Leaking Bible presentation coming to Seymour on Sunday

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While shopping at Walmart one day, a man talking to Tom Allman pulled out a cellphone and showed him a video about a leaking Bible.

Two years ago, Jerry Pearce of Dalton, Georgia, discovered oil on his Bible and was called to share the story with others.

Ever since then, people have met weekly on Mondays to fill vials of the oil to hand out for free to anyone who wants it, either at a Christian bookstore in Dalton or places Pearce visits around the country.

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After Allman walked away from that man in Walmart, he said a voice kept telling him to go to Dalton. He wasn’t sure if he had time to go there because he was busy planning gun shows.

“I said, ‘All right. Just as soon as I get the gun shows done, you’re going,’” Allman said.

He said God then told him to take someone with him. That wound up being Gary Dyer, outreach pastor at Seymour Harvest Church.

When they arrived in Dalton last fall, they found a parking space right in front of the bookstore and went inside.

“We walked in the front door, and he had you right then,” Allman said. “The spirit of the Lord was so strong in that bookstore, it’s just unbelievable.”

Dyer said a woman had a knot and redness on her face, and when she applied some of the oil, it went away.

“It’s God that does the healing,” Dyer said.

Dyer also was impacted by God that day. Allman said although he had been working for God, Dyer was burdened and the devil had him in a chain.

“This lady prayed for Gary, and all of his chains just fell off of him,” Allman said. “She just said, ‘Your chains are gone,’ and he could just feel all of that weight fall off of him right then and there and turned him loose. We were walking high for three weeks when we came out of that place. It was just like getting filled with the Holy Ghost. You’re just walking higher than a kite.”

Allman and Dyer were so moved that they wanted people in Seymour to experience it, too.

On Sunday, Pearce and Pastor Johnny Taylor will visit Seymour Harvest Church at 10 a.m. and Cornerstone Community Church at 6 p.m. as part of this month’s Unity Celebration. The celebration is conducted every third Sunday of the month and involves 10 local churches of different denominations.

Pearce will share the story about the leaking Bible, and Taylor will preach about the healing oil and lead a prayer and healing service.

There also will be a walkthrough from 4 to 6 p.m. at Cornerstone for people to see the leaking Bible and pick up a vial of oil.

With people reaching out to attend from as far away as Indianapolis and Louisville, Allman is expecting they will need at least 1,300 vials.

On Jan. 27, 2017, after visiting with his granddaughter and great-granddaughter, Pearce picked up his Bible to read. He had been reading in Psalms all week. His Bible fell open to Psalm 39, and he noticed a wet spot on the page that had soaked through to Psalm 63.

He thought his great-granddaughter had spilled something on the bible, but his wife told him she had not had anything to drink.

Later that day, he and his wife took the Bible to Taylor’s home. They all agreed it was oil.

Over the next couple of weeks, the oil moved through the Bible from Psalm 39 to the book of Revelation and into the back of the Bible on the maps and concordance. The oil stopped, and then appeared at the front of the Bible in Genesis 1.

It continued to move through the Old Testament to where it started in Psalm 39. It then began to saturate the whole Bible.

Pearce placed the Bible in a gallon-size Ziploc bag. When the oil began to fill the bag, he put it in a plastic container. The oil began to flow even more, filling that container.

The Bible is now in its fourth container. As the container fills up, Pearce takes the oil and puts it in containers until he can get people together to fill vials.

“We believe the Lord has instructed us to not advertise, to not market the oil, to not knock on doors and to not try to convince people what it is,” according to hisnameisflowingoil.org. “His word to us was to give the oil away so he can replenish it. He instructed us to share the story, share his word, give the oil away and the miracles will happen outside the building.”

Pearce said miracles have happened.

“His word was, ‘The church is leaving the building,’” he said. “The oil has gone all over the world. We have given away over 150,000 vials. We receive testimonies every day of the miracles God is performing in the marketplace, in the hospitals, in the workplace, in the streets, in almost every country of the world.”

Dyer said it’s amazing how the oil has not smeared the words in Pearce’s Bible. Allman said the oil looks shiny on skin but is not greasy and does not have an odor.

“I don’t preach oil,” Allman said. “I preach what happened down there (in Dalton), and what you need to do is come see this so that you can get your faith built up that there are miracles on the last day and God is alive. This is what all of this is about — let people understand that God is alive, this is a miracle on the last day and come see it. That’s going to build your faith up. That’s going to give you more hope for the future.”

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What: Leaking Bible presentations as part of this month’s Unity Celebration

When: 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday

Where: Seymour Harvest Church, 414 N. Chestnut St., Seymour, in the morning and Cornerstone Community Church, 1088 Sarasota Drive, Seymour, in the evening; there also will be a walkthrough from 4 to 6 p.m. at Cornerstone for people to see the leaking Bible and pick up a vial of oil

Who: The public is invited to attend to hear Jerry Pearce share the story about the leaking Bible, and Pastor Johnny Taylor will preach about the healing oil and lead a prayer and healing service

Information: hisnameisflowingoil.org

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