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MIRACLE IMAGE OF CHRIST
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05-02-00
MOBILE, AL -- What role does Television play in revival? In 1989 I first became aware of Television and the powerful grip it had on the message of Christ after viewing an image taken in Romania during a healing service. A simple home video camera was brought by a seminary student from Lee College at Cleveland, Tennessee.
The entire iron curtain was falling and this was one of the first ministry groups to come to this country. It happened in an auditorium crowded with Romanians. It was a healing service -- as the power of God began to move through the service a young student lifted the camera as another student was praying for a woman in the audience. The camera pans over to the woman as she begins to receive her sight. It was an amazing shot as the service was video taped by the young student. It wasnt until that student went home when he found out he captured more than just a healing service. As the young man was rolling his camera, he caught the image of Christ standing in the back ground. The image appeared in a white robe and was ten feet in size. No one saw it until they went back home.
In 1989 Pastor Sam Luke of the Oak Park Church of God decided to show the video at a Sunday morning service. A video screen was placed in the middle of the sanctuary and no one was told what was going to be shown but at the moment the image appeared on the screen, people in the congregation became very silent as the holiness came through the image that was being seen. As the video was returned to the beginning and shown again, a weeping came across the sanctuary and people began to repent at the Oak Park altar that day.
During the week when the miraculous video was shown, strange things began to happen in the church during the showing of the video. At that time I was serving as a History teacher at the Oak Park Christian School. Every Fall at the church several of the elderly people along with the church staff and some of the school faculty would go to the mountains for a vacation time in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. David Tripp and I were asked to stay behind and run the school. The hardness of many of the high school children was apparent. Many of them had lost respect for all authority and it was very difficult to manage them. Oak Park Christian School was a dumping place for all the children who were not wanted in the public school system. In all this, God would show His face. The presence of that video caused a chain reaction of events within the school that would have its mark on those involved.
On a Wednesday of that week a young man named Greg Miller came to me and wanted to see me after school. The math teacher, David Tripp, and I met with him in a small room on the second floor in front of the stairs. He asked that the door be closed because he wanted to talk to me and David Tripp in confidence. Greg said his mother and father were on the verge of a divorce and he wanted us to pray for him. As I began to pray the urgency of his need came before me and I couldnt stop weeping over him. It was at that time when a supernatural presence came into the room. It felt as if we had entered into a realm of Gods invisible glory. Something was in the room with us, we could neither explain nor understand what was happening, but we knew it was the presence of God and His angels. We stopped and were in awe of what was happening -- the power didnt leave the room -- it lingered for a long period of time. Even when we walked out of the room that presence walked with us. With the nearness of God still on us, I took Greg home. In the car the glory of God did not leave, it remained on both of us until we reached our destination on Schillingers Road in West Mobile.
The video called Revival In Romania was causing interaction in the church and the school. This event of prayer that happened with this student is still remembered today. David Tripp, the math teacher who is now at Solid Rock Church of God in Mobile, remembers it to this day as a supernatural experience that could not be explained. The parents of the boy we prayed for never broke up and the young man remembers to this day also the unknown supernatural presence of God that came into a room to save his parents marriage.
The next week after all the students returned to school the principle of the school decided to show the film in front of the entire student body. It was Halloween Eve 1989 when the picture was shown in front of the student body of the school -- the power of God was so stunning upon the students. Most of them came forward at the end of the service to recommit and accept Jesus. One student came to me and said, "If that doesnt make you believe in God, nothing will." He had just been to the front of the church to recommit his life to Jesus Christ. The next morning that student had a wreck on Interstate 10 and died. He found himself in the presence of Jesus the next morning after the film.
To this day all that happened during that particular time period when the video was being shown in front of the church and the school has caused people to think and speculate. It was the supernatural witness of God interacting with the people of the church. The presence of God is a very powerful agent when it enters the church.

