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.Sinai."Wheew!' he keptsaying over and over again."Miss Kuhlman remembered, "He was staggering, as if drunk, and hemissed the door and walked into the side of the wall.The minstersgrabbed him by the arms and pointed him toward the door as he wobbledout, his face still bathed in that heavenly light."High VoltageShe offered this explanation."All I can believe is that our"ALL I CAN BELIEVE ISspiritual beings are not wired forTHAT OUR SPIRITUALGod's full power, and when weplug into that power, we justBEINGS ARE NOT WIREDcannot survive it.We are wired forFOR GOD'S FULL POWER."low voltage; God is high voltagethrough the Holy Spirit."To Kathryn, God was not just the author of power."He is power!" shewould say."Man often tries to conjure up God in his own image, shape,size and power.But God is more far more.When we see Him or feelHim as He really is, we simply can't stand it."She attempted to explain what takes place."When the Holy Spiritliterally comes upon a person, he cannot stand in His presence.His legs73KATHRYN KUHLMANbuckle.His body goes limp.Oftentimes his very soul is filled tooverflowing with the Spirit Himself.It is not fainting.A person seldomloses his faculties." She added, "Usually those who go under the power areright back on their feet and testify that it was like being caught up in agiant charge of painless electricity that momentarily leaves one out ofcontrol."The manifestation of this kind of power was present in every KathrynKuhlman service until her ministry ended.The Roof Caved InFive months after the Pittsburgh meetings began, Carnegie Hall wasstill overflowing, and she preached at Faith Temple in Sugarcreek everySunday morning.The same pattern continued for the next two and a halfyears.Miss Kuhlman assembled a quality staff in Pittsburgh.She choseushers who were both sensitive to the Holy Spirit and impeccable in theirattire.Three key people who joined her in the late 1940s remained untilher passing: organist Charles Beebee, pianist Jimmy Miller, and herassistant Marguerite Hartner.I spent many hours talking with Maggie about those early Pittsburghdays.Tears would often fill her eyes as she talked about the people whoselives were touched including her own.Maggie told me that Kathryn was fiercely loyal to the people ofFranklin.After all, they had embraced her at a critical time in her life.When the Pittsburgh staff suggested that she move her headquarters totheir city, she told them, "I'll be at Faith Temple until the roof caves in."On Thanksgiving Day, 1 9 5 0 , during a snowstorm, that's exactly whathappened! Eventually her entire operation was based in the Steel City.That same month the nation became aware of Miss Kuhlman whenRedbook magazine published an article, "Can Faith in God Heal the Sick?"For four months a team of writers, researchers, and doctors examined74OUT OF THE WILDERNESSeight people who claimed they had been healed in Kathryn's meetingsfrom a man with a broken hip to a cancer patient.The glowing, positivereport converted many skeptics, including the author of the article.Common SenseEvery one of Miss Kuhlman's"THE HOLY SPIRIT IS Aservices that I attended wereGENTLEMAN," SHE WOULDorderly and she would halt anyonewho began to shout, prophesy orSAY."HE DOES THINGSspeak in tongues during one of herDECENTLY AND IN ORDER."services.To her it was an intrusionon what God was trying to do."TheHoly Spirit i s a gentleman," she would say."He does things decently andin order.When He is speaking through me, He will not interrupt Himselfby speaking through someone else."In her book Glimpse into Glory, she wrote, "I cannot afford to gowhere there is fanaticism.I have too much at stake.I have a responsibilityto God." And she added, "You know, I think sometimes the world gets theidea the only people who believe in the power of God are senile womenand men who are not too intelligent.All the screaming and carryingon.Believe me, if I was being introduced to the Holy Spirit for the veryfirst time in a meeting like that, I'd take for the tall timbers and I'd nevercome back.We need an old-fashioned baptism of good common sense."Her rules may have not been understood by some Pentecostals, yet inher meetings were Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics, people fromvirtually every Protestant denomination and those who had neverdarkened the door of a church.She was sensitive to their backgrounds [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]