SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES
(Hebrews 13:8) "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever"
(Romans 15:19) “Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.”
(Acts 5:12) “And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.”
(Hebrews 2:4) “God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?”
(Mark 16:20) “And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.”
(Mark 16:17) “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;”
(Matthew 10:1) “And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.”
PREFACE SUMMARY
Dear reader, if we study history, we will find that God has moved in powerfully and blessed His people with miraculous signs, such as the 1906 Azusa Street revival in California. During this revival, God used a young black preacher named Brother Seymour to perform incredible miracles.
Today, people still witness God use teenagers to perform miracles during this revival. These miracles were so incredible that they caused many skeptics to reconsider the power of God, who is unchanging and always faithful.
Beloved reader Brother Seymour was a black man with a dark patch over one eye. God blessed him to outgrow his makeshift church in his home and ride a trolley car to a place in town, even though there was a curfew against blacks being on the street after a specific time at night.
One night, Brother Seymour and the Holy Spirit led him to knock on a door. A white lady opened the door and asked him what he wanted. By God's whisper, Brother Seymour knew this woman and others had been meeting in that apartment, asking God to send revival to their town.
Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Brother Seymour spoke words to the woman that revealed to her that God had sent him. This caused them to gather their funds and purchase the old warehouse on Azusa Street. There, heaven came down to earth in supernatural ways, drawing crowds of people from all over the world to witness signs, miracles, and wonders.
In conclusion, the 1906 Azusa Street revival was remarkable when God moved in unique ways. It is a testament to the unchanging power of God and the incredible things He can do through those who are faithful to Him.
" AIR CONDITIONER SALVATION"
During my 43-year trucking career, I have experienced many manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and it would take several books to expound on them all; still, they have left me with priceless memories that will be there to comfort me in times of trial and disappointment.
Dear reader, I would like to take this time to write about one that places a smile on my face every time it enters my mind, and it is about how God chose to fix an air conditioner to reach the heart of a lost trucker.
Beloved, I remember an incident when my truck had broken down in Rochester, NY, and I was directed to ride with two different drivers that would get me back to my home terminal in Kingsport, Tennessee. They did not give me free rides but made me drive while they sat enjoying the trip.
Dear reader, one of the drivers did not know Jesus' name except to use it as a curse word, and the other driver was a Christian man who, because of suffering a bad marriage, had turned his back on God and the call on his life.
Beloved, I recall stopping at a truck stop and saying to the wayward Christian, “What’s God going to have to do, have a big truck pull up with a sign on it telling you Jesus loves you," and beloved at this very moment, the other driver tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to a tractor-trailer passing behind me with those very words painted on the side.
Dear reader, although the other driver was not interested in anything I had to say about God, I continued to witness him during that entire trip.
Beloved reader, did you know that our paths would cross again the following summer, which would change his life forever?
Beloved, it happened in Mobil, Alabama, when, for some reason, my load had been put on hold, which caused me to get very upset until I met that cursing driver coming in to get a load at the same shipper.
Saints, I was not in a good mood, but seeing him gave me an understanding that God was in this delay and he had plans for this driver.
Beloved, after he checked in with the shipper, he came to visit with me, and what he said to me shook me up as he said, “Preacher, you may not have thought I wasn’t listening to you as you drove my truck when yours had broken down, but it’s like the words you spoke to me that trip are haunting me, and I can’t get them out of my head.
Dear reader, a man once told me he kept hearing the phrase "To enter heaven, ye must be born again" in his head, especially when trying to sleep. He mentioned that his air conditioner had quit and that he was struggling in the heat. He told me, "Preacher, I hear them all the time about being born again, but if your God can fix my air conditioner, I'll let you save me." I had never faced such a direct challenge before, but I replied, "I don't know that He will, but I know He can, so let's bring it before Him."
I began to pray for this man's air conditioner, asking God to fix it so that the man would experience the love and power of God and be saved. To my amazement, the air conditioner started working and worked proficiently for the six-hundred-mile trip back to Tennessee. The shop foreman could not understand how it worked because the expansion valve was terrible, and there was not enough Freon coolant to be operational.
