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institute and had stolen the car                          We prayed and thanked Father God
        from the parking lot.                                     for His protection over us, then
                                                                  continued our trip to Florida. Praise
               When she approached my van                         God!
        at a high rate of speed, she said
        the demons told her to kill me. I                           Reverend David Gibbs had
        asked her if she knew what day it                         a radical salvation

        was, and she replied, “no.” I told                        conversion to Jesus Christ
        her it was Resurrection Power                             in November of 1979. After
        Sunday and began to share Christ                          experiencing the changes
        with her and led her to Jesus.                            God’s saving power can
                                                                  make in a person’s life, he
                                                                  served as the Director of
               Suddenly there was a state                         Jesus Today Outreach, an
        trooper knocking on the window, I                         evangelism street ministry
        opened the door and told him what                         during the 1980’s in Peoria Illinois and the Tri-
                                                                  County area. During that time, Gibbs was a
        had just happened, adding that I                          featured speaker at many Full Gospel
        had just cast evil spirits out of her                     Businessmen’s meetings throughout the
        and prayed with her to receive                            Midwest region and hosted a live radio
        Jesus as her Lord and Savior.                             program on WVEL radio station. He then
                                                                  traveled throughout the United States as an
        (Remember, after all it was                               evangelist, seeing people saved, healed, and
        Resurrection Day). He told me to                          delivered by the power of the Holy Spirit. He
        go ahead and continue. This                               also served as an Associate Pastor in
        woman got delivered, set free and                         Springfield, Illinois, a time which saw a
        saved by the power of the Holy                            powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit. He then
                                                                  pastored Word of Faith Church in Morton and
        Spirit.                                                   Pekin and hosted a weekly television program
                                                                  on the Central Illinois cable television network.
        I spoke with the state police officer
        and he told me that he was a born
        again, spirit-filled Christian and I
        asked him to follow through with
        this woman, which he assured me
        he would do. He then handcuffed
        her and put her in his patrol car.

               We walked back to my van to
        examine the damage and complete
        the police report, but we did not
        find one scratch even though it
        was hit twice by a driver traveling
        at a high rate of speed. Let me
        repeat, there was no damage to
        my vehicle nor any injuries at all!
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