It Struck Me How Important God Is

When I was ten, it first struck me how important God is; the penny dropped, and I realised what God was! Before I thought of him as a great intelligence, a bit like the all-seeing eye in ‘Lord of the Rings’ – not able to see everything at once, but it could be distracted as when Aragorn’s army distracted it away from Frodo and Sam.

I realised that God isn’t like that, but can see everything at once. After that, I carried on as before, but knowing I was sinful and needing a Saviour. I remember finding the services at church boring, and spending the time adding up the hymn numbers, or drawing pictures when I was supposed to be taking notes. At home, I was unkind to my brothers: I would shout at them and hurt them, and not care, but just “say sorry” without meaning it. When my Granny died, I realised that I could also die any day, and nothing could stop that.

At the funeral service and the Bible Study on bereavement soon afterwards, I was struck by what Dad said about Granny being a sinner, but she was forgiven because she repented of her sins and died in faith. This brought me face-to-face with my fear and convinced me of the truth. When I felt true conviction about my sins, I knew I had to do something about them – I had to put my sins onto Jesus and leave them behind.

I already knew that to become a Christian I had to believe in the virgin birth; that Jesus lived a perfect life; that He died on the cross; that He rose again on the third day; that He ascended into heaven; and that He is now interceding for us at the right hand side of God. I had known that I should trust in Jesus before, but now I put my faith in Him to take away my sins. Now I was able to concentrate on the services far better, and could learn from the Bible being expounded. Over the last year I have had the strength to learn more than in my whole life so far: I can read devotionals without being itchy to finish quickly; I enjoy communion with people at church without having to force myself to talk to them; and I have made friends with older people that I never spoke to before.

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The ability to pray from the heart would not be possible without the LORD; before God helped me, I could not concentrate properly while praying – I would fidget, think of other things and be distracted easily. Now I can concentrate and pray what I feel, while also listening properly to other people’s prayers and being encouraged by them. I have found the last few months have been especially helpful: my introduction to the “Pilgrim Devotions” has helped me through the bible – it has “easy to follow” explanations that have helped me understand the bible in a new way. I have been strengthened by God plentifully. I now really enjoy helping with the recordings in the church, and future, I would like to do further work in the Church for the glory of God.

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Miracles, Signs and Wonders

In early 1996, I sold my business so that I could start my ministry. Then out of the blue, a pastor from a local church invited me to join his mission team to Fiji. I accepted without hesitation. Then another invitation while I was in Fiji. The team did not have enough preachers. Could I preach in three different locations in Fiji? “What would the crowd size be like,” I asked. I was told the church congregation ranged from 200 to 400 people. Imagine when the first night came, the church rented a stadium for me to preach and already the crowd was over 5,000 people. My knees began to shake. I thought I was dreaming and suddenly I had no confidence in the well prepared text that I had to preach. But the minute I stood on the pulpit, I felt the ministering anointing hit my body for the first time and suddenly I was preaching another message. “The Holy Spirit is running the meeting and I must rely fully on Him,” I told myself. When I said the mass healing prayer, there were many movements from the people in front. Some of them began to throw out like they were possessed. Some began to show that they were healed. When I made the salvation call, hundreds came forward.

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Protected By God During Assault

I have a miracle that has happened in my life that I would like to share with you. In September 2000 at about midnight, I was sitting in a park in Chicago with Victor. Two young men approached us from behind with guns and put them to our heads. I stood up. A voice in my heart calmed me and told me not to fear, that we would be safe, but in my mind I thought that it must be wrong…this was it. The two men demanded money and pistol-whipped Victor several times in the face and head. I thought he would have his glasses smashed and broken teeth and bones from how they were hitting him. One of them told me twice to lie on the ground, which I did not do. Instead I sat back down on the park bench. The men became increasingly violent and at the moment I believed they were about to shoot Victor, I asked them not to hurt or kill him and tried to distract them by offering the camera I was carrying telling them it was very expensive and they could get a lot of money for it.I was thinking that they only way out of this is if someone else came along. A few moments later, a man named Scott came

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