He Heard My Cry and He Came Down: This Is My Story

By Betty Kruckeberg

God spared my family of eight members many times. There were two tornadoes, a flood, a power takeoff shaft, two cases of internal bleeding, two fires, a rare disease, terminal cancer, car accidents, and many things that drove me to my knees. God allowed all these trials to bring brokenness that I might become a Christian. I wanted change that I might walk in Gods ways. God really spoke through his Word. He allowed many trials to change me. God took me through so much scripture. There is great power in his Word. He will show you through his Word what he wants to change. He wants obedience. He has taken me through many trials until I went around Jericho without a word. You cant grumble or complain. If you complain, youre telling God he cant do it.

I love to tell the story of what God does for me. I love to walk with him. He wants us to be an encourager to people and to show forth his love. Share the Word with them. There are hurting people everywhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781489716026

Betty Kruckeberg

She has shared in her story Gods protection from childhood up until now. God watched over her. She grew up involved in all church services. She loved Youth Group, Camp; she had many miracles in her life. Her family was in several. She was told she was terminal, had cancer, a rare disease and two weeks to live 12-13 years ago, but God gave her the best medical help. Her goal was to publish this book. He Heard My Cry and He Came Down. Have faith in God. All things are possible with God.

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Contents

This Is My Story

Thank You God

Doctors And Nurses

Thank You To All Workers

Thank You To All My Family

Thank You To Pastors

Part One Tell His Story

Part Two Write It In A Book Isaiah 30:8

1 Go Write It In A Book

Part Three Families

1 My Parents And Their Family

2 My Mothers Family

3 My Fathers Family

Part Four We Move To A Farm

1 On Our Way Parents And Seven Children

2 A New Country School

3 Suddenly It Happened God Protected Family Of Eight

4 Farm Floods Overnight Protection Again Family Of Eight

Part Five Never Give Up We Move Again To Dry Ground With A Barn

1 We Move To A Farm With A Barn

2 A Tractor Ride Up A Snow Covered Road

3 God Brought Us To The Church He Wanted Us At It Was A Great Church They Believed The Bible Taught The Bible Lived The Bible Loved God Loved People God Directed Us To The Church He Chose

4 Country School

5 Pull That Mustard

6 Lost In A Storm

7 Tearing Down And Building Up

8 Our Barn Burned

Part Six Miracles

1 We Had An October Wedding

2 My Prayer At The Rock Is Heaven Real?

3 Miracle A Child Five Years Old Calls Operator For Help Power Take Off Shaft Still Turning

4 I Can Do All Things, Through Christ WhichStrengthens MePhilippians 4:13

5 Sally, The Grand Childrens Pony BrokennessDo We Frustrate God Like That Pony Did Us?

Part Seven Answers To Prayer And Protection

1 Water Spraying On Fuse Box

2 Our Return From Camping

3 Walking With God

4 A Family Member Rescued Out Of Machinery

5 Run Off The Road

6 I Came Over The Hill And Crashed

7 No Brakes

8 A Tornado Hit As We Got In The House

Part Eight I Promise I Will Go Once

1 I Promise I Will Go Once

2 A Message Fire At Home

Part Nine God Supplied My Cars

1 I Called Unto The Lord For Another Car

2 Lord I Really Need A Car

3 God Answered For Three More Cars

Part Ten Gods Protection

1 Choking

2 Choking In The Parking Lot

3 Attacked By A Dog

4 Thou, Oh God Art The Potter, I Am The Clay Mold Me And Make Me After Thy Will

5 A Fall Changed My Life More Time For God

6 Making Signs And Props For Teaching

Part Eleven I Am Terminal But God Says Ye Shall Live And Not Die John 11:4

1 Telling His Story To People In Need

2 I Get A 4-Wheeler

3 Miracles

Part Twelve Answered Prayer Testimony Time

1 The Stranger On The Day Before Christmas

2 A Retired Pastor Prays Because God Led Him To

3 Road Trip

4 A Stormy Sea Ahead

5 Wandering

6 Scripture To Think On Have Faith In God

7 Job

9 I Have A Dream I Won’t Give Up!!!

I Dedicate This Book to ALL

My Family

My Doctors for the past 13 years

Primary Doctor for 20 + years

A Pastor and family

That prayed for my salvation 16 years.

