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Tim’s thought: Saturday July 12, 2025 THE WOMAN WHO CARRIED THE PRESENCE OF GOD; ELDER LUCY SMITHWe hear a lot about Kathryn Kuhlman and Maria Woodworth-Etter whom both I love, but there also was a black woman that God had his hands mightily upon named Elder Lucy! Her ministry makes my baby within go crazy!Lucy Turner Smith, also known as Elder Lucy Smith, was the first black woman to build and pastor a megachurch in Chicago, which was named All Nations Pentecostal Church. She saw an estimated "200,000" miracles and healings in her ministry.Lucy was born on January 14, 1875 in Woodstock, Georgia, and birth named:Lucinda Madden. She was born in a "little one-room log cabin" where she and 5 siblings were raised solely by their mother.She gave her life to the Lord at the age of 12 and began school for the first time in her life at the age of 13. She went on to marry and have nine children, but she was abandoned by her husband and decided to move to Chicago in 1910.After being in the city a couple of years, Elder Lucy joined a predominantly white Pentecostal church called Stone Church. It was known for its incredible healing services. The most well-known divine healing ministers of the time regularly ministered there: William Seymour, Smith Wiggelsworth, John G. Lake, Maria Woodworth Etter. It was in this atmosphere of miracles where she received her personal calling into the divine healing ministry.Lucy began a "one-room prayer meeting" in her own house with only two people.The meeting grew quickly as manyThe greatest encouragement from Elder Lucy Smith was "just be yourself." She was known to have little regard for grammar, and she never tried to be oratorical. She would at times calmly talk and move around as she preached or ministered, but when she prayed for the sick, all manners of sickness and disease would be healed.WHAT SHE LACKED IN MAN'S EYES, GOD'S POWER GREATLY COMPENSATED!In Honour of Gods General who was black and because of her colour her exploits were ignored; her name is ELDER LUCY.CREDIT : Jaqualin PennymanTim Hall