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Li was a
Christian Chinese youth who depended upon God to supply all of his needs. Many
times after he had broken away from his Chinese idols and become a Christian
he was without food, because the heathen Chinese his friends, neighbors, and
relatives would not give him any work. On one particular occasion when he was
without food a heathen cousin brought him food, and Li thanked him for
answering his prayers. |
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When Li
mentioned this answer to prayer the cousin said: "God didn't answer your
prayer. I will have no more of such talk as this. I do not believe in
it." |
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Whereupon
Li said, "God fed Elijah by the ravens, and He is able to do the same by
me." |
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The cousin
raged: "Then if you talk like that, I will have no more to do with you
and I will bring you no more food. And besides, I heard the missionaries
talking last week and they said that the ravens there were merely the
Arabians that came along and supplied Elijah's needs, and God didn't send the
ravens to do it." |
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As the
cousin left, Li asked God to bless this relative and to help him to win him
to Jesus Christ as his Saviour. |
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Shortly
thereafter Li's food was all gone and there was nothing to eat. He knelt in
his simple home and asked God to supply food. When his prayers took hold and
his faith seized the throne of God, he arose from his knees with the assurance
that food would be shortly coming. Walking outside of the building, he stood
for a while, when he noticed a black raven flying by with something in its
mouth. Another bird swooped down on the raven and caused him to loosen his
hold on whatever it was in his mouth, and suddenly a large piece of meat fell
to the ground right at Li's feet. Picking it up, he took it into his home and
prepared it for cooking. When the food had been cooking for some time, Li
looked out and noticed his cousin coming toward his home. On arriving, the
cousin walked in and smelled the flavor of food cooking and he asked,
"What is this that I smell?" |
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"God
sent this meat in answer to my prayers. I saw a raven flying through the sky
with it, and another bird attacked him and the meat fell at my feet. God fed
me by the ravens, as He did Elijah." |
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Immediately
the heathen cousin asked Li to pray for him; and, before they ate the meat
together which God had supplied in answer to prayer through the ravens, this
heathen cousin accepted Jesus as his Saviour. |
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From:
ANSWERED PRAYER IN MISSIONARY SERVICE By Basil William Miller, Beacon Hill
Press, Kansas City, Missouri. First Printing, April 1951 Second Printing,
July 1951 Printed in |