My Pastor and family for 11 years

When growing up

My Pastor and family I have now

The Church and its Leaders

All Pastors and leaders who

Have been in my life

TO GOD

BE THE HONOR

GLORY AND PRAISE

FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO

WRITE THIS BOOK. IT IS NOT ME,

BUT IS THE GOD THAT LIVES IN ME.

I PRAISE HIM FOR ALL HE HAS DONE

I PRAISE HIM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

TO GIVE MY TESTIMONY TO PEOPLE

EVERYWHERE I GO.

THIS IS MY STORY

Thank You to all who have been a part of my story. There are a great many of you.

This is God’s testimony, of his mighty power and love lived out through us. We are to be a testimony for Him. We need to be praising our savior all the day long. He inhabits His praises. Before I became a Christian he was protecting me. What a mighty God.

Through all the experiences in life he has given me a story to tell. That story is of the miracles and protection for my family and I. Everyone had Gods hand of protection on them.

By writing this I could see the hand of God followed us all through our life. This is really God’s Story. I just get to tell it. The purpose is to give him glory, honor and praise. I count my many blessings. I have received blessings in all areas of my life. He is good. Let his praise be continually in my mouth. He is greatly to be praised.

He is my Rock. He is the rock of my salvation. He is the rock I run to when I need someone to turn to. When trouble arises I turn to the rock. Jesus is the rock in the storms of life. He will rescue you and hide you in the cleft of the rock until the storm passes over. Hope is the anchor of our ship.

Two times I went out to our big rock and cried out to God. It was down near our barn by the trees. I knelt by it and prayed please show me if there is a heaven and if you’re real. Three years later again by that same rock, I cried out to God show me if I am a Christian. He heard my cry. I don’t know why I went to that rock to pray. I just wanted to give up and knelt by it and it seemed like a peaceful place to cry out to God.

THANK YOU GOD

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For all the privileges you have allowed me to have growing up, so many years at Bible Camp, Bible School, Sunday school, Church, and the opportunity to hear many gospel singers at Youth for Christ. I loved it. Billy Graham brought all the good singers to our Youth for Christ every month.

Thank You for the opportunity to meet a pastor at camp who became burdened to pray for my salvation. He prayed until I got saved. When they moved closer they stopped to visit me. I really enjoyed having them stop.

I just want to add that although I was in church all the time. I was not yet a Christian. Every week I had the conviction I was lost and would go to hell if I died. I had those thoughts until I did get saved at age 25. Now I know it was the Holy Spirit doing the work in me each time I heard the Word. After I became a Christian the verses I had learned in bible school were a blessing. They were planted in my memory for help when I needed them.

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I was greatly blessed to hear R. G. L. he sang in Youth for Christ. He walked out on the platform, tipped his hat and the most wonderful voice just rolled out in perfection. I was privileged to be there in the audience. He was a very busy man. He was from Texas. I didn’t get the privilege of hearing him sing again. I was glad I didn’t miss that privilege that I did have.

I have read his book, and listened to him speak; this would have been about the 50s, what a man? He worked hard and really loved the Lord. He built big road equipment. Later, he built a machine to help clear land for the missionaries.

He trained his family in his business so that the work would continue on when he went home to be with his Lord. What a man of God he was. I was greatly impressed with the awful hard work he endured to learn all this. It came with much endurance and dedication. I count it a great blessing to have heard him and read his book He really endured a lot. Live coals hit him as he worked. It must have been hard to endure all he went through. He was a very active man. I loved his singing.

