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Willie Burton: Man of Faith

24/11/2013

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W.F.P. Burton (1886-1971) was born and raised in England. From a child he heard the wonderful truth of the Gospel. His parents dedicated him to God’s work in Africa even before he was born. As a boy his one desire was to be a missionary. In 1905 he came under deep conviction of sin at an R.A. Torrey Evangelistic campaign in London. A few days later he experienced salvation. At once he contacted various African mission societies but there would be a delay of eight years before he was able to step out and pursue this calling. In those intervening years he was on hand for his aging parents while working for an Engineering firm. During this vital period he grew in the study of the Word of God, in prayer and in winning souls to Christ. He also established the habit of rising early and of spending at least two hours in Bible study each morning.  
 
All his friends had received the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and were speaking in tongues but to his great disappointment he had prayed, believed and claimed but still had not received. During a meeting at the Preston Pentecostal Convention in 1910 he felt a deep sense of his own utter vileness before God, but then he looked to the utter worthiness of Christ's sacrifice at Calvary. A new deep revelation of the Blood of Jesus broke upon him in these meetings. The Spirit was poured out upon him and he began to praise God in a new tongue that he had never learnt. In confirming his missionary call, God answered prayer by miraculously giving him a third set of teeth which was recorded in scientific magazines. 
 
Finally in 1914 he arrived in South Africa where he laboured for one year. He then travelled north with his good friend Jimmy Salter to the Congo. These early days were marked by fighting sickness (malaria), encountering cannibal tribesmen, learning the language and making the first maps of the country. Their first convert was a young boy called Nyuki. For a radius of 40 miles around them a quarter of a million souls awaited the Gospel. A new church was planted and evangelism commenced. In 1920 160 of their converts experienced an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Again in the 1930 the Lord sent an outpouring of the Spirit amongst them and worked mighty miracles. Over these years their were many very real times of terrible discouragement but by faith he persevered. In 1960 when Willie left Congo there were 75 missionaries, 14 mission stations, over 1000 assemblies and 43,000 Believers. He spent his last days living out of a suit case, travelling and preaching and died a very happy man. 

Taken and condensed from Pentecostal Pioneers Remembered by Keith Malcomson

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Mrs Crisp: Woman of Faith

17/11/2013

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Eleanor Crisp
(1856-1923) was converted at 12 years old in London. She was the only one of her family saved. In her youth she developed rheumatism to such a degree that she became a helpless cripple. At times she was not even be able to turn the pages of her Bible. A lady came and spoke to her concerning God’s healing power, and it prompted her to study the Bible concerning God’s will to heal. At her request a minister came and anointed her with oil which resulted in her healing. This left her with an unmovable faith in Christ as a Healer. However, it was not until she was 40 years of age that she experienced the Baptism in the Spirit. She had such a reputation for a life of prayer that she would receive as many as 200 letters per week.

When the first Pentecostal Missionary Training Home opened for Women in London in January 1910 they asked Mrs Crisp if she would take responsibility for running it. She was to train young women who had received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and who felt the call of God to the foreign Mission field. Two maps hung in the School: one was a world map that filled a whole wall and the other a map of India. These helped in instruction as well as intercession. A considerable amount of time daily was given to intercessory prayer for the nations. 

By 1914 five of these young ladies were ready to leave for China. Mrs Crisp in her message at their commissioning service likened them to the 5 wise virgins, and as the five fingers of a hand, if yielded to God they would be God’s hand reaching out into China. The greatest thing she had taught them was the place of prayer. She believed that the Pentecostal blessing would give them power to pray in a way that otherwise would not be possible. In this secret place of prayer with God they could overcome every obstacle that would face them and nothing would be impossible unto them. 

In her eyes the true mark of the Pentecostal people was that they had built the whole centre of their lives upon Christ alone. The greatest blessing, even before that of the fullness of the Spirit was to be in Christ. Mrs Crisp is remembered for her loving way of ministering; her uncompromising stance for truth and her great grasp of the Scriptures. She was a faithful lady who could be trusted in all things and relied upon in every situation.

Taken and condensed from Pentecostal Pioneers Remembered by Keith Malcomson

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Pandita Ramabai: Woman of Faith

11/11/2013

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Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) Born the youngest child to devout Hindu Brahmin parents, Ramabai, had a very unique upbringing for an Indian girl because she was educated. Her family suffered so much hardship for educating their women that all Ramabai’s family died of starvation or disease and she was left an orphan; an orphan who had mastered 7 languages!

