African Woman's Prayer of Faith

In his book Beyond Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson shares the story of an old African woman who demonstrated faith in God's power to provide. Although she ...

Persecuted Pastors Lifted Up by Prayer

In 2005, a Vietnamese pastor known as Silas was told by local authorities that he could expect to see trouble if his church continued to operate without ...

President Makes Phone Number Public

It sounded like a good idea at the time. When Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wanted to emphasize his desire to help cut through bureaucracy, ...

God Precisely Supplies a Woman's Need

Lois Spoon writes in "Divine Calculation: My Prayer Was Answered by Someone's Pocket Change”:

Time was running out. I needed $153.27 by ...

Doctor Learns About Healing Prayer

Jeffrey H. Boyd, a medical doctor from Waterbury, Connecticut, writes:

My first wife, Pat, had diabetes, two heart attacks, bypass surgery, two strokes, ...

Schoolteacher Started African Revival

In 1935, Blasio Kugosi, a schoolteacher in Rwanda, Central Africa, was deeply discouraged by the lack of life in the church and the powerlessness of his ...

God and Our Circumstances

"Too often we try to use God to change our circumstances, while he is using our circumstances to change us."

Church Prays from the Phone Book

In their book Dangerous Intersections, Jay Dennis and Jim Henry write:

Prayer changes things. That’s what a church in Phoenix discovered after the ...

Bob Pierce Demonstrated God's Use of Imperfect People

World Vision Founder Bob Pierce was an extreme version of post-WWII evangelicalism: entrepreneurial, energetic, independent, and out to evangelize the ...

Yard Sale Shows the Value of Time Spent in Prayer

Text: Ephesians 5:15-16

Purpose: To illustrate that we invest our time in lesser things, when we could spend the same time on something priceless.

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