During World War II, when my draft number came up, I was teaching soldiers of the U.S. Army 82nd Armored Division how, and in what quantity, to order or requisition and stock spare parts for its vehicular fleet (tanks, half-tracks, trucks, jeeps, command cars, etc.). The commanding general told me that I was needed more as a teacher than as a soldier. Therefore, he would get me deferred from enlistment.

I told the general, "No, I'll be drafted, taking my chances of war like all of the others." Subsequently, because of my academic college background in mathematics, I was placed in the Army Signal Corps, sent to the university in Valparaiso, Indiana where I received a crash-course in electrical engineering in preparation to become a radar mechanic.

At the time for overseas assignments, again I was told that I was needed as a teacher more than a mechanic. Again I said, "No, I prefer the same kind of assignment as the others." This time I was told I had no choice--that I would be a teacher of radar mechanics. So, for four years and six months I was a teacher in the Southern Signal Corps School.

Looking retrospectively at what happened during that time, together with spiritual preparation, leadership and training during my fifty-five years of ministry, I am convinced that divine orchestration has brought me to my present assignment--healing and teaching others to be healers. I am so grateful to be doing His work.

I am also convinced that everyone everywhere need to see the power of God in operation--that people have been preached to and preached at enough--that they need to see the power of God in action by ministers--that we are all ministers and should be able to say with St. Paul, "I have not come to you with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power." (1 Cor. 2:4)

I am convinced also that St. Paul said this because Jesus had previously commissioned all followers to, among other things, heal the sick.

May I admonish you, the reader, to consider the words of Jesus, "These signs shall follow them that believe; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." Now, are you laying hands on the sick and seeing them healed? If Jesus said, "These signs "shall" follow them that believe" and it's not happening in your life, could it be that you are not a believer?