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I was born to two wonderful parents in Tuscaloosa, AL. At the time I had one older brother and later two sisters. When I look back at my life I can truly say I was blessed. Blessed is not always in things you can hold in your hand, put on your body or spend at the store. I was blessed with love, peace, security, and a family that truly loved me. God has truly been good to me. I can not remember a time in my life when I did not sense or was not aware of a divine presence. I can't remember ever not praying or talking to God even at a very young age. My family was not Christian until years later so I can only give God credit for his love that constantly sheltered me.
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I attended a local church, located blocks from our house; and I walked there weekly usually alone. Something drew me to the house of God early on. I remember a fiery evangelist visited our church for two weeks. After that, I was never the same. I walked down the long church aisle one day and surrendered my life to this one who had always been near me. I continued to faithfully attend church until I graduated from high school; and shortly there after I married my husband, Billy. I was working a full-time job and so was he; church began to sort of fade into the background. We attended church, but not faithfully until one night at a revival, Billy was saved. We then began to press into church and took an active part of serving in several positions.

After eight years of marriage we had our first child, a daughter. We named her Sarah; and twenty months later, came our son Joshua. I gave up work entirely to raise my two children and I was happy to do so. After about five years we were really going through the difficulties of life and it seemed that serving God had become a chore instead of a joy. Our little girl had become ill with a thyroid disorder and we were worried sick about her condition. That is when I began to feel like there is something I am missing. What could it be? I loved God; I had two wonderful children. We were active in all aspects of our church, but I felt empty and depressed. Life had become a daily drudgery to me. No longer did I enjoy serving God and my problems began to be bigger to me than He was. One night we sat at the table finishing up our dinner and I felt like I was at the end of something. Church had become drudgery. The children were getting on my nerves. We never seemed to have enough money to do anything except get by. I told Billy something had to change. I remember saying to him that if I was missing something, if there was something that I did not have or know about, I was ready to have it.

I got up to clean the dishes and as I stood at the sink I lifted up my hands and said, "God, if there is something I don’t know or something I have not done, please show me what it is." Suddenly at the kitchen sink something fell on me and filled me up with a joy and excitement I had never known in my life. I sang, I shouted, I told Billy and the children, "Something has happened to me." I began to hear strange words and experienced communion with the Lord like I had never known. I went to a Christian couple, my Sunday school teachers, and asked them, "what has happened to me?" They told me that I had been baptized with the Holy Ghost. I was so excited that I told my husband, "You must hear this." He immediately received it also. It revolutionized my Christian life. Jesus became as real to me as those around me. Suddenly the Bible took on a new meaning. I starved for it daily. I would not get enough. I studied, I prayed, I fasted, and I couldn’t get enough. After a few months the Lord led us to a Spirit filled church where we began to grow in his word. After a while, the Lord began to use me to teach in the church and lead Bible studies. One day He spoke to me to start a radio ministry. I did that and He blessed it. After a couple of years on radio, I felt led to go off radio for a few weeks in order to fast and pray.

Down the road from our house was a pine thicket, and everyday I went there after the children went to school. I studied there many times before, and sought God with fasting and prayer and tears. I went there this time to seek His face concerning ministry. I knew I was called, but what to do I was not sure. While I was there, He spoke to me and told me "Go home Sarah, get your anointing oil, bathe your hands with it and dedicate them to me." I ran, I got the oil, I bathed my hands and down in the pine thicket I raised them up toward heaven and dedicated them to serve God. He said to me in words as clear as if someone spoke to me standing by, "Lay your hands on the sick and cast out devils. It is my will to heal them and I will deliver them." I went back on radio and waited on God.

 We were now attending Double Portion Church and the Lord  spoke to the Pastor to open the door for me to have miracle services. I have been doing that now for seventeen years, and the Lord has confirmed His word with signs following. He has healed the sick and delivered those bound by the devil. We have had hundreds and thousands come in the church and receive their blessings. God is faithful to perform that which He has spoken.

I have worked at the Double Portion Church as an evangelist for 20 years.  We have seen the Lord move in a mighty way, delivering the sick, the oppressed and uplifting His people.  The Lord has now enlarged my borders, and moved me into an international ministry where I can be an instrument to His glory to the whole wide world.

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