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Then there was Stuart Hamblen, many, many more of utmost blessings. I love the song, It is no secret what God can do. and the story how he wrote it. How God gave him the words at midnight. He wrote The chimes of time rang out the news another day is through, someone slipped and fell, was that someone you? God gave him those words when the clock stroke 12:00 midnight. If you don’t have the music, look it up on the internet and read those words and listen to it sang.

God did not keep it a secret in his word what he could do. He told it all throughout his word. He showed throughout the old and now testaments that he was the God of the impossible.

The words to his songs give you understanding as to his thoughts and his faith in God. Our God has so blessed us with music. He talks to us through words, put to music. It really is No Secret WHAT GOD can do. He does mighty things. There is NOTHING He cannot do. He cannot fail. He can do the impossible. How do I know the Bible tells us so? I have experienced the impossible in my life.

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I attended one of the very last performances, of Rudy Atwood at the piano. It was very special to me. My pastor and his wife took me to it.

Pastor said; let’s go up in the balcony. You will be able to see him play the piano. Watch his fingers on the keys. I sat there drinking in every moment. I used to listen to him play the piano on the radio in the beginning of a program on Sunday afternoons. I was so thrilled to hear the music. This was many years ago,

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To all pastors I have heard preach, I say a big thank you. If I just heard one sermon or more, if you came into my life for a time you were sent by God. Things don’t just happen. As I look back I am thrilled to see how God worked. But saddened because I didn’t know years ago what I know now. I would have loved to serve him more. He is so special to me.

I am thankful for every detail in my life. That is why I mentioned so many in the book that I’m thankful for. Mark 9:41 God sees everything people do for one another. God loves us to be a praising, giving, loving people who do for others. There is a song called Others Lord others, this should my motto be. What words, because they came from God, who inspired them.

There were many people who really served their God by serving others. There were people that helped me many, many times. (Song: Others Words: Charles D. Meigs Music: Elizabeth Shields)

Thank You God for all you have done. You can serve God by telling his story to hurting people. Think about the bible, it is filled with stories. Jesus told so many stories to people of all ages. He wants to share His story through Christians.

If you feel emptiness in your life he can and will fill you to overflowing with joy, peace and his presence. He will reach out to you if you call upon Him. But you must call. He will not push himself on anyone. You must choose to call, and to pray.

I have so many memories constantly, everywhere I go, and everywhere I have been. Memory is a blessed thing. I remember sermons from the church services I have been blessed to hear. I have heard songs that I remember who sang them and where they stood and expressions on their face, from many years ago. They are wonderful memories. I love the words to the songs. They had great messages in them. God is all powerful.

SO I SAY PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS AND GREAT BLESSINGS.

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THANK YOU TO

EVERYONE

FOR ALL YOU

HAVE DONE

DOCTORS AND NURSES

Thank You to the doctor who did the cancer surgery in 2005. The cancer never came back. He moved on to another work. God had placed everyone here for his purpose. His timing is always right for people in our lives.

I asked him how long before I would quit being sick. He said the cancer is not why you’re sick. He was right. A doctor there sent me to another clinic. They started tests right away. They gave me a doctor for cancer who has been my doctor for 12 years. He started treatment and provided help. He was a tremendous blessing. I knew he would do everything he could to help find the answer for me.

I give thanks to all the Doctors I had all these years. Special thanks to the doctors that were on the team that studied the rare disease that I had. There was one that continued to follow through and keep in touch with my progress all those years.

If you had not studied it I would not have known what was wrong with me or what to expect, or what to try next. Thank you for your hard work.

Special thanks to the doctor I have for cancer and he never gave up. He searched till he found help to get the answer. He is a great doctor that gave a lot of effort to help me. He has been my doctor for 12 years. I am still cancer free. If I would have followed his advice I might have been able to have been free from spasms sooner. I went by my thinking instead of listening to my doctor.