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  Joan Flavell 5/14/2011 at 4:23 pm

  Dear Arthur,

  Today, I was telling a friend about how I received the Lord after seeing you one snowy Christmas evening. You were carrying the cross in Chicago. I live on Surf Street and was looking out the window watching the snow fall.

  We had a beach day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We were talking about how and where God has brought us in our lives. And, about the power of the Holy Spirit of God, His forgiveness and the end times. Then I saw your internet promo on your movie. And I needed to tell you what you and the power of God did for me, after seeing you carry the cross in Chicago.

  Here is what I wrote my friend today:

  Dearest Annie Love, (which is a perfect name for you!)

  Yes, we are both worriers of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We both have been through tough things in our life, and it has happened in order for us to testify and give an account of the “Resurrection Power” of Jesus.

  It’s funny, as I think back, the Jesus movement in the 1960’s was allied with the peace and love movement, flower power. Satin always comes as an “Angel of Light” to deceive,trying to mirror what God is doing. I remember wanting to follow the “Jesus Movement”, instead falling into the rapids of this worlds river. Yet my Lord is faithful.

  One snowy December evening in 1979, I was looking out my apartment window enjoying the beautiful light snow fall. In amazement, I saw a man (Arthur Blessitt) caring a huge cross on his back down that snowy Chicago street. At that time my friend Linda was going out with a backslidden Christian, who invited us to go to church with him. Well, we both to busy dancing at the disco’s, but Linda insisted that we go. She was only interested in him, and not the church. But it was Christmas time and I always love Christmas plays. So, I agreed to go. But we had to sit in the back of the church, then we could sneak out if the guy wasn’t there. God had other plans. That night, in that little Pentecostal church, Linda and I were separated. The usher seated me alone up front. And Linda in the back.

  That night the Holy Spirit of God lifted me up-out-of-that-chair, fell upon me and though me like rushing waters. Forgiving me of all my sin and washing me clean. You see that night I didn’t want to “presume” that Jesus forgave me, I needed Him to show me because I was a BIG SINNER. How could He forgive me after all I had done. But when we prayed the sinners prayer, I asked Him to lift me up-out-of-that-chair, if in fact I was forgiven. He did. By showing me the supernatural power of God that I always believed was real. That the world always laughs and that most of the Church is afraid of. I was lost, and He found me. I was unfaithful, and He was faithful. I needed Love, and He gave me His Unconditional Love. Hundreds of years later in a modern city, on a cold Chicago night He saved me.

  I am not a Victum, I am a Victor.
  The unseen supernatural power of God is revealed in us, and to us, through the natural by God being made flesh.

  God said I am the I am.
  I am your Faith.
  I am your Joy.
  I am your Healer.
  I am your Provider.
  I am your Hope.
  I am your Victory.
  I am your Savior.
  I am your Love.

  John 9 New Living Translation

  Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

  1As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”

  3“It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 4We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.a The night is coming, and then no one can work. 5But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”

  6Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. 7He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

  8His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”

  But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”

  10They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”

  11He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”

  12“Where is he now?” they asked.

  “I don’t know,” he replied.

  13Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, 14because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him. 15The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”

  16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among them.

  17Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”

  The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”

  18The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents. 19They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”

  20His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind, 21but we don’t know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.” 22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue. 23That’s why they said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

  24So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, “God should get the glory for this,b because we know this man Jesus is a sinner.”

  25“I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”

  26“But what did he do?” they asked. “How did he heal you?”

  27“Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once. Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”

  28Then they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses! 29We know God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.”

  30“Why, that’s very strange!” the man replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don’t know where he comes from? 31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will. 32Ever since the world began, no one has been able to open the eyes of someone born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he couldn’t have done it.”

  34“You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue.

  Spiritual Blindness

  35When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?c”
  36The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I want to believe in him.”

  37“You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he is speaking to you!”

  38“Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said. And he worshiped Jesus.

  39Then Jesus told him,d “I entered this world to render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they seee that they are blind.”

  40Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?”

  41“If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.