Struggles with my past lead me back to God
This testimony from our team in Nepal shares a powerful testimony from Sapana and how when she started struggling with her past, she found encouragement in The Word for Today devotion when she read the story of Noah and was greatly encouraged that God would not let us go through the same situations again, that encouraged her.
May you also be encouraged to share The Word for Today in the different places where you may meet with people, we all need encouragement in our daily lives and this devotion has a whole year’s supply in one book!
A Testament of Healing: How The Word for Today Guided Me Through Cancer
The following powerful testimony is from Tomu in Fiji…
A women shared about her journey since she started receiving, her copies back in 2021. She shared with me how God came through for her during her most difficult time since being diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago and how The Word for Today daily devotional was her guide each day reading from the words of each day and praying. She got completely healed from her cancer and has recovered fully thanking God for giving her another chance at life. She showed me the 4 copies of each year she’s kept since her first copy in 2021.
Tomu
Station Manager
UCB Fiji
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Distribution of The Word for Today in Timor-Leste
We love to hear about the people and organizations that The Word for Today is being shared with to bring encouragement and hope. So with the 2024 edition landing in Timor-Leste in early December, our team on the ground has been busy distributing this and Rio has provided us with the following testimonies…
On December 28, the IEVCTL Church held a Christmas celebration service with prisoners and prison officers. The opportunity for me to share the first book with the head or director of the prison as well as all the staff and prisoners. He and they accepted it with great joy. We distributed 500 copies that day to prisoners and guards.
PHARMACY / CLINIC
Pharmacy This is a pharmacy that always helps distribute this book to apathetic visitors and visitors to the Timor Plaza shopping center. And to the pharmacy employees, I taught them how to use this book.
MARCIA KOREAN LANGUAGE TEACHER
This woman’s name is Marcia and she is a Korean language tutor. I assigned him to share this book with his students. Marcia is a Radio Voz listener who once came to Radio Voz and experienced problems and we prayed for her and now she is happy and sometimes I take her to church and give her the task of sharing God’s goodness and sharing this book with other people.
DULCIO STUDENT
A child of God named Dulcio. He is very excited to share this book with his fellow students.
Gipora is a talented young man in the church and works at the Perissos company. He asked for some books he could share with his co-workers.
Hearing these testimonials should encourage us all to continue to be the good stewards of what God has entrusted to us, being faithful with this seed (The Word for Today) and sowing it and sharing it with the people that God brings into our path, and trusting God that He will bring forth the fruit, He will bring the growth in people’s lives. Our responsibility is to do our part, sharing it, and inviting people to support us in prayer and/or by donating. Looking forward to hearing more of these powerful testimonies.
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Theory or Truth (1)
‘We believe that Jesus died and rose again.’ 1 Thessalonians 4:14 NIV
Let’s look at some theories put forward by those who’ve tried to deny the Resurrection. Some say that the Gospels were written 200–300 years after the event, so the story was either falsified or embellished. But archaeology disproves that. Now we know that the Gospels go back to the authors whose names they bear, and that the testimony of the Resurrection goes back to the same decade in which it took place, not centuries later. So, there was no time for legend to develop!
Some say that the disciples experienced visions or hallucinations because Christ promised to rise from the dead, and they fully expected Him to. But in the history of hallucinations, there is no incident where 500 people from different backgrounds ever saw the same vision at the same time. And what about the two disciples on the Emmaus Road who walked and talked with Christ after His resurrection, then ate supper with Him (Luke 24:13)? Were they hallucinating too? When Peter preached on the day of Pentecost about this so-called ‘great hallucination’, he was standing only 10 minutes away from the tomb (see Acts 2:24). Thousands of people believed; others heard it and didn’t believe. Did no one think of walking down the street to check it out? Certainly, those conspiring Sadducees would have taken every opportunity to show that this was simply a hallucination.
The Resurrection is what distinguishes Christianity from every other belief system in history: in it is the hope, not just of our souls lasting beyond death, but of our bodies returning to life, having overcome the last enemy, just as Jesus did.
SoulFood: Gen 22:1-18, Matt 27:32-56, Ps 22, Isa 53
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