POWERFUL PRAYER
There was a legendary preacher named Brother Jackson who was called to minister in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri some years ago. The church had been terrorized by a local thug who would get drunk and disturb services, harass the former preachers, and threatened the people and beat up a few. In his first sermon, Brother Jackson denounced this bully by name. The two met on a road the next day and the bully said he was going to beat up on this preacher, too, like he’d done to the others. Brother Jackson said he would likely accommodate him but first, would he allow him a few moments to pray in preparation. The preacher began his prayer, “O Lord, thou knowest that when I was forced to kill Bill Hewett, and John Brown and Jerry Smith and Levi Battles, I did it in pure self-defense. Thou knowest that when I cut the heart out of that young upstart, Younger and strewed the…
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