Jesus Christ Is All in All — Kathryn Kuhlman

This is tape LW -2229. Copies may be obtained by writing Springs of Living Water Tapes, P .O. Box 32636, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432. Catherine Kuhlman was best known for her unique ministry of healing.

She authored the books I Believe in Miracles and Nothing is Impossible with God and many others. In this tape entitled Jesus Christ is All in All, Ms. Kuhlman shares insights from her personal experience on the centrality of Jesus in her life.

The Call to Remain and Minister

Expecting great things from Him. And I promise you something. I'll stay here. I'll stay with you long as I see that there's anyone in this sanctuary or any place on these grass in whom I can help today.

Believe. That's what I'm here for. But whatever you do, there's a glory. You can't be anywhere in this holy sanctuary without seeing the wonderful. And I pray that one person shall leave these grass today.

The same person. Many of you folks heard Garth Hunt on one of our telecasts. You know him as the man who's been in Vietnam for the past ten years. A professional hockey player who was wonderfully healed by the power of God.

His conversion was wonderful. Hunt and his wife, the family of children, felt the call of God to go to Vietnam. And God used them all to stay there under the Christian missionary alignment. They were in the same compound with the Zemers and the Thompsons.

And as you well know, both Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were killed by the Viet Cong leaving their children. Mr. Zemer, that marvelous man of God, was killed by the Viet Cong. He was seriously hurt. Six missionaries, all in the manner of who was recently by the Viet Cong in Vietnam.

Discerning God's Will Amid Danger

His wife, the children, returned to the United States and Canada to make their decision as to whether to return or to stay here in the United States and Canada and just minister. And after the telecast, it was about 11 .30, almost midnight, in the lobby of the hotel, I passed through, I had been praying with someone, passing through to go to my room when suddenly Garth Hunt stopped me, called my name, and he said, I said, yes, what in the world are you doing?

He said, I prayed until I could pray no longer. I walked right out to God. I have a decision to make. I have a vital decision to make. Is God's will to Vietnam? How will I go back to Saigon? He said, I don't know, or that my Lord has left a decision with me.

They'll guarantee me nothing, just nothing. They can't guarantee me anything. He said, what if I'm killed? There's practically no provision made for my wife. If I'm killed as Mr. Zingler and Mr. Thompson were killed over there.

He said, there's practically no provision for my children whatsoever. And I want you to know he had some of the sweetest children I've ever seen in my life. Twins, a boy 10, a girl 12, the twins were 7.

Make your decision. It's left with you. He said the other night, Betty, my wife, was watching the telecast and watching the news commentator, and they were showing pictures of the very street where we lived in Saigon, where our compound.

And he said, Pastor, we're sitting there watching the telecast and recognizing some of the places on the street. Two dead on the street. Some of our own friends having been killed, murdered by the Vietnam War.

He said, and then he began to walk out of the room. He began pacing the floor, and I heard a man sob. He's a big man. He's a strong man. I heard that man. He said, I can't get the will of God. It's almost like talking to God.

What shall I do? It's the hardest situation in my life. And I said, I can't tell you. No one can tell God's will for me, and neither can anyone tell God's will for you. But I said, you know, this is the way I always feel about it.

And I never had any regrets. Never. That if some place along the line I had missed God's will and had to spend the rest of my life with regret, knowing I had missed His will, it would be what I would do.

Faithfulness Through Personal Sacrifice

I was there the morning. I was there when they went to the airport. No one knew what had happened. I saw the children. One of the little girls was carrying a wheel of a bicycle. Another little girl had a wheel of a bicycle.

I said, what in the world are you doing? Oh, she said, David wanted the bicycle so badly when they got over to Malaysia because the children were going to go to Malaysia to school. They were going to leave the children in Malaysia with the children who were orphaned by the Viet Cong.

And so she said, we're all helping to get the bicycle over for David, 10 years old, when he got to Malaysia. And each one had a part of the bicycle, you know. And the little girl, you know the little cardboard box?

I think it's $2 .98. And you get them at Montgomery Wards with a little plastic doll in it and a few little dresses to fit the doll. The twins had the little box. So just each one with a sweater. And I stood there and told them goodbye.

The look on the wife. I said, what are you going to do? She quivered. There was no answer. I remember Garth Hunt even saying goodbye. What wonderful in his own heart. I stood watching them and I thought, I'm glad I'm in the same family they're in.

I got a letter. I brought it along. Just one paragraph. I'll read to you. Dear Miss Kuhlman, I'll read the one paragraph. We left the school Monday after dinner. This comes from Malaysia. And our goodbyes with Donna and David were quick so that the tears wouldn't come.

However, when it came time to say goodbye to our three little girls, our sweet Sandra just saw and, of course, this tore our hearts. I waited until we were driving down the mountains to shed my tears.

These partings are hard, but it's for his sake. And we know that he'll sustain the children as he is sustaining us. We shall remain with Garth in Saigon. A little boy just seven years of age from Columbus, Georgia, sent a letter to his dad in Vietnam.

