A Promise Come True

People who doubt the authenticity of the Holy Bible, include some who ought to know better. I was reading Luke 21 today and verse 14-15 reminded me of something that happened to me when on a Bible College mission trip to India. The verse says: "Settle it therefore in your minds b not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and d wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand." As a group of trainee ministers we were visiting a mission run by local Christians, before the meeting began our team leader, a lecturer from our college, spoke to her two star pupils and said that it was likely our hosts will expect us to share a word from the Bible with them, an impromptu sermon, she asked them to be prepared. That moment came and their was silence, neither of the 'chosen ones' had anything to say. After a short while something came to me out of the blue, I found the verse in my Bible, went to the front of the room (I was sitting at the back of the room with the other plebs) and spoke for 20 minutes with a word that tied together the work they were doing with what Paul said about missions. It was not a message I had heard or given myself before, it just came to me. For me it was a confirmation of Jesus' promise to us. The situation also highlighted that people who know the Bible a thousand times better than me do little to heed what it says, preferring to manipulate a situation exposing their own hubris.

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