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A Remarkable Postmark
By Ken Horn | December 14, 2009
About 7:00 this morning as I started work, I posted my first Facebook status/Twitter tweet of the day: “Holy Spirit, guide our day. Make it spiritually rich and full of Your presence. Help us to make a difference.”
“Help us to make a difference.” That’s what all of us who pursue Jesus want to do. We want to make differences that are eternal.
Less than 2 hours after I typed that, my assistant, Kim Hellmer, brought a salvation response coupon in that had come in the first mail of the day. The envelope it came in bore an amazing postmark. It was from Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China.
On occasion, when checking Web stats for the PE Web site or our blogs I have noted that someone in China has viewed a page or more. I’ve thought this remarkable—getting the message into a closed country via the Internet. But today’s revelation was even more amazing. It meant one of our printed magazines had somehow made it all the way around the world … and because of it, someone prayed the sinner’s prayer. The date of the magazine was Feb. 6, 2005 … nearly 5 years old. Did it take that long for it to get there, just arriving in the hands of the person who wrote? Or has it been in that country since 2005? Who knows?
What we do know is that on Feb. 3, 2005, the PE staff laid hands on that issue and prayed God would bring it into the hands of the right people, and that the Holy Spirit would anoint the message to be received. We do that every week. It would take almost 5 years for us to hear about an answer to our prayer of that week.
In the past few months we have received salvation coupons from many places in the world … one from an issue 12 years old! Right now, Pentecostal Evangels from dates past and current are working their way to the people God has appointed to receive the message. There will be many responses we never hear about. Today’s salvation response from China lets us know God is answering our prayers.
Praise the Lord for the electronic opportunities we have today. But the printed Word of God will always be relevant. It will hang around for years and find places the Internet cannot.
A publishing ministry lacks the immediate sense of evaluation and fulfillment that a more personal ministry has. These salvation responses—we average about 8 or 9 per day—keep us going. We did see a difference made, an eternal one, halfway around the world.
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