Christian Testimonies

“Lord, I give up my own purposes and plans, all my own desires, hopes and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever.  …Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Work out Thy whole will in my life, at any cost, now and forever.” 

‘To me to live is Christ and to die is gain’ 
(Phil. 1:21)

The above prayer was found written in a bible taken as loot by the Red Army when they attacked a small mission house in Eastern China, 1934. The Bible belonged to a young woman who had grasped the meaning of a life hidden in Christ, and who recognised that this was the only real life to live.

That woman was Betty Scott Stam, born in 1906 into a missionary hearted family from Michigan, America, who responded to the call to bring the gospel to China when Betty was just six months old.

For seventeen years young Betty was nurtured in an evangelistic environment in Shandong, and developed a lasting love for the Chinese people, millions of whom were still to hear the name of Jesus….Read more

When Revival Came to the Hebrides
Duncan Campbell

First, let me tell you what I mean by revival. An evangelistic campaign or special meeting is not revival. In a successful evangelistic campaign/crusade, hundreds even thousands of people will make decisions for Jesus Christ, but the community remains untouched, and the churches continue much the same as before….Read more

The Unexpected Gift
Corrie Ten Boom

For ten years after my release from prison, I had been travelling all over the world at the direction of God. Many times I did not know why I was to go to a certain place until I arrived and it became second nature to wait on God’s plans. But now I found myself in Basel with no contacts and no idea why I was there….Read more

It was 1884 when Britain’s champion sportsman, C.T. Studd was faced with the crisis that would change the course of his life. The American preacher D.L. Moody was holding evangelistic campaigns in Cambridge, and The Holy Spirit was at work among the students. With C.T’s rise in prominence in the cricket world coinciding with his fellow sporty brother’s increasing devotion to God, the two collide as his brother becomes ill and is thought to be dying. As C.T Studd sits by his brother’s bedside, eternity suddenly becomes a reality.

In C.T Studd’s own words….Read more

Fishers of Men
C. T. Studd

CHINA     At the end of a message on the verse, “He is able to save to the uttermost,” after the gathering had left, a Chinaman remained at the back of the room. When we went to him he told us we had been talking sheer nonsense. He said, “I am a murderer, an adulterer, I have broken all the laws of God and man again and again. I’m also an opium smoker. He cannot save me.”…Read more

MISSIONARY TO CHINA

Gladys was born into a working-class family in London, and on leaving school entered into working life as a parlour maid and lived very much for her own pleasure. In her early twenties, her self-indulgent life changed when she was saved one night in a church meeting she’d found herself in, and her interest was shifted from herself to the souls of others.

After hearing of the great need in China, the burden became hers to find someone to go there with the glorious Gospel that brings people out of darkness into light, but she found no one. After being challenged, she saw that she was the one to go, and applied to the China Inland Mission where she was taken in to be trained….Read more

They Heard Someone Singing
Gladys Aylward

Not long after believing on Jesus Christ, Gladys Aylward, a young London parlour maid, followed the call from God to take the Gospel of Jesus to China, a country she would give her heart and life to. Most famous for leading 100 Chinese children across the mountains to safety during a time of war, the account that follows occurred shortly after that event….Read more

The Sacrifice of Praise
Lettie Cowman

Many homes display the model, Prayer Changes Things, and great blessing has resulted from the simple statement. We are all aware that prayer does change things. We know, also, that many times the enemy has not been moved one inch from a stronghold, although we have persisted in prayer for days, months — yes, often years….Read more

Fog Moving Faith
George Muller

The following incident from the life of George Müller is related by Mr. Inglis, who heard the story from the captain of the ship with whom Müller prayed. When I first came to America, thirty-one years ago. I crossed the Atlantic with…Read more

In The Highways
Mark Nolan

Many say that we are products of our environments, and I can certainly say that of myself. As part of a large and busy family we went through many stressful times together, and what did Mother teach us to do at such times…Read more

Something Better
F. B. Meyer

One day when traveling by train, a young man sat opposite me reading Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitation of Christ.” I knew the book, and sat beside him and said:

“A grand book.”
He said: “Yes.”
Said I: “I have found something better.” “Better?”
“Yes.”
“How?”….Read more

Divine Grace
John Bunyan

The following is an account of John’s experience as he faced and lived through a long prison sentence, taken from his biography. “By his reproaches and slanders, satan laboured to have my countrymen think of me as depraved, so if possible, my preaching might be made of no effect”….Read more

The Danish woman who became a mother in Israel

“I’m not free to commit myself just now. There’s something I have to settle first. I know this must sound foolish, but I keep asking myself, is there something more to life than just a career and an apartment, and nice furniture and a pension at the end of it all?”