The driver kept his promise and gave his life to Jesus. Later, I received a call from a woman who worked in the safety department of my company, thanking me for leading her future husband to the Lord.
She spoke about the cursing driver who must have done a complete turnaround when he witnessed the God of heaven intervene to repair his air conditioner.
This lady informed me that she had been attracted to the driver for a long time but would not pursue the relationship because he was not a Christian.
The lady informed me that she noticed a change in him that caused her to drop her defense walls and allow love to take its course. A few months later, I was invited to one of the most beautiful church weddings I had ever seen.
This event where heaven touched earth gave me joy in knowing that God had orchestrated events with my truck breaking down miles from home, receiving orders to ride back to our terminal in this driver's truck, and opening a door for God to work in his life. Knowing that a year later, he had plans to fix a broken air conditioner, save a soul from hell, and mend a lonely heart for His honor and glory. "Wow."
"THE POWER OF GOD ON DISPLAY"
Dear readers, in the late 1990s, I was in Buffalo, New York, and was scheduled to preach near the West Virginia and Kentucky lines.
Beloved, I drove an all-night run to Tennessee and took a shower and 15 minutes of sleep, then drove my vehicle to Rural Retreat, Virginia, to meet a family that I was to ride with that would take me to the little country church in Panther, West Virginia.
I remember as I was in prayer during the trip when God showed me an open vision of a woman trying to get into the service and could not get in.
I remember speaking of this vision to the family I was riding with, and I remember it like it was yesterday: how God made himself known that night, fulfilling that vision in that excellent service.
Dear readers, I remember that when we got there, the place was packed because people wanted to meet the truck driver preacher, Guardian Angel. I remember ministering that night on the message, “Is there no balm (leadership) in Gilead?"
At the end of the message, I remember that quite a few people came up for prayer that night when suddenly a woman came in with several big, strong men following her Friends.
What happened next literally blew my ever-loving mind, for you see, beloved, this was the girl in my vision, and the men following her into that meeting had told her that if she came into my service, they were going to whip me and burn the church down.
Well, friends, God the Holy Ghost had other plans, and all I can tell you is that it felt like someone had spit in my hair, and people started falling, and I mean the people standing with me, including the woman entering the church and the men following her with intent to disrupt the service.
Beloved, I can recall the recording cameras, without warning, shut themselves off as God brought reverential fear and order to this place of worship.
Dear Saints, the power of God touched that church, and revival broke out with devil worshipers getting saved; for you see, at the beginning of the revival, I had a box made for everyone to put their prayer requests in, but it was no ordinary box because I had it made with no way to get the prayer requests out for anyone to read them. We were going to burn the box at the end of the revival.
I received word later that on the last night of the revival, one of the devil worshippers had a newborn baby that was born with a congenital disability. She decided to put a request in the box asking God to heal her baby, and let me tell you, Saints, God showed up that night and healed her baby with a congenital disability.
Dear readers, after the revival, she called some of our people, informing them of the miracle and that she had changed God because of the miracle with her newborn baby.
This is why I ask the question today, "Why do people make statements that miracles ceased with the apostles when the word says that (Hebrews 13:8) "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever?"
To say that God gave a gift for that day and is not needed or in operation today is to make a blasphemous statement that God, who is perfect, gave an imperfect gift.
I know that the word says that in the last days, men would have a form of Godliness and deny the power thereof, but beloved, there is something wrong when the same Holy Ghost that showed up so many times in my services is pushed aside for church forms and controlled services.
Beloved, my bible tells me that “The sinner cannot sit in the congregation of the righteous.” (Psalms 1:5)
Dear readers, something is missing when the devil can sit comfortably in a service with not enough discernment in the leadership to know the difference between the holy and unholy spirits entering their church, and sadly, some of these church leaders vote them into an office position in their church only later to witness a church split.
Beloved, did you know that witch covens have been known to search for churches that appear to prosper for God and send their people in to mix with and join the church?
Beloved, let me tell you that they have studied our forms of worship and come in showing interest, declaring that they are spiritual leaders going out of their way to become friendly with the church people, and some even obtain a license with the church ministry.
