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Thursday, September 6, 2007
The mystery and the enigmatic personality of Tammy Faye will be seen and pondered no more for now. Tammy Faye died the day after her last interview with CNNs Larry King. She died early Friday morning of in-operable lung cancer at age 65.
Although her life was always controversial hardly any American would dare not to say that she kept her faith in Christ through it all. It is that fact that does more to encourage people than all the negative ramifications of all that has gone on in her early days of evangelistic work.
She is survived by her husband Roe Messner and two children Jay Bakker and Tammy Sue. She fought her cancer for several years and when asked by Larry King “how much time the doctor had given her to live” she replied with “I don’t want to know.” Few would have thought that she had as little as one day left.
Cracking a smile and speaking positively in almost every answer she gave Larry King made it impossible to see that nothing in her spirit was sick at all. She answered with wit and full cognizance every question King asked and with a cheeriness that once again makes her a profoundly an American enigma.
King received a over 200,000 e-mails after the interview with Tammy many who were deeply concerned for her and wanted to assure her that their prayers were still being offered up for her. Her own website went down shortly after her passing. It is not known why but they too may have been inundated with responses following the Larry King interview.
Tammy Faye and her former husband Jim Bakker will be remembered for their meteoric rise to the top of the televangelist list of who’s who. Both Jim and Tammy went on to engage in new ministry and both seemed to not just recover but flourish in a less public but far deeper way.
Husband Roe Messner has been helping to build churches for over four decades. Roe was both a writer and a building contractor. He co-authored “Building for the Master: By Design.” Tammy was quick to say that her greatest source of close support during her illness came from Roe.
Both Jim and Tammy have been publicly criticized and denigrated since the events following the fall of the PTL Ministries during the 1980s but they have both continued in labor for the Lord.
Tammy’s persistence in her faith and refusal to curl up and fade away is a strong testimony to the Lords power not just to save but to restore. She picked herself up after the problems with PTL and dusted herself off and defied the naysayer’s by using the same grace she first found in her salvation.
It is in that revival of purpose and clear showing of the restorative grace of God that Tammy Faye approached her last hours of life. The critics notwithstanding her testimony will encourage millions who could no more forget Tammy than their own Sister or Mother.
We will miss her but we are assured that the same Savior that called her into the Kingdom is able to carry her home safely in his love. For those of us who trust the words of Christ we know she is only lost to us for a while because he said, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11: 25, 26
Rev Bresciani is the author of two books. He also is a columnist for several online sites and magazines. His articles are read throughout the world. For more articles and news from around the globe visit "The Website for Insight" http://www.americanprophet.org
Go Ahead and Laugh...
Go ahead and laugh that we cling to our religious faith and proudly display religious items throughout our home.
Go ahead and laugh when you say that we don't seem to live in the 'real' world because things aren't done that way anymore.
Go ahead and laugh as you say, yes it's good to be religious but my family seems fanatical and alittle weird.
Go ahead and laugh as you say just how uncomfortable you are around us because you fear that you might slip up and cuss.
Go ahead and laugh at how strange it is that my wife and I would rather spend time together,instead of with others.
Go ahead and laugh as you declare just how 'lucky' we must have been to make it through the tough times and to avoid divorce.
Go ahead and laugh as you say how easy it is to loath my children because they always seem to do just the 'right thing'.
Go ahead and laugh that my children appear to be happy and they have happy friends-no gloom and doom or dark clouds overhead.
Go ahead and laugh when our children dress up not as demons but rather as Biblical characters for halloween.
Go ahead and laugh at the fact that we have a sacred area of our home that we call our prayer closet.
Go ahead and laugh as you come up with excuses for not having family devotions and prayers together every night.
Go ahead and laugh and say just how silly we look while dinning out, because we pause to say grace aloud and together.
Go ahead and laugh because we strive to have a sit-down, around the table, family meal at least four nights a week.
Go ahead and laugh because we believe that 'our way' provides the very comfort and security that children need and want.
Go ahead and laugh because we claim to have discovered the true secret to happiness,and it's called being a Christian.
Go ahead and laugh because being a Christian isn't about what we do or don't do but rather about what Jesus has done for us.
Go ahead and laugh we will still pray that you will want to join in with us someday soon.
Go ahead and laugh for we will worship the Lord our God; because in Him we have all and are in need of nothing.
Go ahead and laugh and say that you think that 'all this' is okay for my family, but it wouldn't work for your family.
Go ahead and laugh it's okay because we believe that someday soon you will wish for your family to be as ours.
Go ahead and laugh my friend, for laughter is all you may have.
Go Ahead and Laugh...
Go ahead and laugh that we cling to our religious faith and proudly display religious items throughout our home.
Go ahead and laugh when you say that we don't seem to live in the 'real' world because things aren't done that way anymore.
Go ahead and laugh as you say, yes it's good to be religious but my family seems fanatical and alittle weird.
Go ahead and laugh as you say just how uncomfortable you are around us because you fear that you might slip up and cuss.
Go ahead and laugh at how strange it is that my wife and I would rather spend time together,instead of with others.
Go ahead and laugh as you declare just how 'lucky' we must have been to make it through the tough times and to avoid divorce.
Go ahead and laugh as you say how easy it is to loath my children because they always seem to do just the 'right thing'.
Go ahead and laugh that my children appear to be happy and they have happy friends-no gloom and doom or dark clouds overhead.
Go ahead and laugh when our children dress up not as demons but rather as Biblical characters for halloween.
Go ahead and laugh at the fact that we have a sacred area of our home that we call our prayer closet.
Go ahead and laugh as you come up with excuses for not having family devotions and prayers together every night.
Go ahead and laugh and say just how silly we look while dinning out, because we pause to say grace aloud and together.
Go ahead and laugh because we strive to have a sit-down, around the table, family meal at least four nights a week.
Go ahead and laugh because we believe that 'our way' provides the very comfort and security that children need and want.
Go ahead and laugh because we claim to have discovered the true secret to happiness,and it's called being a Christian.
Go ahead and laugh because being a Christian isn't about what we do or don't do but rather about what Jesus has done for us.
Go ahead and laugh we will still pray that you will want to join in with us someday soon.
Go ahead and laugh for we will worship the Lord our God; because in Him we have all and are in need of nothing.
Go ahead and laugh and say that you think that 'all this' is okay for my family, but it wouldn't work for your family.
Go ahead and laugh it's okay because we believe that someday soon you will wish for your family to be as ours.
Go ahead and laugh my friend, for laughter is all you may have.
Theresa Twogood is Executive Director of OLIN e-Publishing Company- http://olin.tk -Denver Colorado-USA. Visit OLIN'S e-bookstore at http://olinepublishing.com/ebookstore_index.html .
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