LETWABA BUILDS A BIBLE SCHOOL
Letwaba was a servant of the Lord who served in the northern part of the Transvaal district. In a village that he visited, people were appalled. It had not rained for a long time. The drought had destroyed the crops and the famine hit the country hard. The wizards started talking about making cruel sacrifices to the rain gods. They mentioned the white God in scornful terms, and how he was not able to make it rain.
Letwaba went directly into this hopeless situation. He called those who listened to repentance so that they could have a solid foundation in Scripture to rest their faith on. Besides he got a strong inspiration. As he stood preaching the word, a strong anointing came over him. The word came clear and fast as people listened eagerly. Letwaba said, don't you know that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. ” Do you not know that we have the authority to ask for what we want and this is given to us in Jesus' name? I command you with a word from the Lord that at this time by tomorrow there will come as much rain that you need. Your fields and cattle will be saved and you will see that God is still alive and answering the prayers of those who believe in him. "
This was a challenge that the prophet Elijah could have said. The crowd gathered in groups to talk about what Letwaba had said. Some mocked him and made fun of him. Others said, "We have to wait and see if his words are true."
It would have been easy for Letwaba to convey the message, all while the anointing was upon him. But in the afternoon, after that the people had left, the fear came on him. Above him, the sky was like copper. There wasn't a cloud to see. The sun was burning mercilessly as the cattle stood discouraged around him, trying to tear up some roots that had previously been grazed. Horrible thoughts gripped Letwaba. "If there was no rain tomorrow, then what?" What would the wizards say? What would people think? What about those who had leaned on his promise in their perplexity? ”
They would all accuse him of being a false prophet who fooled them. These thoughts flew through Letwaba's head at great speed.
The missionary went up into the mountains to be alone with God. It was a starry night. It seemed to him that his entire service was at stake. The events of the next morning would be crucial. This was his Gethsemane. All this long night he earnestly prayed to God, "Not for the sake of my reputation, Lord, but that the Gentiles should not despise your name and speak contemptuously of your word." The following morning came, and with that a cloudless day. But the answer was near.
It was remarkable as quickly the clouds gathered in the sky and by the time Letwaba returned to the village, he was drenched. The reader does not need a great deal of imagination to understand that now that the drought was over, well now there were many hearts open to the gospel that Letwaba preached.
Letwaba's teacher, Lake, had had nights of prayer fighting against the powers of darkness. Letwaba had also learned to be persevering and pray through. It gives man authority with God and then people in between.
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FOUND JESUS AT THE BLUE CROSS
It does not go without saying that Lars Loever is burning for the unreached in India, where he has now worked as a missionary for 14 years. He is not raised with a personal faith or in a Christian home and surroundings. He became interested in chess, and in his youth he had the level of a national team level in Norway. He was also in "Natur og Ungdom", but after some time there he wanted something more radical. He then joined the animal welfare association, and there he had to become a vegetarian, and he was there for a considerable time. But this was not either extreme enough for him.
“One day I noticed a sign at the Blue Cross in Frederikstad. They needed volunteer helpers, and so I joined their service, ”Lars says. “I was aware that they were helping the most deprived people in our community, and I wanted this too.
So I, who was used to breakdance, went out on the streets as a 19 year old together with missionary aunties 50 years older than me to sing revival songs by Åge Samuelsen and witness for the lost in our community, ” Lars laughs. Those are good memories.
"But one of these mission aunts had a great distress for me, and one day she gave me the book," The Pilgrimage. " In reading this book, I came in such a distress and sense of guilt that I sobbed and cried and was wonderfully saved on November 14, 1997. Now a fire was lit in me to win souls, and that fire in my mind and heart has never since gone out or been extinguished.
"The Evidence of Faith"
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GRANDMA BRAND
Evelyn Brand felt a calling by God to go to India. A single woman in 1909 who accepted such a calling had a need for a mountain of faith. She married a young man, Jesse, and together they began a service in a rural India. They taught, came up with medicine, and made sure to build the infrastructure with navigable roads so that the poor were not so cut off. They continued with this for about seven years without saving a single soul!
But then there was a Hindu priest there in the area who got a fever and got seriously ill. No one but Evelyn and Jesse came near to him where they cared for this dying man. He said, "This God, Jesus, must be the true God, because only Jesse and Evelyn have taken care of me now that I'm at the death bed."