After winning, the people, especially the pastor trust, then without warning, begin to sow lies and deception among the members, causing some members to blame the pastor for poor leadership who has no idea of what is happening behind closed doors.
The bottom line is that we must have discernment; the only way to get discernment is to spend time with God in solitude and spend time in his word, for failure to do so will open the door for evil spirits to invade a church body, leaving everyone wondering why everything was going well within the church.
The sad ending of this story is the people became so confused that they voted for the former leadership out and the witches in.
"HER NICKNAME IS ANGEL"
Dear readers, did you know that quiet times with the LORD on the road are some of the best times I have experienced, especially in the early morning hours when most demonic activity has died down?
I recall an incident where God spoke in my spirit that he needed me to pray for an Angel to be delivered but never told me what she was suffering from.
Within minutes of hearing that word in my spirit, the satellite communication device in my truck beeped to signal a routing change that would take me off my regular route.
The new route would take me near a town in Kentucky, one that I was familiar with, for in this town, I had a close friend who had been making some headway in building a ministry there.
I called my friend, and he came to pick me up; along the way, I asked him if he knew anyone in the area who went by the name of Angel, and he replied that he did not recognize anyone by that name. Still, he suggested I go with him to pray for a godly lady who was a famous recording artist who presently sings in her church's choir.
Beloved, I discovered that the Lady we were going to see had recently been diagnosed with throat cancer, and her life, as well as her ministry and career as a gospel singer, were in jeopardy.
After my friend introduced us, I engaged her in a conversation to build her faith as I began to praise God and his miraculous works, showing how he has used me to make a positive influence in the lives of others.
When asked to pray, l was led by the Holy Spirit to be careful to operate in her faith as a Baptist church member, staying within the teachings she had been raised with.
Dear readers, I left her presence with peace that God had accomplished the task as he intended, and some weeks later, I enquired about her health and was told that she had gotten worse.
I was informed that the lady's health continued to go downhill until the time of her surgery. Still, God had a surprise because after performing the pre-surgical testing phase of her cancer removal, the surgeon informed her that surgery would not be needed because the cancer was gone!
Dear Saints, God had orchestrated a trucking company to send a truck several miles out of the route to fulfill not only the word he had given me about praying for an Angel, but he used me to perform a wondrous miracle to heal her from cancer that was claiming her life.
This did not take me by surprise, for I knew God had arranged our meeting and would confirm his word with signs following, and sometime later, I received a phone call informing me that her nickname was Angel.
" GOD RAISED THE DEAD"
Dear readers, this is based upon a story concerning a mighty tent revival that happened in the middle 1990s in the great State of Virginia and the scene is that a local pastor decided to drop by a local radio station where I had just finished a live broadcast and was preparing to leave to get back on the road for I was an over the road driver probably headed with a load to the northeastern states in America.
The Lord had blessed me with a large listening audience on this station, and many times when I had the time, I would park my 18-wheeler nearby, and someone from the radio station would come to pick me up and take me to the station to do my weekly broadcast in person.
I was given free lifetime broadcasts on this station when God performed a miracle on the owner's wife. You can watch a live interview at the end of this hub, which features him speaking of this miracle.
During this time, I was in a robust tent revival that could be seen from Interstate 81 that was nearby, and I had just finished my message at the radio station and was preparing to leave.
The local pastor had already witnessed God use me mightily in a recent revival at his church. Where the local fire department arrived at the church, stating that they had received a call about a fire near the church and that they could see it in the distance as they neared the church, but when they arrived at the church, the fire had disappeared, which left them in questioning the actual fire?
This pastor's name was Pastor Bruce Shelton; he dropped by to ask me to accompany him to Marion, Virginia Hospital, which was thirty miles away, to pray for a lady on life support, to which I agreed, but what I did not know and found out later that this woman had taken a lot of drugs to end her life and her body was rejecting the life support.
Beloved readers, the hospital had informed the family that her vital signs were deteriorating. She showed no brain activity on their scans, and she was dead, and even today, some twenty-eight years later, I can recall this incident like it happened yesterday.
