Women's revival with Lotz called success
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___"People were simply keeping appointments with God all throughout the building. I don't know how else to describe it."
___That was the way Janet Denison, local chairperson of the "Just Give Me Jesus" rally held May 5-6 in Fort Worth, described the event.
___Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, was the featured speaker for the women's revival.
___"Those of us who worked for 18 months in preparation knew all along that God had called us to do this," said Denison, wife of Pastor Jim Denison of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. "It was a God-ordained event. We simply provided the event, and people were enabled to keep divine appointments with God."
___Those appointments were countless and varied, Denison said:
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A young university student was sharing with a woman her struggles as a student and the economic pressures involved. Before they prayed, the woman asked what school she attended, to which the student responded Dallas Baptist University. At that point, the woman moved her name tag to show the Dallas Baptist University logo.
___ Another woman who attended the event came through the encouragement of a friend. The woman's husband had been murdered in March, and she was already laying the groundwork for her own suicide out of that grief. She said the weekend had showed her that taking her own life was not the answer.
___ Speaker Kay Arthur spoke of her own life. She said she had for years verbally abused her husband who later committed suicide. She said his death left her with a terrible burden. One of the women in the audience later told Arthur that she and her husband were preparing for a divorce, and she also was verbally abusive to her husband. She told Arthur she was now going home to beg her husband's forgiveness.
___ Another woman shared with the woman next to her that she was to undergo surgery soon, and she was frightened about it and the recovery. The woman she shared with asked for the doctor's name. The doctor named was the father of her daughter's best friend, and she was able to reassure the woman and pray for her.
___ Two of the ushers of the convention center stayed after the meeting was over to find out how they might accept Jesus Christ as Savior.
___"God dealt individually with 11,000 people all at the same time," Denison said. "Only God can do that."
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