The Life Story of the Prophet Paul Cain [Written About 1989
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The Life Story Of The Prophet Paul Cain did not enjoy the same things they enjoyed. His favorite pastime was [written about 1989] to read his New Testament and take long walks through the cotton ============================================= fields, communing with Jesus. When Anna Cain, Paul Cain’s mother, was about 44 years old, “At a very young age I was conscious that God had His hand she had four major terminal diseases and was sent home by her doctors upon me,” Paul said. “I was a strange child, lonely and misunderstood to die. Also, she was pregnant. Four diseases: 1. Cancer had eaten by everyone but my mother. The other kids nicknamed me ‘droopy away both of her breasts, 2. tuberculosis was destroying both of her eyes’ because my eyes were usually downcast. I was very shy. Even lungs, 3. she suffered from a terminal heart disease and 4. there were then I was conscious of the presence of Jesus and His divine guidance three large malignant tumors in her womb which would prevent a in many of my actions. As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a normal delivery of her baby. Her doctor, who was a renowned cancer preacher.” It was shortly after Paul’s salvation at the age of eight that researcher, took a special interest in Anna. After extensive tests, he told the Angel of the Lord first visited him. Paul and his sister Mildred, 14, her she would not live long enough for the baby to be born. were nearly asleep one night after an unusually powerful meeting at At home Anna, bedfast and near death, wasted away to skin and their church when the presence of God suddenly filled the room. The bones until one midnight hour she was in prayer. As she prayed, a dark Lord appeared to both Paul and Mildred. He called Paul’s name twice, curtain of death began to settle over her. At the same time, a light and began to tell him of his unique calling. Paul was scared to death began to appear in the darkness and the Angel of the Lord appeared at and pulled the covers over his head. The Angel of the Lord said to her bedside. She immediately discerned that his visitation was not a Paul, “I want you to preach my gospel as did Paul the Apostle of old. vision but a literal angelic appearance. The angel put His hand on her Open your mouth and I will fill it. You will preach the gospel by shoulder and said, “Daughter, be of good cheer, be not afraid, you shall binding the sickness and the infirmities of God’s people.” live and not die, the fruit of your womb shall be a male child. Name Soon after the Angel’s visit, Paul found he had an insatiable him Paul. He shall preach My gospel as did Apostle Paul of Old.” hunger to preach. Since he had no congregation, he went down to the Anna was completely healed. The Lord gave her a new pair of railroad tracks where they were repairing the railroad, picked up lungs, restored her breasts and cured her heart disease and tumors. discarded spikes and set them in rows in his backyard. He practiced When the cancer specialists re-examined her, they said it was the first preaching to them with his little New Testament. Every time he wanted time they had ever witnessed tissue being recreated and pronounced a larger crowd he gathered more spikes. One day, as Paul was trying her a miracle woman. to preach he wept and said, “Lord, one day I’m going to be a real This was 1929 in Garland, Texas. Paul Cain was born in the preacher and these are going to be real people and they’ll say real normal cycle of life and was nursed on those breasts which were nearly amens!” destroyed just weeks prior to his birth. Not only did Anna “live and not Paul and his sister Mildred soon began to invite friends and die” as the Angel of the Lord had said, she is still alive and is now 104 family to their home for services. A friend had built a little church from years old. [This story was written before Anna died. She died 60 years scrap lumber in Paul’s backyard. They took turns reading from the after her doctors said she would.] Bible and praying and Paul would preach. Mildred recalled the Holy At the time Paul Cain was born [1929], Garland, Texas was a Spirit becoming very real during these times, as they sang around the small farming community about 20 miles from downtown Dallas. It piano and played musical instruments in praise of God. She said there was surrounded by cotton fields and patches of scrub oak, birch and were many glorious times for the young people of their neighborhood, elm trees. As a child, Paul was misunderstood by other children because he -2- and Paul became a truly anointed speaker. him to celibacy through that visitation. He began to pray to the Lord, “Those were wonderful days full of boyhood experiences.” Paul “Then you don’t want me to get married?” said. “In my imagination I saw my little group of kids as The Full “I walked alone,” the Lord said, “and so must you, if you want to Gospel Children’s Church of Garland, Texas. It was glorious. I thought realize my highest purposes for your life.” Paul accepted his call to I had a big crowd if 10 or 12 kids showed up. Those were happy days. celibacy although at the time he had no real conception of just how We sang, praised God and had a precious time in the Lord.” jealous the Lord would prove to be over his life and just how lonely In 1947, at the age of 18, Paul began to hold citywide salvation the road would be. and healing campaigns in tents, civic auditoriums and churches. He During the great healing revival, Paul’s ministry reached became one of many prominent preachers in a move of the Spirit international proportions. In 1954, his manager purchased the world’s known as the “Healing Revival” which lasted from 1947 to 1958. The largest gospel tent from Jack Coe, and Paul toured the country, filling Voice of Healing magazine, published by Gordon Lindsey (now called it with thousands of people wherever he went. The tent held 12,000 Christ for the Nations), chronicled the events of that revival. Paul was people. one of the men who highlighted its pages. He was the youngest of In 1952 Paul began to film his miracle services and air them more than one hundred men who appeared seemingly all at once from weekly on secular television stations. In 1954 he produced a motion nowhere with great anointing for healing and miracles. Dramatic picture called The Beginning of the End. The movie had a tremendous salvations and healings were the norm for those days. Paul walked in effect on audiences in the United States and was used to initiate more tremendous intimacy with Jesus and often experienced dreams, visions than 150 churches in South America. and the appearance of Angels before and during his meetings. In 1957, the late William Branham had an angelic visitation and It was one such experience that brought Paul’s father to Christ was told not to go to a series of large meetings already planned in during the early days of his ministry. William Henry Cain was a typical Europe, but to send Paul instead. As a result, Paul ministered in hardworking man who grew up on a farm. After moving to Garland, Switzerland. He also held a meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany that was Texas, he worked for the railroad until starting his own landscaping sponsored by the State Church. These meetings were attended by more business. He was a loved and respected member of the community and than 30,000 people each night for one week. At least 1,000 people a faithful member of the Methodist church. Even though he never fully came from the Russian zone in East Germany each night. The secular surrendered his life to the Lord, he thoroughly believed in his wife’s newspaper report claimed total attendance for the week had been healing at the time of Paul’s birth. When Paul was about 21, William 180,000 people. At one service more than 1,500 people received Cain attended one of his son’s healing meetings. At that meeting the Christ. There were many miracles of healing as the Lord confirmed His father saw two tall Angels standing beside Paul as he preached. He word with signs and wonders. went to the altar and gave his heart to Christ. Less than two years later During the height of his public ministry, the Lord began to deal he died and went to be with the Lord. He was 56 years old when Paul with Paul about the excesses of the healing-revival movement. was born, and died at the age of 78. In 1957, the Lord spoke to him about changing the public format of When Paul was in his early twenties, the Angel of the Lord his ministry. The Lord began to deal with Paul about laying his huge appeared to him in Santa Maria, California. “The Lord is jealous for ministry down. It had become a religious machine that the Apostle you and for your companions,” the Angel told Paul. “You were created Paul of Old would never have been a part of.