This Hindu priest surrendered his children into the hands of the family, Brand, who had the Hindu priest's children in their custody - and this became a spiritual turning point in this part of the world.
The people became increasingly interested in Jesus' life and teachings, and people in large numbers began to follow him. Evelyn and Jesse got thirteen years together in the service until Jesse died. By this time Evelyn was 50 years old and everyone thought she would now return to England. But she didn't want to. She was known and loved everywhere in these parts of India as "Granny Brand" and she continued in the missionary work she so faithfully had served for another 20 years.
Her son, Paul, went out to visit her when she turned 70, and he said the following about his mother: “That's how we should age. We should let everything else shrink, so that the only thing left to see with those around us is love. ”1Cor.13,1-2
As 70 years old, Evelyn Brand received a letter from her mission organization at home that they wanted to grant her five more years. But she had Caleb's attitude. ”... we can certainly do it.””
They held a farewell party in India to thank her for her time there and everyone honored and congratulated her. They said, "We wish you a good return." -
"I'd like to tell you a secret," she said, "I'm not going home. I am staying here in India. ”
Evelyn had a small shed made of materials that she had smuggled in. Then she bought herself a pony so that she could come far and wide about in the mountains, and this 70-year-old woman thus rode from village to village to tell about Jesus to this people. She did this alone for 5 years.
One day after she passed the 75 years, she fell and broke her hip. Her son, Paul Brand, who was an excellent physician, told her: “Mother, you have been admirable. God used you. Now it's time to stop. You can come home now. "She replied," I'm not coming home again. "
She got 18 more years in India and traveled from village to village on horseback. Neither falls, concussions, illnesses or old age could stop her. Eventually, when she was 93 years old, she could no longer ride on horseback. Then the villagers put her on a stretcher - they loved Grandma Brand(Granny Brand) so much - and then carried her from village to village. She lived two more years, and these years she gave herself as a gift to the poorest of the poor, where she, carried on a stretcher, came to their rescue.
She died but she never retired with a pension.
She merely completed her job.
Push this link to hear the life story of Granny Brand and her family
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IRA SANKEY
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"SAVIOUR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US"
The well known missionary Dwight Moody, who was used by God in a very special way (1837-1899), always had a God-blessed singer with him. His name was Ira Sankey (1840-1908). It is said about him that he sang just as many people into heaven as Moody preached into heaven.
One year on Christmas Eve itself, Mr. Sankey was aboard a steamer sailing down the Delaware River. Many people had gathered on the deck and when Mr Sankey was among those he was asked to sing. He prayed to God for help in finding the right song - and immediately his eyes wandered up to the clear sky and he began the song:
"Savior, like a Shepherd lead us,
much we need Thy tender care! "
A wonderful peace and tranquility descended upon them all onboard the ship as the beautiful voice carried the words across the deck and the quiet river. Everyone was brought into motion.
After the song, a man came forward and asked Mr. Sankey, "Have you ever done Army service in the Union Army?"
Mr Sankey admitted. Then the stranger said: "I was also in the army at that time, just on the opposite side, ie. In the Confederate Army. And the night you were on duty, I was also there in the same errand as you, and I saw you, took the rifle and aimed at you, and was just about to press the trigger. You stood in the middle of the moonlight, but I was lying in the shade. The moment I was about to press, you lifted your head toward the sky and began to sing the beautiful song:
"Savior, like a Shepherd lead us,
much we need Thy tender care! "
When I heard this, it became completely impossible for me to press the trigger, ”the man ended his tale. (Jewish hope)
Savior, like a shepherd lead us,
Saviour, like a shepherd lead us,
Much we need Thy tender care;
In Thy pleasant pastures feed us
For our use Thy folds prepare:
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are;
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
We are Thine; do Thou befriend us,
Be the Guardian of our way;
Keep Thy flock, from sin defend us,
Seek us when we go astray:
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are;
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
Thou hast promised to receive us,
Poor and sinful though we be;
Thou hast mercy to relieve us,
Grace to cleanse, and power to free:
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are;
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
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THE HEAVENLY MAN
One evening a short time ago, I heard a conversation on television with Eivind Frøen on Channel 10. The conversation was recorded in April 2015. Eivind Frøen is working for the organization, Mission in the East, and he talked about the revival in China. The first part of the conversation was about the Heavenly Man.
