florida Family CFO in 1991, Betty Malz tells campers that a hurricane gives two weeks warning, but a tornado flattened her new home in twenty seconds. She also recalls her daughter, afraid alone during the Gainesville murders, and telling her to carry Psalm 27:5, “in the time of trouble he shall hide me,” against her heart.
Bert Kerley tells campers of a woodcutter who climbs a distant mountain seeking God, only to find his own troubled home waiting at the summit. He also retells how the imprisoned Star Daily broke free of hatred by asking, “What if I had loved instead of hating.” He ties both stories to his counseling lesson that happiness rests on attitude, not circumstance, in a talk to the 1990 Southern California CFO.
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.
Anne Pierson closes the week’s Lord’s Prayer series at the 1995 Florida Family CFO. She pictures a plane landing in Holland instead of the planned Italy to describe accepting her daughter Shelly’s disabilities. She ends with a chorus sung by a member of a choir for adults with intellectual disabilities, “I am determined to be invincible.”
Anna Marie Sheffield tells how she was healed of a year of anger after her young son’s death. She then describes a dream in which Jesus swaps her old, cluttered truck for a new one carrying jeweled necklaces, a picture of intimacy through prayer. She shared it at the 2004 Arkansas CFO.
From his week at the 1999 Arkansas CFO, Alex McCullough draws on his Marine Corps training at Parris Island to picture standing against the “wiles of the devil.” He points to its discipline, cover, and concealment. He also remembers a boyhood friend, Monty, killed in the Second World War.
Bunny Brock teaches that praise, not just prayer, “obtains the answer.” Al Brock compares the letdown after a mountaintop experience to Elijah resting under a broom tree, before God sends him back to work. This is the closing Saturday session of the 1985 Florida Family CFO.
Al Brock and Bunny Brock teach on spiritual warfare, urging campers to put on the armor of God. At the Florida Family CFO in 1985, Al tells of a young woman who drove off an attacker in her dorm room by saying, “In the name of Jesus, get out of here.”
Morton Kelsey surveys theories of human aggression at the 1972 Iowa CFO. He runs from B.F. Skinner’s utopian Walden Two, needled with “Skinner never ran a church altar guild,” to Freud’s death wish. He then offers his own answer: the Lord’s Prayer petition to be delivered “from the evil one.”
Gertrude Dekock Keehn preaches on Revelation’s promise to “him that overcometh,” and recounts how she once asked God for roses for a sick woman. A florist she stopped to comfort along the way handed her the bouquet. She gave the talk to the Oklahoma Ardmore CFO in 1963.