There's a sergeant there. He said, Daddy, can't you stay at home with us like some of the other kids, Daddy? Can't you stay at home? And that sergeant wrote back to his seven-year-old son, and he said, Son, thing of being a soldier is more than wearing a uniform.

Thing of being a soldier is far more than marching in parade. Thing of being a soldier. Sometimes, I think we get caught in the ecstasy of not wanting to be in the house. And we slip and let these precious children's place this morning.

The Purpose and Responsibility of Mountaintop Experiences

But what a greater mountaintop experience. Sister, help me. I don't care who you are in this place today. I don't care where in the world or in anywhere in this universe. It's a deeper and greater experience than the one who stands before you this very hour.

Nobody knows the hunger in my heart. Nobody knows the spiritual experience. I learned something. I learned somehow. I know that I haven't the ability. I don't have the vocabulary in myself. I can't tell you.

I'm relying on the Holy Spirit to let you see what I cannot put into words. It's possible for me to just lift my heart and put it before you. You would know. I've lived it and relived it. Glorious mountaintop experience.

James and John. I've had, I used to almost envy them. They've been wonderful, privileged and glorious. To have been one of them. Standing in the best home in any one of this sanctuary this morning. And suddenly they beheld something that no human eye has ever beheld.

They saw Him in a different light than they've ever seen Him before. Only before their very eyes. They saw the glory. Greater than the brightest sun. And there was Moses. And the amazing thing is they recognized Him immediately.

And there was Elijah. And they recognized Him immediately. Though they'd never seen Him before. And they knew. They knew. Tremendous glory. And indeed, they cried out, oh this is so glorious. Let it last forever.

Let it last forever. And He wanted to capture it. He wanted to do this thing to make it last forever. Suddenly his human mind began to function. He said, let us build three tabernacles. Let us build. Let us build.

Let us build. And one for Elijah. He was here forever. Never leave us. Never leave us. They were being led down themselves. Walking down the side. And when they got down there in the valley, the crowd was waiting for them.

The hungry were waiting for them. Remember that mountain top experience. There goes the responsibility. I tell you if I help me, I dare myself. Are the humans. The woman in this place. Human beings. Know that.

The Burden of Being Called by God

And there's many that He had called us. At least it would be to even be a farmer's wife. In the Zora. Surprise how often I've driven those country roads. There's Mrs. Steppencamp. Nice little family. Gather their eggs.

They're satisfied with a few cows. They think they have a few worries. But they can go to bed at night. Tired in body. And lie down and sleep. Good sleep. Sleep all the way through. And I'll wake in the crack of dawn.

And you know, beloved, that responsibility. That goes with those mountain top experiences. Only who's been called the dawn of the black when you walk out. And you know that you are nothing of yourselves.

You know helpless you are. You know, you know, you know, you know who can plan the service. There are some who can plan a sermon. But beloved, when you are led of the Spirit. Spirit is not a person. He is not a power that you can use.

He is not a person that you can use. The Holy Spirit must use the best. There's a black doorknob. 20 years has haunted me. Doorknob. In Carnegie Auditorium Northside. To the door. In Carnegie Auditorium in Pittsburgh.

And I've walked those four steps for 20 years. Black doorknob. I've almost broken the bones in my. You know that when I pull that black doorknob, that door will come from great distance. Those who are there with the last ray of hope.

There are those who've paid no hope in these. And they've gone. Come by this little mama out there. Two daughters. Their son has brought their mother. Yes. Pray my soul to you. Stood before a precious little old mama.

Standing there. And they say pray for her. She's dying of cancer. Earnestly. It was my own mother that I was praying for. But I know that I know that I know no healing virtue. I have no healing. Do you know what I taught Coleman?

You should have faith. You should believe God. You should be able to know better than anyone else what a big God is. I do. I believe in it with every atom of my being. I take my life on it. And yet, I only yield my life if I feel in my spirit.

Depending on the Holy Spirit in Ministry

Responsibility. The responsibility. There'd be 7 ,000 people packing a shrine auditorium. Oh sure, I'd come out smiling. Do you know the feeling? Do you know the feeling? Do you know the feeling when you depend on the Holy Spirit and anointing of the Holy Spirit's anointing?

Do you know that wonderful experience when He takes over completely? And it's as though you were completely detached from everything. Completely detached. It's as though you were standing on the sideline and you were watching Him work.

There is a place where you become so secure. Do you know what I'm talking about? Beloved, watch something. Watch who brings more in the baptism of the Holy Spirit than the one who stands before you this hour.

Don't you know it? Oh human being, who knows Katharine Kuhlman, who knows anything about the ministry, knows that here stands one servant of the Lord who believes in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Who believes that wonderful experience that they had in that upper room?

I believe in it. I believe in it. But I'm going to tell you something my friend. There's much to being filled with the Spirit than speaking in an unknown tongue. There's much more. There's much more. He's so carried away with the speaking in an unknown tongue that we forget Jesus.

Spiritual Gifts Must Lead to Soul Winning

I hope not be little the speaking in an unknown tongue. You know that. Soul winning, for the evidence, pouring out of his, speaking in an old tongue, beloved, bliss of the experience, there goes this tremendous responsibility.

There's a responsibility of soul winning.

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