How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time

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Goforth Rosalind. How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time

I "GETTING THINGS FROM GOD"

II. EARLY LESSONS IN THE LIFE OF FAITH

III "GO FORWARD ON YOUR KNEES" 1887-1894

IV. A GOD-GIVEN FIELD (1894-1900)

V. OUR DELIVERANCE FROM THE BOXERS (1900)

VI. PROVING GOD'S FAITHFULNESS (1902-1908)

VII. THE STORY OF ONE FURLOUGH (1908-1910)

VIII. OUR GOD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

IX. TO HIS PRAISE!

X. VICTORY FOUND

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IT seems fitting that this little book of personal testimonies to answered prayer should have a brief introductory word as to how they came to be written. The question has been asked by some who read many of these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of The Sunday School Times: "How could you write such personal and sacred incidents in your life?" I could not have written them but for a very clear, God-given leading.

The story is as follows: When in Canada on our first furloughs I was frequently amazed at the incredulity expressed when definite testimony was given to an answer to prayer. Sometimes this was shown by an expressive shrug of the shoulders, sometimes by a sudden silence or turning of the topic of conversation, and sometimes more openly by the query: "How do you know that it might not have happened so, anyway?"

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The time came when two diverse paths lay before me – one to England, as an artist; one to China, as a missionary. Circumstances made a definite decision most difficult. I thought I had tried every means to find out God's will for me, and no light had come.

But in a day of great trouble, when my precious mother's very life seemed to hang in the balance, I shut myself up with God's Word, praying definitely for him to guide me to some passage by which I might know his will for my life. My Bible opening at the fifteenth chapter of John's Gospel, the sixteenth verse seemed to come as a message to me: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit." Going to my dear mother and telling her of the message God had given me, she said: "I dare not fight against God."

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