Precious Memories - Page 18
One time in the state of California, we enrolled our children in school and they tried to force us to let them dress out for physical education. George and I joined forces and said, “No, they will not dress out!” The principal said, “They will dress out!” We said, “No! They will not!” Finally, he said, “Are you the only people in the state of California that feel this way?” I said, “I sure hope not. I hope there are other Christians who are teach godly living.” Our children did not dress out, even thought the principal said there was no way around it. We know that Jesus said, “I am the way.”
One time in Arizona, we weren’t aware that George Jr., who we call Ricky, was having a battle trying to keep his studies up. He hadn’t mentioned it to us at the time, but he felt that he was not able to keep up with the class he was in.
So one night, we went to one of Brother Branham’s services there in Arizona. Ricky knew we had planned to go that night, so he fasted all day. When we got to the church where he was preaching, it was real crowded, so all the family wasn’t able to sit together. Cindy was sitting on the front, and George and I were sitting about middle ways in the church while the other children were seated in different places. As soon as the singing was over, the piano player left the piano, which was right near the front row of seats, and I saw Ricky slip onto the piano bench where he could be close to the front. Brother Branham preached that night, and when he finished, he began to minister to different ones in the audience. He spoke to Cindy that night by the Spirit of God and told her that the Holy Ghost was right beside her, waiting for her to invite Him in. He spoke to different ones and revealed their heart’s secrets.
As he finished that night and started easing out before the congregation was dismissed, he walked right by where Ricky was sitting on the piano bench. He stopped and laid his hand on Ricky’s head and said, “The thing you are asking God for, He has granted it.” He told us afterward that he was praying for God to help him catch up on his studies, and the Lord had answered!
Precious memories flood my soul so many times when I begin to think back on the years we traveled as a family, doing what we could for Jesus. As Dale, George Jr. and Cindy began to grow up, they joined us in fasting and praying, not because we made them but because they loved the Lord and wanted to follow Him.
Many times during our travels, George Jr. was used by God in so many different ways until he learned that faith is real, and even today, though he is grown and has his own family, he travels all over the United States and into many foreign fields, using his faith to receive from God.
As a young boy of about twelve years old, he started to school one morning and found out that the baby (Melody Sue) didn’t have any milk. At that time, she was on Carnation milk. He had a nickel that he was planning to buy notebook paper with on the way to school, but he tried to give it to me to help buy her a can of milk. I told him, “No, go on to school and don’t worry, we will get her some milk.” He started to school and had been gone only a matter of minutes, when he came running back into the house all excited, holding a can of Carnation milk in his hand, and told me how he found it laying in the grass close to the sidewalk on his way to school. I said that maybe it fell out of someone’s grocery bag since it was close to a grocery store, but really in my heart, I knew that God had placed it there.