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| Topic Started: Sep 6 2006, 10:54 PM (93 Views) | |
| WaitingforJesus | Sep 6 2006, 10:54 PM Post #1 |
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She Did What She Could How God Used A Japanese Girl by P.L. Rounds, Missionary to Japan Children and young people are sometimes tempted to feel there is little they can do for Christ and the salvation of souls. Here is an account of what one child did, after someone else had passed a little tract to her. Read how God used them all. Acts 3:6 "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." I WOULD LIKE to share with you the story of a little girl in Japan who had been for two years in a tubercular sanitarium. Her body had wasted away so much that she could hardly move in bed. One day when a group of Gospel workers were visiting the hospitals, they left a Christian Tract with her. She was not able to hold it, but had the nurse prop it on a stand above her head, and turn the pages, one by one, so she could read them. As she read and re-read that simple Gospel message, it gripped her heart. She prayed, asking the nurse to help her by standing by to hear her voice in prayer. God reached through, and she prayed for forgiveness of sin, she had a wonderful experience of salvation. As many do when they are first saved, this girl wanted to share the joy the Lord had given to her. One day she read in the newspaper of a wicked man who had been condemned to death for murder. She decided she must write him, and tell him about Jesus. It took her three days, but she finally was able to use her little strength and movement to get a letter finished, and with it she sent the Tract which had meant so much to her. When he received it he was indignant, but later as he re-read the letter he realised how much this little one-page letter had really meant to the little girl who had mailed it to him. His heart was touched in thinking that someone would care enough for him to write him a letter at such cost. He began to read the tract. Over and over he read, until the truth grasped his heart and he believed it. God came into that Tokyo prison and saved that brutal murderer through the witness of an almost helpless little girl in the tubercular sanatorium across the city. Later the murderer was taken to another prison, more than a thousand miles away, where he was placed in the "death row" as his final place before his execution. One day he was singing a Gospel hymn which he had learned from Christian workers who held services in the prison. As his lonely cell echoed with the praises of God, he heard a voice call through the "peep hole" to the next cell. It was a man named Uchida, who had also found Christ as his Saviour. What a joy when the two were able to share their faith together! Mr. Iwata (for that was the prisoner's name) and Mr. Uchida began to pray and work for the salvation of the other men in death row. The warden gave them permission to share their testimony with other prisoners when they were all together at meal time. In the two years that Mr. Iwata was in death row, 41 condemned prisoners were won to Christ. The warden permitted the baptism of the Christians in the prison bath tub, and he stated that the whole atmosphere of death row had changed from frenzy and fright to Christian joy and peace. As the guards made their rounds along the cells they could hear Gospel hymns coming from the cells. The time finally came for Mr. Iwata to die for his sin. He was permitted his last request -- that he might be taken to the tubercular sanitarium to see the little girl who had written him the one-page letter and sent him the Gospel Tract. Standing beside her bed, the converted murderer told her the story of what the letter and tract had done for him and his friends, through the saving power of Jesus Christ. Tears poured form the girl's eyes as she heard the story of what God had done. Before leaving her, Mr. Iwata was moved to lay his hand upon her head and pray a prayer of faith for healing. He then returned to the prison, and was soon executed for his crime, but he went to God whom he knew and trusted and loved. The power of the living Word of God, which had transformed him and the 41 men of death row, now came into the dying body of the little girl in the sanitarium. Within two weeks she was completely healed of her illness by the power of God, and she walked from the sanitarium and returned to a normal life. What a wonderful work of God this was! It all started because one helpless little girl who could not do much, did the little she could do, and because a condemned murderer, imprisoned in death row, did not give up, but did what he could to tell others of his Lord. Truly the Word became flesh and lived again in the lives of those people. "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." Deuteronomy 30:19. |
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| Stace4Jesus | Sep 7 2006, 04:39 PM Post #2 |
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Oh my my... oh wow... Go Jesus go stace |
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| Bill and Joan | Sep 8 2006, 07:30 AM Post #3 |
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 Oh, that was beautiful. The power of God's Word. The power of His love. It can was meant to change the world, one person at a time. Hallelujah! So let us do what we can do, trusting God to do the rest, amen? He can take the small labor of our hands and multiply it beyond our imagination, as long as it is done from the depth of our hearts and from His leading. You know, as I meditate on this, it was not such a small task for this little girl. It came at a sacrifice for her, to look beyond her own suffering and pain and allowing her heart to remain soft and supple before the Lord so that she was able to be touched by that Gospel message. And, as for that wicked man who was condemned to death? Scripture tells us that it is the goodness of God that draws men to repentance (Romans 2:4). It's hearing about God's love for us, how much He truly cares about us, even in our fallen state. Such a love melts the hearts of men. As it did for this man condemned to death. That the little girl thought enough to send that Gospel message to him, to write him though she herself was weak and in pain, that goodness extended to him melted his own cold, hardened heart. Praise be to Jesus!!! Of the two miracles that were shared in this post, the salvation first of the little girl and later the man in prison and then the healing of the little girl, the greatest miracle of all is the salvation of both these dying souls. Sometimes we get so focused on receiving healing that we simplify and gloss over the greatest miracle even given to mankind, the miracle of rebirth through salvation. Oh, Lord, while we still contend to satisfy this dying flesh with wanting the comforts it desires, such as a healthy body, a wealthy life, etc., etc., help us to never, NEVER put that above the very purpose You sent Your Beloved Son, so that man would not perish but come to the saving knowledge of Your Son, Jesus Christ, taking them from death that was wrought into the garden through sin and bringing them into eternal fellowship and life with You that was also wrought in the garden (of Gethesame) when Jesus laid down His comforts, His will, to submit to Your will, Your purpose for Him on the cross in Calvary. Teach us to submit to You no matter what the cost to our own comfort as with this little girl, that we, too, would lead others to Christ, one person at a time if necessary or who ever many You have for us to lead, trusting You with our very lives and giving You all glory and honor, taking none for ourselves along the way, In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Humbled before Him, Joan |
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| TheGloryisHere | Sep 14 2006, 07:43 AM Post #4 |
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That's beautiful, Kay! I have joyful tears in my eyes. I'm gonna borrow this testimony.  Caroline |
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