I later discovered that this young lady was related to some folks in this Pastor's congregation, and they had requested that he get me to go with him to pray for this woman because they had heard how God had used me in miracle ministry.
The pastor and I traveled to this hospital and prayed for this woman because the hospital had informed the family that she was brain dead, and they were waiting for the family to sign the release papers to unplug her life support.
Dear reader, we had to push an approved button to see this lady, but we were only given four minutes to be in the room, and I still remember standing over this dead woman asking the pastor what he wanted me to do, to which he replied, “PRAY, Guardian Angel, She died in a bad way, and who can tell where she will end up! Just pray for her, Preacher!”
Dear readers, Guardian Angel was the CB Radio call sign I used not only in my 18-wheeler but in all my radio, magazines and TV programs.
I remember asking God to have mercy on the lady and restore her to her right mind, including asking him to send her spirit back into her body from wherever it had gone, too, for as far as I knew, she could still be near her body, even in the room with us.
Dear readers, after prayer, the pastor wanted to visit other church members in the hospital, so I waited patiently in the lounge and began meditating on the Lord continuing to pray for revelation concerning the young woman we had just prayed for.
Dear readers, the lighting in the room was dim causing me to focus my eyes in an attempt to read a Gideon Bible that was lying open on the table.
It was during this lapse of time that I noticed a bright light beamed shinning in through a nearby window onto the Bible to highlight this verse: (Isaiah 60:1) “ Arise, shine; for thy light comes, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.”
Beloved readers, at about that time, the pastor walked in to exclaim, “MY GOD! Guardian Angel, God is in this place,” to which I replied, “I know He just walked in a minute ago."
Beloved, right there in that hospital waiting room, Pastor Bruce Shelton and I both began to praise and worship the God of miracles, and right when I thought we were leaving to travel the thirty miles back to the radio station, Pastor Bruce informed me that he had just found out that there was a man he knows also in ICU, and he wanted to pray for him before we left, to which I agreed.
Dear readers, once again, we had to push the button to request entrance into the area to pray for another patient which the hospital staff would allow us entry for another four minutes.
Something happened as we entered the area that caught my attention, for you see, beloved, on our way back to the room, I noticed a lot of activity around the curtain of the woman that we had just prayed for and wanted to ask a nurse what was all the activity.
Beloved, Pastor Bruce tried in vain to stop me, stating that they had probably taken her off life support and the activity must be the morgue preparing to remove her body from the hospital, informing me that he had already informed the family where to get the casket and set up the arrangements for the funeral.
I just had to know for myself. I asked a nurse what was happening, and she replied, “we do not know what is happening, this woman is alive." She went on to say that the woman has regained consciousness, and is pulling the tubes out of her body."
Dear readers, emotions run high when God moves, especially when the medical personnel cannot explain her recovery.
The hospital staff and doctors were convinced she would have permanent brain damage, including many physical problems because of the overdose, but Jesus had a different ending to the story, and she was able to recover both physically and mentally fully.
Dear readers, I was on several radio stations and, I think, one TV station during this time. but I did not use any air time to report this miraculous miracle concerning the resurrection of this woman from the dead. I did not have to for before the week was up, everybody throughout the surrounding area around Marion, Virginia had received news of this miracle.
For me to use my media platforms to broadcast this amazing miracle would be like inviting the world into my intimacy with the one that had always been there for me since I was a young child, even when I was not so good, and that is why I later turned down an offer from Cineflix productions in Hollywood to have my reality TV show informing them that I have paid too high a price for the anointing on my life and therefore, I am not for sale. However, I still kept and have the email from them.
Dear readers, I sent Hollywood several of my book, "18 Wheels and Jesus," and later discovered that several of their employees resigned, including the young lady who had contacted me. Still, I do not know if my books had anything to do with their decision to resign.
Beloved reader, this book and others can be downloaded for free in PDF manuscript from our website: www.witheredhand.org
"HEART TRANSPLANT BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD"
Dear readers, in my over 43 years as an over-the-road driver and mechanic in the trucking industry, I have had many supernatural encounters with the living God, which would make one rethink the law of physics.
