GOD STORIES

After killing their husbands, Boko Haram militants asked the four widows of the dead men to renounce their Christian faith or their children would be shot. They were given time to think over this dreadful choice.

The chief of an Amazon tribe was a disabled man, broken by many accidents and injuries. He prayed to the wooden idol for help, yet it did not reply. Then he dreamed of a jaguar that wanted to kill him, but there was also a Man in the dream who said he would protect him.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have an idea of what God is really up to in this world? Must the daily diet of wars, murder and mayhem in the news always get me down? Underneath the bad news, God is surely up to something good.

There was grieving, there was mourning, there was wailing, and then she feels prompted in her heart to pray for him. She’s thinking, ‘This is crazy.’ Her palms are sweaty [and] she’s wondering, ‘What in the world can a prayer do?’

Their father mercilessly beat them hoping that they would renounce their new faith. But the daughters remained faithful and started praying for their father.

After receiving ministry training in China, a Christian woman from North Korea returned to her home country. For many months, the workers in the training centre did not hear from her. They wondered if she had perhaps been caught and imprisoned?

The daughter of a former medicine man, Norma Blacksmith is now a fearless, on-fire Christian intercessor who regularly storms heaven on behalf of her people.

A pastor who fled the civil war in South Sudan has been equipped to establish new church plants, thanks to a mobile phone app.

He knocked and a man in a white garment opened the door. “Who are you?” Jaffar asked. The man told him he was the owner of the door and invited him in. Knowing what was behind him, Jaffar stepped over the threshold.