04/09/2019
True to life story.
"Man Spared From Electric Chair"
This is one of the greatest miracle I have ever witnessed. I was preaching in Newark, New Jersey, in 1960. It is so vivid, I remember the time: 9:30. A woman came walking down the center aisle. I knew what that meant. It meant, "I am going to disturb you preacher." She walked down the center aisle and stood right in front of me. I had my Bible in my hand, I was preaching - I was preaching a master piece! She interrupted me. How dare anybody interrupt a man of God?
Actually, I would hope anybody interrupted by someone with faith. Four men stopped Jesus when they tore the roof off and lowered down a man on a cot. They stopped him from preaching. Remember what happened to the man on the cot?
When that woman came down and stopped me, she said, "Brother Schambach, please forgive me. I have never stopped a preacher in my life. But this is an emergency. My son is going to die in the electric chair at ten o' clock"
I said, "Oh, my God!" She knocked the preaching right out of me. I couldn't preach another word.
I had prayed for people dying in hospitals, but I had never prayed anybody who is going to die in the electric chair. This man had been convicted by a jury of his peers He had been found guilty. He was going to die in order to pay for the murder they said he committed - and it was going to happen in thirty minutes. I couldn't preach! I shut the book. I couldn't even pray! I had everybody in that church stand.
People ask me, "Do I need the Holy Ghost? " I don't know about you, but I do. Sometimes I don't know how to pray, I let the Holy Ghost do the praying.
The Holy Ghost began to pray through me. I felt like somebody just put a robe on me. I could feel the anointing. A double portion came on me. I was praying in tongues. I wanted to eavesdrop on what the Holy Ghost was saying. How can you eavesdrop? Pray in English. So I stopped. When you are praying on spirit, your understanding is unfruitful. I didn't know what I was saying. Then all of a sudden, the understanding began to speak and the spirit was unfruitful. I began to pray on English, and what I was saying shocked me.
I will never forget my prayer. I was saying, "Lord, in the name of Jesus, convict the real killer through the Holy Ghost. Make him confess to the crime." Inside, I was kicking myself. I thought, "Shut up, dummy. The man has already been convicted." I was asking God to get hold of the real killer. I didn't know, but the Holy Ghost knew that this woman's son hadn't committed the crime. The Holy Ghost was praying through me and saying, "Get a hold the real killer and make him confess. "
After I finished praying, I looked at the woman and said, "Go home, go to bed - and sleep! Your son will not die in the electric chair!" I could have kicked myself. I thought, Shut up, you dumb preacher! Remember, you have to comeback tomorrow night and preach!
Sometimes the Holy Ghost will say things that are difficult for you to believe. Sometimes when you are preaching, you say things that startle you. But isn't you talking, it is the Holy Ghost.
Are you ready for the outcome of the story?
I returned to my hotel and went to bed. I got up the next morning and went to the diner a block a way. On my way in, I bought the New York Daily News. Glory! Did you ever shout looking at the newspaper? Well, I did. You know what the headlines said? "Man's Life Spared From Electric Chair - Story on page 3." I didn't eat breakfast. Oh, no. I sat down on that curb and tore open the paper to page three. I can tell you what that paper said verbatim. I can tell you the name of the district attorney. His name was Mr. Hogan. The story said, "Last night at 9:40, Mr. Hogan received a phone call from a man." (Remember, it was 9:30 when the woman disturb me. At 9:40, God answered the woman's prayer. Oh, hallelujah!) The man on the other end said, "You are burning the wrong man."
"What do you mean? Who is this? " asked Mr Hogan.
"Never mind who it is. But you have a man scheduled to die in the upper Bronx. You found his body in a second floor apartment, face down with stab wounds."
Mr Hogan said, "How do you know this?"
He said, "I am the one who committed the crime. "
He answered, "I am two blocks from a certain precinct. And I am on my way in to give myself up. "
Mr Hogan stopped the ex*****on. He went to the precinct and interrogated the new suspect until three o' clock in the morning, going over the same question. "Why did you give up yourself up."
Repeatedly the same answer came, "Man, I never had any intentions giving myself up. But when I call you last night something got a hold of me and made me confess."
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