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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...

A Life Worth Living

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In the construction of a door, one man makes the panels, another makes the frame, another fits it together and a fourth hangs it by its hinges. The panel maker has a very imperfect portion of the work to show as the result of his toil, but he has done his part and fulfilled his mission whether the door ever swings in its place or not. The man who carries the hod of mortar up the ladder does not lay a single brick, but in his measure his service is essential and as worthy as the architect that planned the building, or the mason that rears its walls. After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord , the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them (Joshua 1:1-3). Moses is repeatedly called the “servant of the Lord” (Exod. 14:31; Num. 1:7-8; 12:7-8 ; Exod. 14:31; Mal. 4:4). This beautiful description of Moses is mentioned four times i...

Herod Commits Eternal Suicide

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  In the 1930s thousands of Koreans fled what is now North Korea when the Japanese invaded. Many of them settled in the USSR around Vlapostok. Many of them were Christians and so by the suffering of the Koreans the gospel of Jesus was being carried into central USSR.   Joseph Stalin saw the Koreans around Vlapostok as a security risk to the weapons manufacturing centre. So he relocated them to five areas around the Soviet Union, spreading the Christians even farther into the Muslim areas of the USSR. One of the places they were sent was to Tashkent the center of the 20,000,000 Muslim Uzbek people who had violently resisted western efforts to bring Christianity. Over the next decades these Koreans became an accepted part of Uzbek society. Then, on June 2 1990 the first open air Christian meeting in the history of Soviet Central Asia was held, marking a major shift in religious freedom. This event represented a major departure from the long-standing, intense religious pers...