I am sharing one of those encounters with you in this story, which I pray will cause you to take a measuring stick off of the God who declares in Ephesians that he can do exceedingly abundantly more than our three-pound human mind can imagine.
Beloved, I have experienced many manifestations of the Holy Spirit in my more than 43 years as a professional driver.
In 1995, I returned to ministry after a more than seven-year nervous breakdown, taking the CB radio call sign “The Guardian Angel.”
I used this call sign, or we call it “handle” in trucker language, because while in this nightmare that seemed there was no end to where I would wake up with my fingers drawn up like someone with severe arthritis, the Lord sent Angels to me just like the TV series “Touched By An Angel.”
Yes, these would be messengers from God who identified themselves to me as being sent by the “Lord God Jehovah,” they used his name with Holy reverence while speaking to me.
When I made a comeback in ministry, God opened doors for me in radio and TV, and did you know that he would do creative miracles through my programs without me knowing it, and this caused the stations to be flooded with calls and letters.
I never used my real name in any of my programs, outreaches, or magazine articles written about me, for my thought was, “If God thinks that much of me to allow me to meet Angels on several occasions, significantly when I believed death would be a gift to me through all the heartache, rejection and mistreatment I had to endure since a young teen.
Dear readers, I would use the name “Guardian Angel in everything I undertake to do in his ministry, and that is why I feel led to share this true story of how God chose to use me in such a way that many people were left shaking their heads and rethinking their relationship with God.
God opened doors for me to minister for over twenty years, wearing my original Indiana Jones hat throughout the inner cities of America, including Knoxville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia.
I recall an occasion in the 1990s while running a trip from Kingsport, Tennessee, to North Carolina. I was transporting a heavy load of filter tow to a cigarette production factory in North Carolina.
Filter tow is what they make the filters out of for their cigarettes. The trailers were usually maxed out, causing the vehicle to weigh every bit of forty tons.
The trip would take more than four hours or more by interstate, but I, being a native of East Tennessee, had spent most of my trucking life running freight across the surrounding mountains into the state of North and South Carolina.
On this particular evening, I decided to run through the mountains, which would shave almost two hours off my trip, but the roads were very steep and curvy.
The route would take me through Newland, North Carolina, where I would catch US Highway 181 through Jonah’s Ridge south, maneuvering around steep, dangerous, curvy roads through a tourist site where you could park and see the famous Brown Mountain Lights.
For years, our government studied and attempted to identify the mysterious lights, which some folk tales say are someone carrying a lantern through the mountains looking for something.
Beloved, navigating this road in a big rig with your smoking brakes is nearly impossible, and there are steep drop-offs. You can call yourself a trucker if you navigate even one of the sharp curves, especially with a heavy load.
I remember getting close to being within several miles of the bottom when I noticed that I was losing air in my right steering tire.
Going down this steep incline shook me, and I noticed the gauge showing the tire pressure on my dash.
It showed a leak in my right steering tire. Lord, let it be any tire, but not one of the ones I need to steer this big rig down this mountain.
Beloved, if it had blown out instead of a slow leak, I would not have been able to hold it on the road, especially with nearly six tons of weight (12,000 lbs.) on my steering axle.
Surprisingly, it stayed up until I made the sharp curve at the bottom, and I steered it off to a little pull-off area.
Thank God for my life as I wiped the sweat from my brow. The company called me for a service truck to bring me a tire, and when he showed up, he told me that he was unhappy that he had been called out because he had plans to be in his church for it was the night they were going to have a special prayer for his wife, who needed a heart transplant.
It all started to make sense to me, and I informed him of my call to miracle ministry and that the living God had brought the church to him.
Beloved, we exchanged information, and it was not long until he sent me messages that she began to show improvement at the last minute before they were about to give up on finding her a donor.
Dear readers, with further tests, the doctors decided that her old heart was showing signs of life and that she would not need the transplant.
Somebody reading this, I do not know what you or one of your loved ones may be facing, but I do know that I have had years of experience watching God do the super miraculous, which prepared me for the international ministry chosen for me before the foundation of the world.
