Miraculous Results Through Prayer

In Jesus Name Kenneth E. Hagin

By Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin

I once read a testimony by

I. J. Jamison who was formerly a Presbyterian minister. He had been giving
some lectures in a western state when a forest fire broke out in the area. The
fire was raging, and valuable timber and animals and some homes were being
destroyed. The fire was simply burning out of control. Rev. Jamison was in the
barber shop one morning getting a shave. The barber had put a towel on his
face, and as Rev. Jamison was lying there in the chair, a man came in with a
telegram. The man with the telegram said he didnt know what to do with the
telegram. Someone had sent it around the city. It said, Pray for rain. The fire
had gotten so out of hand that there was no telling what would happen if it
didnt rain.

Someone said, Well, there is a preacher in that chair. Maybe you could give
the telegram to him. About that time, the barber raised the chair and took the
towel off the preachers face and asked him if he would pray for rain. Rev.
Jamison said, We dont believe in that sort of thing.

So someone in the barber shop spoke up and said, Well, there is a little tent
meeting going on at the edge of town, and they believe in praying for
anything. Someone asked, Who are they? The answer was, I dont know.
Some of them are `Holy Rollers. No one would volunteer to take the
telegram out to the tent, as they were all afraid of those Holy Rollers. Rev.
Jamison said if no one else would do it, he would. Someone said, They have
a prayer meeting about 10:00 every morning. So the next morning, Jamison
took that telegram out to the tent meeting. He said there were about twenty
people there. Three or four of them were kneeling on the platform praying. He
didnt know which one was the preacher, but he picked out the one he thought
might be and tapped him on the shoulder. The man looked up and Rev.
Jamison said to him, Here is a prayer request that someone asked me to
bring to you. The man took it and read it.

Meanwhile, Rev. Jamison backed away from the group just to see what they
would do. Rev. Jamison said the man got up and began to holler for everyone
to stop praying. (All the people had been praying all at once, out loud.) He
hollered until he got everyone to listen and then he read the prayer request.
He asked how many believed God would hear, and they all lifted their hands.
So he said, All right, lets go to prayer about it. Rev. Jamison said that all
twenty of them began to pray and they just prayed up a storm. One by one
they ceased, and finally the man said to them, How many of you believe God
heard you? They all raised their hands. He said, Then lets lift both hands
and praise God for the answer. They raised their hands and praised God for
rain. Rev. Jamison said later, That man shocked me. The preacher turned
and handed the telegram back to Rev. Jamison and said, Here, send a
telegram back and tell them it will be raining by 10:00 tonight.
Rev. Jamison said, I went back to town to the barber shop and told them what
the man had said. All the men in the barber shop slapped one another on the
back and laughed about it because they had all read the weather report and
no rain was in sight for days. Jamison and his wife were in bed by 9:00 that
evening. He said he happened to see the moon shining bright and clear
outside. His wife had washed some laundry and had left it hanging on the line.
When he saw the clothes on the line, he remembered what that preacher had
said about the rain. He began laughing and told his wife what had happened
that day. They both lay there and laughed. He said to her, You had better get
your laundry in because its going to rain. They both laughed and she said, I
read the evening paper and its not going to rain. He said they must have
talked and laughed about it until about 9:30 or so and then they fell off to
sleep.

After a while, Rev. Jamison was awakened by what sounded like thunder. He
thought he was hearing things, but then he saw lightning flash, and before he
could get out of bed, it began to rain in torrents. He said he got up and turned
on the light and it was exactly 10:00 p.m. Jamison said, Then I couldnt go to
sleep. I thought, Did God hear those people? Is there something to that? Do
they know something I dont know? What about that? He began to slip into
those Pentecostal meetings after his own services were dismissed, sitting in
the very back. After Jamison finished his lectures in this town he was visiting,
he went back to his home state. He would slip over to the little Pentecostal
church there at first, and he began sitting on the back row. But he kept sitting
closer and closer to the front, until he finally sat on the front row. He said he
took notes on the scriptures and messages and would go home to read in the
privacy of his study, and there he discovered the truth of Gods Word. He
thought, Why didnt I see the truth before, particularly scriptures on the Holy
Ghost? He continued to go to Pentecostal services, just watching and
observing. There was a woman in this Pentecostal church whose daughter
was in a mental institution. Jamison heard the mother talking to several folks
about meeting her at a certain time in the morning outside the mental
institution.

Jamison said, I just intruded on their private conversation because I didnt

want to miss out on anything. I found out that they were going to meet outside
the institution, and that this woman was going to cast the devil out of her
daughter. She had about a dozen spiritual women who were going along with
her to back her up in prayer. I just blurted out, `Can I come along? And they
replied, `All right, meet us out there at 10:00 in the morning. Jamison met
them there. He said he wondered how all of them were going to get inside the
institution. But he said he had been around them long enough to believe that
because of their faith in God, they could do just about anything.

The woman told the attendant that she wanted to see her daughter. Jamison
related, We all went parading down the halls. Then the woman said to the
guard, I want you to open the door and let me in that cell because Im going
to pray for my daughter. The attendant said, Why, you cant do that! Shell kill
you! Shes violently insane. Jamison said they stopped before a padded cell
where there was a woman who looked more like an animal than a human. Her
hair had grown long, her nails were long and claw-like, and she hissed and
spit at them like an animal. The attendant told the woman he couldnt let her
into the cell because he would lose his job if he did, but all the time he was
unlocking the door! The woman stepped in and he locked the door again.

Rev. Jamison said he and the attendant were the only men there, and they
stepped back to watch. The twelve women who had come with them fell on
their knees and prayed quietly. They didnt look at what was happening in the
cell; they just knelt down and all prayed quietly. As Jamison and the attendant
watched, the daughter backed away and climbed about halfway up that
padded wall, then made a leap at her mother like an animal. Her mother
sidestepped her and the daughter fell (the daughter was a woman in her early
thirties). When her daughter rolled over to get up, the mother jumped on her
and held her down and said, Come out of her, devil, in the Name of Jesus.
Jamison said, That mother got her nose down within an inch of her
daughters nose, and she said for about ten minutes over and over, `Come out
of her, devil, in the Name of Jesus.

Suddenly the daughter relaxed, looked up, and said, Mama! Is that you,
Mama? The daughter threw her arms around her mothers neck and hugged
her and kissed her. Jamison said, I am a witness to the fact that the
authorities dismissed that woman that day as being totally well. Then he said,
Bless God, I want the Holy Ghost. If people can pray like that, Im a
candidate. And, thank God, he was gloriously filled with the Holy Ghost,
speaking with other tongues.

Friends, we ought to pray for results! Jesus Christ is the same today,
yesterday, and forever (Heb. 13:8). And God our Father never changes
(Malachi 3:6). We have access to the Father in the Name of Jesus just as
those people did! Our prayers to the Father in the Name of Jesus can be just
as effective as those believers prayers were. So pray for results!