A MATTER OF TRUST

I know Maggie Hartner had this matter of relationship and trust in mind at the time of this very personal story I want to share with you. I know you'll understand. Maggie and I were driving through the streets of Pittsburgh late one night after a service. The streets were deserted, and when we came to a stoplight, Maggie turned to me and said, "Do you see that building there on the left? This is where Miss Kuhlman and I lived for so many years in the early days."

It was rather an old apartment building. After a moment's silence, I said to her, "Maggie, tell me what Kathryn was like in those days." As Maggie thought for a moment, the anointing of the Holy Spirit came upon her and it was as though God had stepped into the car. And she said: "Benny, I'm going to tell you something right now . . . and don't ever forget it." Maggie was a powerful person, and she had my full attention. "You have a lot more than she had when she was your age. The power of God that you saw on Kathryn was only on her in the last ten years of her life."

I was stunned. "Maggie, I thought Kathryn always had that anointing." "On no," she said. "In the earlier days she didn't have any anointing on her compared to what she had when she died." Then she looked sharply at me in the dim light. "Do you know why God anointed her the way He did?" I shook my head. "Because He could trust her with it." There were several seconds of silence. And she pointed the forefinger of her right hand directly at my face and said evenly but forcefully: "And if He can trust you"—I felt as though God were talking to me—"if He can only trust you." Her finger held steady in my face for a moment, and everything was stone silent as we drove on through the dark streets. In my hotel that night, I could hardly talk. I was shaken. I spoke as seriously as I ever had in my life: "Lord, please make me an anointed man You can trust." "I promise You the glory, and, dear Jesus, thanks a million." There is no other way. (Benny Hinn)

An all knowing God who knows the beginning and end does not need to be convinced he could trust someone. Something is wrong somewhere