The reason for the title will hopefully become apparent and encouraging pretty quickly as you read this...
I first heard this amazing story in its entirety back in 2004.
It is testament to how a Godly heritage should and can be passed on!
Near the end of 1961 a young german man by the name of Reinhard Bonnke was walking kind of aimlessly around the streets of Clapham London. I heard him say that he was killing time before his ferry was scheduled to leave later that day. He had just finished training at the Bible College of Wales in Swansea and was planning to head home to Germany, unsure of what his future held in store for him.
So here he is seemingly lost and looking around the neighbourhood he found himself in, when he saw the name George Jeffreys on the side of a house.
Now Reinhard would have known that name after hearing about how a man with the same name was saved during the Welsh Revival and then saw thousands saved and healed during his ministry.
Could this could be same George Jeffreys?
Deciding that he had nothing to loose Reinhard knocked excitedly on the door and inquired whether he might see Jeffreys. Apparently the housekeeper was about to turn him away when Jeffreys came to the door himself and invited him in.
At some point in the conversation George Jeffreys asked Reinhard to lie on the ground beside him (which would have seemed a weird request). He placed his hands on him and prayed for his ministry and for the empowerment of God for evangelism. He prayed that the mantle he had, would be passed now to Reinhard.
This same young man went on to be one of the greatest evangelists in the African continent.
His open-air gospel campaigns attracted crowds as large as 1.5 million. Many thousands were saved and healed!
I hope that story encourages you as it encourages and stirs my heart.
I love it as much now as when I heard it from Reinhard a decade ago!
Something to think about...
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