“I was at Tom’s house last Friday. Their electricity had been cut off because they were unable to pay the bills, and a prayer meeting was planned at their house that evening,” reports Cosmos Touleassi from Togo, Western Africa. “After we had praised God for…
God Story 117: Dead Child Raised Through Prayer
God Story 116: Dr Srinivasa Bhattachary’s Testimony
At the age of six I wore the sacred thread (poonool) according to the Hindu tradition. I was given to the Gayathri Diksha, and was sent to an ashramam for my studies. Right from my childhood I studied the Rigveda, Yegurveda, Samarveda, Adarvarnaveda, Nalayiram, Lijya Prabhandtha,…
God Story 115: Lo’s Prayers
“Stand with your arm outstretched, turn slowly around in a circle, and pray for everything you see through your fingers.” That was what Lo, a semi-illiterate farmer, did every evening while standing on the dam around his rice field. With a hoe over one shoulder,…
God Story 114: Why Didn’t You Come Before Now?
John Deguah, a Language Recordings* member in Liberia, visited a town to show the Jesus film. He arrived just in time to help the elders to bury an old man. Then they asked him what he had come for. He told them that the Almighty…
God Story 113: Thousands Saved Because Tenalem Ate Rat
Tenalem Mulugeta is an Ethiopian evangelist who has been working in the region between Dembi Dollo and the Sudanese border since 1998. When he arrived in Modscho, he initially experienced significant resistance: people pelted him with stones and beat him with sticks. He was severely…
God Story 112: Does Jesus Live Here?
A few years ago in the Christmastime snow, Caleb (name changed) wanted to go shopping. He was new in the Himalayas and wanted to stop in a town before traveling on. He noticed a group of passers-by gathered around a girl who was obviously demon-possessed,…
God Story 111: You Should All Be Dead
In 1995, Heidi and Rolland Baker travelled to Mozambique as missionaries, to work with street children in the world’s poorest nation. Heidi became seriously ill in 1997, but was completely healed through prayer during a visit to the Toronto Airport Fellowship. Following their return to…
God Story 110: Sharyn Rudolph’s Testimony
Three years ago as she puts it, Sharyn was “given her use-by-date”. It was “not months but weeks”. She was in St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital and she perceived that not many people come out of there. Sharyn wasn’t a bad person but she knew what…
God Story 109: Missed by Seven Metres
Missed by 7 metres – Deacon Survives World Trade Center Attack Tuesday 11 September 2001 began as a day like any other for Stanley Praimnath, deacon at an Assemblies of God church and employee of the Fuji Bank in New York. Stanley’s office was on…
God Story 108: Jesus in the dictionary
The following is a report from an Afghani church planter, whose true name and surroundings we obviously cannot reveal: “At the start of 2001, I was imprisoned by the Taliban in Kabul. I was considered an arch-enemy, because I fought under Massud (in northern Afghanistan)…