This was Lydia’s spontaneous reply to the moment she had been waiting years for; her “ideal match” had just romantically proposed,  and marriage would complete the picture of her successful life so far. Her reply surprised them both.

At 36, Lydia was the director of domestic science in one of Denmark’s modern schools, had a generous salary, lived in a beautiful apartment in Korsor with her own maid, and enjoyed the luxury of fine dining and fashion, along with the pleasures of the dance halls and theaters….Read more

Is The Altar Empty?
Corrie Ten Boom

It is years ago that I heard Oswald Smith, that great man from Toronto, the evangelist, and he spoke about total surrender, and he used an illustration. He took four books, and he said, “Lord, I will surrender all….Read more

Revival History 1921 The Fishing Communities

News of the Welsh revival in 1904 spread  all over the country, and indeed the world, and sparked the desires and hopes of the saints that God could do the same in their own home town.

One such town was the large fishing port in Suffolk, Lowestoft, where there was little spiritual interest besides among the youth at the Fisherman’s Bethel and the Baptist Church, and it was the pastor of this church, Hugh Ferguson, that began in earnest to pray for a mighty move of God. 

One by One
R. A. Torrey

We cannot all preach, we cannot all sing, we cannot all teach, but there is not one who cannot speak about the Saviour. Even the invalid shut up at home can do “One by One” work. I knew of a poor, outcast girl in New York City who was brought to Christ. She only lived two years after her conversion, but they were years of wonderful fruitfulness….Read more

“God, I know surely that You do not exist. But if perchance You exist, which I contest, it is not my duty to believe in You; it is Your duty to reveal Yourself to me.”

It was a sincere prayer from an intellectual and ardent Marxist, Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Jew born in 1909, who had been born into poverty but had gained a wealthy lifestyle as a stockbroker….Read more

Not Ashamed of The Gospel (From Russia)

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony, 
and they loved not their lives unto the death.
(Revelation 12: 1)

The year is unknown, but the following letters give a window into the joy, devotion, and willingly paid price of a young Russian woman who turned from atheism to Christ through the love and prayers of a believer….Read more 

Revival History, 1859 Ireland

Four young men recently brought to saving faith in the Lord Jesus, came together in October of 1858 to begin a Sabbath school. Stirred by knowledge of the revival that was sweeping across America through Charles Finney and others, they arranged to met together to pray for The Lord’s favour and presence in their own communities.

They met at an old school building in a village near Conner, where they prayed for the conversion of their families, their friends and those in the communities around them, and slowly other believers joined them in their prayer meetings calling on The Lord for the salvation of others...Read more

Nothing is Impossible For Thee
Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time when she was travelling the world telling others of what Jesus had done for her. For over twenty years, Corrie journeyed around the globe, leaning on God for protection, provision, guidance and strength…Read more

PART 1 CHINA

The world famous English cricketer C.T. Studd shocked the sporting world and all who knew him when at the age of twenty four he turned his back on his success, reputation, wealth and prominence to become a missionary for Jesus Christ.

In February 1885, along with six other Cambridge students, Charles sailed to China with the sole intent of serving God by bringing the gospel to the lost millions who had never heard the name of Jesus. He was as consumed with this purpose as he had been with cricket, exchanging one passion forever for another….Read more

Trusting God
Corrie Ten Boom

From the very beginning of my ministry I have felt it was wrong to ask for money, even to ask for travelling expenses. I did not want to be paid for ‘services rendered,’ I simply wanted to preach the Gospel and let The Lord provide for me….Read more

Power to Change
C. T. Studd

“Remember that soul-saving is comparatively easy work, and not nearly so important as that of making the saved ones into saints and soldiers.”
These words were written to a rather young C. T. Studd during his years in China, and much later in Africa he was to see the challenge of them….Read more

All Things Through Christ
Mark Nolan

“Lord, save me and I will serve you the rest of life!” This was my first prayer in many years, said as I faced death through blood loss, and the reality of dying without Christ was suddenly all that mattered….Read more

Might in the Inner Man
Christmas Evans

Christmas Evans tells us in his diary that one Sunday afternoon he was traveling a very lonely road to attend an appointment, and he was convicted of a cold heart. He says, “I tethered my horse and went to a sequestered spot…Read more