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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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Hudson Taylor: Man of Faith

28/10/2013

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Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) was beyond doubt the greatest missionary in China's history. During his 51 years of service his mission, the China Inland Mission, brought 849 missionaries to the field, they began 125 schools which directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as establishing more than 300 missionary stations with more than 1000 Chinese workers in all eighteen provinces which led to a Chinese church of more than 125,000 people.

This was a work built on faith and prayer alone. In June 1865 while working in England he officially formed the CIM with a bank account of only £10. Taylor followed George Mueller’s pattern of not making known his financial needs to man but trusting God alone. This also extended to praying in faith for labourers. He asked the Lord in prayer to give him 24 labourers to initiate this great work in reaching China with the Gospel. By the end of 1867 he had 34 full time missionaries on the field in eight separate mission stations.

Labourers kept volunteering and funds kept coming all in answer to faith-filled, persevering prayer. In 1878 he asked for 30 workers and he got them. In 1883 he asked in faith for another 70 labourers and by the following year more than 70 had gone out to China. In 1885 the ‘Cambridge Seven’ made up of some of England's greatest sportsmen and aristocrats heard the call of God to go to China. This sent shock waves through the younger generation in Britain. In 1887 he asked God for another 100 missionaries. By the following year the 100 were on their way to the mission field. By 1891 they had almost 500 labourers in China. By 1905 he had 849 missionaries. 

All of this came out of prayers of faith built upon God's character revealed in the written Word of God. But such faith pays a high price as well. His wife Maria died at age 33, and four of his eight children died before they reached the age of 10. When the Boxer Rebellion broke out in China in 1900 there were 80 CIM missionaries killed and multiplied tens of thousands of Chinese Christians.

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Gladys Aylward: Woman of Faith

14/10/2013

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Gladys Aylward, (1902-1970) wanted to be a missionary in China but due to her lack of education and age, she was rejected by the Missionary foundation she hoped would send her. Determined that God had called her to China, Gladys worked every hour she could
as a chamber maid until she had enough funds to pay for a single ticket on the trans-Siberian train to China. 

Gladys’ journey was halted in Moscow and in spite of her protests and evidence of a ticket to China, she was told that she would not be allowed to go any further. She was ushered off the train and pushed in to a tiny, icy-cold hotel room which had no light. She had no idea where she was and no way of communicating with anyone. She sat on the bed, too cold to sleep and very hungry. Gladys prayed. Later, in the middle of the dark night, she heard a very feint knock on the door. She opened the door and a lady’s voice beckoned her in English to go with her immediately to catch the next boat to Japan or she would never get out of there. The stranger led Gladys to the docks and to a boat where the captain admitted her solely on the strength of her British passport. Via a mission station in Japan Gladys then arrived in China.

 Gladys never knew how the little lady knew that she was bound for China, or even how she knew where to find her in the dark hotel, but she did learn the power of prayer! Acts 5:19
But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth…

Gladys settled in the Shansi province where she lived an upright and righteous life but experienced much opposition and danger. Her goal was to teach and lead the people unto Christ; not to be loved by the people as much as that the people would love God. The spirit of the age in which we live prefers to make Christian leaders admired like hero’s, but Scripture says: 1Jn 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.  
 
Gladys was hated because the Gospel message she brought, brought an end to Chinese customs such as men having the right to beat their wives and bind their daughters’ feet. 

She lived in peril but knew God’s peace. She took great risks but saw God’s great reward. She saw the miraculous not fathomed by lost man. 

Gladys’ most famous feat was marching 100 Chinese children over the high, rocky mountains and over the Yellow river to safety. Gladys was very ill by the time they got to the Yellow river and the news that Chinese boat crossings had been banned nearly destroyed her. 

She barely coped as the little ones bombarded her with questions as to how and when they were going to be able to cross the river. 

Gladys prayed weakly but a few days passed without a sign of help. Then one of the older children came to Gladys and asked her why God would not part the Yellow River as He had the Red Sea for the Israelites. Gladys asked the girl herself to pray and no sooner had she finished praying than a Chinese officer came over to inspect the group. Totally uncharacteristically, he went against his orders and got his men to bring a few boats out to transport the group across the water, in spite of great danger as the Japanese were less than a day’s march away.  

God used the delay in His answer to grow faith in the heart of that young girl and the children. God turned the heart of this officer to favour is children: Ezra 6:22 …
for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. The spirit of this age would have us devise whatever self-help schemes we can dream up, but the Spirit of God would have us wait for the perfect plan of God.

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George Mueller: Man of Faith 

7/10/2013

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George Mueller (1805-1898) was a native German (Prussian) who was greatly used of God. He spent most of his life in Bristol, England, and was a faithful elder of the same church in Bristol for over sixty-six years. During that time he built five large orphan houses and cared for 10,024 orphans. When he turned 70 he fulfilled a life-long desire to go out as a missionary which he pursued diligently for the next 17 years until he was 87 years old. He traveled to 42 countries, preaching on average once a day, and addressing some three million people. He went to be with the Lord aged 92. 

The principle of his whole life was that he never made known his financial needs to anyone or asked for money. He took no salary during the last 68 years of his ministry, but trusted God to put in people’s hearts to send him what he needed when he needed it. He never took out a loan or went into debt and his orphans never went hungry. At an early stage he set his heart to prove to God’s people everywhere that the Lord would faithfully provide for them if they would trust Him. 

“It seemed to me best done, by the establishing of an Orphan-House. It needed to be something which could be seen, even by the natural eye. Now, if I, a poor man, simply by prayer and faith, obtained, without asking any individual, the means for establishing and carrying on an Orphan-House: there would be something which, with the Lord's blessing, might be instrumental in strengthening the faith of the children of God besides being a testimony to the consciences of the unconverted, of the reality of the things of God. This,
then, was the primary reason, for establishing the Orphan-House…The first and primary object of the work was, (and still is) that God might be magnified by the fact, that the orphans under my care are provided, with all they need, only by prayer and faith, without any one being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen, that God is FAITHFUL STILL, and HEARS PRAYER STILL.” 

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