Well, I've read every post in this thread. All I can say is that my experience was quite different.
Brother Pierce came to the church I was attending at the time. Now mind you, the churches in this area were split towards their feelings about Bro. Pierce. Some of the churches would never consider him to be a Brother in the Lord, thus never invited him to hold a revival in their church. Some even preached against anybody from their congregation to visit the churches that did allow Bro. Pierce to see for themselves if God used him prophetically or not. (one of the things that got me lambasted when I went to see for myself
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Well back to my story.
I was sitting in the congregation, emotionally hurting as I testified in another thread about my condition at that time. Brother Pierce started preaching and decided to come off the podium and walk the aisle while he preached. He passed me and my family. At that moment, I felt a huge swelling of emotion in my chest about my pain and suffering. It was centered right where my heart is located. There was no pain, just flooding with emotions. After Brother Pierce walked past us and down the aisle, he stopped talking, turned around and looked straight at me. He walked up closer looking at me and my baby who was running up and down the pew and said, "That I was hurt (in my womb) giving birth to my baby". There was some truth to that because I had a somewhat difficult birth. But then his eyes narrowed somewhat as he looked at me. He then told the congregation "That woman has been hurt". But this time he was not talking about my physical condition. He walked closer to me and started talking to me. He said again, "This woman has been hurt. (and told me) You never mind about them! God is going to take care of them. You just live your life with all your heart for God. Love God and live for Him".
The host pastor's wife, who knew somewhat about my plight (God rest her soul she passed away last year) came up to me after service and wanted me to know that she said nothing to him about what had happened to me.
Now this may not mean much to anybody else, but it was validation for me to continue to press on. I felt like God was seeing my pain and letting me know that He was still in control and that HE still loves me.
You see, when we look at the gifts being used coming from God through man, we should not see a mere man from which the gift is flowing through as being the one who is mighty. That is always a mistake. We must always recognize that it is God who distributes the gift and through the Holy Ghost it must flow.
That must have happened at least fifteen years ago. I haven't been in any revivals that had him as guest evangelist in a long time. But, we plan to go to Meridian soon for a first time visit.
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