His real name is, Brother Yun, but he also goes by the name, the Heavenly Man. He was given this name once, when he was arrested by the secret police. They interrogated him who he was and where he lived. Then he cried aloud, "I am the heavenly man, and I am from the gospel city!" This he cried out to warn the others so that they might have time to flee.
When questioned, they asked him if he intended to flee if he was given the opportunity. "Well yes, definitely," he replied. "Well, you will not be given any chance for that," they answered him, then they crushed both of his feet with an iron bar above his ankle. I know no one who has suffered more for Jesus than he. They put him in a jail cell on the fourth floor. He was in terrible pain as he sat there alone in the cell. "I have a calling to preach the gospel, and now I sit here locked in a cell," he thought.
On May 5 at 8 in the morning, the Lord's presence entered the prison, and the voice of the Lord said, "Get up and go out!" He rose immediately. He was healed and has had no injury or problems with his feet since. This was a great miracle, and the miracles continued to appear, one by one. He walked over to the door and it opened by itself. He went down the hall on foot and met a man he knew approaching him with a prison guard. Brother Yun said, "I'm on my way out!" The other replied, "I'm on my way in!" The prison guard neither saw nor heard anything. The Lord blinds the pursuer's eyes and closes their ears.
The man that was on the way in stepped onto something in the cell so that he could look through the cell window. At that moment, he saw Brother Yun rushing through the courtyard and out through the gate. This was a huge wonder. This man had carried Brother Yun every time he went to interrogation, because he couldn't use his feet. In the prison, Yun had the nickname, "The Invalid".
As Brother Yun approached the main gate leading out to the road, he wondered how the Lord would make all this happen. But there was a change of guard at this point, so there were double teams of guards and a confusion arose and just as Yun was about to pass the gate, the phone rang and the guard turned and took it. Turning, he came to turn his back on Yun and did not notice him.
Just outside the gate was a taxi. Yun jumped over, opened the door and said "Go!" Think once a man wearing a prison suit comes crashing out of the prison, what has the taxi driver not thought? "You're in a hurry," said the driver. "Yes, I'm going to work," Yun replied, but he didn't know where to go.
Then the Lord gave him an address. "Drive me to _ ," Yun said. He knew the address well when it was with a Christian brother. "Wait here while I go in to get the money for the trip," Yun said. He ran in and got money for the trip from the family. By the time he returned to the driver in order to pay, the Lord had wiped out this entire episode from the taxi driver's memory. "Why are you bringing me money?" He asked. "Because you've driven me and this is for the ride." - "I don't know you and I've never seen you before," the man said. The Lord had done this so that the police could find no trace of Brother Yun.
What Brother Yun didn't know was that the Lord had spoken to this family a week before he fled. The Lord had revealed to them that Yun would flee and that they were to make a secret dwelling ready for him to live in. They had got hold of a small hut outside the city, and there he was to stay for some time. They had provided him with food, clothing and a Bible.
A few months later, they gave him a passport. It was another man who was the owner of the passport and the picture of him did not look like Brother Yun at all. The Lord told him that when he came to the passport control later, he was not to say anything at all. He just had to be completely silent.
When he later came to the checkpoint at the Chinese border, the guard checked the passport and said, "That picture is not you!" Yun did not say a word, he merely stood as a statue. The guard then took the passport and showed it to the other guards, and they all laughed at it. This guard found the situation particularly peculiar and then allowed him to pass. The same thing happened in Frankfurt when he later came to Germany.
He stayed quiet there for a while when his wife and children were still in China. Later, they were smuggled to Burma where they were safe, and then Yun could begin to testify again. Later he was in Finland speaking and there he told about this wonder with the passport. When the meeting was over, a man addressed himself to him. "It was good that you didn't say anything at the passport control, because otherwise you would have been arrested. I work for Nokia and we have put a program into the computers that record and recognice voices. If you had said something, the voice recognition alarm would have been triggered on the screen right away, showing them who you are, because they have lots of your speeches. ”
Well, indeed, God is the God of wonders. The Heavenly man has visited the Faroe Islands, where, among other things, he spoke at the church, Vesturkirkjan in Tórshavn.
Here a video link of a speach of the Heavenly Man.
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