In Nature Testimonies
35 stories of God's work from believers across 32 locations.
Outdoors โ creation, wilderness, garden
All 35 Testimonies
From Atheist to Believer
2000sโข๐บ๐ธChapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Renowned scientist Francis Collins transformed from atheist to Christian after encountering faithful patients during medical school and reading C.S.
George Fox: Encounter with the Inner Light
1650sโข๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟDrayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England
George Fox found spiritual truth through a direct encounter with Christ's voice during his darkest crisis, leading him to discover the 'Inner Light' and...
The Elephant That Remembered Kindness
2022โข๐ฟ๐ฆKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
A South African veterinarian who treated a young elephant's infected wound was recognised by the same elephant twelve years later, when she broke from her herd to gently touch his face.
A Vision in the Fields
1796โข๐ณ๐ดTune, รstfold county, Norway
Norwegian farmer Hans Nielsen Hauge experienced a life-changing vision of God's love while singing in the fields in 1796, sparking a revival movement...
Sundar Singh: Meeting Jesus on a Himalayan Road
1900s-1920sโข๐ฎ๐ณHimalayas, India and Tibet
Sundar Singh, a Sikh teenager who burned the Bible, encountered Jesus in a vision and spent thirty years walking barefoot through the Himalayas preaching...
Brother Lawrence's Profound Awakening
1690sโข๐ซ๐ทParis, รle-de-France, France
Nicolas Herman found God's presence through a simple winter revelation about a barren tree, becoming Brother Lawrence and transforming ordinary...
Francis Collins: Scientist Who Led the Human Genome Project to Faith
1970sโข๐บ๐ธCascade Mountains, Washington, USA
Francis Collins, former atheist scientist, discovered faith through C.S. Lewis' writings and a profound experience at a frozen waterfall in the Cascade...
Augustine's Journey to Faith
386โข๐ฎ๐นMilan, Italy
Augustine of Hippo's dramatic conversion from a life of indulgence to Christian faith occurred in 386 AD Milan when he heard God speak through...
Bees on the Battlefield
1917โข๐น๐ฟTanzania (German East Africa)
During World War I in East Africa, a swarm of bees drove German gunners from their machine-gun position, allowing a pinned-down British platoon to pass through unharmed.
David Brainerd's Transformative Journey
1740sโข๐บ๐ธHaddam, Connecticut, USA
David Brainerd experienced a life-changing vision of God's glory in a Connecticut meadow in 1739, transforming him from religious struggle to powerful...
Richard Rolle's Fiery Transformation
1349โข๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟHampole, South Yorkshire, England
Richard Rolle, a 14th-century Oxford student, left academia to become a hermit in Yorkshire, where he experienced profound divine encounters including...
From Science to Faith: A Journey
2000sโข๐บ๐ธCascade Mountains, Washington, USA
Renowned scientist Francis Collins transformed from atheist to believer after encountering a faithful dying patient and experiencing God's presence in...
From Lukewarm to Ablaze: A Heart Set on Fire
2006โขSimi Valley, California
A church leader in California breaks free from spiritual complacency when God speaks to him during a mountain retreat in 2006, transforming his lukewarm...
John Muir: Nature's Divine Revelation
1860s-1914โข๐บ๐ธYosemite, California, United States
John Muir found God's presence in Yosemite's wilderness after a factory accident led him to abandon inventions and seek divine purpose in nature.
Charles Finney: The Lawyer Who Met God in the Woods
๐บ๐ธAdams, New York, USA
Charles Finney, a sceptical New York lawyer, walked into the woods on a October morning in 1821, knelt among the trees, and experienced a wave of God's...
Eric Liddell: The Olympic Champion Who Ran Toward God in Open Fields
๐ซ๐ทChina and Paris, France
Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in 1924 and then returned to China as a missionary, running through open fields at dawn and describing those runs as the...
Ernest Shackleton: The Fourth Man on the Ice
1916โขSouth Georgia Island, Antarctica
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his companions, crossing the unmapped glaciers of South Georgia after their ship was crushed in Antarctic ice, all reported the...
George Washington Carver: The Man Who Asked God About a Peanut
1890s-1943โข๐บ๐ธTuskegee, Alabama, USA
George Washington Carver, born into slavery, walked into the woods every morning at four o'clock to ask God what to do โ and from those conversations came...
