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Unseen Hands
sacrificed to idols. You cannot be clean until you believe in Jesus, the only God."
While she witnessed with amazing boldness, a young lady from an Apostolic church happened to pass by on her way to visit another village. Listening as the young childspokewith HolyGhost anointing and realizing what had happened, she interrupted to ask the crowd if they would accept an evangelist fi-om her church who would tell them more about God's plan of salvation.
They agreed. The evangelist came quickly, and peo ple who had never heard the truth before accepted God's Word with genuine repentance. Lotu and nineteen others were baptized that day, and they bimned twenty Korans before sunset.
In the next few weeks, many others followed their example. The Lord sent them a pastor. Fifty more ex- Moslems burned their Korans, and a strong church blossomed at Borre.
A church sectional leader watched the growth of the new church with alarm. He first fought it with malicious slander and denied the scriptural passages about baptism in the name of Jesus and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This only fanned the fire, so he decided to take drastic action. He went to the pastor's home with a machine gun and shot into the house seventy times. Neither the house nor its occupants showed a mark from the attack.
Then he decided to outshine them. He built an im pressive building, prepared a bountiful feast, and invited many distinguished guests. While still at home, in the midst of helpers and guests, lightning struck and killed him. No one could touch his body, for the blue fire of lightning enveloped him from head to foot. The mourners
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