Because of her extraordinary learning, as a teenager she was brought before the great Pundits (learned men) of Calcutta, and given the name Pandita (goddess of wisdom). At age 22 she was married and they had a little girl, but she was tragically widowed only 3 years later. 

In 1887, Pandita wrote a book exposing the awful plight of Hindu widows who were often as young as 10 years of age. This launched her in to the limelight internationally as it sent shock waves around the world. It opened the door for Pandita, together with her little daughter, to further her education in England. Clearly this was the will of God as it was in England that she encountered, at first academically, the Christian faith, but then very personally, the Lord Jesus Christ. She poured over the Bible and hungered to take the Gospel back home. 

After 5 and a half years away from India, Pandita returned with a burning desire to do something for the poor, despised little Hindu widows of whom there were 23 million in India—many of whom lived in the forests, hiding from family violence. The idea of a school, training centre and home for these little ladies was birthed. 

You’d imagine that it would be easy to bring these young widows in to be fed, housed and trained but they were told by heathen that the Christians wanted to feed them up to harvest human oil from their burning bodies! But with God on her side, the school grew from 2 to 750 and by 1900 she was feeding 1800 daily and had around 2,000 girls on the school or training centre (Mukti) register.  

In 1898 Ramabai was visiting England and attended the Keswick Convention where she went forward for prayer for an outpouring upon Indian believers and pleaded for 1,000 Holy Ghost-filled missionaries. When she heard about a revival in Australia led by R.A. Torrey, she sent her daughter, Manoramabai there to experience it. 

Manoramabai returned to tell her that the keys to revival were prayer and a poured-out life, so Pandita began to call daily, early-morning prayer meetings and prayed specifically for:  “…true conversions of all Indian Christians including ourselves, and for a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all Christians of every land”. 

The outpouring began right there in 1905 and lasted one and a half years. This was a true Pentecostal Revival. An eye witness account of a meeting at the Mukti reports of an uneducated girl praying out distinctly and fluently in English (by the Spirit of God). The Mukti saw supernatural provision and protection. During most of the early years severe famines struck India yet the Mukti (‘Place of Salvation’) always had their needs supplied. In the years when bubonic plague ended the lives of countless thousands the plague never affected the Mukti. Instead the Women of the Mukti affected untold numbers. During the revival time 1,100 girls were baptised at the school alone;  700 women went out as missionaries; a Bible school was formed with 200 students who then formed smaller prayer bands which went out in small groups to pray and evangelize (on foot) throughout India. These women saw great miracles, healings, signs and wonders. 

Pandita’s main influence was her profound faith in the Bible as the Word of the Living God. Her love for God’s Word was proven by her 17 year long labour to translate the Bible from Greek and Hebrew in to the Marathi language. Pandita Ramabai lived with a single eye to God’s glory.

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Patrick: Man of Faith

3/11/2013

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Patrick (390--466 AD) was born and reared in a village called Bannavem Taberniae on the west coast of Britain. His grandfather, Potitus, had been a presbyter (elder) in the Church. His father Calpornius was a deacon. His mother was a godly prayerful woman. Sadly Patrick rebelled against the Gospel he was raised in. He was a sceptic and a rebel. Like many other youth in his village he ignored the preaching and godly rebukes of the local elders and joyfully delighted in committing sin in secret. Shortly before his 16th birthday he fell victim to a party of wild Irish raiders and was taken as a slave to Ireland. 

He quickly realised that this was God’s chastening hand upon his life for his unbelief, disobedience and his rejection of the Gospel. He repented and was born-again. During his six year captivity he became a man of prayer, a man of faith and a man filled with the Holy Spirit. This was the Lord’s means in training him in the Irish language and culture. Through a vision from the Lord he miraculously escaped and eventually returned home to the great joy of family and old friends. After being made a deacon he received a vision from the Lord calling him to return to Ireland to preach the Gospel. By this time he was a man trained, prepared and filled with the Word of God. 

In about 432 AD he reached pagan Ireland with an apostolic call to win it to Christ. God gave him great grace to see many thousands “re-born.” Sons and daughters of kings gave themselves to labour for God and signs and wonders were performed in confirming the Gospel. As he travelled the land during his thirty years of ministry he left hundreds of new churches and well trained leaders behind him. The Lord used him to begin a spiritual revival that turned pagan Ireland into the land of saints and scholars. His life and ministry was remarkable in changing the whole nation and culture. At his death he left behind an Irish church which was burning with missionary zeal and a vision to carry the gospel back into Britain and Europe. The following 300 years were Ireland's golden years.
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