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Table of Contents Foreword: Mike Bickle Foreword: Lou Engle Prologue: Staying Small…Believing Big True humility is the key to staying small in our walk with God. Further, staying small in our own eyes is essential to experiencing God's manifest presence. We may think big in Jesus when it comes to our faith-expectations of what He can do, but we must stay small in Jesus if we are to see these faith-expectations become a reality. Part One: The Green Bomb 1 Pardon Me, God Dick Eastman learns to cherish and remember his experience in the closet of Room 308; not only for the promise of a perfect mate, but for that of a coming ministry, one which would find its focal point in prayer. 2 April Tears Through April tears, God teaches Dick and Dee Eastman His ability to provide—a lesson that took seven years to comprehend fully. 3 Seeing the Invisible God, indeed, knows everything! He teaches the author many new lessons about the uniqueness of prayer. But perhaps the greatest lesson of all is that prayer is the great problem solver because prayer touches God, and God can solve any problem. 4 The Whip Prayer indeed initiates the plans of God, then sustains those plans in the developing stages; and finally brings about the ultimate purpose God has intended for those plans. Prayer starts it, sustains it, and finalizes it. Billy Graham was right—pray, pray, pray! Part Two: The Baker Hotel 5 The Price When the author prays for God to use him to start a revival, God uses a physical ailment to teach Dick the importance of paying the price, for "Revival will cost you something." 6 Remember Benny These words from a mentally challenged young man became a turning point in Dick's ministry: "I know I'm not normal. I'm not like all of you. I was born different. I love you all very much. It's true that I can't get a job like other boys my age. I can't even go to a real school like all of you. At my school we just make baskets. But I can love you." Wiping away tears Benny added, "And I can pray for you. Just remember; if you get discouraged Benny is praying for you. It's not much, but it's all I can do. I'll be praying. Anybody can pray." Dick says, "I had been humbled by the humility of someone who was radiating the humility of Christ." 7 The Care Bucket An imaginary "care bucket," into which we drop our cares and then hold them up for God to take, ministers to an accountant and proves God's Word: "Cast your cares upon him for he will not suffer the righteous to be moved." Part Three: The Prayer Corps 8 This Is the Year One pivotal year brings total healing to Dick for his throat condition, brings the spread of the prayer emphasis movement, sees the release of a first book, and brings the news of revival fires burning everywhere. The year was 1971—exactly seven years after God had promised Dick that his ministry would be birthed in seven years. 9 Tabletop Travail A supernatural experience of deep "tabletop travail" at a YMCA camp leads to incredible victories and blessings in the months and years that followed. 10 We Start Fires An earlier vision of a godly fire house in each community to start fires of revival is fulfilled as the Prayer Corps officially begins. 11 Call the World to Prayer The prayer corps progresses and develops. Our mistakes were many, but we had to correct them and go on. Quitting was out of the question no matter how great the obstacles. It was all part of the new lesson, that of persistence and determination. Part Four: The Purple Pig 12 The Minneapolis Miracle An unusual wind of conviction settles on hundreds of students in Minneapolis and students emptied their wallets, giving everything they had. It was truly a miracle, a miracle of commitment such as I had never witnessed. Thousands of dollars were given during the next thirty minutes. Dollars, however, were not the only things sacrificed that night.
