Reverend Larry Oneal Walker spends his Sundays preaching at a busy intersection in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
The road preacher not too long ago spoke out after a gunman opened hearth whereas he was sharing the gospel on June 2. Walker mirrored on the second that might have taken his life.
Walker instructed Fox Information Digital in an on-camera interview {that a} man aggressively approached him and tried to seize his microphone. (See the video on the high of this text.)
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When Walker instructed the person he couldn’t have it, the person mentioned he had a gun.
The 2 struggled, and the person shot him.
“I fell to the bottom, checked my facet with a handful of blood. The subsequent factor I did was put my palms on my head and began praying,” Walker mentioned.
Walker mentioned he forgives the person who shot him, citing John 3:16: “For God so cherished the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son.”
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“As a Christian, we should forgive each other,” mentioned Walker.
“We will not maintain bitterness and anger and strife in our hearts towards each other.”
Walker mentioned the docs instructed him the style through which the bullet entered the facet of his physique was “a miracle” because it grazed previous his important organs.
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“I see miracles on a regular basis, on a regular basis. That is why I mentioned, ‘I can not die. I cannot die. I can not get sick. I cannot get sick as a result of the Lord has given me life,'” he mentioned.
LaKeisa Walker, Walker’s daughter, mentioned it was a horrific second when she answered the cellphone and discovered that her father had been shot.
“We have been standing on the scripture that, ‘No weapon fashioned towards you shall prosper,’ so we believed that that was a weapon fashioned towards him, however it didn’t prosper… God manifested a therapeutic, a miracle via him that day,” she instructed Fox Information Digital.
She mentioned her father’s story touched not simply the Arkansas neighborhood, however hers in Texas as effectively.
“They’re identical to, ‘That was God.’ It strengthened not solely my religion, however the entire neighborhood,” she mentioned.
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Walker has been preaching for the previous 50 years.
He started avenue preaching 15 years in the past.
“That is why our nation has been so sturdy, as a result of we consider within the Almighty God,” mentioned Walker.
He mentioned America is therapeutic — and that the lack of religion throughout the nation has led to confusion and division.
Between 2007 and 2021, the proportion of adults who determine as not religiously affiliated has grown from 16% to 29%, in accordance with the Pew Analysis Middle.
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“America had been wounded with this evil spirit of hate,” mentioned Walker.
“Effectively, we’re loving individuals. America [is] one of the best, blessed nation on the planet. There isn’t any different nation higher than America.”
Eighty % of U.S. adults say that faith has misplaced its affect in society, in accordance with a Pew Analysis Middle survey performed in February.
LaKeisa Walker mentioned, “We have to flip to God. I feel this is usually a starting, a genesis of a motion throughout the nation… Flip to God in such a time as this that our world is heading in proper now.”
Walker has not had any contact with the suspect because the incident.
The person, recognized as 20-year-old Latarryes Bush of North Little Rock, is presently being held with out bond, pending his preliminary courtroom look in North Little Rock District Court docket, Fox Information Digital discovered in a media launch shared by the North Little Rock Police Division.
