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TESTIMONIAL…
I want to share a story with you. In early 2008 I got an email from a black woman, named Sarah, from Africa on a Christian dating site. My natural instinct was to just ignore it, but The Holy Spirit within me reminded me that however I treat the person I like the least, is how I am treating JESUS. So I began to exchange emails with her. In the course of time, I told her how I am a teacher of the Word and that I have helped others to walk in the flow of God's blessings. She told me she could use some divine prosperity in her life, and asked me if I would start emailing her my Bible Lessons everyday. Of course, I was glad to do this, so I began sending them to her on May 1st of 2008.
A few weeks later, she wrote me to tell me how much she was enjoying the lessons. She liked them so much, she had showed them to a few friends of hers and now they wanted to be included in receiving the daily Bible Lessons. Of course I was glad to do this. I suggested they start meeting every week to discuss what they were learning and to pray for one another, and so they did. Every few weeks, Sarah would give me a progress report. Every time she wrote to me, the group had grown larger. First there were 4 people coming, then 6, then 8 then 12 including the pastor from her church.
One week, two black Muslim men came with the purpose of making fun of Christianity. They were in for a surprise when they heard the truth of the Gospel preached, and they gave their hearts to JESUS that night.
Since then, the group has become very large. Sarah has started three ministries from that group. One is a ministry to the elderly in her city; another is to the poor; and the third is to homeless children, if I recall correctly.
Sarah later told me that when she first wrote to me, she was only a lukewarm Christian. After reading the Bible Lessons each day and discussing them with her friends each week, she became totally on fire for the LORD. Now she has become a powerful tool in the LORD'S Kingdom and is turning her city upside down.
Praise be unto the LORD. You never know who God may have cross your path, so respond to everyone as if they were JESUS, because you don’t know what miracles may come out of it. Sarah was from a different race; she was not attractive to me; she couldn’t have lived farther away and she wrote in broken English, which gave me the idea she was uneducated. I had every justifiable reason to ignore her email or to quickly write her off.
If you are enjoying our online Bible Studies, I recommend you have some business cards with the Bible Study web address written on the back or front side of your cards. Hand one to everyone you meet each day, telling them how much the online Bible Studies have meant to you. You may also want to include your phone number or where you meet with others who are taking this course and invite everyone to join you at your weekly fellowship meetings.
If you open your heart, and allow God’s love to flow through you to all who come across your path, you will witness miracles on a regular basis. Share who you are and the gifts you’ve been given and see God do wonderful things with them.
As you follow this formula with everyone who crosses your path in your everyday life, God will be very pleased and He will reward you by giving you all of your hearts desires. That’s what JESUS meant when He said,
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
When our strongest desire is to be like God and to encourage others to do the same, then God will see to it that all the desires of our heart are fulfilled.
The secret to having God fulfill all your desires is to first fulfill all His desires. His desire is to see us “Be Fruitful and Multiply”. Are you ready to do things His way???
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