"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." - 1 Timothy 2:1-2Watchman Nee was a Christian...
"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." - Psalm 43:5On May 27, 2001, Islamic terrorists kidnapped Gracia and Martin Burnham on Palawan Island in the Philippines. The couple...
"I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." - Ephesians 1:16Hanns Lilje was born in 1899 in Hanover, Germany. The son of a Lutheran deacon, he studied theology and art history at Gottingen and Leipzig. He was ordained in 1924 as a...
"So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran." - Genesis 12:4In 1927, 15-year-old Lois Secrist promised God she'd become a missionary. But she married Galon Prater, a farmhand who became a...
"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others." - 2 Timothy 2:2In 1937, Paul V. Gupta heard the gospel from a missionary in his tiny Indian village. Wanting to become a...
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." - Mark 11:25On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the AFL-CIO at the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. At 2:30...
"Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness." - Genesis 15:6Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965. The former Prime Minister of Great Britain was revered in life for his leadership and, just prior to his death, he planned his own funeral...