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The Promises of God - Part 1
Kathryn Kuhlman

Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976). Born on May 9, 1907, in Concordia, Missouri, to Joseph and Emma Kuhlman, Kathryn Kuhlman was an American evangelist renowned for her healing crusades and charismatic ministry. Raised in a German-American family, she left school at 14 to join her sister Myrtle’s traveling revival ministry in 1921, preaching across Idaho and beyond. By 1928, she led her own tent revivals, gaining prominence in Denver with a 1933 radio program, despite a brief, controversial marriage to Burroughs Waltrip (1938–1948), a divorced evangelist, which ended her early ministry partnerships. Settling in Pittsburgh in 1946, she launched the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation and held weekly services at Carnegie Hall, broadcasting on CBS radio as The Radio Chapel. From the 1950s, her healing services at First Presbyterian Church and later nationwide crusades drew thousands, with reported miracles, though she emphasized salvation over physical healing. She authored books like I Believe in Miracles (1962), God Can Do It Again (1969), and Nothing Is Impossible with God (1974). Moving to Los Angeles in 1965, she hosted I Believe in Miracles on TV, mentoring figures like Benny Hinn. Unmarried after her divorce, she died on February 20, 1976, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following heart surgery. Kuhlman said, “The greatest power that God has given to any individual is the power of choice.”
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of believing in the word of God. He shares his personal experience of receiving a Bible from God, which has brought him peace. The preacher encourages the audience to stay rooted in their faith and not be influenced by worldly expectations. He also mentions the need to teach the younger generation about the word of God and warns against straying from it. The sermon concludes with a reminder to trust in God and seek strength from Him.
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And now, wonderful Jesus, I pray that not one person shall see Catherine Kuhn. Not one, not a man, not a woman, not a young person shall see thy servant. Not one. No one has come here to see a personality. No one has come here to see Catherine Kuhn. They're here because we're hungry for the truth. It's the truth that sets us free. It's the truth that gives us security. It's that truth that gives us peace of mind and peace of soul. And I pray that not one shall leave the services today. Not just this service, but the services today here in the Hilton Hotel. Not one shall leave the same person they were when they came, for Jesus' sake. Amen. There's a familiar scripture, and I know that practically every preacher in the ministry has preached from it. I want to read it because it means a lot to me. It's in Genesis, the forty-fifth verse, you know, when Joseph's bread was sent to Jacob. Let's read the scripture. And to his father he sent after this manor ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father. By the way, oh, great abundance, just a great abundance. And so he sent his brethren away and they departed. And he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. And they went up out of Egypt and they came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father and told him, saying, and remember, Jacob thought Joseph was dead. He was so sure that his son Joseph had died. This is beautiful. I never weary in reading. He was so sure in his own mind that his son was dead. They told him, saying, Joseph thy son is alive. Father, Joseph is alive. He's not dead. What clarity! How can you tell a father who thinks that his son is dead? His child is dead. How can you tell him? Thy son is alive. And he's governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. He still couldn't believe, just couldn't believe. Even after they told him. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them. But watch something. But when he saw the wagons, when he looked out of the window and he saw the wagons, and he saw those wagons loaded to go, he knew there was only one who would have done it. Just one. And the whole world, it was only he knew it. It was like his son. He knew it, he knew it, he knew it. When he saw the way which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. And Israel said, it's enough. It's enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive. I've seen enough. I have seen enough. Only my son, Joseph, would have done that. You don't have to kill me anymore. You don't have to bring him to me. I don't have to place my hand on his shoulder. I don't have to look into his face. I don't have to have him to speak to me audibly. That's my son. That's my boy. He's alive. I will go and see him before I die. You'll ask me and say, you're so strong in your faith, and you've preached the word ever since you were in your teens. More than that, I've given my life. Do you realize that I have given my whole life to the preaching of the gospel? It's all that I know. I haven't done anything else. Do you realize? Standing before you, I'm not just somebody who's given five years of her life, ten years. I've given my whole to the preaching of the word. And a skeptic will come to me and say, you're a fool. Have you ever seen God? I have never seen God. He has never spoken to me audibly. Never. I've