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CURTIS
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phone call came at 5 AM and I jumped up and answered. It was a man who
thought he would get voice mail and leave a message asking for prayer.
Instead he got me.
He apologized for calling at this hour, that he was desperate for
help and needed prayer. His name was Curtis, 52 years old,
living in Las Vegas, addicted to drugs, alcohol, and gambling.
Why
he called here:
Back in 1976 a Pastor sent him here to a Holiness Convention. He
came with long hair and the first message talked about hair. He wrote to
us about how God touched him. And he never forgot what he experienced here
when he later came briefly as a student. Through the years he always
remembered Export, and the way the Holy Ghost worked in him, and the glory
of God on all the faces here. He knew people here were real, and knew how
to get a hold of God. Now he needed this kind of prayer and help.
 His wife (His fifth one) is a drug dealer and gambler, and was right
then out dealing. He has had money, businesses, cars, homes and wondered,
“What else is there?”
It seems he must have lost these, since his cell phone was turned
off, and also his internet service. He
continually gambled away his profits.
I took the phone in my hand and got on my knees and told him I was
going to pray for him right then. He agreed and I prayed for about 15
minutes. I could hear him crying, and praying as I prayed. He wanted
deliverance from the drugs, the alcohol, the gambling, and so much more
evil in his life. He knew his relationship with this present “wife”
was wrong and evil.
 Eventually He began to pray and repent and call on the Lord for
another 10-15 minutes. He asked the Lord to forgive him, cleanse and
deliver him and help him do whatever he had to do to please Him… no
matter what or how much crumbled in the pathway. Whatever the price, he
had to do it.
He Prayed: “Lord, I’ll lay everything down..”
and said “I feel I should drop my business and homes and lands
and women..”
We ended up singing, “Thank you Lord for saving my soul” and
“What can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
He desperately asked others to continue to pray for him as he starts
back on this pathway as a
Christian.
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