Gladys Aylward: Leading a Hundred Children Over the Mountains
1938โข๐จ๐ณShanxi Province, China
Gladys Aylward, a London parlour maid rejected by mission agencies, led nearly a hundred orphaned children on a twelve-day mountain crossing through...
Joni Eareckson Tada: The Dive That Changed the World
๐บ๐ธChesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA
Joni Eareckson Tada, paralysed in a diving accident at Chesapeake Bay at seventeen, discovered that nature remained the place where she encountered God...
John Muir: Finding God in Every Leaf and Waterfall
1860s-1910sโข๐บ๐ธYosemite Valley, California, USA
John Muir, raised under severe religious discipline in Scotland, found his deepest sense of God not in his father's sermons but in the forests of...
Corrie ten Boom: From Ravensbruck to the Garden of Forgiveness
1944-1983โข๐ฉ๐ชNetherlands and Germany
Corrie ten Boom, after surviving Ravensbruck concentration camp and losing her father and sister to the Nazis, found her deepest healing and her hardest...
Bear Grylls: Breaking His Back and Finding His Backbone
๐ณ๐ตMount Everest, Nepal
Bear Grylls broke three vertebrae in a parachuting accident, then summited Everest eighteen months later, describing the mountain as the place where his...
The Whale That Shielded a Surfer from a Great White Shark
2020โขCook Islands, South Pacific
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...
Mary Slessor: Barefoot in the Jungle, Saving Lives
1876-1915โข๐ณ๐ฌCalabar, Nigeria
Mary Slessor left the slums of Dundee for the jungles of Calabar, Nigeria, where she spent nearly forty years walking barefoot through the rainforest,...
Jim Elliot: The Jungle That Became an Altar
๐บ๐ธEcuador, South America
Jim Elliot sensed his calling in the mountains of Oregon and found his deepest communion with God in the jungles of Ecuador, where he and four companions...
She Heard God While Painting Wildflowers in the Desert
1890sโข๐ฉ๐ฟAlgiers, Algeria
Lilias Trotter gave up a career as Victorian England's most promising artist to live in Algeria.
Augustine's Garden Conversion
386โข๐ฎ๐นMilan, Italy
Augustine of Hippo's dramatic conversion in a Milan garden in 386 AD after hearing a child's voice say 'take up and read,' leading him to Scripture and...
Surfer Prayed During Shark Attack โ Dolphins Circled Him
2023-03-01โข๐ฆ๐บGold Coast, Queensland, Australia
An Australian surfer attacked by a bull shark prayed underwater. Eight dolphins appeared within seconds and circled him until rescue arrived.
From Fields to Faithful Leader
1790s-1820sโข๐ณ๐ดTune, รstfold, Norway
Norwegian farmer Hans Nielsen Hauge experienced a life-changing spiritual awakening in 1796 while singing hymns in a field, transforming him from...
Ezekiel Guti's Divine Encounter
1923-2023โข๐ฟ๐ผNgaone, Chipinge, Zimbabwe
Ezekiel Guti's angelic encounter as a child in Zimbabwe led him to found a church that spread to 168 nations, establishing Bible colleges and authoring...
Charles Finney's Dramatic Conversion
10 Oct 1821โข๐บ๐ธAdams, New York, United States
Lawyer Charles Finney encountered Jesus face-to-face during a desperate prayer in the woods of Adams, New York in 1821, transforming him instantly from...
Simeon Nsibambi: A Turning Point in Faith
1929โข๐บ๐ฌBuloba, Uganda
Simeon Nsibambi, a Ugandan government official, experienced a divine vision that led him to abandon his career and spark the East African Revival in...
Augustine's Divine Turning Point
Aug 386โข๐ฎ๐นMilan, Italy
Augustine of Hippo experienced a life-changing conversion in 386 AD when God spoke through a child's voice and Scripture, transforming him from worldly...
David Brainerd's Enduring Faith
1740sโข๐บ๐ธHaddam, Connecticut, United States
David Brainerd's life transformed through a powerful encounter with God's glory in 1739, leading him to become a missionary to Native Americans despite...
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โI shall remember the deeds of the Lord; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.โ
โ Psalm 77:11