never heard an audible word from him. I've never caught a glimpse. And God is more than just an influence. God is a person. The God of Abraham is a person. The God of Moses is a person. The God of the Old Testament is a person. The God of his own person. The one who put the worlds into existence. The one who said in letters, there'll be light and there was light. Jesus Christ is God. I've spent everything I have. I have spent my life on the person of God. And I stand before you laughing when I say to you, he lives in your midst. And he lives in your mouth. And he lives in your heart. The greatest book of all answers in the name of God is my book of life. We need an open space for the all-energy, the reality, all-knowing. There is no way to go to Congress for the possibility that it has been built purely for the past. And for the possibility that it has been built in this very hour that we are now living in one of the greatest generations and one of the greatest hours in the course of the world's history. And you cannot deny the kind of opportunity to deny the authenticity of the word of God for the reality of all knowledge. Do you want to know where the world stands today? Do you want to use the meaning of the words of God? Remember some of these. Caught in different paths to Abraham and to Israel. Abraham, the angel of the heavens, cannot make a breakthrough from the old man's arch. And how to get from one house to the other is all for one day. And it is because there is not one word of contradiction. No, no, no. This is true. It is the truth. God the angel sent to the commonwealth of Israel, Abraham, to the people of Abraham, between the people of Israel and the people of Israel in 1996, which is the very year when the Ring started to be fully acquired in the Jewish world. And the department that was created was the Church where members came married and came to Christ He laid out there that burning bush, and then in a minute he had preached on that burning bush. And that moment it soothed. He had brought the spirit of salvation. But that burning bush, he should have known, he might have known, for centuries to come. But he didn't catch, he didn't stop, he didn't even come to the beginning of the end. But he verified in that covenant, and in that promise he had made, that he would serve there until he died, and he saw the fire that had been burned, and yet that bush was not consumed. That bush was not consumed! It's not real! How can it be so real? He didn't stop! And for thirty-nine centuries, since the beginning of April, he was together with our Lord. He should have known, he should have known, before the hour of his death came, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have known, he should have and all together, let me give you one hope, and it's that we are, when we fall, we should hide in the sky, for yet, the only real peace that lives in your heart, is the peace in the heart of God's children and the world. God's creation comes from the creation, and the world has never known each other before. God, I know who you are, and you are God. No man needs to come to you in this. No man needs to come to you in this. When I speak so sadly, and when I cry so darkly, and when I hate my children, and I hate my children, there's no other way to go about it. I sing with all my heart. I sing with all my dreams. I know there's a power in you, Satan. I know there's a power in you, Satan. The greatest power in the world is the power of God, I tell you. Every young and old man loves you. I love you, Satan. I know there's a power in you, Satan. The greatest power in the world is the power of God, I tell you. The greatest power in the world is the power of God, I tell you. I have seen the world. I have never seen God. I have never seen God. I have seen him. I have not seen him. Until I have seen him. My heaven and earth are your eyes. And I have seen him. And I have seen him.
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Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976). Born on May 9, 1907, in Concordia, Missouri, to Joseph and Emma Kuhlman, Kathryn Kuhlman was an American evangelist renowned for her healing crusades and charismatic ministry. Raised in a German-American family, she left school at 14 to join her sister Myrtle’s traveling revival ministry in 1921, preaching across Idaho and beyond. By 1928, she led her own tent revivals, gaining prominence in Denver with a 1933 radio program, despite a brief, controversial marriage to Burroughs Waltrip (1938–1948), a divorced evangelist, which ended her early ministry partnerships. Settling in Pittsburgh in 1946, she launched the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation and held weekly services at Carnegie Hall, broadcasting on CBS radio as The Radio Chapel. From the 1950s, her healing services at First Presbyterian Church and later nationwide crusades drew thousands, with reported miracles, though she emphasized salvation over physical healing. She authored books like I Believe in Miracles (1962), God Can Do It Again (1969), and Nothing Is Impossible with God (1974). Moving to Los Angeles in 1965, she hosted I Believe in Miracles on TV, mentoring figures like Benny Hinn. Unmarried after her divorce, she died on February 20, 1976, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following heart surgery. Kuhlman said, “The greatest power that God has given to any individual is the power of choice.”