MY CONCLUSION
Dear readers, this message aims to uplift your faith and introduce you to a beautiful being who loves you deeply. He planned your life before bending down to sculpt Adam from the dust of the Earth and knew your life's end from the beginning for his divine cause and purpose. (Jeremiah 29:11) “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
I have witnessed things I would have trouble believing without seeing them with my own eyes. Recently, while conducting a revival in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, an elderly lady approached me one night during the service. She used hand gestures to convey that she desired prayer because she couldn't speak or hear. God granted her request that night, and the Mangyan tribe turned to God.
Dear readers, as we conducted another service the next day, people from that tribe walked out of the mountains to join us. They claimed that "Jesus had appeared to them in dreams and visions" after he had healed the elderly lady in their tribe.
My wife and I prayed for a young lady on the way to our service who had been dealing with a blood issue for more than a month, similar to the woman who touched the helm of Jesus' garment. During the meeting, the young lady came forward for prayer, and the power of God in that corporate anointing healed her of that disease.
Beloved, there are many more stories I could tell you, such as the time God healed the father of Pastor Joseph Dunn, who was suffering from lung cancer in one of our Virginia miracle services. The miracle happened when he entered surgery to have his lung removed. However, when they opened him up, the doctors could not find the cancer. Beloved is still alive today, over 70 years old, testifying about how God spared his life when medical science had given up on him.
I'm glad that God knows his own, and this gives us hope, which is called the Anchor of our soul. We can be assured that if this Earthly house is dissolved (meaning our earthly body is made of flesh), we have a house in the heavens not made with hands.
Dear reader, the child of God may leave their body, but they will never lose consciousness at death. God states in His word that the death of His saints is precious.
If God has used this message to uplift and touch your life, please get in touch with us and allow us to share in your blessings. You can contact us through this website to download some free PDF book manuscripts. www.witheredhand.org
I will leave you with this song: “The Savior gave His life for His Sheep.”
Guilty, guilty was the plea that O accuser said to me, for the law of God says you as guilty as you can be, but The Shepard gave his life; The wrath of God was satisfied when the Shepard gave his life for the sheep. And I walked out of death's prison; from my chains set free; I don’t have to pay sins awful penalty; for the Shepard gave his life; the wrath of God was satisfied when the Shepard gave his life for the sheep.” (This was Me) (Is it also You)
International Evangelist
Jerry W. Hulse Ph.D.
Miracle Life Church International
MY CLOSING PRAYER
Dear Lord, my prayer is that you stir us up and burden our hearts for true revival, yes, Lord, in every country throughout the world and demonstrate to the people in these countries that you are the Unchanging God, for your word declares it, that what you were yesterday, you are today, and will be tomorrow! (Hebrews 13:8)
Dear heavenly Father, I ask that you move to bless each who has taken time to read this message and has humbly surrendered their life more to your purpose, and I ask that you intensify the work that you have begun in their life and ministry in Jesus mighty name.
Father, I ask that you bless them spiritually, financially, physically, relationally, and emotionally so that their life may be blessed to enrich the lives of others.
Dear Lord, I ask that your will, purpose, word, and Spirit have a free course in their life and everyone they meet.
Father, I pray that all curses and words spoken against them will be broken, and I ask that you stand up for them in these last days and make their lives count.
Dear Lord, I ask you to awaken the gifts and talents placed in them at birth so they may become unified in the faith with other believers, realizing the need to work together in harmony like a fine-tuned orchestra in the master's hands.
Father, if anyone reading this prayer should need deliverance from some oppressing spirit, including some illnesses that may be attacking their body, Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit would raise a standard against these attacks and set them free.
Lord, I pray that the power of your written and spoken word be activated through the authority made available unto us in the name of Jesus, and we apply the following scriptures to our prayer.
(John 16:23) "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you."
(Psalms 34:15) "The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry."
Father, we close our prayer believing that you have heard and answered us according to your divine will and purpose, for it is in Jesus’ mighty name we pray and ask these favors. A-Men
