“forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith forgiveness and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope and forgiveness.”
Kim Phuc Spoken Essay ” the long road to Forgiveness 30th June 2008
A twenty one year old man studying for a Chemical Engineering degree had been reluctantly persuaded to attend with a friend to a meeting where he heard the gospel explained properly for the first time. H then mad a commitment to Christ.
“Nothing seemed to happen to me that evening, but when I woke the next morning I was immediately and vividly aware that I was now living in a different. The Lord had become real to me and I found myself consciously experiencing a gracious love way beyond anything I had ever experienced before. I became aware that I was now spiritually “born” with a new spiritual awareness of God and his love for me.”
Johns Gospel Chapter 3
Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.[b] 6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life
The day a man (in Afghanistan) brought a copy of the Bible into his house he witnessed a miracle: his disabled daughter began to walk. He had tuned into Christian radio station and heard the gospel. Then he managed to obtain a copy of the New Testament. He took this into his house. He had seven children one of whom was disabled and could not walk. When the New Testament was brought into the house she started to move . When the man began to read from the Bible she started to walk.
“Miracles happen to the glory of God. Share your experience with Jesus to the people”
Extract from Open Doors May 2014
Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby legend (89 caps) is confined to a wheelchair with motor neurone disease.
He says,” I’ve learned there are too many things we take for granted in life and it’s only when you lose them that you realise what it is all about. I know God is alive in my life…I can now talk openly about the mistakes I made because I know my faith won’t give up and it won’t diminish. BBC Sport 2oth Aug 2013 (CMF Triple Helix Winter 2013)
Sister Aimee’s sermons were not “fire and brimstone” messages; instead, her sermons showed the face of a loving God with continually outstretched arms. She spoke of serving Jesus as the only life that offered true fulfillment. She preached a gospel of repentance and believed strongly that everyone in the world had the right to hear the gospel.
Sister Aimee welcomed everyone. She preached to the social elite of the day and also reached out to the poor and to the disenfranchised members of society. She evangelized in the South at a time when segregation was rampant. She broke down racial barriers everywhere she ministered. Sister Aimee established many Hispanic ministries in Los Angeles and established ministries to German, Japanese, Czech, deaf, and other communities also. She recognized no gender, ethnic or status separation line.
When there were questions as to whether or not the miraculous healings people were claiming were real, the American Medical Association investigated. Their report stated that the work of Aimee Semple McPherson met with their approval in every way, and that the healings were “genuine, beneficial and wonderful.”
A man with six children felt nothing but despair as he looked to the future. With no hope left he attempted suicide but was caught in his tracks when he heard a voice say, “What will happen to your children? Who will take care of them when you are gone?” Breaking down in tears, he went to the local pastor who shared te Gospel with him, and led him to Jesus. (OM Global)
“Then he asked me if I would like to give my life to Jesus Christ.With Mixed emotions, I prayed after him, “Lord Jesus, forgive my every sin. Lord I ask you right now to come into my life & take control, to be my Lord & Saviour, in Jesus name.” That night God became real to me,on a personal level. My life was changed. I met a man who said, “I want to be your friend”. That night in all the confusion, I heard a voice speaking to me & He said “I love you”. I looked at J & said, “What?”. He said, ” I didn’t say anything”. A little while later I heard the voice say ” I put no conditions”. Again I asked if J if he had said anything. He said no. but asked me if I had heard a voice. He told me to say these words if I heard the voice again, ” here I am Lord”. Sure enough I heard the voice again & repeated what J had told me. Then Jesus Christ became real. I later learned that God spoke to Samuel in the Bible in the same way.”
“I have received many blessings in my life but by far the greatest miracle was the gift of salvation, receiving Jesus Chrit into my heart in 1987. I was lost, broken, depressed & confused but Jesus came into my heart & set me free. He healed my broken heart. Finally I found the love & acceptance I craved all my life in the love of Jesus. RM (Burnaby)
