Paul Strand, senior Washington D.C. correspondent for CBN and 700 Club, wrote to Eddie Hyatt:

Eddie – good news: one of the stories I interviewed you for … is … going to air. It’s the one I call “Thanksgiving Prequel,” and it’ll be on the Wednesday [Nov 21, 2018] 700 Club and also on cbnnews.com.

Check your local listings for air times or visit CBNNews.

I have a friend named Jack who is wheelchair bound. He broke his neck in a motorcycle accident twelve years ago, and will never walk or work again. I know a woman whose seven year old daughter was run over by a drunk driver. That little seven year old girl is now in her early thirties, and has been unable to function in any sense of that word for almost a quarter of a century. I know a chap who is dying with Aids and a man who has lost his leg to diabetes and others.

I am in regular touch with an inmate at one of our correctional facilities. He became a Christian in prison several years ago; his wife and children need him at home, and he wants to be the man that God wants him to be, but his last petition for parole was turned down. I know a hundred and more other folks who lived through similar tales of hurt, abuse, neglect, sickness, disappointment, betrayal, violation and every type of wound or horror that one can suffer.

If I had time to tell you the experiences of these several hundred, you would find that a common thread, a crimson thread, runs through all their stories. That thread is that they all cried out to God, seeking an answer to the question, “Why me?” and asking for relief from what they faced. A few can tell of instant miraculous deliverance from their dilemmas, but the great majority will tell us that God turned their tragedy into triumph as day followed day.

Scripture tells us to give thanks in all circumstances of our lives; that we are to rejoice in all things for they are the will of God for your life. Does that mean that God wills we experience tragedy and overwhelming losses? No, that is not what is intended here. God so loves us each of us that he allows us to choose our paths through life, to do what we want, and to pass on how our choices affect others. God’s will for each of us is what we will or want to do, and at times, the affect of time and chance, deserved or not, through which we all travel.

Jim Dettmann in June 2005.

As the president of the Pneuma Foundation, I would just like to express my gratitude to those of you, our members and friends, that have given so graciously to the ministry of the Pneuma Foundation. Without the gifts of equipment and financial support, this ministry would not be able to continue. With these gifts and the talented people who have given of their time and energy, the Pneuma Foundation has been able to produce some excellent materials in its short lifetime.

Again and again we receive notes from people saying how much this ministry is needed. Almost daily we receive encouragement that the vision of seeing balanced, Biblical teaching on the gifts of the Spirit and other doctrine from a Pentecostal/charismatic perspective is worthwhile and needed. Join with me in giving thanks and praise to God for being able to be a part of what He is doing in the earth today.

In this month of Thanksgiving, it is most appropriate to offer thanks to God for all the blessings we have. Let us press in to know Him even more.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful (Colossians 3:15 NKJV)

James M. Dettmann
President, Pneuma Foundation