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Promise Kept

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   Corrie ten Boom, in her book “ The Hiding Place ” , tells a story about her childhood in Haarlem, Netherlands. One day, a customer dropped off a watch for some repair. Because the customer did not have the full amount to pay, Corrie's father, Casper, wrote out a handwritten guarantee and made a promise to the customer: " The price is \(x\) and I will hold this watch safely for you until you can pay ." Months passed and the price of gold and antique watches surged. A wealthy man walked into the shop, saw the watch on the shelf, and offered Casper ten times the original price to buy it immediately. Casper refused, explaining, "That watch is already spoken for. I promised the original owner I would hold it for him and my word is more important than profit." In Acts 13 we read about Paul’s first missionary journey. They sailed to Cyprus and travelled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. Then   “from Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to ...
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The Ever Expanding Kingdom Of God

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  A mother camel and her baby are talking one day and the baby camel asks, “ Mom why have we got these huge three-toed feet?”  The mother replies, “To enable us trek across the soft sand of the desert without sinking.” “And why have we got these long, heavy eyelashes?” “To keep the sand out of our eyes on the trips through the desert” replies the mother camel. “And Mom, why have we got these big humps on our backs?” The mother, now a little impatient with the boy replies, “They are there to help us store fat for our long treks across the desert, so we can go without water for long periods.” OK, I get it!” says the baby camel, “We have huge feet to stop us sinking, long eyelashes to keep the sand from our eyes and humps to store water. Then, Mom, why the heck are we here in the Toronto zoo?” In Acts 13:1-12 we read about the beginning of the Paul’s first missionary journey.   Barnabas and Saul descended the mountains from Antioch to Sel...
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How God Launched Global Mission

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        While Dr. R A Torrey was at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago,he announced a week of prayer. At the close of that prayer week someone asked “why not continue this prayer for a mighty revival throughout the world?” Dr Torrey wrote this about the incident, “I consulted the faculty and they all agreed. We prayed one night a week; at first three to four hundred people met to pray for a worldwide revival. This prayer continued in a small circle the entire night. God in a marvelous manner began to move. On one of the mornings following those night prayer meetings, Dr Torrey preached in the auditorium of the institute. Two gentlemen asked if he could go to Australia and conduct a Bible campaign. Dr Torrey answered yes. He wired Charles Alexander a famous gospel singer to meet him in Japan. There a remarkable outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Japanese people began. Some ten thousands were converted. When he arrived in Australia Dr Torrey discovered that his b...
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