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The End Is Not Yet
in six years (according to reports printed in the U.S.) received copious rains. Now crops are growing widely, providing food for the hungry.
Barriers and closed doors hindered the work of the Lord in 1986. A group photograph in front of the church after dismissal marked the end of a conference made glorious by the presence of the King. Just after we broke the pose, but before the group moved away, Teklemade a request. "The work of God is stymied. Churches are closed; we are not free to take the gospel where it should go; towns have barred us. Please ask God to open doors in the land for our preachers and to give them the courage and anointing to go through those doors."
W e prayed and hurried to the airport to keep up with our usual stiff schedule. Down the road and far away, the report caught up with us of doors miraculously opened, of new boldness, and of men mightily anointed to do the will of God. All the barriers did not fall, but the Mighty One showed the church how to work around them with the landslide power of revival. After that prayer, six hun dred Lutherans were baptized in four months in Negele.
Erkenesh felt grieved over the continuing border wars that cost dearly in the lives of men. She hated to see godly young men drafted from their churches to be dumped into the carnage of war. She thought. The Miracle of 1987 must be the end of the war. But this time they did not ask for us to pray; they only believed that it would happen because we came.
We cannot forget the glory of the preachers' con ference. Hundreds of them came from distant places, bringing the glow of their dedication to brush our souls with angels' wings. A record 151 preachers received or-
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