accident and saw his body from the outside during surgery. He heard a voice telling him to go back to his body, he then heard a voice telling him he would be selfish to go back as he would be burdening his family. He listened to the first voice and went back to his body but as he was fed and dressed and his son turned down a multi-million dollar movie Art continually heard the second voice telling him that he was robbing his family. He asked God “How can I do anything for you while in bed?”, God told him that he had plenty of time for prayer. He pictured the devil begging God to heal him so he could get him to stop praying. After a month he had movement in his index finger similar to Christopher Reeves (Quadriplegics). He held his breath for 13 secs and they said it was impossible, he then looked back at the accident and how he held his breath for 2 mins after the accident. As a quadriplegic he was told he couldn’t hold his breath at all. Christopher Reeves in a video said he wanted nobody to pray for him in Jesus name and is trying to build a center that can solve the medical issue. He went to therapy and was the only one that went, the others wouldn’t go as they considered it hopeless. He stayed only nine weeks though insurance would pay for a year as his wife learned how to be a caregiver. They asked him what he would do since he couldn’t do anything and he told them he would write a book about the miracles God had done for him. He told them that the last chapter would not be written until he was able to beat his sons at basketball. Since his insurance wouldn’t cover outpatient his son said he was an actor and would play the role of therapist. He continued to gain control of his hands and arms. He still had no feeling in his body but explained that he was able to walk by faith and not by feelings. One of his doctors said that God may have made us to be able to do things they didn’t think possible but Art told them it was not his brain but God. Speaking in Thailand he said at a conference when saying how we need to be like dog poop rather than riding a horse. He said big woman on the bicycle rather than the God of the universe. He said his brain is not the factor. He beat his two sons in basketball and wrote the last chapter. When he saw his neurosurgeon 6 or so years later he spoke to him and the surgeon thanked Art for the testimony as he said he limited God his whole life. The surgeon said both his daughters had a terminal condition and the older daughter died at 15 and after meeting Art they prayed for their other daughter every day and God kept her alive.
We have a tendency to limit God, as we come to know Him, He will always be bigger and more powerful than we imagine.
Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
They set up a base in Florida and a Baptist church allowed them to use the property as it was not being used as a church any more, but after a few years they told them they couldn’t do outreach to Muslim areas or they would have to leave the building. They ended up leaving even though they put a lot of money in the building as we are called to be a light to all people.
Matthew 28:18-19 - And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mark 16:15 - And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Acts 1:8 - But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Romans 10:14-15 - How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
Luke 10:17-20 – 17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." 18 And He said to them, " I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
A witch put an evil spirit on a girl where she wouldn’t eat until she married a certain guy. The parent took the girl to the temple to remove the spirit and the Buddhist man said we have no power over spirits, go find a Christian, they can remove spirits.
He went to a Lahu Black village and they would watch him as he was so different looking. He felt that forang make the best evangelist but not the best pastors as they don’t know the culture. As the community converted they were eventually led to combine with a Lahu Red tribe as they had bitterness with one another. They then realized they needed to only have one wife and stop eating blood. This lasted a few weeks until one of the Lahu Red got another wife. They asked what to do and they were told to pray but they ended up just having a meeting and kicking him out of the church so he wouldn’t go to heaven and then kicked him out of the village. He then created separation of the red and black and appointed himself over the red as pastor. Their churches were diminishing but they did free themselves from the opium warlord and started making money. They used the money to get a school and radios and TV’s though they had no electricity in the village yet. They bought bikes and motorbikes. The guy with the motorbike got in an accident that nearly killed him, this brought both the black and red groups together to pray that he would heal and have children. He said when he was in the accident he went to heaven and found he was not in the book even though the king recognizes the village as Christian. He said he was told he needed to repent to be in the book, when he shared the story there was no building big enough for them. They were crying which Art had never seen before, they sought forgiveness and saw Jesus as love, peace and joy. The only way to be in the book is to repent and accept Jesus. Our job is to help others get in the book.
Revelation 5:9 - And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
By sharing the gospel you may be housing people or inconvenienced in some way. They housed a boy after he converted and his parents planned to kill him due to the shame from his conversion.