You wouldn’t know it today, but famed evangelist Marilyn Hickey once heard the words no parent wants to hear: “I don’t know if I believe in Jesus anymore.”
Her daughter and now partner in ministry, Sarah Bowling, spoke those words after studying in Germany for a time as a student at Oral Roberts University. Hickey shares the story with Dr. Steve Greene on a popular episode of the Greenelines podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network. Her response in that moment reveals a spiritual key all believers can use today—no matter what situation they face.
After her bombshell statement, Sarah added, “I don’t know if you and Dad are going to love me.”
I’ll never forget thinking, What has happened to you? Hickey says. “And the Lord gave me an answer. If you listen and just tell Him, ‘I’ve got to have an answer,’ He’ll give it. …
“So I said, ‘Sarah, when you were born, you didn’t believe in Jesus,'” Hickey told her. “‘We don’t love you by what you believe in. We love you because you’re ours.’
“And that brought her through,” Hickey recalls. “So I’m just saying: Learn to listen to God and to say what He says.”
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Dr. Steve Greene 
