(My dear young
friends, recently I read about the life of Frances Hunter and I was amazed to know
how God transformed her life and has done mighty things through her ministry. Here is a short write-up
of her story. If you want to read more about her life you can refer GOD’S
GENERALS: THE HEALING EVANGELISTS)
Frances Hunter did God’s work along with her husband Charles
Hunter. She and Charles had been marked by God for His amazing purposes. God
used the Hunters to transform the course of the healing ministry, making people
realize that ordinary believers can be used to heal the sick.
Frances Eileen Fuller entered into the world on May
8, 1916 as two pound baby girl. Her mother had gone into labor two months
early. The midwife found that there was no hope for the tiny baby girl and so
she had laid her little body in the shoe box to be buried later. But from that
first breath of life, Frances was destined to do far beyond the possible.
Frances had a difficult childhood in Chicago as her
mother was stricken with tuberculosis.
Fred fuller, the father of Frances made her life exciting to live. At
her young age, Frances met a handsome young guy named Larry and began to love
him a lot. After several months they both got married and soon she gave birth
to baby boy in the year 1945. Frances was so happy about her life and she never
knew that very soon she will be facing a great tragedy.
In the late 1940s Larry was diagnosed with brain
cancer and he died after battling with it for two long years. Frances became a
widow at the age of thirty three and widowhood became another challenge for her
to overcome. To overcome the pain of losing her loving husband she began to
attend social parties to have few drinks and to be with friends.
Soon she met a successful builder named Walter
Gardner. He proposed his love for Frances and her son. Swept off her feet by
his sweet talk he married him which turned disastrous as she discovered that he
was an abusive alcoholic. He had deceived her and so after five years of
suffering abuse, Frances divorced Walter. But yet she got a greatest gift of
her life through this marriage, Joan her daughter who became the source of
blessing to Frances throughout her life.
Later in the upcoming years she became a wild sinner.
For ten years she smoked five packs of cigarettes a day, drank martinis every
night. Yet a young pastor patiently showed her the love of Christ talking with
her every week for four years but Frances never made a move towards Christ.
Even though she never moved closer to God, He decided to move towards her.
Soon Frances met with an accident and three months
later she found that she had lost sight in her left eye. The fear of surgery
overwhelmed her and she cried out to God for His help.
Frances experienced a miracle as she lay in the
hospital bed the night before the surgery. She had been reading a verse from
Psalm 23 to the nurses, trying to appear spiritual. After they left, she turned
back to the Psalm to finish reading and discovered that the two pages were
completely blank-wiped clean. Suddenly she saw a hand write the words “Frances,
I love you” in red across the blank pages. Overwhelmed by God’s love for her,
she surrendered her life to God that night and she promised God that the rest
of her life she will serve Him.
Later in the year 1966 she walked down to the altar
of a church committing her entire life for God and she was born again at the
age of forty-nine. She told God on that day, “God, I will make a deal with You.
I will give You all of me…in exchange for all of You.”
She was committed to her deal and God honored her
deal. God begun to use her and He had send Charles Hunter into her life and in
the year 1970 they both got married. As a family they began to do God’s
ministry healing several people through God’s power. Several people including deaf,
crippled experienced God’s healing power through their ministry.
In the year 2009, Frances Hunter died at the age of
93. By the time of her death it was found that nearly 200 million peoples were
blessed through their ministry. Over and over in their ministry they declared
like this: “God said it, we believe it and that settles it.”
My dear young friend, If God can touch the life of a
woman at the age of 49 and make her as a source of blessing to 200 millions of
people by the end of her life, how much God can do with your life. The only
thing you have to do is to commit your life to Christ and trust Him. He will
not let you fail. You might be a wild sinner today but God can transform you as
a great Servant of Him in the coming years. He is all powerful God and He will
surely transform your life. Just surrender your life to God and you will see
His glory penetrating into your life. Surely God will use you for His glory and
you will glorify His name all through your life.
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