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Reverend Larry Oneal Walker, a street preacher in Arkansas, forgave the man who shot him during a confrontation while he was sharing the gospel.
Despite being shot, Walker saw it as a miracle and emphasized forgiveness and the power of faith.
“I fell to the ground, checked my side with a handful of blood. The next thing I did was put my hands on my head and started praying,” Walker said.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son.”
“As a Christian, we must forgive one another,” Walker said.
“We can’t hold bitterness and anger and strife in our hearts against one another.”
“I see miracles all the time, all the time. That’s why I said, ‘I cannot die. I will not die. I can’t get sick. I will not get sick because the Lord has given me life,'” he said.
Walker’s daughter described the event as a manifestation of God’s healing and a strengthening of faith in the community.
“We were standing on the scripture that, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’ so we believed that that was a weapon formed against him, but it did not prosper… God manifested a healing, a miracle through him that day,” LaKeisa Walker said.
“They are just like, ‘That was God.’ It strengthened not only my faith, but the whole community,” she said.
Walker believes in the importance of faith in healing and unity, expressing concern over the decline in religious affiliation in the U.S.
He emphasized the country’s need to turn to God for healing and unity in the face of divisive forces.
“This is why our nation has been so strong, because we believe in the Almighty God,” Walker said.
“America had been wounded with this evil spirit of hate,” he said.
“Well, we’re loving people. America [is] the best, blessed nation on the planet. There is no other nation greater than America.”
“We need to turn to God.”
“We need to turn to God. I think this can be a beginning, a genesis of a movement across the country… Turn to God in such a time as this that our world is heading in right now,” LaKeisa Walker said.
