All Testimonies

Showing 265–288 of 1714 testimonies.

Historical

The Priest Who Finally Felt What He Had Been Preaching

Aldersgate Street· May 1738

John Wesley, an ordained Anglican priest who had spent over a decade in ministry without a personal experience of faith, felt his "heart strangely warmed"...

Historical

Communion Wine in a Concentration Camp

Ravensbruck· 1944

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom held secret communion services in Ravensbruck concentration camp using scraps of stolen bread, creating a physical act of faith...

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The Lawyer Who Walked Into a Forest and Came Out Someone Else

Adams· October 1821

Charles Finney, a sceptical lawyer in Adams, New York, knelt in a forest clearing on October 10, 1821, and experienced a transformative encounter that led...

Historical

The General Who Almost Missed His Healing Over Pride

Jordan River· 850 BC

Naaman, commander of the Syrian army, was healed of leprosy after reluctantly washing seven times in the Jordan River as instructed by the prophet Elisha...

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The Plumber Who Anointed a Dying Woman Back to Life

London· 1921

Smith Wigglesworth, a barely literate plumber from Bradford, anointed a dying cancer patient with olive oil in 1921.

Historical

Desmond Doss: The Soldier Who Saved 75 Men Without a Weapon

Okinawa· 1945

Desmond Doss saved 75 wounded soldiers at Hacksaw Ridge without a weapon, praying "Lord, help me get one more." First conscientious objector Medal of Honor.

Modern

Millard Fuller: The Millionaire Who Gave It All Away to Build Houses

Americus· 1965-1976

Millard Fuller gave away his entire fortune after his marriage nearly collapsed, then founded Habitat for Humanity. Over 13 million homes built worldwide.

Modern

Katie Davis Majors: A Teenager Who Adopted 13 Children in Uganda

Jinja· 2007-present

Katie Davis Majors went to Uganda at 18 for a gap year and never returned. She adopted 13 children and founded Amazima Ministries, serving hundreds more.

Historical

Paul Brand: The Surgeon Who Touched Lepers When Nobody Would

Vellore· 1946-1980s

Surgeon Paul Brand left a prestigious career to serve leprosy patients in India, touching people nobody else would. His service shaped a theology of pain.

Modern

How a Prison Chaplain Found God Behind Bars

Washington· 1974-1976

Chuck Colson went from Watergate convict to founding Prison Fellowship, the world's largest prison ministry, after finding God behind bars among broken people.

Modern

The Dog Who Knew Before the Seizure Hit

Cape Town· 2021-2022

A South African woman with uncontrolled epilepsy was matched with a seizure alert dog named Grace, who could detect seizures up to 45 minutes before they...

Historical

Three Days Inside a Fish: The Prophet Who Ran and Got Swallowed

Mediterranean Sea· c. 780 BC

The prophet Jonah ran from God's assignment to Nineveh, was thrown overboard in a storm, and was swallowed by a great fish for three days -- where the...

Modern

She Rescued a Dog. The Dog Rescued Her Faith.

London· 2019-2020

A London financial professional who'd walked away from faith at 22 found her way back after adopting a traumatised rescue greyhound whose healing process...

Modern

The Whale That Shielded a Surfer from a Great White Shark

Cook Islands· 2020

Whale biologist Nan Hauser was physically shielded from a tiger shark by a humpback whale off the Cook Islands in 2020, part of a documented pattern of...

Historical

The Cat That Found Him in Solitary

Romania· 1950s

Richard Wurmbrand, imprisoned for 14 years in Communist Romania, describes a stray cat that repeatedly found its way into his solitary confinement cell...

Historical

The Missionary Who Slept While Cobras Guarded His Door

Tanna· 1860s

Missionary John G. Paton on the island of Tanna survived multiple assassination attempts in the 1860s, protected by what attackers described as shining...

Modern

The Guide Dog Who Led His Blind Owner Down 78 Floors on 9/11

New York City· September 11, 2001

Michael Hingson, a blind man working on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center, was led down 1,463 steps to safety by his guide dog Roselle on September...

Historical

The Night the Lions Didn't Eat

Babylon (modern Iraq)· c. 539 BC

Daniel, an elderly statesman in his eighties, was thrown into a den of execution lions for refusing to stop praying.

Modern

The Horse That Broke Through Where Therapists Couldn't

Fort Worth· 2018

A combat veteran from Afghanistan who couldn't break through PTSD with traditional therapy found healing through an equine therapy programme in Texas,...

Historical

The Dog That Wouldn't Board the Titanic

Southampton to North Atlantic· April 1912

Documented accounts of dogs exhibiting unusual distress before the Titanic sailed, alongside the story of pastor John Harper, who used his final moments...

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Fed by Ravens: When God Sent Birds to Keep a Prophet Alive

Brook Cherith· c. 870 BC

The account of God commanding ravens to feed the prophet Elijah at the brook Cherith -- using unclean scavenger birds as His chosen delivery system while...

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When a Donkey Saw What a Prophet Couldn't

Moab (modern Jordan)· c. 1400 BC

The biblical account of Balaam's donkey, who saw the angel of the Lord and saved her master's life three times while he beat her for disobedience -- a...

Historical

Ernest Shackleton: The Fourth Man on the Ice

South Georgia Island· 1916

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his companions, crossing the unmapped glaciers of South Georgia after their ship was crushed in Antarctic ice, all reported the...

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Mary Slessor: Barefoot in the Jungle, Saving Lives

Calabar· 1876-1915

Mary Slessor left the slums of Dundee for the jungles of Calabar, Nigeria, where she spent nearly forty years walking barefoot through the rainforest,...