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February 11, 2012

Column: G. David Henderson: 'Gift of faith' cures 'dead soil'

Dalton Daily Citizen

When I came to Dalton to pastor 40 years ago, I immediately began teaching our members how to pray and trust God for answered prayers. During that time the Lord gave a senior age lady church member the “gift of faith.” Such persons get prayers answered easier and quicker than the average religious person.

The senior age lady trusted God for a new home, and miraculously got it by the Lord working out a financial miracle for her and her pitiful husband who had been crippled by a stroke. The first thing she did when they moved into their new home was plant a garden of many different vegetables, but the seeds would not germinate. When her new land was examined by proper Georgia authorities, they discovered the land was dead to grow any vegetation, and nothing could be done to change the land.

At that time I was teaching our church how God can send to us the answer to our prayers, but the devil whom Jesus called a “thief” (John 10: 10) could steal such from us, thus we would have to take back our blessings from Satan.

Our senior age lady of faith remembered when God told Moses to remove his shoes, for he was on holy ground (Exodus 3: 5) as I had taught in that “faith” series. She remembered Jesus and his apostles anointed with oil the sick and afflicted for their healing, which ministry I had also introduced in all our worship services. She removed her shoes and walked barefoot every inch of her garden as she anointed with oil the ground, demanding Satan to remove his curse off her property for it to grow vegetables. With each seed she planted, she spoke the name of “Jesus.”

At harvest time her garden produced such a bumper crop of a variety of vegetables, that after she filled her freezer and pantry in her new home, plus other family members and friends with her vegetables, she also loaded many of our church members with many different varieties of vegetables she harvested from her garden that the state previously pronounced as “dead soil.”

When I first came to pastor our church, her pitiful husband had to be assisted in and out of our church sanctuary by many people, because a stroke had damaged his entire body, and he couldn’t walk independently, plus he could not talk without crying uncontrollably. By the time her husband went home to be with the Lord many years later, the wife’s “gift of faith” empowered her husband to walk independently, including him to be a very enjoyable, jovial, happy person who was always laughing and telling funny stories.



The Rev. G. David Henderson is the pastor of Temple of the Lord at 611 S. Green St. in Dalton. You can reach him at angelsfood@optilink.us. His column appears on Saturday.

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