Encouraging Mission and God Stories
Speak To Your Mountain
Then suddenly, before our eyes, the tape began to clear up. Just as
the pastor announced how God intimately loves us
Prayerfully Arranged
Marriage
"I prayed for you for seven
years," proclaims Dave. "Then in the middle of the night on
December 30, 1984, God woke me up out of a sound sleep and said,
You want to do what?
He is walking like he has never had surgery!"
"That is hard to believe," said the doctor. "In fact, that
is incredible!"
Strange Instructions
In the middle of the night he suddenly sensed God
speaking to him: "Leave this house quickly and run away!"
The Transformation of an
Entire People
After the N people had heard the stories from creation through the life of
Jesus, they made a unanimous group decision to follow Jesus.
In the Pakistan quake: Believers keep baby alive with their prayers
He could not see the baby, but heard his cries coming from a collapsed building. He started praying for the Lord to save this baby.
Miracle Child
Bob and Carrie had been
trying all along to interpret signs, wondering what God's will might be
for their child. To them, the spark was a sign of faith. "To me, it
meant that the lights are on and somebody's home!"
Mustard Seed Faith in Business
They took authority over this mountain of a problem based on
Matthew 17, which gave them the authority to cast a mountain into the sea
if faith only the size of a mustard seed could be exercised.
Angels in the Workplace
A few days later his "friends" paid him a visit. They kidnapped
him, blindfolded him, and placed him in a jail cell located in the middle
of a mafia-controlled house. During the night..
His Family Locked Him In but God Translated Him into Church
From the persecuted church a story of a believer dreaming of being in
worship while imprisoned and actually being seen there.
Remembering
Jean Craig
Jean first sailed to Shanghai in September 1929 as a young missionary with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS). Like many of her
contemporaries, she answered the call to "win the world for Christ in
one generation." What happened next, however, was that China won over
her. You see, the Holy Spirit got in on the action and opened up for her
and many like her an exciting, entirely new, wonderfully rich, and
magnificently complex culture and people.
Witnessing God’s Faithfulness in Ethiopia
As preparations to kill the evangelist came to fruition, he had two dreams. In one, Jesus showed his love to Mohammed. In the other, God revealed to him the reality of His judgment.
Street Walker Ministry
Having Success
“I have girls who’ve left prostitution who bring their kids in. We have girls who’ve left and are going strong in the church, and there are those who aren’t in the church but they’ve left prostitution.
We Heard Singing but the Church Had Gone
A story told by an OMF worker while in China being led to the underground
church by hearing them singing even though there was only one person
there.
The Smell of Rain
Her daughter's words confirmed what the Blessing family had known all
along. During the first two months of life, when her nerves were too
sensitive for them to touch her, God was...
Happy Days in China
She forgave her husband for his part in her 7
abortions and God gave her the names and gender of each child whom He was
looking after now.
In the Pakistan quake: Believer asks Jesus to move
rubble to rescue boy
It was hard for me to see this boy stuck and bleeding, and he was
continuing to cry out, ‘Save me!’
In the Pakistan Quake: Injured survivors call on Jesus to heal them
When they stopped praying and said “Amen,” everyone looked at the injured people and their wounds. The wounds immediately started to dry up and disappear.
Ethiopian Believer,
Persecuted For His Faith, Now Runs Orphanage,
An Ethiopian Christian who faced persecution for his faith in his home country, is asking American believers not to forget those imprisoned and tortured for trusting in Jesus Christ.
Hindu Radicals Destroy
Christian Church and School
“They want me and Dad to ask forgiveness for ever preaching Christ in their cities, and to say we will never preach again.”
“It’s not going to happen in this lifetime,” he concluded, referencing Romans 1:16 and 8:28 -39.
Custodian Dies For His Church
The enemy tried again and again to light the fuse, but it was to no avail.
It did not want to light. The church was saved.
The Stolen Bicycle
"Give him the money you have with you," the Lord said to me. What? Was I to give money to this rogue, I thought? Nevertheless, I gave him all the money I had.
FROM BUDDHA TO JESUS
"We kept arguing with each other, louder and louder! Eventually, knowing judo, he twisted my arm behind me, threw me on the ground, and, against my will, dragged me to church.
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