I
was born to two wonderful parents in Tuscaloosa, AL.
At the time I had one older brother and later two
sisters. When I look back at my life I can truly say
I was blessed. Blessed is not always in things you
can hold in your hand, put on your body or spend at
the store. I was blessed with love, peace, security,
and a family that truly loved me. God has truly been
good to me. I can not remember a time in my life
when I did not sense or was not aware of a divine
presence. I can't remember ever not praying or
talking to God even at a very young age. My family
was not Christian until years later so I can only
give God credit for his love that constantly
sheltered me.
I attended a local
church, located blocks from our house; and I
walked there weekly usually alone. Something
drew me to the house of God early on. I remember
a fiery evangelist visited our church for two
weeks. After that, I was never the same. I
walked down the long church aisle one day and
surrendered my life to this one who had always
been near me. I continued to faithfully attend
church until I graduated from high school; and
shortly there after I married my husband, Billy.
I was working a full-time job and so was he;
church began to sort of fade into the
background. We attended church, but not
faithfully until one night at a revival, Billy
was saved. We then began to press into church
and took an active part of serving in several
positions.
After
eight years of marriage we had our first child,
a daughter. We named her Sarah; and twenty
months later, came our son Joshua. I gave up
work entirely to raise my two children and I was
happy to do so. After about five years we were
really going through the difficulties of life
and it seemed that serving God had become a
chore instead of a joy. Our little girl had
become ill with a thyroid disorder and we were
worried sick about her condition. That is when I
began to feel like there is something I am
missing. What could it be? I loved God; I had
two wonderful children. We were active in all
aspects of our church, but I felt empty and
depressed. Life had become a daily drudgery to
me. No longer did I enjoy serving God and my
problems began to be bigger to me than He was.
One night we sat at the table finishing up our
dinner and I felt like I was at the end of
something. Church had become drudgery. The
children were getting on my nerves. We never
seemed to have enough money to do anything
except get by. I told Billy something had to
change. I remember saying to him that if I was
missing something, if there was something that I
did not have or know about, I was ready to have
it.
I got up
to clean the dishes and as I stood at the sink I
lifted up my hands and said, "God, if there is
something I don’t know or something I have not
done, please show me what it is." Suddenly at
the kitchen sink something fell on me and filled
me up with a joy and excitement I had never
known in my life. I sang, I shouted, I told
Billy and the children, "Something has happened
to me." I began to hear strange words and
experienced communion with the Lord like I had
never known. I went to a Christian couple, my
Sunday school teachers, and asked them, "what
has happened to me?" They told me that I had
been baptized with the Holy Ghost. I was so
excited that I told my husband, "You must hear
this." He immediately received it also. It
revolutionized my Christian life. Jesus became
as real to me as those around me. Suddenly the
Bible took on a new meaning. I starved for it
daily. I would not get enough. I studied, I
prayed, I fasted, and I couldn’t get
enough. After a few months the Lord led us to a
Spirit filled church where we began to grow in
his word. After a while, the Lord began to use
me to teach in the church and lead Bible
studies. One day He spoke to me to start a radio
ministry. I did that and He blessed it. After a
couple of years on radio, I felt led to go off
radio for a few weeks in order to fast and pray.
Down the
road from our house was a pine thicket, and
everyday I went there after the children went to
school. I studied there many times before, and
sought God with fasting and prayer and tears. I
went there this time to seek His face concerning
ministry. I knew I was called, but what to do I
was not sure. While I was there, He spoke to me
and told me "Go home Sarah, get your anointing
oil, bathe your hands with it and dedicate them
to me." I ran, I got the oil, I bathed my hands
and down in the pine thicket I raised them up
toward heaven and dedicated them to serve God.
He said to me in words as clear as if someone
spoke to me standing by, "Lay your hands on the
sick and cast out devils. It is my will to heal
them and I will deliver them." I went back on
radio and waited on God.
We were
now attending Double Portion Church and the
Lord spoke to the Pastor to open the door for
me to have miracle services. I have been doing
that now for seventeen years, and the Lord has
confirmed His word with signs following. He has
healed the sick and delivered those bound by the
devil. We have had hundreds and thousands come
in the church and receive their blessings. God
is faithful to perform that which He has spoken.
I have
worked at the Double Portion Church as an
evangelist for 20 years. We have seen the Lord
move in a mighty way, delivering the sick, the
oppressed and uplifting His people. The Lord
has now enlarged my borders, and moved me into
an international ministry where I can be an
instrument to His glory to the whole wide world.
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