In our Women’s Bible Study, I sometimes like to show inspirational videos from YouTube when we are in between Life Group studies from our church. Last week we watched some of the videos about Reinhard Bonnke. He was a ‘simple’ German missionary in Africa. He ended up leading millions to Christ through large gatherings. The ladies loved watching these videos, so I thought you might be blessed by them too.

Here is his beautiful story:

I remember hearing about him years ago. As he mentions in the video, he had dreams of Africa being covered by the Blood of Jesus in 1972. Later he learned it was the very same year that a very famous evangelist in Africa decided to stop doing large crusades. He shivered like a leaf when he realized that his calling may have been because this other man stopped. God uses men and women who are willing to say ‘YES’ to his call on their lives.

Here’s a 5-minute video of the outreaches he did in Nigeria. Amazing!

I have heard him describe himself not as a ‘Great Man of God’ but rather as simply a man with a ‘Great God’. God equips us as we step out and serve Him by serving others.

Years ago I was in a Small Group with Randolph & Johanna Michaelsen. We were meeting in an apartment community room and an agitated young woman came in off the street. She said, “You Christians say you have to love God with all of your heart but there are so many hurting people that need love. You should be helping them instead!” Randolph had the perfect answer for her.

He replied that it was true God wants us to love him will all our heart. But, what she didn’t understand was that when we love God will all of our heart, He gives us all of His Love. Then, we can go to hurting people and love them with His Love that far exceeds what we could have done with our own strength.

The Testimony

One of my favorite testimonies is about a day in the life of Margaret Mayfield. The mother of one of my prayer partners heard her at a church in Texas. My friend’s mother bought several of the cassette recordings of the testimony and Marion, my friend, shared it with us.

I had planned on attaching the YouTube video, but apparently it has been taken down. Margy had been memorizing Scriptures and one day a serial killer by the name of Stephen Morin kidnapped her. He was wanted in several states and had just raped and killed a woman the night before.

She thought she was going to die that day, but instead God clearly spoke to Margy to pray for him. And after she prayed, Margy said the atmosphere in the car changed. He was the most demonic looking man she had ever met.

In the next 10 hours, she witnessed to him about how God loved him and could forgive him of all of his sins. There are so many cool miracles weaved in the story. He did receive Christ as his Savior and was caught later that night.

Stephen was sentenced to death. But, in his last years in prison he led many other criminals and guards to Christ. All of the rage and anger that had controlled his life was gone. Instead, he was filled with God’s love and wanted other’s to know the freedom he found in Christ.

Margy’s husband was so freaked out about almost losing his wife that he forbad her from ever seeing Stephen again. Except, one morning they both knew that she was supposed to see him. Normally it takes months to get a clearance to go inside the jails, but all the jail guards let her pass through.

Stephen came out in shackles and just started crying. Stephen told her it was his birthday that day and that the night before he asked God to let him see that lady once more.

His Last Words

Stephen was killed by lethal injection in 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Morin

His last words were:

“Heavenly Father, I give thanks for this time, for the time that we have been together, the fellowship in your world, the Christian family presented to me (He called the names of the personal witnesses.). Allow your holy spirit to flow as I know your love as been showered upon me. Forgive them for they know not what they do, as I know that you have forgiven me, as I have forgiven them. Lord Jesus, I commit my soul to you, I praise you, and I thank you.”

You can listen to the 35 minute audio of Margy’s riveting testimony here – http://withusisgod.org/2009/07/margy-mayfield/

It’s an amazing testimony of the many stories and miracles of that day.

One of my favorites facts about the Bible is the fulfilled prophecies! Parts of the Bible were difficult for me to believe… like a donkey talking. But, when I started seeing all of the fulfilled prophecies I was convinced that the rest of the Bible was true too!

Here is an excellent video highlighting just a few of the prophecies…

This morning I was reading in Joshua and he mentioned again what would happen to the Israelites if they worshipped other gods. Even Moses warned the people not to get involved with idolatry. 

Moses said he knew that they would. It took many hundreds of years but Moses predicted that they would be taken out of the land. They were! In the book on Jeremiah, it was predicted that the Jews would be in captivity for 70 years. They were!

Most people today don’t know that many discoveries in science came about because scientists actually studied the Bible and found passages about the world. Then, they went out to find them. For example, Matthew Maury read Psalm 8:3-8 ‘the paths of the sea’ caught his attention. 

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